Using bicycles to explore a city is awesome. Recently I visited to large cities that have bike sharing services. Being able to rent bikes at one place and drop them off at another place was great but we ended up with a lot of headaches that caused irritation and inconvenience. Berlin, Germany: Lidl Bikes Berlin has many bicycle sharing companies. I picked Lidl Bikes since they had the most bikes available throughout the town. These bikes aren't tethered to stations, instead you just park them (nearly) anywhere. If you park them at certain hot spots you get a discount on your rental. Finding and renting the bikes is easy through the app. However, one account can only rent two bikes at a time. This meant that my wife had to create an account as well for the whole family to checkout bikes. For some reason both accounts didn't work after we created them and linked them with our payment method. It took forever to figure out what the...
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