Puglia Coastal Cycle

What's Included

• Accommodation
  5 nights in 3-4 star hotels

• 5 breakfasts - varied buffet breakfasts are served in each hotel

• 5 nights accommodation in 3-4 star hotels on a twin share basis with ensuite facilities

• Digital information pack including route notes, maps and navigational App (can be used offline) with GPS Tracks (smartphone required)

• Rental touring bike with helmet, pannier, puncture resistant tyres and gel saddle (e-bike available on request, supplement applies)

• Luggage transfers - 1 piece max 20kg per person, supplement applies for excess

• Bike insurance against theft & damage

• Emergency hotline

• Travel to and from Lecce

• Meals not listed as included, drinks

• Travel insurance - mandatory

• Guide - this is a self guided cycling holiday

• A supplement will apply if you book a single room

• Entrance fees not listed as included

• Transfers not listed as included

• Transfers by taxi if you need to skip or shorten a stage (it's not possible to shorten the stages by train)

• Excess luggage

• We recommend bringing a handlebar phone holder – to follow the route more easily using the app / GPX files

• Local hotel taxes - payable locally directly to the hotel (allow eur10-15 pp)

• Items of a personal nature

What's Not Included

• Lunches, dinners and drinks

• Local hotel taxes (allow EUR10)

• Train transfers

• Travel insurance

• We recommend bringing a mobile phone holder to fix to the handlebar to cycle smoothly following the app

• Transfers by taxi if needed to shorten a stage (tit's not possible to shorten the stages by train)

Grading

This trip involves 4 days cycling with daily distances between 50 and 55km/31 and 34mi. The route on some days is flat and on others it is hilly. You will cycle almost always on asphalt/tarmac roads. Traffic is almost non-existent in Puglia, except during the high holiday season. The route includes very beautiful stretches along the coast. The trip requires a reasonable level of fitness to fully participate in this adventure. You need only carry your camera and water bottle. Your luggage is transported for you between hotels. *For safety reasons, we insist that cycle helmets be included as a compulsory item on your equipment list.

Accommodation

5 nights in 3-4 star hotels
The accommodation chosen is a special feature of the trip. Ranging from a seaside hotel in Santa Maria di Leuca with a pool, a historic hotel in Otranto and a modern city hotel in Lecce and Gallipoli*. All accommodation is good quality, from 3 to 4 star, with private facilities. Breakfasts are included and are buffet style with a range of food available from breads and cakes to cheese, meats and yoghurts, sometimes cereal and eggs.
*accommodation subject to availability. If our first choice is not available a property of equal standard will be used but may not be as described above.

What You Carry

During the cycle day you will carry your daily requirements in the pannier provided with the bike. This may include your lunch, wet weather gear, mobile phone and water. A small daypack which can be kept inside the pannier is useful for sightseeing.