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  • 10 or 11 days. Self guided sporting cycling hotel-tour with baggage transfer

  • This biking tour is designed for family with children from 10 years old

  • Option:  extra nights in any of the hotels of the package for a rest day or an extra cycling day.
  • Half board package (B&B + all dinners) in hotels with toilet, shower/bath in room.

  • Plus package with ** and *** hotel accommodations.

  • Starting days : any day of the week from March till November.

  • Daily cycling distances: 30 - 40 km

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This biking tour is designed for family with children from 10 on who like biking in a hilly to mountainous environment but at the same time avoid climbing and long distances. You’ll be in the Tarn Valley and the Canyons de la Dourbie. You will stay 3x in hotels with swimming pools and there will be enough time for children to have fun, swimming in the river or do a canoe trip.
You will be cycling through 3 river valleys: Tarn, Dourbie (Canyons) and Sorgues.

You will visit a 10-12th century Templars city: La Couvertoirade and a archetypical 9th - 13th century castle in Brousse-le-Château.
In Broquiès you can make a canoe trip from the hotel in July and August.
You will see a splendid and ever changing scenery with hilly mountains, canyons, plateaus, villages and small towns.
 
Albi, the city of the famous painter of Moulin Rouge and Aristide Bruant, Toulouse Lautrec, is moreover worth your visit because of its cathedral and its nice old town centre.
 

You will be starting in Albi. Via the spectacular Gorges de la Dourbie and a Templars village you'll pass the Valley of the Sorgue in the Pays de Roquefort and St. Affrique and come back in Albi.
You will be staying in 2* hotel Château de Creissels in Millau and cycle under the highest viaduct of the world.

See the links to more pictures of  Tarn Valley  and  Pays de Roquefort

For booking this tour please complete our booking form.


B13 Plus package.   Bags transfers included in basic rate. Basic rate: in €  p.p. in double room, sharing.
2010 B&B Dinners Lunches  Basic rate Suppl. single room Solo all-in Bike rental
B13  10 days 9 8 0 1049 211 1545 114
B13  11 days 10 9 0 1172 237 1737 123
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 Extra nights B&B Diner Lunch  Price p.p. Suppl. route notes Suppl. single room Bike rental
Albi ** Yes No No 51 Free 32 11
Villeneuve-sur-Tarn ** Yes Yes No 75 Free 24 11
Broquiès ** Yes Yes No 60 Free 11 11
Château de Creissels **/*** Yes Yes No 84 Free 32 11
Nant ** Yes Yes No 66 Free 25 11
Fondamente** Yes Yes No 60 Free 11 11
St. Affrique Yes No No 72 Free 25 11
St.Rome-de-Tarn*** Yes Yes No 95 Free 33 11
Brousse-le-Château ** Yes Yes No 54 Free 11 11
Discount p.p. for small groups and families
(on basic rate only).

See terms and conditions of group discounts

Parties of  3 persons : 12 % p.p.
Parties of  4 persons : 16 % p.p.
Parties of  5 persons : 19 % p.p.
Parties of  6 persons : 21 % p.p.
Parties of  7 persons : 22 % p.p.
Parties of  8 persons : 23 % p.p.

 

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Programme and lodging B13
10 - 11 days  
Distances are minimum kms.
10-day   11-day
Albi **, arrival day .
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Altitude: 150m
day 1 day 1
Villeneuve sur Tarn **  Indoor pool
Alt. 220m. Elevation gains: 70m
day 2
(34 kms)
day 2
(34 kms)
Broquiès **  pool
Canoeing at the bridge at the hotel bridge (July and August)
Alt. 260m.
Elevation gains: 40m
day 3
(35 kms)
day 3
(35 kms)
Creissels **/***
Transfer to the plateau.
Elevation gains: -250m
day 4
(38 kms)
day 4
(38 kms)
Nant ** Gîte de charme
Elevation gains: 100m
day 5
(38 k6s)
day 5
(38 kms)
Cornus/Fondamente **
Elevation gains: +300 & -250m
day 6
(30 kms)
day 6
(30 kms)
St. Affrique **
Alt. 320m.
Elevation gains: 110m
  day 7
(34 kms
St.Rome-de-Tarn ***  pool
Alt. 236m.
Elevation gains: -40m
day 7
(36 kms)
day 8
(36 kms)
Brousse-le-Château **
Alt. 236m.
Elevation gains: -40m
day 8
(36 kms)
day 9
(36 kms)
Albi **
Alt. 150m.
Elevation gains: -30m
day 9
(56 kms)
day 10
(56 kms)
Leave after  
breakfast
day 10 day 11

Kms indicated  is the minimum you'll have to bike. The route descriptions will also provide longer tours for each day if you wish.

The last stage from Brousse-le-Château to Albi is somewhat longer than the others. But the road is lightly down all of the time.