Two wheels, one engine, the whole city

Vespa tours, from the cobbles of Rome to the night markets of Hanoi.

Which Rome ride needs your licence and which puts you in a sidecar. What a day in Chianti costs once lunch is counted. Where the Hanoi food ride actually stops. Reviews of the Vespa tours you can book today.

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The one everybody books Florence Vespa Tour: Tuscan Hills and Italian Cuisine ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 4,019 rider reviews · starts at $78 Read our review →

Where to start

Four Vespa rides worth planning a trip around.

A long day in the Tuscan hills, a Roman morning in a sidecar, the cheap first lap of the centro, and dinner eaten off the back of a bike in Hanoi.

Where to ride

Six places built for a Vespa.

Cobbles you would not walk twice, coast roads with nowhere to park a car, and back lanes a scooter reaches at exactly the speed you want to see them.

Where to rideRomeSeven hills, one engine, no parking problem Where to rideFlorenceOver the Arno, then out to the vines Where to rideChiantiCypress roads and a lunch that runs long Where to rideHanoiOld Quarter traffic, eaten from the saddle Where to rideAmalfi CoastHairpins, lemon terraces, a sea on your left Where to rideSiem ReapRed dirt back roads behind the temples

Rome by Vespa

In Rome the only real question is who drives.

Same cobbles, four different mornings: a sidecar with a driver and a gelato stop, a pillion seat behind a guide, your own keys for the day, or the whole bike to yourselves.

★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · Vespa Sidecar Tour at Day/Night with Pickup

From the sidecarSomeone else steers. Both hands free for the camera. starts at $61

On the backPillion seat, no licence asked for, a Roman in front. starts at $55

Your own keysTake the bike for the day and invent the route. starts at $77

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Kinds of ride

Food at night, monuments by day, both from the saddle.

The three shapes a Vespa tour takes. Eat your way across a city after dark, take the sights in one loop before the heat, or trade the guidebook route for whatever the driver feels like showing you.

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★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,803 rider reviewsVespa Sidecar Tour By Night with Pickup

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 747 rider reviewsHighlights Vespa Sidecar Tour with Coffee and Gelato

★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 483 rider reviewsVespa Tour with Photo services Small‑Group Highlights

Where to rideFood ridesWhere to rideNight ridesWhere to rideCity loopsWhere to rideWith a photographerWhere to rideVintage bikes

Tuscany

Chianti is the reason people learn to ride.

Out of Florence the tarmac narrows, the cypresses line up and the next two hours are gear changes between vineyards. Most rides break for lunch at a farm and a tasting after it, which is why the six-hour version is the one worth taking.

Where to rideChianti RoadsWhere to rideWine StopsWhere to rideOut of FlorenceWhere to rideFlorence Tastings

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★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 — Tuscany Vespa Tour: Lunch & Wine Tasting, Countryside Roads

Florence Vespa Tour: Tuscan Hills and Italian Cuisine

Chianti Vespa Tour with Lunch from Florence & E-car Option

What fills first

The Vespa rides travellers take before anything else.

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What fills first across Italy and Southeast Asia, and what each one gives you for the money.

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Florence Vespa Tour: Tuscan Hills and Italian Cuisine

Follow guides such as Leo, Chris, Alex, or Ado from Florence into the Tuscan hills on an automatic Vespa. After a safety test, ride past Piazzale Michelangelo and Galileo’s former area, stop at San Miniato al Monte, then share bruschetta, pasta, cheese, salami, and wine at a country estate. Fiat alternatives are available if riding is not suitable.

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2 ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,803 rider reviews Vespa Sidecar Tour By Night with Pickup starts at $146

3 ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,771 rider reviews Rome Morning Vespa Sidecar Tour in Rome with Cappuccino starts at $163

4 ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,453 rider reviews Chianti Vespa Tour with Lunch from Florence & E-car Option starts at $125

5 ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,103 rider reviews Explore the City by Vespa with an Optional Photoshoot starts at $37

6 ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 857 rider reviews Rome Vespa Scooter Tour with Professional Photographer starts at $66

7 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 747 rider reviews Highlights Vespa Sidecar Tour with Coffee and Gelato starts at $141

8 ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 723 rider reviews Vespa Ride with Pictures and Sweet Tastings starts at $34

Vietnam and Cambodia

In Hanoi the Vespa is how dinner arrives.

Southeast Asia rides differently. You sit behind a driver on a restored fifty-year-old bike, and the route is a run of pavement kitchens, a train line with a street built around it and a river road out of the city. Cambodia swaps the traffic for red dirt and temples at sunrise.

1Hoi An Countryside Vespa Tour: Food, Culture & Daily Lifestarts at $93
2Hoi An Vespa Tours: Hoi An Highlights and Hidden Gemsstarts at $57
3Vespa City Tour &Train Street Female With Ao Dai Riders 4,5 Hoursstarts at $58

Where to rideHanoiWhere to rideVietnamese Food RidesWhere to rideSiem ReapWhere to rideHo Chi Minh City

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The money

What a Vespa tour actually costs.

