Customised Cycling Tours for Small Groups

DREAM DESTINATION CYCLING TOURS

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AUD $1000 [approx USD $650, €615, £510] reserves your spot, (minimum five guests – cycling and or non-cycling) for your Dream Destinations Cycling Tour.

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Welcome to the Tour of Your Dreams

We’ve showcased some sample itineraries to give you inspiration, ideas and suggestions of what’s possible for bespoke, custom and self-guided cycling tours in Europe and Australia.

Whether you’d like your dream cycling holiday to take in parts of Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, Germany or Switzerland, just to name a few, we’ve got you covered.

Some of our favourite European cycling destinations that we’ve incorporated in our custom tours include; Corsica, Sardinia, the Amalfi Coast, Mallorca, Cinque Terre, Tuscany, the French Riviera (known locally as the Côte d’Azur) as well as the high mountains of the Pyrenees, Dolomites and Swiss-French Alps.

If cycling Down Under is on your bucket list, we’ve designed and hosted private cycling tours that take in popular Australian destinations like the Barossa Valley, Margaret River, Tasmania, the Blue Mountains, the Queensland Hinterland and the Victorian High Country.

We can design and personalise your ultimate cycling tour to include a specialist non-cycling program so that those with non-cycling partners can join the tour and share the experience. All you need to do is have a handful of buddies to sign up, and we’ll take care of the rest.

We draw on all of our experience to design the perfect itinerary for on and off the bike to suit your needs. We can provide as much or as little cycling as you need, plus if you require vehicles, drivers, rider support vehicles, a non-cycling program, ride routes, hotels, cycling guides, restaurants and just about anything you can imagine to make your dream trip come true.

Browse the Sample Itineraries:

We have listed a number of sample itineraries that you can view on our bespoke custom landing page to give you some food for thought.

Tour Highlights

Making Your Dream a Reality

Whatever is important to you, let us know and we will weave it into your program

Our Tour – Sample Itinerary

Day 1

Airport pick up: Time and Location TBA
Trip start: 9.30am. Assemble bikes
Ride: 11.30am. Local Loop Ride
Non-Cycling: Explore the local area or prepare for the trip ahead.
Overnight: 3 to 5 Star Hotel
Meals: Welcome Dinner and Drinks

Day 2 onwards

Ride: Ride options include 35km-120km rides.
Non Cycling: Explore the region and fabulous landscapes of the area. Optional active programs can include walking/ running trails, excursions or join the group on a scenic drive.
Overnight: 3 to 5 Star Hotel
Meals: Breakfast. Some Dinners included.

Day Before Departure Day

Departure Day

Ride: Morning Recovery Ride 30km
Non Cycling: Relax over our farewell breakfast, explore our local village/ town, prepare for your onward journey.
Meals: Breakfast.
End of Tour. Includes transfers to the nearest airport and/or train station

We are looking forward to welcoming you on your Bespoke Private Tour.

Ciao the team from Ride International

Advance Bookings:

We open up our Advance Reservations for trips so you can book well ahead and guarantee your position on the tour of your choice.

If you’d like to organise and book your trip earlier, contact us via email or phone, we’ll arrange everything so you can make an advanced early booking.

An advance booking, accompanied by a fully refundable $750 AUD (Australian Dollar) or AUD$1000 deposit for Private – Custom Group Tours, ensures priority booking status when the trip details are announced. Note, an advance booking is not considered final until payment is received.

Once specific trip itinerary details are finalised, we’ll contact everyone on the advance reservation list via email, we’ll include the itinerary and offer a priority booking position before opening up bookings to the wider community.

If a trip fills – as it often does in the advance bookings, we create a waiting list and then offer reservations on a first-come, first-serve basis (based on the date the advance reservation was made) once our advanced booking guest have finalised.

To cancel an advance reservation a cancellation request must be submitted in writing/ via email within 10 days of the trip details being published. The (AUD) $750 advance reservation payment will be immediately refunded for any cancellation received within this 10-day period.

Travel Insurance:

As a Ride International Tour participant, it is compulsory to have your own travel insurance. We recommend activating your travel insurance as soon as you’ve placed your booking deposit to ensure you are covered from the outset. Please ensure that your policy includes coverage for:
* Cancellation charges
* Medical expenses in the event of an accident or illness.
* Baggage
* Cycling activities and associated risks
* Cycling equipment
We encourage each participant on our tours to contact your travel agent, and or travel insurance provider directly. Your travel insurance experts are best equipped to provide clarification, recommendations for best providers and or further information on the cover that suits your specific needs.

Final Payments:

Please Note: Our Tour de France Tours, and various other tours operate in the “Peak European Travel Season” each year. Our Tour de France tours take place in the regions, towns and city’s in the vicinity of the Tour de France, hence it’s considered “Ultra Peak Season” by our suppliers.

Our suppliers engage their special conditions during “Ultra Peak Travel Season”, including non-refundable payments for bookings to secure the needs to operate our Tour de France tours.

Our Tour de France tours require payment conditions which include a 50% tour progress payment once we supply our tour “Itinerary in Brief”. We forward your first progress payment invoice/s via email, these tour progress payments made to Ride International to secure your position/s on the tour are non-refundable by our suppliers.

Travel Insurance is compulsory for guests on all our tours, should you need to cancel your tour once your tour progress payment/s have been made, contact us via email to notify us of your intention to cancel. We can provide you with written confirmation that your tour position/s have been cancelled, this confirmation of cancellation can then be forwarded by guests onto your travel insurance provider for their consideration.

The balance of your tour payment/s is due no later than 150 days prior to your tour departure date, we will forward via email your final payment invoice. You can choose to make full payment earlier if you prefer to finalise your trip payment early, contact us and we will arrange for an invoice to be sent.

What if I have to transfer, change or cancel my trip:
We understand you may not be able to go on your tour, you have the option to cancel, change or transfer due to personal or medical reasons if you’ve paid a tour advance booking deposit, and or it’s within 10 days of receiving your tour “Itinerary in Brief. Post the 10 day period after you have received your “Itinerary in Brief”, tour payments, progress payments are considered final, non-refundable. If you have a question give us a call or email.

Due to the high demand, limited hotel availability and the advance payments expected by our hotels, various suppliers, and restaurants we use, the following cancellation conditions apply to all of our trips.

AFTER BOOKING, IF YOU CANCEL:

Prior to 150 days before to departure	50% cancellation fee of the tour price
149 – 61 days prior to departure	75% cancellation fee of the tour price
60 days and less prior to departure	100% cancellation fee of the trip price