1. License our routes
   1. Provide “Route Sheets” (day-by-day detailed riding suggestions)
   2. Provide detailed, bicycle-appropriate, road maps
   3. Offer our opinion of the best en route sights and lunch stops
2. Rent bicycles
3. Rent cycle accessories
4. Arrange for transfer of your cycle(s) to or from Paris airports
5. Ship bikes (ours or your own) and luggage between your arrival airport and your trip
6. Forward luggage within your cycle trip
7. Give you our restaurant recommendations for the towns of your night stops
8. Suggest hotels
9. Make hotel reservations
   

If your group is formed of 6 or more people, and you want most or all of the above services, your trip will tend more towards what we call a “charter” trip, even if you do not wish to be accompanied by a Trip Coordinator. See our page describing the staging of charter trips for details on how we do this.

Some of these services are costly for small numbers of travellers. For example, if a truck moves your suitcase from one hotel to the next, it can carry additional cases for virtually the same price. So the cost of baggage transfer for one person, or for four, is close to the same (only insurance, and a labor component, change).

It is best to be realistic about this: if you are travelling on your own, or even in a couple, and wish to keep to a reasonable budget, you should plan on investing a lot of your own time in setting up your trip. And if you don’t want to carry paniers, well, perhaps it’s time to start making some cycling friends who can travel with you and share the costs of the bag movement.

Details of our different services can be found by following the links. Some are on this page. Others, which also concern our scheduled trips, are on other pages.

I. Licensing our Routes

Our itineraries can be licensed for a one-time use fee of 325€(uros) per trip week, rounded to the nearest whole week, plus 40€ per additional rider beyond the first (so, for instance, 365€ for two for a one-week trip, 730€ for a two-week trip...). See here for conversion to your currency.

For our fee, we provide the following.

• Our suggested route or routes from town to town. These are carefully researched to follow the smallest available roads, or cycle paths.
  Our routes offer scenic beauty, predictable topography, safe riding conditions (in the local context), and our appreciation of the region’s most interesting towns and villages.
• Our daily, copyrighted “route sheets.” Our route sheets offer an overview of the day, including...
  - Interesting sights...
  - ...route variants, which permit you to lengthen or shorten your ride...
  - ...detailed schedules and instructions for use of local trains that will accept your bike should you tire or get caught in a shower.
  Route sheets are provided in their current format. That is, they will have been updated for our previous regularly-scheduled trip operating on that route.
• Detailed maps, generally 1:200,000 scale (one set per two riders).
• Suggestions for en route stops (touristic or scenic), including lunch suggestions.
  

II. Cycle Rental

Follow the title link for details.

III. Cycle Accessory Rental or Purchase

Follow the title link for details.


IV. Transfer of luggage and / or cycle(s) to or from Paris airports

Follow the title link for details.


V. Shipment of bikes and luggage between airport(s) and your trip

Follow the title link for details.


VI. Shipment of luggage within your cycle trip

We can organize this for you, using a variety of local shippers, taxis, and our own personnel. Confiding this work to us saves you time, and helps you avoid language issues which can lead to misunderstanding and misdelivery. Our reliability is excellent: in 20 years we have yet to mis-deliver a single bag.

In addition, we can arrange economical alternate shipments schemes, as compared to an every-night transfer. For example, if you are willing to carry one night’s affairs in saddlebags on your bike, you can avail yourself of a service equivalent to the “Half” service offered on our scheduled trips. Follow this link to see how our scheduled trip baggage transfer services work: we can organize similar services for self-guided trips.

Per person costs are, of course, highest for small groups or solo travellers. And, costs are higher if delivery / pick-up must take place in very isolated, rural locations. To attain the approximate levels of pricing seen for our regular route trips, your group must have at least four travellers, and stay in villages and towns, rather than on tops of mountains.


VII. Restaurant recommendations for the towns of your night stops.

A list of the restaurants we have selected in each town for each of our trips. There are often several choices per town, described in some editorial detail. This list will be of most worth to those seeking to hue as closely as possible to the local culture. Its presentation is informal, and not at all “sanitized.” It is, essentially, an internal document used by our trip coordinators. Cost is 80€, plus 20€ per additional trip participant beyond the first. So, for example, 100€ for two, 120€ for three, etc.

This service is only available if you are following one of our regular routes.


VIII - IX. Suggest hotels, and make hotel reservations

Follow the title link for details. You may opt for our suggestions alone, or to additionally have us make the reservations.

If you have us make the reservations, you pre-pay the room charges to us, and we settle the bill with the hotel. If you prefer, you may make your booking directly with the hotel, and pay your invoice locally, or however the hotel requires. The linked page explains why you might prefer one or the other system.