Cycle City Tours

I have ridden a bike exactly twice as an adult, both times for under 30 minutes, some of which were filled with abject terror. When my wife and I found ourselves in VC for 2 weeks, I decided it was time to grab my 2014 New Year’s Resolution by the horns, and so I booked a bike tour. It was time to sink or swim.
We decided to do this on our third day in town, so that we could get the lay of the land, and figure out which areas we wanted to return to. I had done a fair bit of research on Trip Advisor, and I was pleased to see that this 5 hour (more like 6 hour) bike tour covered most of the top rated things to do in Vancouver. We hit Stanley Park, the Seawall, Olympic Village, Granville Island, Chinatown, Skid Row (!), Gastown, the First Nations Totem Poles and more. We even got to watch some otters frolicking.
Nick was our tour guide and he was hilarious. I felt like we should pay extra for the comedy show! He knew seemingly everything about VC & was able to answer all questions. He even emailed our group links to First Nations music after the tour.
As far as safety and my bike terror is concerned, the ride was slow & protected (95% on bike paths or in dedicated bike lanes). The group took care to stay together and Nick made sure that we waited if we got separated by a street light. The bikes were comfortable and easy to manage for a novice rider. We had all ages, fitness levels, and experience levels.
Highly recommend!

Booked this tour over a long weekend in BC recently. I called the morning of the tour and they were more than willing to add us to the group. We had a fabulous guide, Nick. He was very knowledgeable and able to answer all of my questions on Vancouver, Canada, wildlife, etc. He also went above and beyond by turning our 5 hour tour into 6hrs (no complaints!) when we saw a gray whale in the harbor and wanted to watch. He patiently waited and even helped us find better spots to view even though it was obviously cutting into his personal time. At no point did he try to rush the rest of the tour or our lunch break. Fabulous tour! I’d highly recommend it.

I was recently in Vancouver traveling with seven other friends and family and we took the five hour tour through Stanley Park, over to Granville Island, and basically all throughout the city. Greg was our tour guide and in my opinion the bike tour was definitely the highlight of our time in the city! I would highly recommend this as a great way to see Vancouver!

I just spent the weekend in Vancouver for a girls weekend trip with my mom and sister. We booked a bike tour with Cycle City Tours, and it was easily one of the highlights of our trip. This was such a beautiful, efficient, and fun way to see the city. We would’ve never been able to see all these points of interest otherwise. Our tour guide, Amanda, made for a memorable day as well, despite the misty rain. She was energetic and knowledgeable, sharing several stories along the way. I learned so much that I would’ve never gathered just by visiting these sites alone. I highly recommend scheduling a tour with this company.
You do not have to be an expert biker by any means. There are plenty of stops along the way, and for the majority of the time, you are not biking with cars. When you do bike on the main roads, you can thank Vancouver for being so bike friendly. The bike lanes are clearly defined, and traffic was very respectful of pedestrians/​bikers. I was amazed by this in a large city.
The bikes from Cycle City Tours are great! You are fitted for a bike and helmet upon arrival. If you’d like, they can fasten a basket to your bike. This came in handy when I needed to wrap my backpack in a poncho as it rained.
Overall, great experience, even in the rain.

These guys make it easy. We rented bikes for 5 hours and explored Vancouver for the first time. Such a great way to see everything in the city. Cost is great, they give you helmets and locks, bikes are in good condition and they have baskets that can attach to the front of the bike. This came in handy when we biked to Granville Island. Would highly recommend these guys if you are headed to Vancouver and want to go explore.

Really loved this 5 hour tour. We saw so many beautiful parts of Vancouver we had not yet seen. Our tour guide Greg was great. It was at a pace that everyone no matter what their fitness level could enjoy. Well organized and lots of fun. Highly recommended tour.

Rented bikes for 4 adults, 5 kids and a tag-​a-​long for child today last minute — no advanced reservation. The staff was friendly and accommodating. Bikes were in perfect shape for rentals. Staff was helpful in their recommendation regarding trail route and exploration of Stanley park. Check in and check out was efficient and quick and bikes were adjusted to fit all riders well. I can recommend their service.

Had a great time on my Grand Tour with Nick on Aug 21. It didn’t hurt that it was an absolute gorgeous day in Vancouver. The tour is an excellent way to see most of the city in a short amount of time and get exercise too. Only being in Vancouver 2 days, I am very happy I decided to do this tour. My only suggestion would be that the stops be a little shorter and that the tour cover a little more of Stanley Park (I wish we had gone all the way around the peninsula). But all in all a great tour and well worth the price. Nick was a wonderful and friendly guy who really likes his city and it shows. The office staff was also very friendly and got everyone fixed up with a good bike and helmet. Padded seats would help though!

This is an amazing way to see all the highlights in Vancouver. Our guide, Nick, was very knowledgeable and made learning about his city very fun and interesting. The actual cycling was easy and safe with so many bicycle friendly roads.

