Guided Tours During COVID-19

Making Plans for the Trip You Love

Updated November 17, 2022.

During this dynamic time, we know that you still want to travel and explore by bike. Here at Adventure Cycling, we’ve been leading tours for more than 40 years, and we’re ready to keep going forward. Your comfort and safety, along with the safety of other participants, our Leaders, and people in the communities in which we visit, is our top priority. While traveling by bike is never risk free, we’re taking steps to provide you with a great experience, enhancing our already tried and true standards. 

Looking out for each other is more important than ever:

The spirit of an Adventure Cycling tour is camaraderie and togetherness. In a time where these ideals have been challenged, we ask that you do not travel to or attend a tour if you are feeling unwell, if you are experiencing any COVID-19 related symptoms, or if you are under isolation following a positive COVID-19 test. We’re all relying on each other to make your tour a healthy and safe possibility for all.  

For all tours starting after January 1, 2023, Adventure Cycling will be: 

  • Strongly recommending all participants be fully vaccinated and up to date with any recommended boosters for COVID-19 prior to joining your tour. You can find CDC guidance on the vaccine here.
  • Asking all participants to ensure that they are coming to the tour healthy.  
  • Not requiring the use of masks on the tour, including in vehicles. We highly encourage anyone to wear a mask if they would like to. 

Specific tours may have additional requirements based on local guidelines. Should these requirements exist, we will let you know as soon as possible, typically within 60 days of departure. 


Flexibility for Your travels

We know that making plans is important, and having the flexibility to change those plans is key. Our cancellation and transfer policy for our tours is available for you to view to help you make your plans.


Food

A fed cyclist is a happy cyclist, and having plenty of nutritious food on your tour is key to a great trip. Each of our tour models will handle food a bit differently.

Fully Supported

Our fantastic caterers are keeping sanitation a top priority. Our buffet lines will be spaced out with hand washing and sanitizing stations set up. Lunches will be pre-made or in a buffet line, and snacks will be grab-and-go style when possible. You’ll have the freedom to space out while eating to reduce close contact with others. 

Van Supported and Self Contained

We’ll be sticking to our group shared cooking model, with extra precautions. In a rotation with group members throughout the trip, you’ll shop and prepare food for dinner for everyone to enjoy. For breakfast and lunch, you’ll set out items for group members to make their own meals. We encourage you to wear a face mask whenever it makes you comfortable. 

Inn to Inn

We’ll continue to eat at established restaurants for breakfast and dinner. You’ll still make your own lunch with the fixings provided before venturing out for a great day’s ride.  

Cleaning

After each meal, you’ll be able to wash your personal dish set as well as group dishes in the three-bin wash station — rinse-wash-sanitize — the same system used in restaurants. 


Vans and Shuttles

Vehicles are present on our Van Supported and Fully Supported Tours. These vehicles are only used for emergency (medical or mechanical) and pre-arranged shuttles. You should come prepared to ride each day’s mileage. 

Some of our tours in all of our tour formats have designated shuttles, run either by Adventure Cycling or another operator. We are no longer requiring a face covering while in vehicles, however we do encourage you to wear one should it make you more comfortable.


Overnights

Our tours stay at a variety of overnight locations, from private campgrounds to remote campsites to motels, hotels, and hostels. We are checking with each overnight location about their requirements for our visit. For indoor overnights, we will pair traveling companions together to share a room and aim to have those traveling solo be regular roommates.  


Group Dynamics

Traveling by bike is exciting, and sharing that experience with others can bring it to the next level. Now more than ever, we have the responsibility to look out for each other. We encourage anyone to wear a face covering when it makes you feel more comfortable. You’ll want to bring a face covering that you’re comfortable with (we’ll have extras just in case) as well as some personal hand sanitizer that you can carry with you. Your tour leaders will point out hand washing and sanitizing locations at each overnight.  


We Can’t Wait to Ride with You

We can’t wait until the time is right to get back on the road or trail, and we’ll be ready to ride with you when it is. We also know that we can’t rush things and appreciate your support and understanding while we navigate our new way forward. 


Tours in Canada

For All Tours in Canada
For any of our tours in Canada, it is each participant’s responsibility to follow Canadian entrance guidelines. Failure to comply may result in removal from the tour without refund. All Canadian federal border vaccination, testing, quarantine, and isolation requirements ended on October 1, 2022. You can read more about requirements here.

Registered participants will get more information about any tour-specific requirements as we get closer to the departure.