About Us

Hongvan Lu
Founder

Why We Started This Business

The first time I vacationed in Croatia I fell in love with it.  All of it — the culture, the people and the omnipresent, beautiful scenery.  To have done so by means of a combined bike-and-boat cruise offered me the opportunity to see this country and it’s spectacular land-and-seascape up close.  I was so infatuated by it all that when I returned to the U.S.  I committed myself to share this amazing experience with my fellow countrymen in America.

I wanted them to experience a unique, customized vacation that was like no other they had ever experienced.  They would not only be spoiled in the intimate setting of a private, first-class cruise for a week – seeing incredibly quaint port towns as the ship meandered through the coastal islands – but they would do so while traveling throughout the islands on escorted daily bike tours.  They would enjoy the exhilaration of biking to the top of challenging mountains – or take the less strenuous but fun option and efficiency of an E-bike – and take in the awesome panoramas of the sparkling Adriatic Sea far below, in which they would soon be swimming from the fantail of the ship.  I wanted everyone to experience this one-of-a-kind vacation.

So I created Boat, Bike ‘n Beyond. With over ten years of comprehensive experience in booking clients in customized travel tours abroad it seemed the right fit, and it is my passion.