Cycle holiday companies

[steveindenmark]

Are there any UK holiday companies who organise cycle holidays outside the UK.

Steve

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Are there any UK holiday companies who organise cycle holidays outside the UK.

Steve

Loads. But a lot of them want you to use their bikes. Which may not be a problem.

 

[steveindenmark]

No its not a problem.

Do you have names of the more popular companies?

Steve

 

[Apollonius]

Inghams - the Ski Tour Operator, have launched a Danube ride for the first time this year. Having looked at people like Headwater (who I believe are good but expensive) the Inghams deal seems quite good. Nothing like cheap, but the deal includes flights, 4* hotels and various other odds and ends like boat trips, as well as the all-important (to me anyway) service of taking your luggage from place to place for you. People I know who have done this kind of trip say it is their best-ever holiday, and they are not hard-core cyclists.
They also do other cycling holidays, I notice while looking for the link!


http://www.inghams.co.uk/lakes-mountains-holidays/holiday-types/cycling-holidays

 

[GrumpyGregry]

If you go to google.co.uk and search 'cycling holidays' you'll find plenty.

exodus
inntravel
headwater
cyclebreaks
The CTC
skedaddle
Freedomtreks
Freewheelholidays
et cetera

I ended up booking one with skedaddle for this year but I wanted Scottishland as destination.

 

[Spinney]

Exodus and or Explore do cycling holidays.

 

[steveindenmark]

We usually organise our own cycling holidays but we thought we might give it a go.

I have also notice some of these companies include comprehensive routes on their websites, which we find quite useful.

Thanks for your help.

Steve

 

[TheDoctor]

Inghams - the Ski Tour Operator, have launched a Danube ride for the first time this year. Having looked at people like Headwater (who I believe are good but expensive) the Inghams deal seems quite good. Nothing like cheap, but the deal includes flights, 4* hotels and various other odds and ends like boat trips, as well as the all-important (to me anyway) service of taking your luggage from place to place for you. People I know who have done this kind of trip say it is their best-ever holiday, and they are not hard-core cyclists.
They also do other cycling holidays, I notice while looking for the link!


http://www.inghams.co.uk/lakes-mountains-holidays/holiday-types/cycling-holidays

I'm willing to bet this trip is actually run by the Upper Austrian Tourism people, who do a whole range of ones along the Danube and elsewhere. The slightly-dodgy translation in the link gives it away.
www.radurlaub.com is well worth a look - we used them for our Danube trip and they, erm, inspired the planning for our Lake Constance ride.

 

[Apollonius]

Now that is VERY interesting. Particularly as the prices in Euros are very similar to the Inghams prices in GBP. Much food for thought, there. Many thanks, Doc.

 

[frank9755]

Others not mentioned that I'd recommend from personal experience are:
Redspokes
Painted Roads

They both do long haul stuff.

Where do you want to go? There are others who specialise in particular regions.

 

[theloafer]

used these a while back tour of the French alps.. great trip well run http://www.bikeadventures.co.uk/supporthol.html