Amsterdam Highlights Bike or E-Bike Tour
Description
What sets our Amsterdam City Bike Tour apart is the way we guide it. This is not a follow the flag race through traffic. It is a well-paced, well-managed ride designed to help confident cyclists experience Amsterdam like locals do. With a maximum of 15 guests, your guide can keep the group together, choose the most enjoyable cycling lanes, and make space for questions, photos, and real stories along the way. You will get a clear safety briefing at the start, then ride through the city with a guide who shares local insights about Amsterdam’s neighborhoods, history, and everyday bike culture, plus practical tips you can use for the rest of your trip.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Amsterdam Centraal Station including the biking garage for bikes.
Explore the old Western harbour of Amsterdam, the picturesque little islands connected by several draw bridges.
See & learn about the famous Jordaan neighbourhood, full of narrow alleys, canals and old Dutch Cafe's.
We will pass the house where Anne Frank and her family were hiding more than 2 years during WW2
The church next to Anne Frank House where Rembrandt is buried.
Go through Amsterdams most famous park, the Vondelpark. We are halfway the tour, so it is also time for a drink with the group.
See Amsterdams 3 biggest museums on the Museum Square
Bike under the Rijksmuseum
Go over the old Amstelveld and see Amsterdams last wooden church
We will go over the Magere Brug or Skinny Bridge when passing the Amstel river
Have a short stop at the name memorial for the 100.000 Dutch Jews who did not survive the Holocaust
Pass the museum of one of the most famous Dutch painters
Pass the modern art museum of Moco
Go over the beautiful Nieuwmarkt with Amsterdams oldest city gate.
Come nearby the Dutch Maritime Museum and see the famous 18th century Amsterdam ship laying next to the museum.
Highlights
What's included
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Minimum age is 12 years!
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- This tour operates with English language only
- A reasonable level of fitness, health and biking skill is necessary.
- Please be at the meeting point 15 mins before the start of the tour so we can hand out a bike and start the tour on time.
- We don't wait longer than 5 minutes, so please be on time
- Our guides will decide if your bike skills are good enough to join the tour (safety first).
- Mike's Tours Amsterdam and/or its owner(s) are not liable for damages or injuries of any kind incurred by participants or by third parties during any of Mike's Tours Amsterdam's activities.
- not recommended for not skilled bikers
Reviews(1,275)
Our guide was very knowledgeable and told some quite interessting facts. The ride was very easy, you just had to watch out for the other riders.
An excellent tour with Mark, a historian with lots of great stories and facts about Amsterdam. We loved the bike ride, the pace was great and we got to see all over different parts of the city. Highly recommend
Thanks Tiffany. Mark is a historian by training, so the stories on the Amsterdam Highlights Bike or E-Bike Tour come from someone who has read the sources rather than a script. Pace matters more than people expect, and our guides read the group instead of running a fixed clock. Covering several different parts of the city in one ride is what Mike's Bike Tours Amsterdam is built around. I will pass this on to Mark. / Ashton
Very fun experience. E-bikes worked well. Guide was very knowledgeable. Great way to see the city. The only suggestion for the guide is that she didn't allow time for us to take pictures when we stopped. She would take one group photo and said she would share, but I never got them. She never offered to take pics with our cameras.
Thanks Erbira, and thank you for the specific point. Photo time at stops should not be something you have to ask for, and a group photo that is promised and never arrives is worse than not offering one, so I have raised both with our guide team. Send your booking reference to our office and we will chase those photos for you. The rest of the Amsterdam Highlights Bike or E-Bike Tour clearly worked, and the e-bikes are why Mike's Bike Tours Amsterdam suits riders of every fitness level. / Ashton
Marcus the guide was great. He imparted lots of interesting information on what was a leisurely tour. The bikes were great.
Thanks Catherine. Marcus reads a group well and keeps the pace leisurely without dropping any of the detail. The Amsterdam Highlights Bike or E-Bike Tour is built to cover the city at a speed that leaves room for questions. Mike's Bike Tours Amsterdam maintains its own fleet, so the bikes you rode are the ones we look after every week. I will pass this on to Marcus. / Ashton
We had a fun and educational bike tour of Amsterdam. It was a great way to see the city and understand how to navigate bike traffic as a pedestrian. Our bike guide, Ginny, was excellent and loved sharing her knowledge and history about Amsterdam with our group. Perfect 2-hour activity.
Thanks Melanie. Learning to read Amsterdam bike traffic is worth the two hours on its own, and it is one of the reasons the Amsterdam Highlights Bike or E-Bike Tour works so well early in a trip. Ginny knows the history and enjoys telling it, which is the combination we hire for. Two hours is the sweet spot for covering the city without losing your day to it. I will pass this on to Ginny from all of us at Mike's Bike Tours Amsterdam. / Ashton
Our tour guide was great. Very informative and great way to see the city.
Thanks Janet. A bike puts far more of Amsterdam within reach than walking does, which is the whole idea behind our Amsterdam Highlights Bike or E-Bike Tour. Our guides live in this city, so what you hear on the ride comes from the place rather than a script. Glad you rode with Mike's Bike Tours Amsterdam. Ashton
Amalia made our tour really special! It was our first day in Amsterdam and a bike is the best way to get your bearings. Amalia is truly passionate about history and created some fun while we learned. I highly recommend!
Thanks Chris. Getting your bearings on day one is exactly what the Amsterdam Highlights Bike or E-Bike Tour is built for, and Amalia's passion for the history is what turns a route into a story. A bike covers more of this city in a few hours than walking manages in a day. I will make sure she sees this. Thanks for riding with Mike's Bike Tours Amsterdam. Ashton
Absolutely perfect way to get around and see Amsterdam. The tour was perfect. I've forgotten our guides name, but she was perfect. From Italy with so much local knowledge. Highly recommend
Thanks Aidan. Birds, a windmill and a working farm in one relaxed loop is the Countryside Bike Tour from Amsterdam doing its job. Ten riders is small enough that everyone gets a turn at the front and nobody is dropped at the back, which is the difference between a bike tour and a coach. Glad the e-bikes and the luggage bags made for an easy day with Mike's Bike Tours Amsterdam. Ashton
This tour was so such a lovely experience. The electric bikes made it very easy to do the 25 miles. I am a 58-year-old woman was not very active and I had no problem. Our tour guide, Rinse, was so knowledgeable. We stopped at several points and he gave us information and we were able to take pictures. We stopped in a beautiful little town that looks like something out of a movie. There were lovely little neighborhood cats that came out to greet us. It was absolutely beautiful and worth every penny. I highly recommend this if you wanna experience the Amsterdam countryside. The homes we saw along the way are nothing like anything you would see in the United States. The lifestyle was simple and clean and beautiful. You will not regret it if you book this tour.
Thanks Lisa. Twenty five miles and no problem at all, that is the e-bike doing what it does best. Lovely to read, and come ride with us again. Ashton
Great tour. Very easy to book, get bikes and meet with tour guide. Tour guide was great and very informative. Spent an appropriate amount of time discussing the sites.
Thanks Jason. Two hours is exactly what our Amsterdam Highlights Bike Tour is built for, enough time to cover the inner city properly without eating your whole day. Glad the booking and bike pickup were easy too. Come ride with us again. Ashton
