Easy cycling for all with shorter days mainly on the flat, but some gentle ascents.
The season for this holiday is:
01 April 2021 - 31 July 2021
01 September 2021 - 31 October 2021
01 April 2022 - 31 July 2022
01 September 2022 - 31 October 2022
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| °C | 14 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 21 | 17 | 14 |
| mm | 142 | 127 | 81 | 93 | 77 | 40 | 12 | 16 | 53 | 114 | 138 | 134 |
6 nights: 01 April 2021 - 31 July 2021, 01 September 2021 - 31 October 2021, 01 April 2022 - 31 July 2022 & 01 September 2022 - 31 October 2022
Start any day | End by latest date(s) shown above
| Starting | Price | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Apr - 21 May 2021 | £840 | £360 |
| 22 May - 9 Jun 2021 | £885 | £390 |
| 10 - 29 Jun 2021 | £925 | £425 |
| 30 Jun - 25 Jul 2021 | £945 | £460 |
| 1 - 11 Sep 2021 | £945 | £460 |
| 12 - 30 Sep 2021 | £925 | £425 |
| 1 - 25 Oct 2021 | £885 | £390 |
| 1 Apr - 21 May 2022 | £885 | £380 |
| 22 May - 9 Jun 2022 | £930 | £410 |
| 10 - 29 Jun 2022 | £975 | £445 |
| 30 Jun - 25 Jul 2022 | £995 | £485 |
| 1 - 11 Sep 2022 | £995 | £485 |
| 12 - 30 Sep 2022 | £975 | £445 |
| 1 - 25 Oct 2022 | £930 | £410 |
| 3rd & 4th person discount | -£90 | |
| Single traveller supplement | £90 |
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 £170 per person in 2021 or £180 per person in 2022
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.
Room upgrades (£ per person per night)
| Furadouro Boutique Hotel Beach & Spa, Furadouro | ||
|---|---|---|
| Deluxe with ocean view: 01 Apr - 31 Jul 2021 | £12 | |
| Deluxe with ocean view: 01 Sep - 31 Oct 2021 | £12 | |
| Deluxe with ocean view: 01 Apr - 31 Jul 2022 | £14 | |
| Deluxe with ocean view: 01 Sep - 31 Oct 2022 | £14 |
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 £40pp per day.| Hotel Moliceiro, Aveiro (B&B) | Double room | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Apr - 31 May 2021 | £76 | £120 |
| 01 Jun - 31 Jul 2021 | £86 | £138 |
| 01 Sep - 15 Oct 2021 | £86 | £138 |
| 16 Oct - 31 Oct 2021 | £76 | £120 |
| 01 Apr - 31 May 2022 | £80 | £128 |
| 01 Jun - 31 Jul 2022 | £90 | £145 |
| 01 Sep - 15 Oct 2022 | £90 | £145 |
| 16 Oct - 31 Oct 2022 | £80 | £128 |
| Furadouro Boutique Hotel Beach & Spa, Furadouro (B&B) | Double room | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Apr - 04 Apr 2021 | £104 | £186 |
| 05 Apr - 14 Jun 2021 | £88 | £152 |
| 15 Jun - 31 Jul 2021 | £104 | £186 |
| 01 Sep - 15 Sep 2021 | £104 | £186 |
| 16 Sep - 31 Oct 2021 | £88 | £152 |
| 01 Apr - 13 Apr 2022 | £94 | £162 |
| 14 Apr - 18 Apr 2022 | £110 | £198 |
| 19 Apr - 14 Jun 2022 | £94 | £162 |
| 15 Jun - 31 Jul 2022 | £110 | £198 |
| 01 Sep - 15 Sep 2022 | £110 | £198 |
| 16 Sep - 31 Oct 2022 | £94 | £162 |
Travelling from the UK
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen - Lisbon (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
| Aberdeen - Porto (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
| Aberdeen - Porto (via Paris CDG) | Air France, KLM |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Glasgow - Lisbon | Ryanair |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| London City - Lisbon | TAP Air Portugal |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Gatwick - Lisbon | Air Europa, Azores Airlines (SATA), easyJet, TAP Air Portugal |
| Gatwick - Porto | British Airways, easyJet, TAP Air Portugal |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Heathrow - Lisbon | Azores Airlines (SATA), British Airways, TAP Air Portugal |
| Heathrow - Porto | British Airways, TAP Air Portugal |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Manchester - Lisbon | easyJet, jet2, Ryanair, TAP Air Portugal |
| Manchester - Lisbon (via Frankfurt) | Lufthansa |
| Manchester - Porto | easyJet, Ryanair |
| Manchester - Porto (via Brussels) | Brussels Airlines |
| Manchester - Porto (via Frankfurt) | Lufthansa |
| Manchester - Porto (via Lisbon) | TAP Air Portugal |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Newcastle - Lisbon (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
| Newcastle - Porto (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
| Newcastle - Porto (via Brussels) | Brussels Airlines |
| Newcastle - Porto (via Paris CDG) | KLM |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Norwich - Lisbon (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
| Norwich - Porto (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
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 Porto
| Outward route | Price per person |
Latest flight arrival time |
|---|---|---|
