Moderate cycling with some longer, steady uphill sections, and longer days.
The season for this holiday is:
01 April 2020 - 31 October 2020
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| °C | 10 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 24 | 19 | 13 | 10 |
| mm | 96 | 83 | 73 | 70 | 75 | 57 | 46 | 56 | 74 | 84 | 93 | 97 |
6 nights: 01 April 2020 - 31 October 2020
Start any day | End by latest date(s) shown above
| Starting | Price | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Apr - 21 May 2020 | £945 | £295 |
| 22 May - 30 Sep 2020 | £995 | £310 |
| 1 - 25 Oct 2020 | £945 | £295 |
| 3rd & 4th person discount | -£75 | |
| Single traveller supplement | £75 |
Includes accommodation, meals, bike hire, luggage transfers and any other services integral to the holiday as described, plus cycling notes and maps, but no travel from the UK, nor any connecting travel from the airport unless stated below.
Electric bikes available: add £80 per person
Book your flights through us and we'll find the best route and times to suit you. Please contact us to find out more about our flight booking service. We can also book connecting travel - see below.
6 nights: 01 April 2020 - 31 October 2020
Start any day | End by latest date(s) shown above
| Starting | Price | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Apr - 21 May 2020 | £1145 | £295 |
| 22 May - 30 Sep 2020 | £1220 | £310 |
| 1 - 25 Oct 2020 | £1145 | £295 |
| 3rd & 4th person discount | -£75 | |
| Single traveller supplement | £75 |
Includes all elements in the 'cycle price', plus standard-class travel by Eurostar from London St Pancras or Ebbsfleet International to Lille or Paris, with onward travel as described below.
Electric bikes available: add £80 per person
Included travel: UK–Paris (Eurostar), Paris–Bordeaux (TGV), approx. duration 5h45 out/6h45 home. Pay locally for taxis or tram between Bordeaux station and hotel (0h10).
> More about 'by rail' prices
> The 'rail experience': what to expect
If you book your holiday less than 6 months in advance of your travel date, seats may no longer be available at the tariffs on which our prices are based, but we may be able to offer you seats on the same services at a supplement.
6 nights: 01 April 2020 - 31 October 2020
Start any day | End by latest date(s) shown above
| Starting | Price | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Apr - 21 May 2020 | £1095 | £295 |
| 22 May - 30 Sep 2020 | £1175 | £310 |
| 1 - 25 Oct 2020 | £1095 | £295 |
| 3rd & 4th person discount | -£200 | |
| Single traveller supplement | £200 |
Includes all elements in the 'cycle price', plus a return ferry crossing between Dover and Calais with P&O Ferries for your party and one car.
> More information about travelling self-drive
Electric bikes available: add £80 per person
A supplement of £35 per car per single journey applies for outward travel on 3-5 & 10-12 April 2020, and for homeward travel on 12-13 April 2020. A supplement of £47 per car per single journey applies outward on Fridays & Saturdays 22-23 May & 10 July-15 August 2020 and homeward on Saturdays & Sundays 30-31 May & 18 July-30 August 2020.
