The best way through Rome is on two wheels. Saigon too.
Which Vespa tours put a driver up front and which hand you the keys. What an hour on a stand-up electric costs in Prague. Where a scooter reaches eleven food stalls before the traffic wakes up. Reviews of every scooter tour you can book.
Four scooter days worth planning a trip around.
The bookings a first two-wheel trip hangs off. What each one costs, and what the riders who took it say.
01The Tuscan afternoonFlorence Vespa Tour: Tuscan Hills and Italian CuisineOut of Florence on a Vespa, cypress roads and a cellar stop. The ride everyone else copies.
02Eleven tastingsFood Tour by Scooter with Eleven TastingsPillion across Ho Chi Minh City, eating at eleven stops nobody would find alone.
03Rome from a sidecarRome Morning Vespa Sidecar Tour in Rome with CappuccinoA morning in a Vespa sidecar with a cappuccino stop. No licence, no traffic nerves.
04Budapest on fat tyresBudapest Small-Group Guided Tour on MonsteRoller e-ScooterA stand-up electric along the Danube in a small group. Balance is all it asks of you.
Six kinds of scooter, and the best tour on each.
A Vespa with a driver, a sidecar with a bathtub bolted to it, a stand-up electric, a rental for the week, a night run between food stalls. The machine decides the day more than the city does.
Italy invented the scooter holiday and still does it best.
Rome from the saddle before the traffic thickens, Chianti gravel out of Florence, the Amalfi corniche at the pace the road was built for. Four kinds of Italian scooter day, and what it costs to board each one.
★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · Florence Vespa Tour: Tuscan Hills and Italian Cuisine
Vespa daysVintage two-stroke, a guide ahead, coffee stops built in.
Rome by scooterSeven hills in three hours, sidecar or saddle.
Tuscan hillsCypress roads, a Sangiovese cellar, lunch that runs long.
The Amalfi cornichePositano to Amalfi on a road that suits something narrow.
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Vietnam runs on scooters, so that is how you should see it.
Ho Chi Minh City moves on several million of them, and a rider who knows which alley hides the good bun cha. You sit behind with a helmet on and eat across the city while it flows around you.
The most popular scooter tours anywhere.
Open the whole catalogue →More riders take these than any other scooter tour. What earns each of them the slot is underneath it.
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Ninh Binh HIGHTLIGHT & HIDDEN GEM Tour From Hanoi: Skip-The-Line
Explore Ninh Binh from Hanoi by boat, scooter, bike, and foot, with Mua Cave, Tam Coc, Hoa Lu, Bich Dong, and local lunch.
From · $89
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Florence Vespa Tour: Tuscan Hills and Italian Cuisine
from $79
3
Scooter Tours of Red Rock Canyon
from $135
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Vespa Sidecar Tour By Night with Pickup
from $146
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Rome Morning Vespa Sidecar Tour in Rome with Cappuccino
from $163
6
Budapest Small-Group Guided Tour on MonsteRoller e-Scooter
from $72
7
Food Tour by Scooter with Eleven Tastings
from $28
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Chianti Vespa Tour with Lunch from Florence & E-car Option
from $125
Stand-up electric scooters now outnumber the Vespas.
A Vespa wants a licence or a driver. A stand-up electric wants balance and about an hour. Both cross a city faster than feet, and they cost very different money.
Rome on a Vespa beats Rome on foot, and it is not close.
Sidecars leave before seven for a Colosseum with nobody in front of it. Self-drive scooters need a licence and a stomach for the Lungotevere. Both end with gelato, because everything in Rome does.
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What a scooter day actually costs.
Every ride in the catalogue, grouped by price. An hour on a stand-up electric costs less than lunch. A private Vespa day with a driver costs what a private driver costs.
City e-scooter hours, kick-scooter rentals and the short food runs out of Saigon and Hanoi.
The standards: half-day Vespa tours, Chianti runs out of Florence, guided electric mornings.
Private Vespa days with a driver, sidecar tours with hotel pickup, and the long Tuscan afternoons.
What a scooter tour asks of you before you pay for it.
Four things decide whether a booking works: what your licence says, who is doing the steering, what you are wearing, and how much of you the machine is rated to carry. None of them are hidden, and all four turn people away at the kerb.
- 01No licence neededSidecar and pillion tours put a licensed local up front. Nothing in your wallet has to mention motorcycles.
- 02Self-drive wants paperworkAnything you steer yourself asks for a full driving licence, and in Italy an International Driving Permit alongside it if yours was issued outside the EU.
- 03Stand-up rules differKick and stand-up electric scooters ask for balance rather than a licence. Operators usually set a minimum age around sixteen and a rider weight ceiling near 100 kg.
- 04Helmets and closed shoesHelmets come with the machine and are not optional. Sandals, loose dresses and a full backpack are the usual reasons somebody is turned away.
Three scooter days that exist nowhere else.
Walking tours and coaches go everywhere. A sidecar through Trastevere at dawn, a pillion seat through eleven Saigon food stalls and a convoy of old Vespas on Chianti gravel do not.
The Vespa Sidecar
The sidecar is a 1960s Vespa with a bathtub bolted to its right flank, and it changes the whole proposition: you are a passenger, so you spend the ride looking up instead of watching the road. Roman drivers give them room out of affection. Most runs leave before seven, while the Colosseum is still empty and the light is low, and finish with a cappuccino drunk standing at a bar.
- 1Vespa Sidecar Tour By Night with Pickup★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,803 reviews
- 2Rome Morning Vespa Sidecar Tour in Rome with Cappuccino★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,771 reviews
- 3Highlights Vespa Sidecar Tour with Coffee and Gelato★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 747 reviews
Eating Pillion
A rider collects you, hands over a helmet, and the next three hours are spent on the back of a scooter between stalls with no sign and no menu. The machine is what makes it work: the stops sit kilometres apart in a city where walking between them would eat the whole evening. You eat standing on the kerb, ten or eleven times, and the bill is smaller than one restaurant.
- 1Food Tour by Scooter with Eleven Tastings★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,502 reviews
- 2Saigon Evening Food Tour by Scooter★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 944 reviews
- 3Saigon Afternoon Unseen Street Food by Scooter |Opt: Ao Dai Rider★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 854 reviews
The Vespa Convoy
A dozen riders leave Florence in single file on Vespas older than most of the group, climb out of the Arno valley and spend the afternoon on gravel between vineyards. A guide leads and a van follows for anyone who wants out. Lunch is at a farmhouse and the tasting is Sangiovese, which is exactly why the van exists.
- 1Chianti Wine Region Vespa or Fiat Topolino Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 739 reviews
- 2Tuscany Vespa Tour: Lunch & Wine Tasting, Countryside Roads★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 614 reviews
- 3Tuscany Vespa Tour from Florence with Wine Tasting★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 425 reviews
Riding pillion, or riding the scooter yourself.
Guided rides split into two shapes and they suit different people. Pillion and sidecar tours need nothing from you but a helmet and a sense of humour. Self-drive days and rentals hand over the throttle, the licence check and the parking problem.
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