• Small, Intimate Groups.   Our Adventures aren't designed for the masses - they are much more personal.  We limit our trips to 10 customer motorcycles.  You're likely to feel as though you haven't been on a "tour" at all - but have had a wonderful adventure with a small group of friends.

• High Quality Accommodations and Meals.  Smaller groups enable us to use smaller, more interesting "boutique" hotels and lodges that simply can't accommodate large groups.  Many of our most favorite places have only 8-14 rooms, and we usually book the entire place.  You won't find a tour bus parked outside the vast majority of our lodges.
  
  We dine at "upscale" restaurants, where riders order whatever they like from the standard menu. We don't restrict our riders to limited choice, "tour group" menus.
  
  Some competitors offer special editions of their trips (usually dubbed "Presidential", or "Royal" tours) that offer better meals and lodging than their regular trips.  All of our trips are characterized by a higher standard of meals and lodging.

• Self Operated Tours – Always.  We operate our own tours worldwide, using our own employees.  Customers can expect the same high standards whether they are touring Africa, Europe, New Zealand, North America or South America.

• Experienced Tour Leaders.  Our tour leaders are the best in the business.  They are totally committed (and empowered) to operate in accordance with "The Ayres Adventures Style".

• Late Model, Quality Motorcycles.  In Africa, Europe, North America and South America, we provide late-model BMW motorcycles.  In New Zealand you can also select Honda (including the Gold Wing), Harley Davidson, Yamaha and Suzuki.  For trips in which we're sometimes far from our fleet of bikes (typically Africa and South America), we take along a spare motorcycle or two.  We don't want anyone's dream vacation to be interrupted by a mechanical failure.

• Exciting Activities Included in Tour Price.  Most of our adventures include exciting activities in the tour price. Examples include a helicopter flight over Rio de Janeiro, a hot air balloon flight over big game areas in South Africa, a Chobe River cruise in Botswana, a tango show in Buenos Aires, and numerous game drives in Botswana and Namibia.

• Luggage Handling and Support.  We use a comfortable support vehicle on all of our trips for transporting luggage and non-riding guests.  Riders appreciate our "leave the luggage to us" policy.  We don't just load and unload your baggage from the support vehicle - we deliver it between your room and the support vehicle.
  
  We'll also meet your flight and escort you to your hotel - whether you arrive on the first day of the tour, or a few days early.  We'll also accompany you to your flight at the conclusion of your adventure.

• Comprehensive Trip Planning and Support Materials.  We provide a customized copy of our trip planning booklet, "The Plan Ahead", in advance of the trip.  The booklet provides a day-by-day itinerary with suggestions on "must see" attractions along the way. We also provide maps and route instructions. You can ride with a tour leader, ride by yourself, or ride with a few other Adventurers, as you wish.
  
  You won't need a GPS unit to enjoy an Ayres Adventure, but if you're one of the growing number of riders who enjoy riding with a GPS unit, you'll love riding with us!  We'll supply our proprietary GPS routes and waypoints.  We have more than a thousand waypoints for each of the geographic areas in which we operate, and we're adding more all the time. In New Zealand, we've provided the waypoints for nearly 40 "Lord of the Rings" filming locations, keyed to the explanations in the "Lord of the Rings Location Guide".
  
  We've planted Ayres Adventures Geocaches in Africa and New Zealand and we'll be introducing them in other areas of the world soon. (For an explanation of the new, exciting sport of geocaching, refer to the FAQs at www.geocaching.com)

• The Adventurer Club.  We offer the most generous frequent traveler award program in the industry.  It's simple and straightforward and available for both riders and co-riders.  There are no "blackout periods", award expiration dates, or trips that are not eligible for award use.
  
  

Many riders who have toured extensively claim that our trips are the best they have ever had. Take a look at our Testimonials.  Riders say it much better than we ever could!  And don't forget to check out the articles that have been written about us in such major U.S. and global motorcycling publications as Backroads, BMW/ON, LaMoto, Motorcycle Consumer News, Motorcycle Escape, Rider, and Motociclismo.  Just click the Media Center button on the bottom of this page.