Charming Hotels Cycling Tour

This luxury cycling holiday and cycling tour takes you to some of the most unexplored places along the south West coast.

Along the way you’ll be staying in three carefully selected Charming Hotels, these  are the Alentejo version of a UK Boutique hotel, they are elegant and rustic in style. Privately owned and restored with love and care these traditional rural houses are renowned locally for their hospitality. They’re  often family run and always full of warmth, style and charm, and some of our guests swear that they offer the best home cooking in the world!

“We thank are dear friends Ricardo, Sónia, Miguel e Fátima from Alentejo adventures, for a very well structured and well-organized program” Meira + Shalmi, Jerusalem, Israel

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Charming Hotels Cycling Tour

Price:
785 per person
Plus Free:
3 Picnics
Holiday Type:
Self Guided Cycling - hotel to hotel
Hotel:
x 3 Charming Hotels
Standard:
stylish/high quality
Duration:
7 nights
Cycling Days:
6 days cycling
Meals:
5 evening meals
Difficultly:
Intermediate
Skill Level:
Intermediate
Routes:
Average 25km to 45km a day
Trails:
90% asphalt
Group Size:
2 people minimum
Departs:
15th Sept-15th December and 1st March-15th June

The Programme

Day 1:
Transfer from Faro or Lisbon Airport to Hotel Verdemar - Options: train, bus, private transfer - Wecoming dinner
Day 2:
Shorter route: 21km/13 miles - Longer route: 31km/19 miles, back to Verdemar Hotel in time for a relaxing al fresco dinner
Day 3:
Shorter route: 18km/11 miles - Longer route: 46km/28,5 miles back to Verdemar Hotel for a relaxing al fresco dinner
Day 4:
Long route – Verdemar Hotel to Três Marias Hotel - 37km/23 miles - Welcoming dinner
Day 5:
Circular route - Porto Côvo - 29km/33km – 18 miles/20,5 miles. Staying in Três Marias Hotel - Relaxing and tasty dinner.
Day 6:
Long route – Três Marias to Cerro da Fontinha - 28km/29km – 17 miles
Day 7:
Circular route - Pass by Azenha do Mar Harbour and the golden sands of Odeceixe beach - 28km/17,3 miles

What's included?

  • Accommodation:
  • 3 charming and familiar hotels
  • 7 nights in a twin/double room with en suite facilities (3 charming hotels – including breakfast)
  • 5 dinners
  • 3 pic nics
  • Bike hire
  • Trip dossier (routes, notes and maps)
  • Mobile phone
  • Luggage transfers
  • Logistic support during the trip
  • Personal Insurance
Not included:
  • Airport transfers, other meals not mentioned

Highlights

  • Accommodation in traditional rural houses
  • Family-run and warm hospitality
  • Gastronomy: Mediterranean flavours
  • Cycling through Rural Portugal
  • Sparsely populated region
  • Heritage
  • Untouched landscape
  • Interaction with nature
  • Interaction with local people and habits

The three charming hotles

VerdeMar

The atmosphere is easy and cosy ; a wooden beamed ceiling, an open kitchen\bar, Nuno's paintings, wooden stools and chairs. You’ll share fun and good food around one big table- al fresco in summer .Nuno, a professional chef for 20 years in Amsterdam, loves to share your company as he prepares dinner and exchange a recipe or two.

Tres Marias

Set at the end of a track in a tranquil wooded valley on the southwest coast of Portugal, Herdade da Matinha has to offer 8 original rooms in a long, single-floor, whitewashed house, like it's supposed to be around here, with a large porch serving as a corridor. There's no TV or air conditioning, nor anything else around it unless trees, hills and an occasional eagle crossingthe skies.

Cerro da Fontinha

The decoration follows a rustic style in harmony with the materials used in the region. In the summer, the shadows of the garden invite you to sit at a table in the open air, whilst in the winter the fireplace spreads a pleasant warmness.Protected from the southeast winds by a small eucalyptus hood, the property has spaces with wide gardens and a lake where swimming and fishing are possible.