You know that fantasy of cycling through a sun-drenched French village, stopping at a bakery, and ending up at a charming chateau for the night? The dream never includes the part where you’re hauling a week’s worth of luggage in panniers, your knees hurt from yesterday’s wrong saddle height, and you’re pretty sure you took a wrong turn five miles back.
Fortunately, bike tour operators solve all those problems. Your bags are at the hotel before you arrive, there’s a support van at the ready, and all you have to do is ride and enjoy. These are the best luxury cycling trips.
EF Adventures
Best for: Tour de France fans who want to do more than watch
Few experiences can match the thrill of watching the Tour de France in person, but EF Adventures takes it a step further. Through the company’s partnership with EF Pro Cycling, one of the professional teams actually competing in the race, you don’t just watch the pros from the roadside. You ride the same roads they do, just days before they do it.
For 2026, EF Adventures offers eight different Tour itineraries spanning various regions and difficulty levels. No matter which trip you choose, you’ll stay in handpicked hotels, have the reassurance of a support van, and enjoy local activities like a French wine tasting.
Best Tour: Tour de France 2026, Provence and the Paris Finale
The Tour’s finale draws the biggest crowds and the highest drama, and this itinerary puts you right in the heart of it. You’ll pedal through Luberon’s lavender fields and grind up the switchbacks of the legendary Mont Ventoux before heading to Paris, where VIP grandstand seats on the Champs-Élysées await for the final sprint. The trip ends on the highest possible note: an invitation to the EF Pro Cycling team’s post-race celebration.
ExperiencePlus!
Best for: Discovering under-the-radar Italy
If you’re planning a cycling trip in Italy, book it with a company that actually has its headquarters there. ExperiencePlus uses local guides who scout routes frequently, so you’ll never be unexpectedly detoured onto a busy road. The company started in Italy but now runs trips across a wide range of destinations, from Argentina to Turkey, with bikes to match, including options from premium road bikes to e-gravel.
Best Tour: Bicycling Venice to Florence
Turns out there’s a better way to explore Venice than the canals, and that’s by two wheels. This tour starts in Venice and stops in underrated small towns along the way, including Ferrara and Ravenna, before ending up in Florence. You’re guaranteed to eat well on this trip, as it passes through Emilia-Romagna, Italy’s most prestigious pasta region.
Exodus Adventure Travels
Best for: Adventure travellers who want active days and comfortable nights
Exodus has been running adventure tours since 1974, offering a mix of hiking, biking, and culture trips to choose from. Each cycling tour is graded by difficulty, and breaks down exactly how much of the riding will be on- or off-road, so you’ll be able to pick the trip that’s best suited for you.
Exodus recently ventured into the luxury space, launching a premium adventure collection that combines active itineraries with premium accommodations and exclusive experiences.
Best Tour: Cycle Southeast Asia, Premium Adventure
Ride from Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City via Cambodia on a gentle network of mostly paved roads. You’ll even get to cycle through the temple complex of Angkor, ending at the famous Angkor Wat. Off the bike, you’ll enjoy experiences such as a sunrise kayak on the Mekong, a visit to the Cai Be floating market, and a swim in the river at Wang Takhrai Park.
DuVine
Best for: People who love good food as much as they like biking
If you treat cycling as a socially acceptable way to justify a second (or third) plate of pasta, DuVine might be your kind of tour operator. Their luxury bike trips are built around food and wine, with routes that prioritise local producers, standout wineries, family-run farms, and restaurants their guides have spent years getting to know.
And the experience is as seamless as it is indulgent. Nearly everything is included: accommodations, all meals, and local wine, beer, or spirits with each one, plus premium bikes and gear (helmet, jersey, water bottle, GPS), a support vehicle, transfers, daily bike maintenance, activities and entrance fees, and even gratuities for baggage handling and hotel service.
Best Tour: Amalfi Coast + Cilento Bike Tour
Most people have heard of the Amalfi Coast. Very few have heard of the Cilento, the national park just to its south, which is exactly why you should go. The riding through Cilento is beautiful and almost entirely tourist-free. You’ll ride along coastal ridges through the national park, enjoy a farm lunch featuring fresh mozzarella di bufala, and visit some of the world’s best-preserved Greek temples at Paestum.
Trek Travel
Best for: Cyclists who want to explore America’s national parks in style
Trek Travel is an offshoot of Trek Bicycle, so you know the bikes are going to be good. In addition to the use of a high-end bike, your tour will include complimentary Trek Travel merchandise (including a cycling jersey or technical t-shirt).
The National Parks collection is where Trek Travel really distinguishes itself. While plenty of operators have figured out cycling in Italy or France, the American national parks remain underserved by luxury cycling companies, which is a shame given that some of the most spectacular road riding in the world runs straight through them. Trek Travel has built itineraries through Bryce Canyon, Zion, Crater Lake, Glacier, and the Grand Canyon area, each in an all-inclusive format that makes planning extremely simple.
Daily routes are designed so that riders of different fitness levels within the same group can each have the day they want. If your partner isn’t a cyclist, most Trek Travel trips offer a non-riding option, so you can vacation together while still having a good time individually.
Best Tour: Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks Bike Tour
The visual contrast between Bryce’s flame-coloured hoodoo spires and Zion’s soaring sandstone canyon walls makes for some of the most dramatic cycling scenery on the planet. You’ll stay in luxurious hotels each night, like the Boulder Mountain Lodge.
Backroads
Best for: Making friends on your tour
Backroads really has a tour for everyone. There are options for women’s-only trips, departures tailored to riders in their 30s and 40s, family tours, and activities built around biking, hiking, or multi-adventure combinations.
That same level of group curation applies to the riders around you. There’s something a little disheartening about struggling up a steep hill only to have someone on an ebike pass you without even breaking a sweat. If you want to avoid that feeling, Backroads offers “unplugged” bike tours, which are only for riders using regular bikes (no ebikes allowed).
Best Pick: Japan Bike Tour
Discover a quieter side of Japan on Backroads’ bike tour, which takes you from the Izu Peninsula to Kyoto on two wheels. You’ll ride along the region’s dramatic coastline while admiring views of Mt. Fuji, and recover each night in ryokans offering natural hot springs.
Butterfield & Robinson
Best for: Private biking tours
Butterfield & Robinson understands that some people want all the benefits of a guided tour — local expertise, seamless logistics, great accommodations — without sharing the road with strangers. The company offers plenty of options to privatise a trip entirely, so the route is yours alone. For those happy to share, small group tours are typically capped at around 12 people, keeping things intimate regardless.
Best Trip: Netherlands Biking
The Netherlands are one of the most famous cycling destinations in Europe, with over 21,700 miles of separated bike paths to explore. Enjoy them on Butterfield & Robinson’s Netherlands biking trip, which travels from Holland’s tulip fields to the bustling streets of Belgium.
Want all the access of a small group tour, but don’t want to be on a bike the entire time? Read our story on the Best Luxury Small Group Europe Tours. Prefer to roll solo? Read our guide to doing a Self-Guided Bike Tour of the Moselle River Valley in Germany.
