Nichols Expeditions specializes in arranging Self Guided Tours Bike Tours and Self Guided Walking Tours for individuals, couples and small groups. With 35+ years of experience, we have curated a collection of the best self guided tours in Europe, and beyond.
2025 Tour Dates: March – October Price: (includes bike rental): 2700 Swiss francs per person double occupancy The Bodensee is a completely flat 210 kilometer tour around Lake Constance (Der Bodensee).
Tour Dates: April – October
Price: €2250 Euros per person / Double occupancy
This is a very special tour as you cycle through two countries, both of which are bike friendly.
2025 Tour Dates:April – October
Price: €1,550 Euros per person double occupancy
On the tracks of the D-DAY, this week long cycling trip will take you on the path of freedom from Saint-Malo to Bayeux.
Along the coast in Brittany and Normandy, you ride along the path that the allies opened in 1944 after their landing on the Normandy beaches. The route offers many historical and natural sites for you to discover.
Tour Dates: May 20 - 27, 2026
2025 Price: €3,350 Euros per person double occupancy
Our Portugal Guided Bike Tour route takes you through stunning coastal scenery, typical fisherman’s villages and UNESCO World Heritage sites. You will pass by Nazaré, a legendary surf spot where the professional big wave surfer Garret McNamara set a world record riding a 100 foot wave in 2013.
2025 Tour Dates: 8 days, April – October
Price: €1480 Euros pp double occupancy
From Bordeaux to Sarlat via Bergerac, enjoy the best of the French Southwest!
Tour Dates:Year Around Departures
Price: €1600 pp double occupancy
Walk and eat like a Portuguese fisherman on the coast. What does it mean to be on the coastline of Alentejo? Discover a wild, scrubby expanse of low hills and wave-pounded cliffs.
Tour Dates: January - May and September - December
2025 Price: €1350 Euros pp double occupancy
An incredible cycling trip along Portugal's southernmost region from the Algarve east side to Sagres. Reach Cape São Vicente, where the land ends and the sea begins.
Tour Dates: 8 days, Year around with the best weather in May - Oct
2025 Price: €1,420
Single Supplement: €740 Euros
The greatest shapes of Sintra! At a close distance from Lisbon, lies the Sintra - Cascais Natural Park, which is the perfect playground for this beautiful hiking tour!
Tour Dates: 7 days, Year around with the best weather in May - Oct
2025 Price:From: €1,700
Single Supplement: €780 Euros
Apart from its legacy, the region is also one of extreme beauty and stunning landscapes, perfect for a hiking adventure!
Tour Dates: This tour is available to charter
Price: Contact us for tour prices
Mallorca is an amazing island that is widely regarded as a cyclist’s paradise offering quiet roads, breathtaking panoramas, comfortable rural hotels, great food and wine and almost year round sunshine.
2025 Tour Dates: April through October
2025 Tour Prices: From: €2,660 Euros pp
8 day Croatia Self Guided Bike Tour along the Croatian coast with quiet roads, ancient villages, lavender fields.
Tour Dates: March – November
2025 Price: €1550 Euros pp double occupancy
Single Supplement: €300 Euros
This unforgettable bicycle tour traverses Tuscany on quiet country roads that pass through vineyards and lead to historic medieval towns where history comes alive.
Tour Dates: April – mid-October
2025 Price:From €1580 Euros pp double occupancy
Ride at your own pace through a lush countryside of picture perfect farms, inviting lakes and cool shady forests. Your overnight lodgings are in picturesque medieval towns.
Tour Dates: 7 Days, March - November
2025 Price: From €1280 Euros pp double occupancy
This Self Guided Walking Tour is the perfect way to discover Catalonia’s fascinating history, culture and excellent cuisine. Visit medieval towns along the Mediterranean Sea with fantastic views of the small bays in the area.
Tour Dates: 8 days Apr – Oct
2025 Price:From €1200 Euros pp double occupancy in low season
Single Supplement: €350 Euros
A magnificent combination of sea and mountains, alpine and coastal scenery, comfortable lodging in charming country inns, scrumptious food and good regional wines are a welcomed part of this self guided tour.
Tour Dates: Year-round
2025 Price:From €1280 Euros pp double occupancy in low season
Single Supplement: €300 Euros
Enjoy a ride through some of the most dramatic landscapes to be found in Europe. Perfect climate year around for cycling – neither hot in summer nor cold in winter.
Tour Dates: 8 Days, April to October
2025 Price: From €1700 Euros pp double occupancy
We have 2 itineraries - 1 for hybrid or ebikes that uses a mixture of paved with some gravel roads cycling and 1 for more challenging road bikes that uses only paved roads. Both have great scenery. This tour is perfect for the rider who wants to visit one of Europe’s most beautiful locations, the breathtaking Costa Brava in the Catalonia region of northeastern Spain.
Tour Dates: 8 - 11 Days, Apr – Oct (shorter and longer versions available)
2025 Price:From €1350 Euros pp double occupancy
Our Slovenia Self Guided Bike Tour takes you on a north to south cross-country journey through some of Slovenia’s most scenic and historical places.
