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By Antwerp Port Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is ฿14,831 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Rev your Vespa and trace Antwerp’s storey 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.

Activity location

  • Stadspark
    • 2000, Antwerp, Belgium

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Maek Hotel Antwerp Central
    • 25 Quinten Matsijslei
    • 2018, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, Belgium

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Private Antwerp City & Port Vespa Tour with an expert guide

  • Activity duration is 3 hours and 30 minutes3h 30m
    3h 30m
  • English
Price details
฿7,415.40 x 2 Travellers฿14,830.80
Total
Price is ฿14,830.81
Until Thu, 12 Nov

Hotel pickup service

  • Activity duration is 3 hours and 30 minutes3h 30m
    3h 30m
  • English

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

Price details
฿10,231.38 x 2 Travellers฿20,462.76
Total
Price is ฿20,462.76
Until Thu, 12 Nov
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What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Government Fees
  • Inclusions
    Fuel surcharge

Know before you book

    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
    • Minimum age for a driver: 26
    • Minimum age for a passenger: 16

Activity itinerary

Stadspark

  • 10m
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 towards the Scheldt, feeling the city’s centuries unfold at scooter speed.

MAS - Museum aan de Stroom

  • 10m
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 Museum (Pass by)

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 titbits about cargo stowage, steerage life, and dockworker lore.

Havenhuis

  • 10m
Havenhuis Vantage – Zaha Hadid Meets Historic Dry Docks You disembark at a quiet pier opposite the shimmering Havenhuis, its diamond-glass hull seemingly afloat atop a 19th-century fire station. Framed by the adjacent dry docks—now being transformed into the city’s Maritime Museum—the spot is catnip for photographers. Your guide decodes Hadid’s design choices and shares insider gossip on how the new museum will breathe life into these granite basins.

Kastelweg

  • 10m
Oosterweel Contrast Drive – Medieval Spire vs. Europe’s Largest Wharf As we glide past the tiny 15th-century Oosterweel church, your guide draws your eye to the colossal construction yard right beside it—the Oosterweel works, currently Europe’s biggest wharf, where tunnel segments for Antwerp’s long-awaited Ring closure are being cast. In a few animated sentences, they connect the dots between medieval river parishes, post-war port expansion, and today’s multi-billion-euro infrastructure overhaul.

Noordkasteel

  • 10m
Katoen Natie Silos – Smart Logistics in Action Parking beside the towering white granulate silos of Belgian giant Katoen Natie, your guide explains how this family firm turned plastics handling into a data-driven art—using automated silos, on-site rail spurs, and real-time cargo tracing to shave hours off supply chains. En-route you’ve cruised past eye-catching freight: rainforest timber trunks, oversize turbine blades, even artfully shrink-wrapped machinery. The stop reveals how such diverse cargoes funnel smoothly through one brilliantly engineered hub.

Oosterweelbrug

  • 10m
Timber-&-Fruit Quays – Scents of a Century-Old Port You roll into the heritage docks where Europe’s largest timber stacks and chilled fruit sheds still rule. Depending on the day’s unload, the air may carry sweet banana and fresh-cut pine as forklifts zip between weathered warehouses. Crossing the wrought-iron "Wip-bruggen" bascule bridges—mechanical jewels from a bygone boom—your guide recounts how these quays once bustled with sailing ships and stevedores, stitching Antwerp to tropic plantations and Baltic forests.

Lubeckweg

  • 10m
Container Canyon – Granite Giants & Europe’s Fruit Gateway Your guide guides you through a maze of multicoloured container stacks—steel towers so close you can read the box seals. On one side loom house-sized granite blocks awaiting export; on the other, refrigerated “reefer” racks hiss around Europe’s largest fruit terminal, ripe bananas and citrus moving from ship to supermarket in hours.

Ettenhovendijkweg

  • 10m
Antwerp-North Hump Yard Drive-By – Rail Symphony in Motion You peer down on Antwerp’s vast marshalling yard, a spiderweb of tracks where up to a thousand wagons are reshuffled each day. Your guide narrates the gravity-shunting ballet: locomotives push mixed trains over the “hump,” wagons roll downhill, laser sensors and track retarders brake each car, and computer-controlled switches slot them into new consists bound for Germany, France, or the Ruhr. If timing is right, you’ll watch the process live—a hypnotic clatter that completes the port’s road-rail-river triad.

Noorderlaan

  • 15m
Kuifeend Nature Glimpse – Wetland Refuge Amid Steel And Concrete We park beside the reed-fringed ponds of Kuifeend and invites everyone to step off onto a short trail. In minutes you’ve swapped industry hum for birdsong: tufted ducks dabbling in mirror-calm water, marsh harriers circling overhead, and rare flowers sprouting between rip-rap. As you stroll, the guide explains how port engineers and biologists coordinate dredging cycles to protect nesting seasons—proof that Europe’s busiest docks can still cradle wild silence.

Location

Activity location

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    Stadspark
    • 2000, Antwerp, Belgium

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Maek Hotel Antwerp Central
    • 25 Quinten Matsijslei
    • 2018, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, Belgium

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