The waterfront promenade
Wide, flat and open to the sea for its whole length. The ride most people picture when they think about a scooter in Beirut, and the easiest one to do badly-dressed for exercise.
The right speed
Walking is too slow. Driving misses it.
The parts of Beirut worth looking at closely are not the parts you can drive through. The squares and the seafront are paved and closed to cars, which is exactly why they are pleasant and exactly why a car is no use to you there. On foot you will see one of them in an afternoon. On a scooter you will see more of them, and you will still be moving slowly enough to notice anything.
There is also the heat and the hills. Beirut rewards a bit of mechanical help: the seafront is flat but long, and the climb away from it is real. A scooter flattens both without putting you behind glass.
You do not need to know the city. Every ride below starts from a stand where somebody can point you at the route that suits you, and none of it requires planning further ahead than deciding to go.
For visitors
If you have one afternoon.
Come down to a stand, take a scooter, and ride the seafront until the light goes. If you want to carry on into the old centre once it empties out, ask at the stand before you set off and we will tell you whether it works that evening. That is the whole itinerary, and it needs no more preparation than that — nothing is booked in advance, so you can decide on the day, or an hour before.
What to bring, and how you pay
- Be 13 or olderUnder 18? A parent or guardian must agree to the terms.
- Bring a valid IDWe hold it during the rental and hand it straight back.
- Pay in cash or WhishPay at pickup. No card, nothing online.
That is the list. There is no app to download, no account, no deposit and no card machine. If you would rather check what is on a stand before you make the trip — or you are turning up as a group — message us first. Either way, you are not reserving anything; you are asking a question.
Every rider accepts our terms and conditions before riding, and anyone under 18 needs a parent or guardian to accept them too.
When we are out
- Downtown Beirut
- BIEL Waterfront and Beirut Souks from 12:00, earlier at weekends
- Centreville
- Evenings, from 17:00
- Zaarour Club
- June to August
Where to ride
The rides worth doing.
Each of these starts from one of our stands. Pick the one nearest to wherever you already are, or the one that sounds most like the afternoon you want.
Zaitunay Bay
The marina boardwalk — boats on one side, cafés on the other, and paving smooth enough that you can look around instead of at the ground.
Ain El Mreisseh and the Corniche
Keep going west from the waterfront and you pick up the Corniche, the long sea-facing walk that Beirut actually uses in the evenings.
Beirut Souks
Car-free, level and shaded. The place to ride if you are learning, riding with children, or out in the middle of a hot afternoon.
Downtown and Nejmeh Square
The old centre: Nejmeh Square, the clock tower, the colonnades and the stone streets between them. Best after six, when it empties out.
Gemmayzeh
East of the centre, stairs and balconies and bars. Hillier than the waterfront and worth the trip for how different it feels.
Mar Mikhael
Keep east past Gemmayzeh for workshops, galleries and the busiest nights in the city. Ask us about the route before you set off.
Going further
If the usual loop is not enough.
Most people ride the stretch around the stand they picked up from, come back, and are happy. Some people want more than that — further along the coast, deeper into the east of the city, or a ride that ends somewhere other than where it started.
We do not publish a route for that, because what is realistic depends on the day, the traffic, the hour and how you ride. So ask us. Message us on WhatsApp, tell us roughly what you have in mind, and we will tell you honestly whether it works and what we would send you on. If it does not work, we will say so.
Guides
Read before you ride.
Longer pieces on the riding itself — where to go, what you are standing on, and what nobody tells you before your first time.
The best places to explore Beirut by electric scooter
Where to ride from each of our stands — the waterfront, the Souks, the old centre — and which one to pick depending on the hour and how confident you are.
Rental-grade vs personal electric scooters
What separates a shared-mobility scooter from the one in the shop window, and why it matters more for a half-hour on the Beirut seafront than you would think.
A first-time rider’s guide
Never stood on one before? What to wear, how to start and stop, where to practise in Beirut, and the handful of mistakes everybody makes on their first ride.