Le Grand Tour TripTour de France 2019
25 days | 5th to 29th July
AT A GLANCE
- 3 weeks
- 16 dinners
- 13 stages
- Luxury Transport
- High Staff Ratio
- Intermediate to Experienced
- 3 and 4 star hotels
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS:
Bucket List climbs
Oude Kwaremont, Koppenberg, Kapelmuur, Grand Ballon, Col d’Aubisque, Col du Galibier, Col de la Croix de Fer and the big 3: Col du Tourmalet, Mont Ventoux, Alpe d’Huez
and Secret Roads
Central Massif, Ariege Mountains, Gorges de la Nesque, French Alps balcony roads, Paris highlights, Champagne wine trail, Alsace villages trail, Routes des Grandes Crus
Touristic opportunities
Tour of Flanders Museum, famous wine regions, Verdun Memorial, Mulhouse Motor museum
Experience the TDF Live
Stage 1: Bruxelles to Bruxelles, Flat, 192 km
Stage 2: Bruxelles Palais Royal to Bruxelles Atomium, Team time-trial, 27 km
Stage 3: Binche to Épernay, Hilly, 214 km
Stage 5: Saint-Dié-des-Vosges to Colmar, Hilly, 169 km
Stage 6: Mulhouse to La Planche des Belles Filles, Mountain, 157 km
Stage 8: Mâcon to Saint-Étienne, Hilly, 199 km
Stage 11: Albi to Toulouse, Flat, 167 km
Stage 12: Toulouse to Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Mountain, 202 km
Stage 14: Tarbes to Tourmalet Barèges, Mountain, 117 km
Stage 16: Nîmes to Nîmes, Flat, 177 km
Stage 18: Embrun to Valloire, Mountain, 207 km
Duration: 25 Days
Dates: July 5, 2019 to July 29, 2019
Start: Brussels, Belgium
Finish: Paris, France
Group Size: 30 guests - 6 staff
Price: AUD$14,890 US$10,423
Single Supplement: AUD$2,300 US$1,610
Note: All trip costs are per person, not including airfare and based on two persons per room. If travelling alone we will match you with a person to share. Alternatively, you may choose to have a room of your own by paying the single supplement.
RIDE RATINGS
Our trips allow you to choose a suitable ride each day. Alternative ride options are available on most days. We use a consistent ride rating to help you choose your ride. We rate each ride on various factors; distance, total climbing, intensity and altitude. The table below is a guide to our ride rating system.
Unfortunately, we can’t forecast the weather when designing our rides, but your trip leader will advise you on any precautions.
| Distance | SHORT: less than 30km |
| MEDIUM: between 30km and 80km (depending on the total climbing). | |
| LONG: more than 80 km | |
| Ascent | Total climbing (ascending) for the day, anything over 2000m is a big day |
| Intensity | Some rides may have time constraints. Our rides vary from EASY, MODERATE to HARD. |
| Altitude | Some of our rides may go into alpine areas where thinner air affects your intake of oxygen. |
Spectators and Off the Bike
Racing fans are always welcome!
Social Riding and Leisure
We understand that your cycling holiday is a HOLIDAY! We understand that you don't normally ride everyday at home. Our ride routes cherry-pick the best areas.
Some training will always enhance your experience!
Experienced Riders
Your cycling holiday is all actually about the bike! Our epic and challenge ride options seek more vertical metres and longer miles.
Tour cost is per person twin share and includes:
- Transport throughout by custom mini vans or luxury coach
- Services of our experienced tour guides, mechanics and drivers
- 24 nights accommodation 3 & 4 Star hotels
- Buffet breakfast daily
- 3 course evening meals on 14 nights
- All TGV tickets
- Wine at welcome and farewell dinners
- Scheduled arrival transfer on day one from Brussels Airport
- Mechanical assistance with your bike
- Ride files and Bikestyle guide to the 2019 Tour de France
- Persoanlised Scicon Rain Bag
- Full Bikestyle Tours kit including knicks, cycling jersey, cap and musette bag
Note: All bike hire costs include 2 water bottles for you to keep. We also provide a saddle bag with a spare tube, pump, tyre-levers and multi-tool. The pump and saddle bag with its contents must be returned with the hire bike at the end of hire.
The full three-week experience
Experience the ultimate Tour de France trip. Complete with the nervous energy of the first week, tricky transition stages, the mountain attacks and opportunistic breakaways. Finish your trip on the Champs-Élysées, hours after having ridden it yourself. Riders will pass the famous landmarks of the Grand Palais and the Arc de Triomphe before crowning the 2019 winner. Enquire at the time of booking about VIP experiences.
Our trip starts in Belgium with a homage to Eddy Merckx before we enter France and travel through the southern regions of Central Massif, the Pyrenees and the Alps. Tick off the bucket list of the most famous cycling routes, enjoy the great wine regions and immerse into the French culture. Our grand tour is designed for cyclists. During the trip you’re able to take a rest-day and enjoy a non-cycling itinerary for the day.
Our carefully designed itinerary minimises transfers and gives you additional time at each hotel, so that you can relax, enjoy riding and recharge yourself during your Tour de France trip. You will travel like a professional cyclist in our custom fitted luxury coach – with its own toilet, bar, reclining seats and coffee machine. It will also meet you at the end of rides allowing you to have a hot shower before heading off for a drink or watching the race.
Trip Itinerary
A Belgium Classic
Vlaanderen Classics
Champagne Capital
Capital of Peace
Most beautiful villages
Vosges mountains
Routes des Grands Crus
Beaujolais
Confluence
East to West
Country roads
Gaillac wines
Legendary climb
Beautiful roads
Bucket list
Cyclists heaven
French wonders
Roman ingenuity
Mystical climbs
Monumental climbs
More climbs? Why not?
TGV from the Alps to Paris
