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Tour Details
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Carcassonne Countryside Biking Tour
6 Nights / 7 Days
Dates 2009
Season: April 1 -Nov 1
This tour starts any day.
Price
995 euros per person, double occupancy. Solo supplement: 580 euros. Triples available at 885 euros/person. Single supplement with 2 or more travelers - please inquire. (convert)
Bike Rentals: 105 euros (click to view) Scott Sportster P3 hybrids; see link for full details and picture. Helmets and add on materials included. Carbon road bikes available also see Cycling Classics for specs under Rental Bikes. LaPierre tandems also available for rent on this tour for 205 euros. See link.
Scott Sportster P3 hyrid rentals - the best rental bike available in the region for 2009!
Child Trailers - please inquire
Level
Overall: 2; moderate
Day 2: rolling, 40 km
Day 3: rolling to flat, 40 km
Day 4: flat to rolling, 39 km
Day 5: flat to rolling , 35-45 km
Day 6: flat option on Canal du Midi 30+ km
The trip includes
6 nights accommodations in hotel 2& 3 stars, all breakfasts, 4 dinners, a personalized welcome and orientation, bag transfers, routes, maps and descriptions, local emergency service, wine tasting, transfer to St Guilhem on Day 1. We also include free travel planning to add Paris hotels, car rentals, France hotels, trains, airport transfers, and more.
Additional Nights - please inquire.
Details
Minimum 2 persons.
Triple rooms are available as a double and single, but quads are not available.
Pedals on bikes are flat unless straps/cages are requested. Clipless pedals are not available, but can be installed if you bring them.
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Misc Info
Tandem bicycles also available, as well as children trailers.
You are important to us; so we make you thoroughly prepared and include:
Pre-trip travel documents: you will receive extensive information as a customer prior to your departure. Upon confirmation we will send you some general information about preparations including passport info, training tips, and reading lists. As a customer you can also Purchase product from Hammer Nutrition, get 2 FREE issues to Velo News, and much more!
Upon final payment, we will send to you a complete list of documentation by email including Hotel List, contact numbers, itineraries, sites to see and information about sites and culture of the region. We include road signs, packing lists, travel tips, language phrases, holiday info, tour details, culture and customs tips, and much, much more!
Carcassonne Bicycle Tour
Cycling in Languedoc to Carcassonne takes you away off the beaten path into the vineyards of the Herault Department where you start in the historical and picturesque village of St Guilhem le Desert. You will finish at Carcassonne where the French have such a charming accent, an accent that sings and enchants you with another way of French culture! Discover the lifestyle of this region of gastronomy, wine, and amazing countryside scenery. Experience the rural France life and visit one the most renown abbeys of France, explore the marvelous and intact medieval cite of Carcassonne, do wine tasting in the unpretentious appellations of good wine. We leave you for 2 nights to see one of the most beautiful villages of France in Carcassonne. |
 "We are back home and back to the office, sadly, from a great trip to Languedoc. I wanted to thank you for your help in setting this up. We had no problems we could not solve, and even found much more to explore and enjoy than we had anticipated in this real slice of France, no tourists except us. " -B. Amidon |
Virtual Tour
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Itinerary
Click on a day to see that days itinerary.
DAY 1
Day 1: Arrival in Montpellier and transfer to St Guilhem le Desert to start your bike tour. Installation in nice 2 Star hotel where you will have an orientation by our staff, and then you can explore this fabulous village. Dinner included; and then after go to the central plaza for cafe or drink of your choice to soak up the ambiance of village dating to the year 804!
Day 2: Take some more time after breakfast to explore this fascinating village before you go out on a nice cycling trip to Moureze. On this cyling itinerary you will travel through rural and quiet countryside with several stops possible in villages along the way. This is also an important wine country, so tasting is very possible. You will pass the Lake of Salagou before you reach Moureze and your charming hotel. This little village is an outdoor place with some famous land formations that remind of the Italian Dolomites! 40km, flat to rolling. Dinner included. (B,D)
Day 3: Another day in the quiet back country of this region going to the village of Murviel Les Beziers and a very nice 3 star chateau hotel with pool. From Moureze you drop down onto a plain and can enjoy some flat riding and vineyard country. Dinner included. 40km. (B,D)
Day 4: Leaving Murviel after breakfast, you will drop further south and west toward the Canal du Midi. The ride starts out flat before getting somewhat rolling. You will pass numerous villages dating from another time. At the end of the ride you are in Homps alongside the famed Canal du Midi. Some added optional riding is very possible along the canal. 39 km. Dinner included. (B,D)
Day 5: While you are just a short distance from Carcassonne, the eventual goal for the day, we invite you on a ride along the canal direct into Carcassonne or a longer diversion to Fabrezan and Lagrasse and then dropping back into La Cite where you hotel is situated just outside the fortress walls. Dinner on your own tonight - suggestions inside the Cite included. 35-45 km. (B)
Day 6: Bike ride optional today. With all there is to see and do in Carcassonne, we inserted this day to use as you wish. We will include a relatively short cycling tour, 30km, over flat terrain to see more of the surroundings but leaving time to explore this UNESCO World Heritage Site at Carcassonne. Dinner on your own tonight. (B)
Day 7: Departure afer breakfast. Trains from Carcassonne possible. Extra nights also possible, please inquire. (B)
Optional Services:
Travel insurance, Paris museum & metro passes, Paris day tours, Lido shows, and other services. Cell phone rental and luggage storage services.
Note: prices subject to change based upon currency fluctuations. See Booking Terms and Conditions.
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