Guys, these summer months require less of a way to sweat or at least more of the ways to get some wind in your hair with the new forms of bike/scooter/moped sharing schemes popping up around Brussels.
So lets start off with bikes as a good traditional way of strolling across town:
- Swapfiets – because it’s the best there is! 17.50 for a whole month of bike plus they help you if your bike breaks down. I don’t know of anything better out there.
- Villo Bruxelles – whose page doesn’t work currently but they have numerous stations over the city and first 30 minutes are for free. The only catch is that you have to have a credit card inserted before you take the deposit and 150 euro on it to block as a deposit in case you don’t return the bike.
- Uber bike – new innovation in the city and also an electric one. So not sweating when going up the hill (or at least less than usual). It costs €0,15 per minute and €1 unlocking fee. You can see where all of them are on the same uber app as for the uber taxi.
Following with my fave transportation vehicle:
- Scooty – its been around for a while and it is fairly easy to use. The only catch is that you need to register in advance (which will cost 3 euros). Once you do, it’s 0.26 euro per minute/drive. And for your protection, you also get a helmet!
- Felyx – this one only arrived to town the other day and it is electric but cost 0.30 euro a minute and has a parking cost of 0.05 per minute. I think you also get a helmet here but i didn’t try this one.
And lastly, the scooters. The price is the same for more or less all of them: starting cost is 1 euro, and then 15 cents per minute. The most widespread one is Lime and it has been in Brussels forever (joke all of the scooters didn’t exist before this spring). The other good one is Dott and it is a little more sophisticated than Lime and their scooters seem to be of better quality but i am no expert.
A day in a life of an expat in Brussels 