Grand Cycling Tour of Cantabria & Asturias.

12 nights’ accommodation with en-suite bathroom. Mixture of country inns, 3 and 4 star hotels

A variety of hand-picked hotels and country inns, each with its own particular charm and personal service and quality.

Hotels range from "posadas", "Casas rurales" or country inn type accomodation to two, three and four star hotels. One thing they do have in common is the standard of the accommodation. The key words here are quality, comfort, cleanliness and friendliness. All rooms have en-suite bathrooms. We have selected and inspected all our hotels personally and we constantly request custome feedback. They all have their own charm and character, and are chosen for their unique situation, regional atmosphere, comfort, cleanliness, and personalised customer attention. These hotels form an important part of the IberoCycle holiday experience. Most have at least one English speaker.

Accommodation with en-suite bathroom with breakfast included.

Information Pack (Route Guide, maps, elevation profiles – gps files)

Luggage transport

Continental style breakfast

Transport to and from arrival / departure points.

IberoCycle will pick up from arrival points in Bilbao or Santander for this tour. This includes hotels, railway stations, ferryports, bus stations and airports. The same is true at the end of the tour. Please contact us if you have an early flight or departure on the last day, so we can let you know if it is possible for us to get you to departure point on time. Transfer times are as follows, and remember you need to add another hour at least for check in:

Torrelavega to Santillana del Mar - 15 minutes

Bilbao to Santillana del Mar – 1 hour 25 minutes

Santander to Santillana del Mar – 30 minutes

Santander to Bilbao – 1 hour 15 minutes

Santander to Santander Airport – 10 minutes

Arrival and departure day is Saturday.

Groups of 4 or more can choose any start day at no extra cost.

Air

- The closest airport is Santander Airport. This airport has the following destinations. However, it is a smaller than Bilbao Airport so has fewer connections. It is used as a hub by RyanAir, with connections to both Spanish and European cities. Further to the east is Bilbao Airport. Here we probably have more flight options, although transfer time to the start point of the cycle tours tends to be around 90 minutes. You may find this map useful for planning itineraries by air.

Train

- Bilbao, Torrelavega and Santander are connected to inland Spain by the Inter-City RENFE network. Trains are relatively inexpensive. On arrival, it may be more convenient to leave the train in Torrelavega, just one stop before Santander. There is a train service along the coast from Santander; east to Bilbao and the Basque Country, or west to Oviedo and Asturias. However, this is a narrow-gauge railway run by RENFE FEVE and is rather slow and infrequent.

Bus

- Santander and Torrelavega have good connections by bus to most Spanish cities run by ALSA. Buses are economical and comfortable.

Sea

- Santander and Bilbao are connected to the United Kingdom by ferries run by Brittany Ferries. This may be a fun and interesting way to travel if you have the time (the crossing takes around one day), but tends to be more expensive than the many flight options.

Transfer on Day 11 from Potes to Miera.