Experience il ciclismo italiano

If you’re looking to combine an exciting vacation with cycling training and immersion in the Italian cycling experience, then check our Cycling Tours in Italy.

If you are looking for a more skill and performance oriented experience that combines performance tests, bike fit, racing skills practiced on the road, lead by an Italian or USA former Pro, check our Training Camps. (coming soon)!

Davanti Cycling and Gardabikehotel Tours

• Philosophy
• What's Special About Our Tours
• Offerings
• Tour Schedules

Our Philosophy

Our goal is to provide you with immersion in the Italian cycling culture, a tremendous training opportunity and flexibility.

Our exciting vacations combine with a full immersion in the “ciclismo italiano.” Other tour companies offer you cycling in Italy, Italian food and Italian wine. Our tours provide all these features with high quality standards. Plus, we take pride in offering a complete Italian cycling experience. You will ride with Italians, participate in Italian cycling races, ride an Italian bike if you choose to rent, and you will have the opportunity to visit and experience a coaching studio led by ex-pro racers, have a bike fit or be tested “Italian style.”

At the end of your tour you will understand ciclismo italiano.

Your vacation will also be a tremendous training opportunity: For the most trained and competitive cyclists, we offer rides with challenging terrain and length. These rides are the “perfect” training opportunities to improve your climbing and descending skills and be ready for your races back home. Plus, the strongest cyclists will have the opportunity to ride with local racers and/or ex-pro Italian racers.

For the less expert and competitive cyclists we always offer flexibility to shorten the routes, allowing you to jump into the van and/or enjoy alternative activities since, in most tours, we stay at each hotel at least three to four days. In order to provide for different levels two cycling guides always accompany each tour.

What’s special about our tours

We are special in how we organize the tours:

• All our rides are fully supported
• Group sizes are small—6 to 14 participants—to enhance the connection between riders and guides.
• Each tour brings you to two or three different regions so you'll enjoy a variety of cultures and scenery.
• We stay a minimum of three to four nights in our base Garda Bike hotel so you can become accustomed to the environment and prepare for the terrain
• Because we prefer to ride from one spectacular region to another, we keep van transfer time to a minimum. We carefully choose the location of our hotels so we stay three to four days in each and ride from there.
• We always have two cycling guides to handle different levels within the group and provide options for shorter routes or alternative activities, such as sightseeing or hiking.

Luisa personally chooses all the hotels and restaurants to provide the best combination of Italian charm, hospitality, culture and authentic cuisine.

We are special in what we offer:

• All Italian cycling guides and drivers
• Participation in local races, [Gran Fondo], for a full immersion in the Italian cycling culture
• Option to rent carbon fiber De Rosa road bikes at gardabikehotel
• All three- to four-star hotels
• All breakfasts and dinners. Dinners are three to four courses, with wine included.
• Box lunches daily
• Water and snacks during the rides
• Post-ride snacks at our base GardaBikeHotel
• Daily laundry of your cycling clothes at our base hotel
• Luggage transferred during the tour
• All the van transfers
• Pick-up and drop-off at the airport
• Help with travel arrangements if you want to come a few days early or add a few days after the tour, by tour director Luisa Sullivan