How about a perfect family trip in 2024
A one time experience with your kids Join us on a trip that we specially designed for all generations,...
7 Ideas for an Amazing Cycling Adventure
If you like to travel a bit longer, here are some exciting ideas to make combinations between bike/barge, bike/cruise...
How’s the IRIS doing ?
Great! It started with the build-in of our new Main Engine. A new Skania, that was built to the...
What’s upcoming for 2024?
More to expect soon: The newest BikePlanet Bike and HOTEL tour is still in design. The trip will start...
Update on the IRIS and Bikeplanet June 2023
Hi, this is Lenny, the IRIS and BikePlanet Tours owner. It has been a long time since I wrote...
2021 Covid News UPDATED 9th of May 2021
Date: May 9th of 2021 By now, we know that the vaccinations are well on their way in the...
Statement Covid-19 Update 4: date 30th of May 2020
Update 4: 30th of May 2020 The situation within the Netherlands is under control at the moment. Like in...
2021 first glance
We are ready for your first glance at our 2021 season! Not on our official calendar yet, but just...
Last Cabins 2020
UPDATE 19th of Februari 2020: LAST AVAILABLE CABINS OR ROOMS ON OUR TRIPS 16th of May: 1 cabin on...
Our new GIANT bikes have arrived!
2020: new year, new season, new bikes! We are proud to present the latest bikes we have bought, which...
Discovering the Danube Tour!
What a ship! We were very impressed when we embarked for our preparational tour on the Danube. The Primadonna...
Our Greenpeace Plastic Monster Ship Tour on the IRIS
At the halfway point of our IRIS Plastic Monster tour, we would love to share a bit about what’s going on...
What we do in winter to be sailing all summer
Do you go on a trip yourself? This is a question we get from guests, when it comes to...
Angela’s Story on the Bike Tour Berlin-Dresden-Bamberg
Reflecting on our bike planet Berlin/Dresden/Bamberg Bike Tour A day-to-day journal from one of our guests. Having already spent 3...
NEW: starting with “Lenny’s choice”
One of the few downsides of my job is to have to disappoint. Consider it a luxury problem, but...
“Our first Rails to Trail Bike Tour”: a personal story
This story is told by guests on the first Rails to Trail Tour. Read their impressions! Bike day 1:...
Our first time ever… a Hotel and Bike Tour in Europe!
After a long drive to Berlin I met up with our guests on the tour over dinner, at our...
IRIS Host TINA in Adventure Challenge
Epic 800km Trail run and mountain climb Tina Page , our host on THE barge, iris, will be hanging...
One year after starting BikePlanet Tours
Working on the program for 2018, made me looking back at last year and everything that has happened so...
The 2 Seasons, a blog by our “frequent guest” Janette
A few weeks ago we finished our last tour, with a relatively small group of guests. A week prior...
Daun, going down! (And why easy biking is such a pleasure)
Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining our guests once more. They are on the last tour on the...
Why go with a new company on a cycling tour?
That’s a good question! We do understand being the new kid around the block is not appealing to everybody....
Kevin Ellwood’s Blog on our Tour
Kevin Ellwood from Sydney, currently on a solo cycle tour to Basel, wrote about last weeks tour on the...
Single Traveler on a Group Holiday
Our cycling tours are excellent for those who travel alone. Because we offer guides and you are accompanied by...
Cycling, biking… different ways of using a bicycle
Since I have been active as an operator of bike-tours, I have started to realize that there is a...
On tour: designing a new 5 country bike/hotel/barge tour!
For this new tour, we did a lot of desk-research, asked friends who had been on this path before....
5 Great Reasons to Travel Europe Right Now
There will always be reasons to not do what you actually dream of doing. We don’t need to help...
All in the Family: A Q&A with Lenny Versteeg
How do you come up with the idea of starting a bike tour-company? That’s just one of the things...