Luxury Cycling Holidays in Cognac & Charente

Your holiday price includes:

  • A double or twin bedded room booked in a delightful hotel for each night of your itinerary. (Single occupancy, always available, carries a supplement).
  • A Reserved table in a first class restaurant with four course gourmet dinner each evening.
  • A French style breakfast every morning and in many hotels this is now a generous buffet.
  • Dawes, light weight 6-speed, indexed-geared touring bicycles with special touring ratios for easy cycling. Bikes are equipped with a lower gear in the hillier regions. Trail-a-long bikes for children 5-8 yrs are available, as well as child seats for 2-5 yrs.
  • Bicycle equipment including panniers, provanti bag, water bottle, tool kit and pump.
  • Information pack which includes: IGN 1-100,000 maps of the region, your itinerary and hotel details, what to visit guide, a French holiday information booklet, French phrase book.
  • The services of our regional assistants with an introductory presentation with a local aperitif.
  • Emergency back-up and assistance.

With each bicycle we provide:

  • A roomy, three sectioned pannier for carrying your clothes, with two additional small pockets for the bottle of wine and the baguette.
  • A provanti bag for the front handlebars with map holder.
  • A personal water bottle.
  • A lock, pump, tool kit and spare inner tube.

Cognac & Charente Prices and Travel Options:

1. Making your own way to the first hotel (see prices below)

Our Gentle Tourer options - 2 nights at each hotel with last night back at Hotel la Vieille Etable at Roullet St Estephe. (For other holiday options please discuss with the office team.)

No Nights Suggested Routes in the Cognac Pricing
3 nights or Adventurer Roullet St.Estèphe, hotel pool. £583
5 nights Roullet St. Estèphe, Bassac. Hotel pool & river. £972
7 nights Roullet St. Estèphe, Saint Preuil, Cognac, 2 pools. £1360
9 nights Roullet St. Estèphe, Cognac, Asnières, Montbron, 3 pools, river swimming. £1600
10 nights Roullet St. Estèphe, Saint Preuil or Bassac, Asnières, Luxé, Montbron. 4 pools. £1720
12 nights Roullet St. Estèphe, Cognac, Asnières, Luxé, Nieuil, Montbron. 5 pools. £1960
14 nights Roullet St. Estèphe, Montbron, Nieuil, St. Saud en Périgord, Nontron, Champagnac and Aubeterre sur Dronne, 7 pools. £2200

Price Discounts: Children under 15 years per night £25.00 Triple Rooms: per room per night £5.00 Group bookings: 8-12 people per person £12.00 Price Supplements: Single Room: Per Person per night £35.00

2. We can book all or part of your travel to and from the UK and France.

How to get to Roullet St Estèphe
(for cycling holidays in Cognac & Charente)
 
1) EUROSTAR & TGV via Lille to Angouleme & taxi.
Departs St Pancras 08.52

  1st Class
2nd Class
£478
£392
       
2) TGV from Paris Montparnasse to Angouleme & taxi.
  1st Class
2nd Class
£245
£210
Nearest airports are Angouleme, Limoges and Bordeaux. Local train station is Angouleme.

 

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