Cycling Deals this Summer

Enjoy the summer holidays strolling around beautiful places with these cycling tours.

Start planning your holiday now, from the 5th to the 27th of July, Le Tour de France will showcase some of the most stunning and breathtaking sceneries as well as the stamina of some very determined cyclists.

Grab this exciting summer cycling travel deals at The Savoy. Set off on two wheels at the Isle of Wight, it has over 200 miles of well-marked cycle routes covering coastal and countryside terrain. You will also enjoy a four-star self-catering accommodation between bike rides in one of the estate’s superb New England-style cottages. Aside from the routes and trails there’s also an indoor pool, tennis and squash courts plus a Children’s Club and spa for the whole family to enjoy. This four-night break costs from just £350 for a cottage sleeping four and includes a return car ferry crossing, until the 18th of July. Visit www.savoyholidays.co.uk for more details.

Visit the places of Linz, Vienna, Melk and Benedictine and pedal pastpretty farms, fairytale castles, imposing abbeys, steep vineyards, fertile plains and romantic villages. ‘Along the Blue Danube’ is a 10-day cycling tour that costs from only £915 pp and includes flights (Heathrow), all transportation, nine nights’ B&B in hotels, cycle hire and the services of a tour leader. Visit www.explore.co.uk for more information on the cycling deal.

Coast along the Camel Trail, beside the Camel Estuary, from Padstow to Wadebridge then on to Bodmin Moor. Stay for a week at The Granary from the 30th of August and enjoy a sunny patio outside its French doors, located close to Padstow. Hire bikes from Padstow Cycle Hire (www.padstowcyclehire.com) from £12 for adults and £5 for children and pedal through spectacular sceneries. For only £130 pp based on six sharing (£777 total), you will have a grand cycling tour and vacation in Cornwall. Check out www.classic.co.uk for more information.

Get your bikes ready and explore the beauty of Azores in this 7-night cycling tour. For only £838 pp (two sharing), you will get a 7-night accommodation on a B&B basis plus return flights (Gatwick), mountain bike hire, transfers and route maps. This tour will show you spectacular beauty, including vast volcanic craters housing emerald green lakes, untouched rural villages where farms yield tobacco, sugar beet and passion fruit, and beautiful sub-tropical gardens of the breathtaking Sao Miguel. You must be an experienced cyclists and expect rides averaging 30km a day. For more details on the tour visit www.sunvil.co.uk.

Cycle on the tracks beside the Gota Canal, one of Sweden’s greatest landmarks, it is part of a waterway stretching from Gothenburg to Stockholm and passes through some of Sweden’s most beautiful natural and cultural landscapes. In this cycling tour, you will stay at the Baltzar von Platen Lodge, beside the canal at Norrkvarn Locks, where rooms cost from 790 SEK (about £67 per night). Ryanair offers flights to Gothenburg from Stansted, Glasgow and Dublin. Visit www.westsweden.com and learn more about this great deal.