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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Florence Vespa Tour: Tuscan Hills and Italian Cuisine
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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.
- 01The long day outFlorence Vespa Tour: Tuscan Hills and Italian CuisineSix hours out of Florence through the hills, with the lunch stop that turns a ride into a day off.
02The Roman morningRome Morning Vespa Sidecar Tour in Rome with CappuccinoA sidecar, a driver who knows the one-way system, and a coffee stop while the light is still low.
03The first lapExplore the City by Vespa with an Optional PhotoshootNinety minutes around the centro for the price of dinner. Good for a first afternoon.
04Dinner in HanoiHanoi Vespa Tours: Food + Culture + Fun on Army VespaAn old army Vespa, a pillion seat and five stops the Old Quarter eats at rather than reads about.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Vespa rides travellers take before anything else.
Every Vespa review we have written →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.
Price from $78
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Vespa Sidecar Tour By Night with Pickup
starts at $146
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Rome Morning Vespa Sidecar Tour in Rome with Cappuccino
starts at $163
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Chianti Vespa Tour with Lunch from Florence & E-car Option
starts at $125
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Explore the City by Vespa with an Optional Photoshoot
starts at $37
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Rome Vespa Scooter Tour with Professional Photographer
starts at $66
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Highlights Vespa Sidecar Tour with Coffee and Gelato
starts at $141
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Vespa Ride with Pictures and Sweet Tastings
starts at $34
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
- 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
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.
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
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
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
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.
Rome, the coast, then Tuscany: two weeks of riding that makes sense.
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