High-End Bike Trips

[blueskies]

I haven't done one, but Experience Plus! also is offering a pretty great sounding Patagonia trip. It's 18 days, 700 miles, Patagonia coast to coast. Very tantalizing.

[Thorn]

We've done an ExperiencePlus! trip (hiking) and known people that have used them for cycling. Overall, a great trip and the rentals were decent bikes.

We've self-catererd, semi-self catered, taken trips at the lower end of the price range as well as higher end trips. While we've had klunker, snobby, demanding fellow participants at all ends of the spectrum, the odds of getting klunkers seems to increase with price. But, like life, you will get a mix of people and sometimes the mix is...well...that's life.

Which group you travel with depends upon what you're looking for. We just finished a great trip. The people were fun. The leaders outstanding. The riding awesome. The weather....well...interesting. It wasn't a high-end trip, but that's why we took it--the focus was the riding and the area. Hotels were fine and the food edible and filling, but not gourmet. On the other hand, when we travelled to Italy we wanted the food as well as the riding, so we went high-end. We weren't dissappointed.

[slmdunc]

I haven't done one of these trips yet, but I have researched, and am actually booked for next summer with Bike Riders Tours for a SELF GUIDED tour of Burgundy!

I didn't want a group trip for this particular vacation. My SO and I are going, and the company carries your luggage from place to place, they book great cottages and inns to stay in along the way, it includes a few meals, they give you a route map - and you're on your own. I speak *enough* French, and know enough to travel by bike on my own, but always have a close by emergency contact if need be. I'm so excited I could pee my pants.