| direct taxi Porto airport to hotel (1h20) | £90 in 2021; £95 in 2022 | flexible |
| rail Porto Campanha to Aveiro (0h30), taxi station to hotel (0h30) | £48 in 2021; £52 in 2022 | 1800 |
| Homeward route | Price per person |
Earliest flight departure time |
|---|---|---|
| direct taxi hotel to Porto airport (0h45) | £78 in 2021; £82 in 2022 | flexible |
| taxi hotel to Ovar station (0h15 + 0h15 to buy tickets), rail Ovar to Porto Campanha (0h40, pay locally) | £10 in 2021; £12 in 2022 | 1100 |
Connecting travel options - flying via Lisbon
| Outward route | Price per person |
Latest flight arrival time |
|---|---|---|
| rail Lisbon Oriente to Aveiro (2h), taxi station to hotel (0h30) | £60 in 2021; £64 in 2022 | 1730 |
| Homeward route | Price per person |
Earliest flight departure time |
|---|---|---|
| taxi hotel to station (0h40), rail Aveiro to Lisbon Oriente (2h) | £60 in 2021; £64 in 2022 | 1230 |
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HIGHLIGHTS: Flamingoes, fish (to eat) and vinho verde. In Oporto the upstairs room giving on to the chapel where the 49 decorative panels are in the former Dominican convent - I think you need to say these panels are in a separate upstairs room.
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers combined our Porto city add-on with our cycling holiday Aveiro – Lagoons and the ‘Silver Coast’
Magnificent Atlantic coastline & lagoons. The city, beach & river views rounding the corner from the Atlantic coast & along the Douro were spectacular and provided a wonderful finale to our week's cycling. Our small travel kettle, cups and preferred teabags worthwhile. Make sure that you have lots of time at railway stations.
HIGHLIGHTS: Cycling along back routes, cycling along the boardwalks, cycling along the lagoon edges.
HIGHLIGHTS: Flamingoes, fish (to eat) and vinho verde. In Oporto the upstairs room giving on to the chapel where the 49 decorative panels are in the former Dominican convent - I think you need to say these panels are in a separate upstairs room.
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers combined our Porto city add-on with our cycling holiday Aveiro – Lagoons and the ‘Silver Coast’
Magnificent Atlantic coastline & lagoons. The city, beach & river views rounding the corner from the Atlantic coast & along the Douro were spectacular and provided a wonderful finale to our week's cycling. Our small travel kettle, cups and preferred teabags worthwhile. Make sure that you have lots of time at railway stations.
HIGHLIGHTS: Cycling along back routes, cycling along the boardwalks, cycling along the lagoon edges.
This trip was fantastic! We were all very impressed with how well organized the trip was and how much of Portugal we experienced on our bike tour. Inntravel tailored our trip to our desires, building extra nights in certain places and making knowledgeable suggestions for side trips along the way. Even though we are not massive cyclists, we found the tour very enjoyable and a fabulous way to see "true" Portugal. The selected bike routes were well thought out and easy to follow (we used the GPX maps, with the written notes as a back-up and for the suggestions of where to eat or what to see). Each day brought us a new adventure and scenery to explore. We loved that we could determine the pace of our day routes; meandering sometimes, stopping when we wanted for a beverage or to wander the area, or powering through the cool pine forests at other times. The accommodations were great and well appreciated after a day of cycling. Everything went seamlessly! We will definitely recommend this trip and Inntravel to our friends and family!
Delightful gentle cycle rides on a flat landscape. As there is a prevailing wind from North West and it is a fairly exposed area we think cycling North to South would have been a gentler option. The wind, however, only made us suffer on the fourth (longest) day of the 5. The hotels were excellent and the staff exceptionally helpful and friendly and the suggested restaurants almost always offered fine regional food at good value. Would definitely recommend other cyclists stopping off in possibly unlikely looking cafes and cake shops for an expresso coffee and a pastel de nata or even a light lunch. We were never disappointed doing so.
A lovely journey, with easy cycling except for headwinds (unfortunately our holiday started the week that all of Europe had poor weather). Our favourites were the lagoons between Salrue & Furadouro and the last day, cycling along the coast to Porto.
Highlights were seeing the daily catch being brought in on the beach at Praia de Mira and the many storks nesting near the station at Salreu.
