French Cycling Holidays from LoireLife
A unique and remarkable experience!
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French cycling holidays in the Loire Valley. With us enjoy delicious food, friendly
company and superb facilities.
Great value cycling holidays in France!




Loire Valley Cycling Tours from an accessible location!
The perfect location for a Loire Valley cycling holiday. Easily accessible from
anywhere in the world, yet deep in the heart of rural France and the Loire Valley.
Our cycling base at ‘Gue de Ray’ provides a relaxing retreat and the perfect base
from which to cycle. We are 15kms north of the wine town of Bourgueil, 20kms north-west
of Saumur and on the edge of the Regional Park of Anjou-Touraine.
Previous guests have found us ideally located for travelling onward to other parts
of Europe as part of a European Tour, utilising the fantastic rail links that exist
from the Loire Valley.
We don’t provide packages that include travel tickets, but we are more than willing
to provide advice on how to get to us in the most effective way.
A pickup and set-down from Saumur train station is available for £25 per person at
the time of booking (Discovery and Wine & Dine Tours only). The pickup is at 5pm
on the Sunday and drop off is around 8.20am to enable you to catch the Saturday morning
scheduled services to Tours and Angers respectively.
French Cycling Holiday Travel Options
Loire Valley By Air
Fly into Paris Charles de Gaulle and transfer by high speed rail link direct from
the airport terminal to St Pierre des Corp (Tours) station. Than take a frequent
regional train to Saumur. Time 2.5 hours.
Fly Ryanair from London Stansted, Dublin and Manchester to Tours Loire Valley, use
bus transfer to Tours Centre train station and take a regional train to Saumur. Time
2 hours.
Loire Valley By Rail
From UK - Eurostar to Lille or Paris, followed by high speed train to St Pierre des
Corps.
Within France - High speed trains run to both Angers and St Pierre des Corps (Tours)
from where regional trains transfer you to Saumur. Paris Montparnasse to Saumur
via St Pierre des Corps (Tours) in 2 hours.
Loire Valley By Road
Five hours from Calais (Dover-Calais ferry), three hours from Caen (Portsmouth-Caen
ferry) and 3.5 hours from Paris.

Getting to us
Easy train journey from central Paris or direct from Charles de Gaulle Airport
Transfer from Saumur station available