Tour Dates: Year-round
2025 Price:From €1630 Euros pp double occupancy
Single Supplement: From €600 Euros
The Portugal Self Guided Bike Tour follows uncrowded paved roads that pass by castles, fields of cork trees, and the land of ancient battles. Portugal Self Guided Bike Tour in the Alentejo are the perfect blend of natural beauty, medieval villages, tasty cuisine, and excellent wine.
Tour Dates: Mid-March through Mid-November
2025 Price: €1475 Euros pp double occupancy
Single Supplement: €250 Euros
Pedal through olive groves and past vineyards, wonder at Etruscan burial chambers, Roman ruins and splendid churches. Pause in medieval villages perched on the hillside and lose yourself in the tales that ancient stones tell.
Tour Dates: Mid-March through Mid-November
2025 Price: €1375 Euros pp double occupancy
Single Supplement: €250 Euros
Tuscany is a charmed land of rounded hilltops covered with vineyards and acres of sunflowers bathed in pastel sunlight.
Tour Dates: Mid-March through Mid-November
2024 Price: €1330 Euros pp double occupancy
Single Supplement: €180 Euros
Our Umbria Walking Tour takes you through the Green Heart of Italy. We offer this tour as a Self Guided Walking Tour, and it may also be chartered as a guided tour for groups.
Tour Dates: Mid-March through Mid-November
2024 Price: €1360 Euros pp double occupancy
Single Supplement: €200 Euros
On our Tuscany Self guided Walking Tour you will follow timeless walking paths through the landscape that has inspired travelers for centuries. We offer this tour as a Self Guided Walking Tour, and it may also be chartered as a guided tour for groups.
Tour Dates: Mid March through October
2021 Price: €1300 Euros pp double occupancy
Single Supplement: €560 Euros
Veneto Self Guided Bike Tour is an easy-paced cycling tour on flat roads and bike paths with hotel accommodations. This Self-Guided Tour lets you ride at your own pace with a map and detailed route book.
Tour Dates: Mar-Jun & Sept-Nov
2025 Price: €1800 Euros per person double occupancy
The views change daily in this uncrowded, enchanted landscape of Greek temples, hilltop castles and white sand beaches bordered by seaside cliffs. As you make your way inland to the interior of the island, you find rolling hills with broad valleys of wheat, groves of olive trees and endless vineyards buzzing with activity during the harvest.
Tour Dates: Year-round 2025 Price: From €1800 Euros pp double occupancy Single Supplement: €500 Euros Sardinia Bike Tours are available as Guided, Self-Guided or Charter Bike Tours. This unforgettable Italy bicycle tour traverses the west coast of Sardinia.
Tour Dates: Mar-June & Sept-Nov
2025 7-Day Tour Price:From €1990 Euros pp double occupancy
Single Supplement: €600 Euros
This is a beautiful self-guided cycling trip through the region of Puglia, Italy, which lies in the heel of the boot, along the sun-drenched Adriatic Sea.
Tour Dates: April – October
2025 Price: €1940 Euros pp double occupancy
Experience the beauty and flavor of France’s fabulous scenery, cultural heritage, and incredible food and wine at your own pace. These are perfect active vacations for individuals, couples, and groups of family and friends!
Tour Dates: April – October
2025 Price: From €2760 Euros pp double occupancy
Our Dordogne Bike Tours are Self Guided Bike tours that offer the best in a French cycling vacation: history, castles, beautiful vistas, quiet country roads, and world-renowned cuisine and wine.
Tour Dates: April – October
2025 Price: €1680 Euros/pp double occupancy
Discover the light, scents, colors and tastes of Provence through this self-guided bike tour that will take you on an exploration of Provence’s beautiful towns and villages. You stay in charming hotels. This tour can also be chartered as a guided tour.
Tour Dates: April through October
2025 Price: €1790 Euros pp double occupancy
Single Supplement: €490 Euros
Our Czech Republic Self Guided Walking Tours will introduce you to one of the prettiest and most historically significant regions in Central Europe. Beginning in Vienna and ending in Prague, this exceptional route passes through a region filled with stunning castles and old world charm.
Tour Dates: Sept 16-23, 2025, Charter tours available for groups of 4 or more April - October
2025 Price: €2,820 Euros/double occupancy, group size 4-7 people, €2570 Euros/double occupancy, group size 8+ people
Single Supplement: €490 Euros
This hike will take you through one of the prettiest and most historically significant regions in Central Europe.
Tour Dates: April through October
2025 Price: €1,160 per person
: Prices vary according to month and level of accommodations.
This Self Guided Croatia Bike tour allows you stay in Split each night, and cycle on Adriatic Islands each day. No need for luggage transfers or changing hotels! This tour features the most beautiful areas along the Croatian coast with quiet roads, ancient villages, lavender fields and UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Tour Dates: April through October
2025 Price:From €1820 Euros pp double occupancy (prices vary based upon month and level of accommodations that you choose.
Single Supplement: From €570 Euros
Our Croatia Self Guided Walking Tours will introduce you to Split and the picturesque islands of Brac, Hvar and Korcula and a grand finish in Dubrovnik.
Tour Dates: 9 days, Apr, May, Sept & Oct
Price: Contact us for prices
Our Albania Self Guided Bike Tour is wild, beautiful and definitely off the beaten track! The tour route highlights the fascinating culture and natural beauty of southern Albania.