The owner of this company, Josh, has contacted me with an apology. Unfortunately he was out of town the weekend of my trip. They have reversed all fees and charges, which was a relief as I did not want to spend more time on this disputing it with my bank. This would have been a nice tour if all had gone smoothly. I would recommend having a firm agreement with the owner before you leave on a tour. He let me know that normally they would have had a mechanic come out and bring us a new bike, so keep that in mind and keep your cell phone on you during the ride incase you need to call the store! You will need to wait for staff and a replacement. He is looking into why our bike went out with the bent pin in it.
I do appreciate the owner getting back to me. It’s is unfortunate he was not there. My last day in Vancouver was ruined after this and we did have to cancel our plans because I could not shake the bad mood I was put in, but I do feel like the owner has taken my review seriously and will not let this happen to another customer.
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First review
If you want to be nickeled and dimes this is the store for you! If you want to spend time on the trails fixing your bike this is definitely the place you will want to spend your money at $$$!!!
We had a large group of friends (10 people) pay for a tour 70 $ each (700 $ total at least). My husband and myself rented the bikes for 3 hours separately so we could take our child in a cart separately and if need be stop for bathroom or rest (If you have a young one you know what I mean).
We followed our friends and family as their tour took off… The self guided tour is actually the same route as the guided tour… As we hit one of the hill on the path my husbands bike chain completely fails. He is towing our child and luckily was able to pull over safely without any injury. Not only did the chain fail but we have a bike that has a bent quick release bar (I found out later the shop was aware of this and let us head out with it anyway… NICE!) the tour guide, being a nice person, pauses her tour and comes to help us as my husband has to take off the trailer and remove the tire and reattach the chain then try to reattach the trailer… After realizing they gave us a bent bar we have to then attach the trailer to my bike so my child would be attached to a bike that was hopefully up to code… But to be honest at this point I am really doubting their attention to bike maintenance and safety back at the shop!!! I am a runner and offer to run the rest of the way so my husband can be on a safe bike with our child but when I offer this the shop is more concerned about their bike being stolen if left unattended than they are about our safety… so my husband rides the broken bike out of the park.
At this point we don’t want to venture off on our own because we don’t want to die. So we head back to the shop with the tour and return the bikes. Funny thing is because we return with the group the store cashier wants to «upgrade“us to the tour price because we «stayed with the tour»! Really!!! What would you of had us do? Ride around for the remaining 3 hours on a broken bike… I don’t know about anyone else but when I go on vacation I like to return with all my family members intact!
Cycle City Bike Tours did not give us a discount for the bike failing and wanted to charge us double. And the rest our our friends and family ended up being extremely late for their flights home and we’re not offered ANY type of discount! 0% discount and I was given –50% discount! NICE!
I told the male cashier, (short and light brown hair). I would like to speak to the owner but he said no and then continued to try and intimidate me and force me to pay the double price. They already have my card number from the reservation so I am helpless to try and stop any charge that they want to do. I will have contact my bank and the owner and try to disputed the charges. Great way to spend my first day back from vacation… Right?!
So fellas if you want to endanger your children’s lives– have your wife cry and be intimidated– pay double then you were quoted-​and work on your bike mid-​ride this is the place. Happy last day of vacation… (Fail!) and they charge you 10% gratuity automatically…
***note***
Write down the address of a near by bar so you can quickly get your wife a drink post ride

My family and I went on a bike tour with two other families with the guide named Greg. He was so knowledgable and affable. We went on the five hour tour on a Saturday. We biked 14 miles around Van and we really got to see a lot of the city. My family and I were only in the city for a short period of time and we wanted to make the most of it. This was the best decision we made. We saw the major sites of the city and got a workout in the process. A day well spent with lovely folks. I would highly recommend going on a bike tour with this company. They are very nice, easy to talk to and provided my family and I great recommendations of other sites to cover while we were in Van.

We took a bike tour with this company in June. For most of us who visited Vancouver, this was the highlight of our trip. The bikes they gave us were really nice and Vancouver is such a bike-​friendly city! For most of our ride, I felt extremely safe bc we were in protected bike lanes. Only at a few spots did I feel a little unsafe bc we had to ride in the street in the same lane as cars and right next to big buses and things. One time (the scariest part) we had to make a left turn and yield to incoming traffic. I’m not the best bike-​rider, so it made me nervous.
Our tour guide was really nice and taught us interesting things about Vancouver. We got to see pretty much most spots of Vancouver that we had heard about, like Granville Island, the Olympic area, Stanley Park, Gaslamp district, Chinatown, and more.
I recommend taking the bike tour at the beginning of your Vancouver trip. that way, you can see which places you would like to visit more in-​depth and go back to them on a later day.
For those who are nervous about the bike riding portion, don’t be! I’ve literally only ridden a bike maybe 10 times in my life, and I survived, didn’t fall down, or anything like that.

