• 6 - 9 days cycling tours in Provence around the Mont Ventoux (Luberon and Vaucluse).

• Optional:  extra nights in any of the hotels of the package for a restday or an extra cycling day.

• Self guided cycling hotel-tour with baggage transfer.

• Standard  **  packages or plus  **&***  packages starting in Buis-les-Baronnies.

• You can start this tour any day of the week between March 15^th and October 31^th.
• Bags transfers included.
• Not included: Lunches. Price of lunches (take away picknicks) : 8 - 11 EURO.
• Not included in basic rate: Bike rental.
• group discounts from 12% p.p. for parties of 3! persons to 25% p.p. for parties of 8 persons.
• Included: all luggage transfers.

Cycling holiday tour in Drome Provençale and Vaucluse around the Mont Ventoux: Vaison-la-Romaine, Buis-les-Baronnies, Aurel, Venasque.

Click here for pictures of the Mont Ventoux cycling tour

6 - 9 days cycling tours starting in Buis-les-Baronnies or in Venasque.
The Mont Ventoux in Vaucluse and the Drome department will be your campanion all along your trip. This huge mountain hides splendid places. Provencal villages as well as beautiful nature. This cycling tour is of light, medium level or top level if you would choose to climb the Mont Ventoux.
Vaison la Romaine (60,000 Romans lived there 2000 years ago as you will see). Vaison has a medieval old city and famous market on tuesday morning.
Buis-les-Baronnies is a very nice town in Drôme department North of the Mont Ventoux.

You see typical towns of Provence (Transalpina for the Latinists) with their markets, churches and Roman remnants.

You be cycling through Côte du Rhône Villages-vineyards all along your trip north of the Mont Ventoux. You will cycle the canyon of the Gorges de la Nesque at the Southern side of the Mont Ventoux. You'll visit Abbaye de Senanque and the famous surging river Fontaine de Vaucluse (where Petrarca wrote his poems) in the 8- day trip.

In the 8 and 9 days trips you will bike to the Luberon and visit the Colorado Provençal, Apt and nice village as St. Saturnin-lès-Apt and Roussillon.

Follow this link to the tour programme.

Much more information on the country and all there is to be seen in this trip in Vaucluse and Drome.

Level: This tours has medium and longer stages for every day. It is not a flat landscape so  the stages are of medium ("active") level.
Starting days : any day of the week from april till november.
Starting place (same cycling tracks): Vaison-la-Romaine, Buis-les-Baronnies or Venasque (no bike rental).
In Buis-les-Baronnies you will stay in a old style nice standard** hotel or in a tourist hotel with pool 1000m from the center of the town.

The difference between the standard and the plus package are the hotels in Vaison-la-Romaine ** B&B versus *** with pool and halfboard in the Medieval town.

In all hotels (standard and plus) : Shower/bath in room.

Bike rental: The bikes have front and rear fender. (VTC, ATB) Canondale (adventure).
There are no mirrors. (Not usual in France)
We provide a repair kit and a spare inner tube (large valve type (as for cars))
Size of tires :700x35
A handlebar bag with a waterproof map window is standard.

This tour can also be done with start and finish in Vaison-la-Romaine or Venasque.

Prices  standard packages

Prices  plus packages

If you travel from Marseille we can have you start the trip in Aix-en-Provence. It is only 30 minutes from the Airport of Marseille to Aix-en-Provence. Surf to our B16-Aix-en-Provence for all details.

Hotel

Buis

Aurel

Vaison

Vaison

Buis

Standard **
accommodation

Plus **
accommodation

** Hotel in Aurel

** Hotel in Aurel

*** Guesthouse, pool
Saignon
Dinner, B&B

*** Guesthouse, pool
Saignon
Dinner, B&B

** B&B Hotel in
Vaison-la-Romaine

*** Hotel pool
Vaison-la-Romaine.
Dinner, B&B

** B&B hotel in
Vaison-la-Romaine

*** hotel pool
Vaison-la-Romaine.
Dinner, B&B