On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 9:32 AM Roberta <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sally, > Do you have any recommendations for companies in the Mid-Atlantic region > that you especially liked? I’ve never done any bike touring, but I did see > tours of three or five days on Assateague Island. I’m also not a strong > rider so can’t do multiple 40 mile day rides, although I’m hoping to change > that this summer with some training > The most cost effective bike touring "companies" are actually the bike tours run by bicycle clubs. Those don't usually take a huge amount of profit (as opposed to backroads). One example is the Supertour (2025 flyer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bA65T6gABDLdzEaSjNmZGLKo1By-Ox0x/view) which prices in at around $150/person/day (unfortunately, it's camping based). Surprisingly enough, when I organize my own trip I come in at around that price but get to stay in hotels. If you're on the East Coast with easy access to Europe, one great option is biketours.com, which gets you tours run by European companies which charge around 1/5th the price of American companies like Trek Tours or Backroads or Santana Tours (those can run up to $800/night/person). One great option for those new to touring is the "bike and boat tours": https://www.biketours.com/bike-boat/. What you do is to get onto the riverboat boat and unpack. In the morning each day, the boat drops you off, and you bike downriver to where the boat meets you. On days you don't feel like riding you stay on the boat. You never have to pack/unpack each day, and usually breakfast and dinner is taken care of. American companies will charge $4000 for a week, but the locals run it for 1000 euros for a week: https://www.biketours.com/austria/danube-passau-budapest-passau/ (I have never taken one of these tours --- I just get a lot of brochures from backroads and various other touring companies --- I show them to my wife so she understands how much money we save by doing everything ourselves :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAPh0EZ4DtosOu1MoDQp8VQZQUGZ1Tcyk51skF7MXcLa4QN70XA%40mail.gmail.com.