This place needs more than 5 stars. My family and I took a tour this morning with Michael and Ifney and got to see a significant part of Vancouver. Michael and Ifney were excellent tour guides and were very informative. We really got to know all of the parts of Vancouver really well, and took in all of the sights and sounds of this great city. Stanley Park tour was fantastic, the rest of the city exquisite and our group was small enough that it felt like we got personalized attention. Ifney was a font of knowledge, and Michael did a great job for his first tour as a guide. I would highly recommend this if you want a great way to get to know the city, and also get a great workout!

This was a great trip. We did the Stanley Park tour and it was the perfect day for it. We had a small group and our guide Amanda was able to adjust the tour to suit the riders (we were all experienced riders). The park is of course great, with good views of the city, the inlet, and the woods. Amanda was able to not only give excellent explanations of the city and the nature of the area, she helped us pick a dinner restaurant and even made reservations for us. She recommended a place for drinks after as well. This ride was a great end to an amazing week in Vancouver!

What a great way to tour Vancouver! We booked our trip in short notice and had never been to Vancouver. It was so interesting and axfun to see alot of the city. Our tour guide Nancy was very knowledgeable and was very friendly. I would recommend Cycle City to anyone visiting Vancouver, B.C.

I highly recommend a cycling tour of the city. We did the Grand vancouver which was 5 hours, and the pace was great. The city isn’t too hilly so it makes for a nice ride. You hit up so many of the historical and scenic areas and get the background on them as well. I love how much a cycling city that Vancouver is and continues to be more and more, so much that they have lanes on major streets throughout the city. They also offer outdoor art tours, foodie tours and private tours among others. a great way to get familiar with the city. You can also just rent your own bike through Spokes, which is right at the opening to Stanley Park and they offer maps and suggestions as to where to go.

I had pre-​booked this tour as part of our extended weekend to celebrate our 10^th wedding anniversary in Vancouver, BC. Boy are we glad we did! The weather was outstanding and vastly contributed to our enjoyment of the day (not that Cycle City had anything to do with that).
We walked from the Westin Grand to Spokes Rental shop at Denman and Georgia to meet up with our two guides, Nick and Dan, as well as 6 other international riders for our 5-​hour Grand Tour of Stanley Park and metro Vancouver. It turns out this was Nick’s *first* guided tour, and although his «newness» to the route was evident compared to Dan’s wealth of knowledge, I think he will make it his own and be a great guide. Dan has been doing this a while, and he does independent research on his own time to give the tour a bit of extra history and flair.
We were fitted for helmets and comfortable city hybrid bikes before heading out into Stanley Park along the seawall. It was a glorious May day along the water, taking in the sights and seaplanes. After a stop at the totem poles, we turned inland towards hidden and scenic Beaver Lake (I’m sure we would’ve gone straight past on our own), checked out some ancient Doug fir and cedar trees, as well as «guerrilla» art in the forest, while getting a dose of Vancouver’s logging town history.
Coming out of Stanley Park, we rode through the West End and took the Aquabus ferry over to Granville Island for a lunch stop. We were glad the tour was early on during our stay, so we could figure out what spots to return to and explore more, and Granville Island certainly fit the bill. After lunch, it was along False Creek past the Olympic Village and into Chinatown for a brief stop at Dr. Sun Yat Sen Park. We rode back to the shop past the Convention Centre and the seawall.
All in all, it was a great way to spend our first full day in Vancouver. I’d highly recommend it!

The tour was great! It was exactly what we wanted to show us around town in a single day. We have been all around town since the tour and it has been easy to navigate thanks to the tour.
Dan the guide was a gem. He shared lots of knowledge and fun facts about the city and we learned a lot.

I really enjoyed the bike tour! Dan was our tour guide and did a great job with sharing Vancouver’s story. He must give the same speak over and over again, but you would never know, he’s very charismatic and seems to really enjoy being a proud Vancouverite.
The rain did not stop us and we still had a great time! I learned so much about the city and it’s history! I really don’t think there is any other tour that you can see this much of the city in a day! The only thing I will warn people of (that I did not really see on here before reading reviews) is that there is some uphill and street riding. I am 30 and consider myself to be in good shape and struggled a little on the uphill. I was also a little scared on the busier rodes. The good thing is that the uphill is in the beginning when you are going through the trails and you are not on a main road for long. The overall distance ended up being just under 14 miles.
Anyway, definitely a must do!

At the conclusion of our Alaskan cruise, my family included one day to check out Vancouver. We had never been to the city before, and chose «The Grand Tour» as a way to squeeze as many sights as possible into a single afternoon. What a terrific choice this turned out to be! We had no idea that Vancouver was such a lovely place, packed with history and interesting locales! Our two guides were both personable and full of great info, and the pace of the ride was comfortable for everyone. We had a wonderful time and would recommend this tour very highly.