E-Bike Rental and Tours in the Lauterbrunnen Valley

Rental Rates

Flying Wheels Interlaken's own site lists self-guided e-bike rentals from its Interlaken base. The E-Bike Komfort starts at $60.80 (CHF 50) and the E-Bike Komfort heavy-load version starts at the same $60.80 (CHF 50). The E-MTB hardtail starts at $66.80 (CHF 55). The rental page does not state whether these figures are full-day or half-day rates, so ask before you pay if the distinction matters to your budget.

Who this suits: riders who want to set their own timetable. You choose when to leave, how long to linger at Staubbach Falls and whether to push on toward Stechelberg. The valley floor is flat, so even a modest motor makes the round trip easy. For how the bike option fits with trains, buses and cableways, read our getting around Lauterbrunnen guide.

The rental page does not state a deposit amount. It does not state a minimum age. It does not state whether helmets are included or required. None of these details can be confirmed from the published information, so plan to contact the shop directly before you book if any of them matter to you.

Three Tour Lengths

Flying Wheels sells guided e-bike tours in three lengths. The longest is the 6-hour 72 Waterfalls tour into the Lauterbrunnen valley, from $290.40 (CHF 239). The middle option is a 4-hour Lauterbrunnen valley tour, from $193.20 (CHF 159). The shortest is a 3-hour tour of Interlaken's villages, lakes and farms, from $96.00 (CHF 79). That last one stays around Interlaken and does not enter the Lauterbrunnen valley at all, so treat it only as the operator's budget entry point rather than a valley ride.

Prices differ depending on where you book. The operator's own headline rate for the 6-hour 72 Waterfalls tour is US$290.40 (CHF 239). The same route is listed on GetYourGuide for $302.00. The platform price runs higher, most likely because it adds a booking fee and bundles the Trümmelbach Falls entry, which alone costs US$21.90 (CHF 18) per adult at the gate. That explains the gap rather than contradicting it. Before you book the guided 72 Waterfalls e-bike tour or the direct version, check exactly what each booking includes. If the direct rate does not cover the Trümmelbach Falls ticket, the two prices are closer than they first appear.

What the Ride Looks Like

Both ways into the Lauterbrunnen valley run along the flat valley floor from Interlaken, following the Lütschine river. The flatness is the point. You are not grinding up a mountain pass, you are cruising a river path into a glacial valley, which is why an e-bike is a realistic choice for riders of mixed fitness.

The guided tour follows this river route and stops at Staubbach Falls and the Trümmelbach Falls. Staubbach drops as a single ribbon almost the full height of the valley wall above the village. Trümmelbach is different in character, a series of falls inside the mountain carrying glacial meltwater. A precise route distance for the ride is not published by the operator, so plan your own timing around the 6-hour tour duration if you want a rough benchmark. Our pages on Staubbach Falls and the waterfalls of the valley cover what you will see at each stop.

A Self-Paced Alternative

Wengen and Mürren are officially car-free villages, reachable only by public transport, on foot or by bike. Private cars stop at the valley floor. That constraint shapes how you move around the region, and it is also what makes a Lauterbrunnen e-bike day attractive.

An e-bike is one of the few private, self-paced ways to reach the base of the valley's cableways without relying on the train. You are not locked to a timetable, you can stop where the view pulls you over, and you carry no parking problem because there is nowhere to park a car up there anyway. What a bike does not do is replace the cableways themselves. The lift systems carry you up to the car-free villages and the high trails. The bike gets you to their base stations under your own schedule.

If you would rather continue on foot once you arrive, pair the ride with one of the Lauterbrunnen hikes that start from the valley floor.

Neither Flying Wheels' rental page nor its tour pages state a weather or rain policy for the ride, so pack for the valley's changeable weather rather than assuming a wet forecast cancels anything automatically. The route stays on the valley floor the whole way, so unlike a lift ticket to Muerren or the Schilthorn, nothing here depends on cloud cover at altitude, only on conditions at ground level where the ride actually happens.

What the Guided Listing States

The guided 72 Waterfalls e-bike tour meets at Hoeheweg 133, 3800 Interlaken, a short walk from the town's main lakefront street. The group is capped at up to 12 riders, small enough that the guide can hold the group together on the shared valley-floor path near the falls without long waits at each stop. The booking carries a 24-hour cancellation deadline, so a plan changed the day before departure still gets a refund, but a same-day cancellation does not.

None of this detail is published for the self-rental option, since a rental has no group to manage and no guide-led schedule to hold to. If a fixed meeting time or a capped group size matters to how you plan the day, that alone is a reason to pick the guided tour over renting a bike and riding independently.