Great day out! This was our first time in Zadar and we often hire bikes/bike tour in other places so thought we would enjoy a self-guided island tour! The island is beautiful and we would love to stay here on our next visit. We were provided with everything that we needed for the trip from locks to spare tires to a huge side bag, meaning we were able to take towels and water shoes.
There were a few small things, but this definitely did not affect our day and i would still highly recommend!! Staff at the shop provided us with a map and lovely location for a small town and beach that was a bit further out, but we were really glad we visited as it was so lovely and quiet!!
We had bikes booked for 9am through Viator, but received a message to say our ferry was not due till 11:30am and to get there an hour before. We still arrived at 9am as i thought we could catch the 9:30 ferry (I did not realise with a bike you needed to go to the main dock around 25mins away and so we could not catch this one). We did however have the full day as the shop shut at 2pm meaning we were able to keep the bikes overnight and ride them back in the morning which was great for us, as our accommodation was far out!
Staff explained to us that we should take the road path as the other path on the map was for mountain bikes (we were given more city bikes). We did however find the distance a long way and the roads were up large hills, next time we would defiantly opt for a mountain bike or an electric bike.
We did see that there were also lots of places to hire bikes from as little as €20 a day, i think we would have saved some money in hiring a bike and paying for our own ferry tickets as we easily also used google maps whilst on the island (we had paid £47 each for bike+ferry ticket)