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, to enjoy to the max!...
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 and bike/hotel tours. Amsterdam to...
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 latest standards, so no nitrate...
What’s upcoming for 2024?
More to expect soon: The newest BikePlanet Bike and HOTEL tour is still in design. The trip will start in early September in Lindau...
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 a blog, and I am...
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 USA, pretty good in Canada...
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 other countries, the numbers are...
2021 first glance
We are ready for your first glance at our 2021 season! Not on our official calendar yet, but just a list of what we...
Last Cabins 2020
UPDATE 19th of Februari 2020: LAST AVAILABLE CABINS OR ROOMS ON OUR TRIPS 16th of May: 1 cabin on our Amsterdam to Koblenz Tour...
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 will be used for our...
Discovering the Danube Tour!
What a ship! We were very impressed when we embarked for our preparational tour on the Danube. The Primadonna is the most expensive ship...
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 and also what makes us...
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 what we as BikePlanet staff...
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 days getting around Berlin our...
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 I don’t like to type:...
“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: Epen (NL) – Margraten –...
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 first of many nice restaurants....
IRIS Host TINA in Adventure Challenge
Epic 800km Trail run and mountain climb Tina Page , our host on THE barge, iris, will be hanging up her panniers and switching...
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 far. I started BikePlanet first...
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 to the departure date I...
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 Moselle the IRIS is sailing...
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. So we would love to...
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 IRIS, starting in Cochem, sailing...
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 a group of people it’s...
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 big difference between the way...
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. I asked Kristin, a tourguide...
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 you with those. Let us...
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 we asked Lenny Versteeg, proud...