SCOOTER & MOPED TOURS · THE WORLD ON TWO WHEELS
See the city the way the locals ride it.
Reviews of the best scooter, moped and Vespa tours on earth, city by city. Pillion rides through the Saigon backstreets, fat-tyre e-scooters across Prague’s cobbles, the Acropolis loop in Athens and the open coast roads of Gran Canaria. Find the ride worth booking before you go.
Worth the airfare
Three rides you can only take where they belong.
A scooter tour exists in almost any city now. But a pillion run through Saigon’s traffic, a fat-tyre loop across Prague’s cobbles to the castle, and an island day from the Gran Canaria dunes to the crater rim belong to those roads alone.
Pillion through Saigon
Saigon on the Back of a Scooter
Nobody walks Ho Chi Minh City and nobody should. You climb on behind a local rider and the whole place opens up: the wet market lanes, the alley kitchens, the riverside at night, the wall of traffic that somehow flows. Helmet on, hands on the rail, and let someone who has ridden it their whole life pick the route.
- 1 Ho Chi Minh City: Food Tour by Scooter with Eleven Tastings
- 2 Saigon: City Highlights and Saigon Unseen Scooter Combo Tour
- 3 Ho Chi Minh: Local Food Tour by Scooter with Vegan Option
Cobbles and castle
Prague on a Fat-Tyre E-Scooter
Prague was built for wandering and the fat-tyre e-scooter is how you cover it without wearing your legs out. Across the bridges, through the Old Town squares, up the hill to the castle for the rooftops and the river bend. A guide rides with you, the cobbles handle fine, and you see three times the city you would on foot.
- 1 Prague: Fat Tire E-Scooter Guided Tour
- 2 Prague: Fat Tire or Regular Scooter Tour with A Local Guide
- 3 Prague: E-Bike or E-Scooter Tour with A Local Guide
Island roads
Gran Canaria, Coast to Crater
One island, every kind of road. Rent a chopper-style e-scooter along the Maspalomas dunes, or take a proper machine up the switchbacks into the volcanic interior and back down to the sea. The light is huge, the tarmac is empty once you climb, and the whole place is small enough to ride in a day.
- 1 Maspalomas: 2-Seater Chopper E-Scooter Rental
- 2 Maspalomas: 2-Seater Chopper E-Scooter Guided Tour
- 3 Maspalomas: 2-Seater E-Scooter Dunes Tour with Camel
The one everyone books
If you only take one ride.
More travellers reach for this one than any other on the site. A safe first booking in a city you are still finding your way around.
The classics
The World’s Most Popular Scooter Tours
Saigon, Prague, Budapest, Athens, Bangkok. The rides travellers reach for first, in the cities best suited to two wheels.
Where to ride
Pick a city and twist the throttle.
Prague for the cobbles and the castle climb. Saigon for the pillion run through the traffic. Gran Canaria for the island roads. Bangkok for the night ride, Athens for the Acropolis loop, Barcelona for Gaudi and the sea. The best of each, in one place.
Before you book
Pillion, guided, or your own keys?
How you ride matters as much as where. Three ways onto two wheels, depending on the city, the traffic, and whether you want to drive or just hold on and look.
The Spanish islands
The Canaries were made for a scooter.
Small islands, big roads, year-round sun. On Gran Canaria you ride from the Maspalomas dunes up into the volcanic interior; on Fuerteventura the coast road runs empty for miles; on Mallorca the switchbacks climb into the Tramuntana. Short enough to circle in a day, quiet enough that the tarmac feels like yours.
See the best scooter tours in Spain →Central Europe
Cobbled cities, built for an e-scooter.
Prague, Krakow and Budapest pack their best parts into compact old centres that punish your feet and reward two wheels. Fat-tyre e-scooters take the cobbles in stride, a guide links the squares, bridges and viewpoints, and you see far more of the city than a walking tour ever fits in.
See the best scooter tours in the Czech Republic →The whole point
It is the wind, not the photos.
A scooter day is never just the sights. It is the warm air at the lights, the smell of a city you are moving through instead of looking at, the side road you take because it looked good, and the grin under the helmet on the way back. You arrive having actually been there.
Browse every scooter tour →Southeast Asia
This is where the scooter runs the city.
In Saigon, Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Da Nang the scooter is not a tour gimmick, it is how everyone gets around. Ride pillion behind someone who threads this traffic daily and the place stops being chaos and starts making sense: alley kitchens, riverside lanes, and corners no coach will ever reach.
- 1 Ho Chi Minh City: Food Tour by Scooter with Eleven Tastings
- 2 Saigon: City Highlights and Saigon Unseen Scooter Combo Tour
- 3 Bangkok: E-Scooter Night Tour with Local Street Food
By distance
How far do you want to ride?
Some days you want a quick loop of the old town and a coffee. Some days you want to get out past where the buses go. And some days you want the whole island and a full tank between you and the horizon. Pick the range, we will point you at the ride.
A couple of hours
Loop the old town.A guided city ride: the famous squares, the river bridges and the viewpoints, with a local out front so you never miss a turn or a backstory.
Half a day
Ride past where the buses go.Out to the riverside lanes, the night markets and the corners a coach can never reach, stopping where the locals stop and rolling on before the crowds catch up.
A full day out
Take the whole island.Self-drive from the coast up into the craters and back down the dune road: hours of open tarmac, big views and a tank of fuel between you and the horizon.
Athens after the heat
Ride the Acropolis loop at golden hour.
Athens sprawls, and the good parts are spread out: the Acropolis and its slopes, the old lanes of Plaka and Anafiotika, the hill viewpoints, the coast at Faliro. A guided e-scooter links them in an evening once the sun drops, gliding past the marble while the city cools and the rock turns gold. Far more ground than your feet would manage, far less sweat.
See all 8 Athens scooter tours →By city
Pick a city and pick a ride.
Prague for the cobbles and the castle climb. Saigon for the pillion run through the traffic. Gran Canaria for the dune and crater roads. Bangkok for the riverside night ride. Athens for the Acropolis loop. Barcelona for Gaudi and the seafront.
By country
Find the rides where you are headed.
From the Spanish islands to the Czech old towns, the streets of Vietnam to the coast roads of Italy and Greece. Browse the whole map by country and see what the scooter does there.
Ease in, then go
Your first trip on two wheels.
Never ridden a scooter on a trip before? Here is the gentle way to build up to it: a guided loop to find your feet, then your own keys, then the pillion ride that shows you a whole city.
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