Bents Bicycle and Walking Tours

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	Bents Bicycle and Walking Tours
The Blue Cross, Orleton, Ludlow, Shropshire SY8 4HN			MAP
tel: (01568) 780 800

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.