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Cycling Operators Outside UK
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Style
Routes feasible for the “ordinary mortal, travelling at a leisurely pace”. Tours make use of tracks and lanes via villages and hamlets at around 20-25 miles per day, and you can stay two nights at each stop. Representatives fluent in local language meet you at the airport, arrange bikes and luggage transfers. You can arrange flights and transfers to base hotel through them, or independently.
Accommodation
Three-star family hotels or guesthouse.
Age Accepted
Three-star family hotels or guesthouse. All rooms have private bathrooms.
Age accepted From around one year. “We try especially hard to cater for children so that the whole family can enjoy our tours together.”
Bikes
Dawes 24 gear trekking bikes for adults and light weight bikes for under eights, ‘pretty de luxe' Kettler childseats (considered the safest and most comfortable) for infants and toddlers up to 4 or 5 years, trailer bikes and Burley trailers for the younger ones. Bikes are provided with pannier.
Where
Bavaria in Germany, the Black Forest in Austria, the Alsace, Burgundy and Beaujolais in France and Lake Geneva in Switzerland.
Dates
May to September.
Sample Price
Child-friendly 11 day tour of Versailles and Salzburg inclusive of flights costs £899 per adult (high season). Infants under 2 go free if sharing bed with parents.
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