Accommodation

 Hotel Accommodation

We are extremely proud of our hotel accommodation. When you have been on the road all day there is nothing better than having a dip in a nice pool, a cool beer in a pleasant bar or just enjoying the natural ambience sitting out on your balcony. Whether you are on one of our short European Tours (Normandy, Vosges) or one of our long adventure tours (Balkans, Morocco, India) we consider our hotel accommodation to be good and often excellent.  We have a great relationship with our hoteliers and this makes your holiday more enjoyable and hastle free. Many of the hotels are family run and as such your experience really does matter to them. We do not use ‘Etap’ or ‘’Formule1’ hotels - yes, they are cheap but they are all exactly the same wherever you go in Europe - characterless (in our opinion).

Many of our customers come on tour with us and then at a later date take their loved ones to hotels that we have used and introduced them to. Many of our hotels are at least equivalent to a three/four star British Hotel.  The majority of the hotels that we use have secure bike parking, are very biker friendly and many have swimming pools etc. Some of the hotels are self-contained whilst others are located in interesting (sometimes) lively towns.  As such you are not restricted to only eating hotel meals but can experiment with different restaurants and cuisine.   On the last night we usually stay in lively towns where there is a plethora of bars and restaurants. Below are some pictures of our hotel accommodation.

Evening Meals on our European Tours

On our European tours we do not offer tours with inclusive evening meals.  There are very good reasons for this :

• Set menus offered by hotels are sometimes very good but they can also be mediocre. we want you to experience great, good quality, good value regional meals. These can usually be found at local restaurants (where all the locals eat) rather than hotels.
   
• Set hotel meals seldom cater for vegetarians or for people with food allergies etc
   
• Sometimes we like to eat a good, cheap lunch time meal as opposed to having a large meal at evening time.
   
• We prefer to explore the towns and villages we are in rather than stay in the hotel of an evening. Its all part of the adventure!
   
• Our prices reflect the fact that evening meals are not included.
   

Evening Meals on our Adventure Tours (Southern India, Himalaya, Morocco).

On our tours to Southern India and the Himalaya all evening meals are included in the price. It is just easier and more cost effective for us to sort your evening meals out.  Usually we will eat in the hotels where they will lay on delicious buffets - meat, fish, vegetarian dishes are all available. In Morocco a number of hotels provide an evening meal as part of their room rate - we pass this on to you free of charge.