Flat, leisurely, relaxed cycling mostly on excellent cycle paths and tracks, through a lovely variety of woodland, marsh, coastal lagoons, along the coast and through beach resorts. The roar of the pounding surf was an almost constant accompaniment - which unfortunately meant it was too dangerous to swim.
A really easy cycling holiday on flat terrain, never far from the sea or coastal lagoons. Plenty of bird watching to do, good restaurants and lovely boutique hotels. The early October weather was good for cycling, 20-24C most days. There was a constant onshore breeze which added a little extra work to the cycling some days.
This is the first cycling holiday we have been on and it is many years since we have been on a bicycle at all! However, this area of Portugal is very flat and the cycling was made easy by the excellent bicycles we had. The area can be windy but it changes direction so some days were easier than others. The scenery is more interesting than beautiful although the Atlantic coast is wild and impressive. We had two memorable meals during our trip, one at the Bronze beach cafe in Cosa Nova which is right on the beach and a great place to watch the sun go down. The other at Rebaldaria in Aviero which has very friendly staff, a cosy atmosphere and a more creative menu than other places we came across. Would recommend stopping off at the Vista Alegre museum and the Maritime Museum on the way to Aviero both of which are very professional and interesting. We had a late flight back to the UK so had time on our last day to revisit Aviero to explore the town a bit more but if you cannot do this it is worth considering an extra night here. We also added 3 extra nights in Porto as there is so much to see here.
We thoroughly enjoyed our Porto and the Douro Valley holiday. We had a fantastic river view from our room in the Hotel Pestana Vintage Porto and loved everything about Porto. The Douro valley is beautiful and our time in Chanceleiros was incredibly relaxing.
Being met on the platform at Aveiro by the excellent Jorge got our Aveiro, Lagoons & the Silver Coast holiday off to the perfect start. We found the restaurant recommendations very helpful. We would add Porta 36 in Aveiro and Amadeu in Furadouro. The route really is almost completely flat and we saw lots of birds including wild Flamingos. The network of cycle paths is amazing and Portuguese drivers are respectful of cyclists. The first hotel, Macarico Beach Hotel, was disappointing, particularly coming straight from Chanceleiros, but the rest were good. Before paying for a sea view another time we will ask what is between the hotel and the beach, in our case it was a late night bar and busy road at the first hotel.
We were very impressed when Inntravel contacted us to arrange alternative travel arrangements when there was a rail strike. We really enjoyed our first holiday with Inntravel and are already looking through the website to plan our next one.
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers combined our Porto and Douro Valley city break / walk with our Aveiro - Lagoons and Silver Coast cycle.
As keen nature lovers we found the whole area very interesting. The route and towns were well chosen, providing a variety of different experiences which ranged from glorious wetlands to interesting towns. Aveiro was a real delight. This is a lovely area that we would never have visited and which is best experienced by bicycle.
We had a great holiday that lived up to all expectation. We elected to vary the routes a bit and stayed an extra day in Porto, which is worth considering.
Good hotels, easy cycling and lovely weather for the week starting 18th September.
We had planned an extra night at the end but none was available. It retrospect an extra night in Aveiro would have been a good idea rather than in Furadoura, which is rather limited in scope.
This was my second Inntravel trip -- I think Inntravel is wonderful and I look forward to using them again. This trip was lovely for someone looking for a relatively easy experience as opposed to an adventure. There was one day when the riding was tough because of the headwinds (Aveiro to Furadouro), but it was worth it and my favorite ride. A few tips: 1) bring a swimming cap if you want to use the pools at the hotels; they're mandatory and cost 4 Euro at the hotel; 2) be prepared for cold, foggy mornings if you go in September; 3) spend an extra day in Aveiro if you have the time, the city is lovely and Hotel Moliceiro was the best.
Around Furadouro trip travelling along boardwalk through the reed beds and lagoons, brilliant opportunity for birdwatching.
This was our first visit to Portugal and it was a wonderful way to see some of the country, combining a city break with cycling. The hotels and restaurant recommendations were superb. Our personal highlights were Aveiro Museum, visit to Graham’s port lodge and the cycle run from Furadouro to Capela do Senhor da Padra along the boardwalks. We liked it so much we cycled most of the way back!
Cycling in Aveiro, Portugal was perfect for us. Temperature was just right, cycling was mostly leisurely so plenty of time to enjoy the scenery, plenty of stops available at beaches and places of interest if you so wish. There were often beautiful sunsets too. Hotels were well located, comfortable and with good food.
Wonderful food in this part of Portugal, your restaurant recommendations were excellent. A delightful ride along the silver coast - so aptly named. It was also fantastic having brand new bikes. Another very successful and enjoyable holiday with Inntravel. Thank you.