Room upgrades (£ per person per night)
| Hotel du Château de la Tour, Cadillac | ||
|---|---|---|
| Suite: 01 Apr - 31 May 2020 | £48 | |
| Suite: 01 Jun - 30 Sep 2020 | £52 | |
| Suite: 01 Oct - 31 Oct 2020 | £48 | |
| Superior: 01 Apr - 31 Oct 2020 | £8 |
Extra nights (£ per person per night) in a double or single room
Prices include an extra day’s hire of a standard bike. If you are upgrading to an e-bike, add a further £8pp per day.| Quality Hotel Bordeaux Centre, Bordeaux (B&B) | Double room | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Apr - 29 Oct 2020 | £84 | £130 |
| Château de Crecy, Romagne (with dinner) | Double room | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Apr - 31 Oct 2020 | £86 | £126 |
Travelling from the UK
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen - Bordeaux (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
| Aberdeen - Bordeaux (via Paris) | Air France |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Belfast Intl. - Bordeaux | easyJet |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Birmingham - Bordeaux (via Paris) | Air France |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Nottingham East Midlands - Bergerac | Ryanair |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Edinburgh - Bordeaux | Ryanair |
| Edinburgh - Bordeaux (via Paris) | Air France |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Glasgow - Bordeaux | easyJet |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Leeds Bradford - Bergerac | jet2 |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| London City - Bergerac | British Airways |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Gatwick - Bordeaux | British Airways, easyJet |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Heathrow - Bordeaux (via Paris) | Air France |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Luton - Bordeaux | easyJet |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| London Southend - Bergerac | Ryanair |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Manchester - Bergerac | jet2 |
| Manchester - Bordeaux | easyJet, Ryanair |
| Manchester - Bordeaux (via Paris) | Air France |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Newcastle - Bordeaux (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
| Newcastle - Bordeaux (via Paris) | Air France |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Southampton - Bordeaux (via Paris) | Air France |
This list of flight options should be used as a guide only, and you should check each airline’s website for current routes, frequency and schedules. Not all flights operate daily, and may not run for the entire season. You should also heed the latest flight arrival time and earliest flight departure time stated in the connecting travel section, as it may not be possible to arrange connecting travel outside these times. Please do not book your flights until we have confirmed your accommodation to you. Alternatively, our expert reservations team will be happy to offer advice and to make flight bookings for you. We charge £35 per person for our flight booking service (£60 for India and Nepal). Your flights are then covered by our package-booking conditions, which give you greater protection in the event of delay or cancellation, as well as providing ATOL cover.
Connecting travel options - flying via Bordeaux
| Outward route | Price per person |
Latest flight arrival time |
|---|---|---|
| own taxi (0h45) or shuttle bus (1h) Bordeaux airport to hotel | pay locally | flexible |
| Homeward route | Price per person |
Earliest flight departure time |
|---|---|---|
| own taxi (0h45) or shuttle bus (1h) from hotel to Bordeaux airport | pay locally | flexible |
Connecting travel options - flying via Bergerac
| Outward route | Price per person |
Latest flight arrival time |
|---|---|---|
| rail Bergerac to Bordeaux St Jean (1h30), taxi or tram Bordeaux St Jean to hotel (0h10, pay locally) | £20 | 1700 |
| Homeward route | Price per person |
Earliest flight departure time |
|---|---|---|
| taxi or tram hotel to Bordeaux St Jean (0h10 pay locally) rail Bordeaux St Jean to Bergerac (1h30) | £20 | 1300 |
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I’m someone not clever with maps so I didn’t open them! We just followed your directions which were spot on!
Brilliant trip. Loved the cycling and the route guidance was perfect. Great service from Inntravel. Good hotels and food, particularly Chateau de Crecy which is a unique and friendly truly French experience to stay in this lovely guesthouse, and enjoy the food and wine. Not difficult cycling, would recommend for a relaxing way to explore.
Excellent holiday overall. Very relaxed cycling on incredibally quiet roads. Hotels all very good-favourite was Hotel de Crecy. Would have liked extra day there to do alternative cycle. Had extra days in Bordeaux which was well worth it. Beautiful city despite heat wave.
I’m someone not clever with maps so I didn’t open them! We just followed your directions which were spot on!
Brilliant trip. Loved the cycling and the route guidance was perfect. Great service from Inntravel. Good hotels and food, particularly Chateau de Crecy which is a unique and friendly truly French experience to stay in this lovely guesthouse, and enjoy the food and wine. Not difficult cycling, would recommend for a relaxing way to explore.
Excellent holiday overall. Very relaxed cycling on incredibally quiet roads. Hotels all very good-favourite was Hotel de Crecy. Would have liked extra day there to do alternative cycle. Had extra days in Bordeaux which was well worth it. Beautiful city despite heat wave.
We loved the welcome from Bruno and Martine at the Chateau de Crecy, the rooms and the amazing meals.
We loved the cycling in the amazing countryside and the e’bikes were a bonus for us.
It was wonderful to start and finish in the beautiful city of Bordeaux ; a place we will certainly return to in the future.
Great trip with very detailed route notes and brilliant accommodation.
We love the Inntravel formula. The highlight of this format for me is that it's a mini adventure but within very carefully crafted boundaries making the holiday entirely safe and worry free. We enjoy the time together doing an activity moving through beautiful countryside, enjoying out of the way villages, hotels and amazing meals. The hosts at the guest house on this trip were just delightful and were another highlight. This is our 5th holiday on these lines and our 4th with Inntravel, we are looking forward to our next experience.