Every ride on the site grouped by price. The gap between a lap of the centro and a day in the hills is mostly lunch and hours.

Under $50 a head

Ninety-minute city laps, the Asian evening rides and half a day on a rented bike.

1Explore the City by Vespa with an Optional Photoshootstarts at $37
2Vespa Ride with Pictures and Sweet Tastingsstarts at $34
3Vespa Tour with Photo services Small‑Group Highlightsstarts at $49

$50 to $150

The standard: a sidecar morning in Rome, a Hanoi food run, a half day through the hills.

1Florence Vespa Tour: Tuscan Hills and Italian Cuisinestarts at $78
2Vespa Sidecar Tour By Night with Pickupstarts at $146
3Chianti Vespa Tour with Lunch from Florence & E-car Optionstarts at $125

$150 and upward

Full days with lunch and tastings, private guides, and the Amalfi coast road end to end.

1Rome Morning Vespa Sidecar Tour in Rome with Cappuccinostarts at $163
2Tuscan Countryside Vespa Tour with Tastingsstarts at $176
3Tuscany Vespa Tour: Lunch & Wine Tasting, Countryside Roadsstarts at $228

Before you turn the key

What a Vespa tour asks of you: a licence, or nothing at all.

Sidecar and pillion rides need closed shoes and that is the whole list. Take the keys yourself and the operator wants a full licence, a passport for the deposit and long trousers, because the exhaust sits where your calf does. Helmets come with the bike. Rain is the one thing that moves a departure, so book the morning slot.

Rentals With a driver Sidecars Private rides Vintage bikes With a photographer

1Vespa Sidecar Tour By Night with Pickupstarts at $146
2Rome Morning Vespa Sidecar Tour in Rome with Cappuccinostarts at $163
3Highlights Vespa Sidecar Tour with Coffee and Gelatostarts at $141

Only on two wheels

Three rides that do not work in a car.

A chair bolted to the side of a scooter, a Chianti road too narrow for a coach, and a Hanoi pavement kitchen you can only reach by pulling up at it.

Rome, from the chair

The Sidecar

The sidecar puts you a foot off the road with nothing between you and the Colosseum, and it solves the two things that stop people riding in Rome: the licence and the traffic. A driver takes the one-way systems and the tram tracks, you take the photographs. Most run ninety minutes to three hours, and nearly all of them stop for coffee or gelato somewhere with a view, because that is half the point.

1Vespa Sidecar Tour By Night with Pickup★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,803 rider reviews
2Rome Morning Vespa Sidecar Tour in Rome with Cappuccino★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,771 rider reviews
3Highlights Vespa Sidecar Tour with Coffee and Gelato★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 747 rider reviews

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Tuscany at forty

The Chianti Loop

You ride your own bike here, usually after ten minutes of practice in a car park, and the roads between Greve and Panzano were built for exactly this speed. The classic day is four hours of riding split by lunch at a farm and a tasting of Sangiovese poured by whoever made it. Automatic scooters are standard, a car licence is enough in Italy, and the operator follows in a support car for anyone who would rather sit it out.

1Florence Vespa Tour: Tuscan Hills and Italian Cuisine★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 4,019 rider reviews
2Chianti Vespa Tour with Lunch from Florence & E-car Option★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,453 rider reviews
3Tuscan Countryside Vespa Tour with Tastings★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 701 rider reviews

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Hanoi after dark

The Army Vespa

Hanoi runs its food rides on restored Vespas from the sixties and seventies, some of them ex-army, all of them loud. You ride pillion behind a guide, which is the only sane way to meet that traffic, and stop four or five times: a pavement grill, a bun cha kitchen, egg coffee on a balcony, the train street if the timetable allows. Two and a half hours, and you do not need to eat again.

1Hoi An Countryside Vespa Tour: Food, Culture & Daily Life★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 406 rider reviews
2Hanoi Vespa Tours: Food + Culture + Fun on Army Vespa★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 279 rider reviews
3Vespa Female Ao Dai riders Night Street Food + See Train Street★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 254 rider reviews

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Book before you fly

Four Vespa rides that will not wait for you.

Most of this can be arranged the night before. These four run on small fleets, fixed departures and a season, and they are the ones people miss.

01Vespa Sidecar Tour By Night with PickupA sidecar carries two people and an operator owns a handful of cars. Weekend mornings in Rome go first.
02Chianti Vespa Tour with Lunch from Florence & E-car OptionThe harvest rides in September and October fill months out, and winter closes most of the farm lunches they stop at.
03Siem Reap Evening Foodie Vespa Tour / Tuk Tuk AvailableNight rides leave at one hour, set by the sunset. There is no later slot to move to.
04The BEST Private Amalfi Coast Vespa TourThe coast road is single file most of the summer. Only the early departures get ahead of the coaches.