Hiring a Scooter, Bike or Car on Formentera + BEST Places to Visit

Having been to Formentera myself for the day, without question the best way to see the island is to hire a scooter.

I have done a lot of research and can now clearly tell you exactly how to do the trip. I found lots of conflicting advice about hiring motorbikes, scooters, mopeds and normal bikes as well as suggestions on hiring a car or getting the bus.

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Hiring and Renting a Bike

It is true that you can hire a mountain bike at a cost of eight euros but the island is just too big to take in on a push bike.

If you simply hired a bike then you would have to pick one destination that you went to and returned, in order to make the ferry back later in the evening which typically would be at seven o’clock.

What you need to bear in mind is that the ferry departs at 10am from Playa d’en Bossa in Ibiza and takes 35 minutes.

So by the time you arrive in Formentera and hire your bike, you really don’t have that much time to explore.

If you are just hiring a normal bike then I suggest you ride towards the best beach on the island which is the much photographed Platja de Illetes, a narrow strip of sand with Platja de Llevant on the other side of the sand dunes.

I would also recommend as a second choice, you bike to the Platja de Migjorn beach, the longest stretch of sand on the island.

On this beach many people like to sunbathe in the nude although it is not a naturalist beach. I would suggest allowing an hour to get to Migjorn beach on bike.

I suggest that you look at our main page on exploring Formentera by scooter to see the route that I took as well as photos and pictures of the day.

Hiring and Renting a Scooter or Motorbike

You may as well make the most of your day and hiring a scooter only cost us €15 by taking advantage of the special deal when booking our ferry across. The Ulises cat ferry was only €20 return and took just 35 minutes which was the quickest out of all the ferry companies we looked into. This price includes scooter insurance.