It was an excellent holiday - Bordeaux was a revelation and the Cite du Vin an absolutely fascinating experience, unlike and better than any 'museum' we've ever been to. Otherwise, the scenic highlights were probably the abbeys at Sauve and at Blasimon which were magnificent (and the many Romanesque churches with their carvings in several places, and the bastides). And, a definite highlight was seeing a coypu! We watched the beaver/hamster like animal for a long time whilst eating our lunch perched on a wall above a field in Escoussans, in the company also of 3 donkeys looking for a snack. We'd only suggest that the holiday is a bit front-loaded with highlights, and it runs out of steam a bit, so look at offering alternative routes in the last couple of days.
A delightful cycling trip through a beautiful part of France. Highlights were St. Emilion and stay at the Chateau de Crecy. If you've never visited Bordeaux, I would recommend adding an extra night there as there's a lot to see and do.
Hotel de Crecy was the best place we stayed. St Emilion was the most interesting place we visited. Some nice countryside to cycle through with tree covered tar-sealed lanes. My first lot of cycling in France and I’m keen to try the Dordogne area as I believe it is very interesting around there.
It was an excellent holiday. Your route instructions were mostly good, but sometimes confusing - especially around Cenac.
Whilst our journey through France by rail was severely disrupted by a fire at Montparnasse, Inntravel were very helpful in suggesting alternative routes and method of travel and supported us through the process.
Both the welcome and the food from Bruno and Martine at Chateau de Crecy were excellent. On the first night we were the only guests and managed to chat through the meal with a mixture of French, English and Frangalis. This cycle doesn't have as many highlights as the Dordogne holiday, but it is definitely worth doing the cycle to St Emillion and joining one of the tours of the underground church. My favourite hotel of the trip was Hotel Chateau de La Tour in Cadillac. The restaurant manager was really friendly and helpful, with excellent English. We enjoyed both the food and the wine recommendations.
When my Inntravel package arrived and I read the route notes, I was concerned with the level of detail ... as in too much detail. I thought we might be stopping every few yards to read the next set of instructions but it was amazing. The notes were comprehensive yet easy to follow. Once we were on the bikes everything flowed nicely.
Personal highlights for us was being able to tour at our own pace, stopping to look at anything we found personally interesting, stopping for picnics and a bottle of Bordeaux on the river bank, and the opportunity to stay in rural France with wonderful hosts .. Chateau Crecy.
Fantastic holiday! Would definitely recommend Inntravel to friends.
A wonderful cycling route, providing time and opportunity to explore this beautiful region. A combination of vineyards, meadows, rolling countryside, dotted with charming welcoming villages. The fascinating history that has affected and shaped this region is represented by ancient churches, abbeys, portal gates, chateaux, small ancient villages and bastide towns steeped in their own history.
The two night at Romagne, Chateau de Crecy stand out as exceptional service, welcome and hospitality. Our hosts, Bruno and Martigne couldn't do enough for us. The meals and endless wines were delicious, their English is limited, so they were so pleased I spoke French, the second evening it was just the two of us staying there, so we passed the whole evening in their company around their table, the four of us enjoying a lovely meal, wine and constant conversation. What a wonderful couple and a charming comfortable rural farmhouse.
Thoroughly enjoyed the holiday and the adventure of moving on to a new location. It's the first time we have done this sort of holiday and will probably look to book again next year on a slightly more challenging grade.
We extended our holiday into a 10 day break by staying extra nights at Cadillac and Bordeaux. We used the time in Cadillac to relax by the hotel pool with books (although the weather was a bit mixed!) and we had a mini city break for 2 days in Bordeaux at the end, which worked really well. In retrospect we would have stayed an extra night at Chateau de Crécy as this was a highlight of our holiday - wonderful hospitality provided by Bruno and Martine in a simple but beautiful setting. The cycle routes were perfect - quiet roads through peaceful villages and vineyards with plenty of refreshment stops along the way! Inntravel's planning & organisation was fantastic - once we had booked the holiday we had nothing to worry about and could totally relax and enjoy ourselves. Our only minor complaint was the poor vegetarian food at the hotel in Cadillac but we found a very good Italian restaurant in the village to make up for it! We are already choosing our next Inntravel cycling holiday!