VBT — 

For over 44 years, this award-winning company has been specializing in active travel, with an emphasis on distinctive lodging and unique, authentic, cultural activities.

VBT offers a variety Europe cycling tours, specializing in small-group bicycling tours, bike & barge tours, and walking tours—at a variety of different fitness levels and paces.  They promise lower prices than other active-travel companies and include nearly everything for one low price: roundtrip international airfare, all transfers to and from the airport, all accommodations and most meals, use of a customized VBT bicycle, two local, expert VBT Trip Leaders, guided sightseeing, cultural activities, and also their van support shuttle, transportation between sites, and daily maps and directions..

Their cycling tours are designed to meet the wide variety of fitness levels with each day offering multiple mileage options.   Spend your nights in 4-star historic hotels, country villas, and châteaux, while enjoying VBT extras like an Italian language lesson, a lecture by a local art historian, or a wine tasting, as well as numerous sightseeing and cultural activities. 

VBT also offers cycling and walking trips to Costa Rica, New Zealand, Vietnam, Peru, South Africa, China, and the United States.