Thank you Karen and Roger - great bikes and 3 wonderful days cycling in Hawkes Bay. The trails are almost all off-road and excellent surfaces. Lots of good places for coffee and food.

Excellent bikes. Super friendly and helpful girl in the shop. We did the water trail which was stunning. Went all the way to Clifton. Beautiful views at Cape Kidnappers. Lovely lunch at the cafe in Clifton recommended by the girl.

Karen, Riley and the whole team are very efficient and helpful. They know the trails, hotels, restaurants, vineyards and have an excellent range of quality “E” and Standard bikes. Friendly people who were happy to work in with various changes made to bikes and dates etc. We have travelled throughout New Zealand hiring bikes and going on various self guided tours. The Takaro team are the best. Throughout Hawkes Bay we found the locals to be incredibly friendly and helpful. Don’t let the media put you off around respective stories (and old photos) about the damage done with storms and flooding . Yes of course it has been devastating for the region, all the more reason to visit and support the local businesses. The recovery is continuing. Almost all of the cycles trails are open and very safe to use.

Fantastic service. We loved it so much we came back for a second day! We’ll be back again! Thanks Karen for the pick up.

It’s no surprise that Takaro Tours consistently rates 5 stars! Karen has everything organised like a superstar. The trip was stress free and Karen was so accommodating and friendly. Roger with guides Pam and Riley were great, they were knowledgeable, welcoming and just all round an awesome team. These guys know their stuff! From recommendations for great places to eat and visit locally as well as a guided tour that was showed us all the Bay had to offer. So many highlights, from stunning scenery, feeling the wind in our hair and the sun on our faces as we immersed ourselves in nature. The e-bikes were perfect, so much so, I now want one for home! Can’t recommend the team at Takaro Tours highly enough. We would love to come again and bring our friends, we know they’d love it!

We did a 6 day guided cycling tour with Takaro Trails. Roger and Karen were wonderful, friendly hosts who organised everything including airport transfers, meal bookings or suggestions, and winery visits. The good quality e-bikes worked well and were comfortable. The cycleways are safe and well maintained. We cycled through vineyards, alongside apple orchards and corn fields, along the coast and through wetlands and the countryside. The food and winery choices were outstanding. Thank you Karen and Roger, Anna, Pam and Clare, what a fabulous team!

I travelled with a friend as part of a 6 day guided e-cycling tour with Takaro Trails- what a well run and seamless experience it was. From the warm welcome on arrival at Napier airport, all our transfers, bookings made at fabulous local restaurants and recommendations for places to eat on free evenings. Karen and Roger are very accommodating, the wineries visited were great, the included tours very interesting. The eating options generally in Napier and Havelock North are outstanding. We stayed an extra day after the tour was completed and were able to extend the hire of our bikes for that time which made local exploring so much easier. Can’t recommend this experience and this company highly enough.

Karen provides a warm welcome and along with bikes that were right for each of us talked us through the options in Hawkes Bay to cycle after cyclone Gabrielle. Just a month has gone by and while you can’t go along a couple of routes just about everything else is fine. We’ve cycle around Taradale and to the Hastings Sunday farmers market and Havelock North, bought dried figs at the the figgery. Cafes are open and there are great spots to sit and chat over coffee. Today we are off to Clifton to lunch. There are also some amazing sights - the smell of onions washed up at a bridge, twisted metal cycleway hoops and a train line hanging midair without any support. Along with the beauty of hawkes bay. Great to be here again and enjoying the outdoors.

Highly recommend Takaro e-bike tour. We did the Cruise ship 4 hr. tour; we had a great day! Bikes were in excellent condition. We met Roger at the i-site, and he gave us instructions and a safety briefing. Then we were off on a nice ride to the winery. Karen was quick with any email question that I had. I would definitely book with them again!

I can’t recommend Takaro trails enough! Karen was incredibly helpful in coordinating our day and even accommodated a custom drop off and pick up from our accommodation. Blake was very helpful in showing us the bikes and providing fantastic winery and lunch recommendations! They both went above and beyond in making our winery day perfect!

Great friendly service. Fun ride starting with a beer and some lunch before heading down to some wineries in beautiful weather. Riding was nice and easy on the e-bikes which were all in really good condition. Highly recommend.

Lovely staff; Tony was particularly helpful. The quality of the bike was great which led to a mellow experience. Thank you!

Visited Napier on Queens Memorial weekend so everything was closed. However hired a ladies stepthrough e-bike and did our own thing. Rode to Crab farm and back through farm and wetlands. Bike was great, easy, comfortable and well maintained. Couldn't fault service. Thanks guys.

Rang Roger only to find they were closed but, no problem, Roger got us set up with three bikes and recommended the Westshore and wetlands ride. Absolutely brilliant. Drop off no problem. Locks provided, key drop and all day parking just across the road.

We managed to complete the 52 km loop in 6 hours. We cycled quite a long way off the route because the sign posts were not very clear and for that reason I’m not giving 5 out of 5. Otherwise apart from some sore muscles we had a wonderful day.