Cycling in the Age of COVID
Your Safety, Our Priority
Beautiful roads, authentic experiences and carefully planned journeys designed around your comfort and wellbeing.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the open roads, fragrant vineyards, undulating valleys and challenging mountain passes that we all know and love have often seemed like a distant memory.
Not to mention the evocative market squares, trattorias, bars and pasticcerias that help to make a cycling holiday in Italy the two-wheeled trip of a lifetime.
Thankfully, the world will open up again and these magnificent cycleways, towns and villages will once more be accessible.
When travelling resumes, it is natural that many customers and cyclists may feel cautious. However, the safety of our friends and customers has always been paramount, especially during unprecedented times.
So when you book with Italy Bike Tours, what can you expect when it comes to safety?
Your safety has always been paramount, so all you need to do is relax and enjoy the ride.
Flexibility
When you book with Italy Bike Tours, you want to know that you’ll be taken care of. This doesn’t only mean while you’re enjoying the scenery or experiencing the benefits of cycling in Italy.
It also means flexibility and control when you book your holiday.
COVID made the travel landscape unpredictable and volatile, so we took steps to ensure that if anything unforeseen happened in the lead-up to a trip, we could help.
If circumstances changed here in Italy, our team remained flexible and agile enough to adapt dates, times and other elements of the journey.
Carefully planned journeys supported by a team ready to adapt when circumstances change.
Size Matters
Over the years, Italy Bike Tours has built a reputation for creating bespoke cycling holidays for small groups, with an average of around eight guests.
We have always preferred these group sizes because they allow us to provide the attention to detail expected from a bucket-list journey.
This means carefully selected routes, comfortable accommodation, enjoyable food and wine experiences, seamless transfers and reliable cycling support.
Small tours also allow our team to monitor conditions and adapt routes where necessary, ensuring that accommodation and stopping points can be enjoyed safely and comfortably.
Smaller numbers allow our guides to focus on every rider and every detail of the experience.
Routes and stopping points can be monitored and adapted according to local conditions.
From transfers to cycling assistance, every element is organised by an experienced local team.
Carefully chosen accommodation, restaurants and activities complete every journey.
Social Distancing
At the beginning of the pandemic, some parts of Italy were hit hard by the virus and, as a result, people took the rules very seriously.
As your safety is paramount to us, we introduced measures designed to protect guests throughout their journey.
These included reduced capacity in well-ventilated vehicles, dining outside where possible and staggered start times to provide more space.
Keen to Be Clean
You can be certain of one thing: anywhere you visit with Italy Bike Tours will be carefully selected and maintained.
We worked closely with our partners in Italy to ensure that hotel rooms and accommodation followed the required government protocols.
We took cleanliness extremely seriously, disinfecting bicycles before and after each ride, cleaning vans and vehicles and providing sanitising hand gel to guests before rides, before lunch and after cycling.
Keeping guests and equipment clean and sanitised meant that all you had to do was relax and enjoy the trip.
Care throughout every stage of the journey
Bikes and shared equipment were cleaned before and after each ride.
Support vans and transfer vehicles were regularly cleaned and ventilated.
Hotels and local partners were selected according to the required hygiene standards.
Sanitising products and assistance were available throughout the cycling day.
Testing, Testing, One Two Three
If the pandemic taught us one thing, it was the importance of remaining vigilant and consistently monitoring the health of our customers.
During that period, this included checking guests’ temperatures each morning before cycling and recording the results so that any fluctuations or changes could be monitored.
Expert planning and attentive support allow you to concentrate on the landscapes, the riding and the joy of being in Italy.
The Great Outdoors
It goes without saying that the benefits of cycling are numerous. This is true whether you are climbing the steep roads of the Stelvio or enjoying a more leisurely pedal through the Tuscan countryside.
After a stressful period, cycling offers the perfect opportunity to blow away the cobwebs, fill your lungs with fresh air and reconnect with the senses.
Cycling is a wonderful way to replenish the soul and reduce stress. With Italy Bike Tours, you can enjoy the experience knowing that you are supported by a knowledgeable and experienced team.
We would always rather be talking about the beautiful, romantic and unforgettable experience of cycling in Italy, but we also understand the importance of keeping guests safe throughout their journey.
Explore Italy with complete peace of mind
Now that you have read through our approach to cycling safely in Italy, get in touch with our team with any questions about your trip. Together, we will create a carefully planned cycling experience filled with beautiful roads, authentic Italian moments and expert support.