Rent a Tour-Guide

Rent a guide price overview

• Tour Guide per day (has his own bike) –
  140USD per day (one rider)
  Add additional riders: + $15 per rider
• Motorbike Rental – Choose your motorbike from the Tigit site. Prices are here

Hotels, food and everything else are not included. The guide will have a motorbike, it is up to you to pay all other expenses.

What is rent a guide?

Tigit’s” rent-a-guide” service is designed for two kinds of situations and has proven to be a very popular service of ours. It requires a bit of reading and understanding, as this service is unique and, from what I know, only exists at Tigit!

The two situations for rent a guide

1. You are a solo traveler wanting to do a guided tour.
2. You are a group of friends who want to rent motorbikes but do not want to do a guided tour. Rent a guide will act as an assistance service in terms of translating, providing route advice, and mechanic based assistance in case something goes wrong. Read more below.

Now I will unpack the two situations further and explain in more detail.

Solo traveler wanting to do a guided tour

Tigit currently does not build tours by grouping many solo rider together. Our tours tend to be quite ambitious, and we have found that combining travelers of different skill levels and objectives does not work.

For solo travelers, we’ve introduced the ‘rent-a-guide’ concept. With this service, you can hire a Tigit employee to accompany you on your chosen route. This not only allows you to have more control over your tour but also helps you manage your costs by selecting the hotel and food budgets that suit your needs.

You will work together with the guide to decide your route, where you want to stay each night, and what kind of food and restaurants you want to eat at.

Group of friends wanting some help

When I (Tigit Jon) travel to foreign countries, I don’t want to do fully guided tours because they tend to be very “safe” in terms of route planning and difficulty level (not the case at Tigit, by the way). Ultimately, as a very experienced biker, I want more control over my trip than a tour company would allow. Therefore, I often look on places like Instagram for private guides who will assist me on my travels but not control me.

Also, due to my group’s competency levels, we don’t need the fully-fledged service of a guided tour, so splitting the costs of a local guide is much more cost-efficient for the group than booking a guided tour.

A guide will act as a consultant for your group leader, help you translate in restaurants, and get good-value accommodation. Finally, one of the main advantages is that a guide can act as a spare bike if something goes wrong on one of your bikes.

This service is a must for groups of 5 or more people. It takes the strain off your group leader, who is on holiday, too!

• Choose your own route
• Choose when and if you want a proper hotel
• Have the guide recommend restaurants and hotels
• Have the guide check the motorbikes in the morning
• Tigit guides all have basic mechanical skills and are good riders
• Have the guide as a backup motorbike for if you breakdown or crash
• Send the guide home anytime, because you don’t need them anymore!

What a Tigit employee do for your group when hired

• Act a translator for your group in restaurants and hotels
• Lead your group
• Assist in planning your route
• Assist in choosing restaurants and hotels
• Act as a basic mechanic or spare bike

What a Tigit employee will NOT do when hired

This is not a guided tour, and the Tigit employee will not plan or push your group to get ready in the mornings, prepare all your water, or deal with the usual personal problems of individuals in a group setting. The general service level of “rent a guide” is significantly less than a fully guided tour.

Guided tours have the full weight of Tigit behind them. Our entire admin team books hotels in advance, for example, and assists the guides on the road as they go.

On the other hand, the rent-a-guide service is an assistant, a buddy, or a local friend joining your group on your adventure. He is part of your team, and you should treat him as such!

These are the routes we make public. There are plenty of private routes not on this map!

• Tour Guide per day (has his own bike) –
  140USD per day (one rider)
  Add additional riders: + $15 per rider
• Motorbike Rental – Choose your motorbike from the Tigit site. Prices are here

Very important information

Hotels, food and everything else are not included. The guide will have a motorbike, it is up to you to pay all other expenses.