Private Antwerp City and Port Vespa Tour with an Expert Guide
Rev your Vespa and trace Antwerp’s story from medieval guild halls to mega-docks Meet your guide in the heart of the city, clip on your helmet, and roll out on two gleaming Vespas (each carries one driver + one passenger). Over the next 3 hours you’ll weave cobblestoned lanes, old port quays, and cutting-edge container terminals, while breathing in aromas that only an open scooter can deliver: fresh coffee from Europe’s main coffee hub, sweet tropic notes from ripening fruit pallets, and the woody tang of imported timber. Sensory immersion Sound: Vespa hum, gull cries, container locks clanking, breeze through reed beds. Touch: Handlebar vibrations, sun-warmed slipstream, cool dockside shade. Sight: Medieval gables, Brutalist locks, impressive cranes, tidal wetlands. Smell: Coffee silos, freshly cut timber, ripening apples, salty Scheldt air.
Options
Hotel pickup service
Car pickup at your hotel: If you want, we can pick you up at your hotel in Antwerp with a car and bring you to our Vespa's.
Duration: 30 minutes
What's included in Private Antwerp City and Port Vespa Tour with an Expert Guide
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
Stadspark
Stadspark Start-Up – Safety Spin & Old-Town Glide Meet your guide beside Antwerp’s leafy Stadspark, where four gleaming Vespas await. After fitting helmets and outlining convoy signals, the guide leads you down a calm side street for a quick throttle-and-brake warm-up, sharing pro tips picked up from years of port scooter runs. Confidence set, you weave past gabled guild houses and hidden courtyards toward the Scheldt, feeling the city’s centuries unfold at scooter speed.
MAS - Museum aan de Stroom
Panoramic Prelude at MAS Your port guide stops beside the Museum aan de Stroom’s striking terracotta tower and leads you to the riverside promenade. From this lookout you get a first real look into the impressive history of our port, pointing out past challenges, distant crane forests, the world-record Kieldrecht Lock, and hidden chemical towers. It’s a vivid, storyteller’s briefing that transforms the city-to-port journey ahead into a narrative you’ll follow in real time.
Red Star Line MuseumPass-by Only
Historic Docklands Drive – Het Eilandje & Red Star Line Cruising the old quays of Het Eilandje, we drive by towering iron cranes—silent sentinels of Antwerp’s sail-to-steam heyday—and points out their once-revolutionary gearwork as if opening a time capsule. At the red-brick Red Star Line Museum, they recount how millions boarded steamers here for New York, punctuating the tale with insider tidbits about cargo stowage, steerage life, and dockworker lore.
Inclusions
- Government Fees
- Fuel surcharge
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Minimum age for a driver: 26
- Minimum age for a passenger: 16
Meet
Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting / End Points
- The Mercure Antwerp City Centre hotel is located at the central park, very close to the Central Railway Station and Keyserlei. We'll meet you in front of the main entrance, or inside the lobby if it's raining.
