Discover France Offical Tour Operator for Tour de France

Now posted live on the official tour website: www.letour.fr

Pricing and details will be posted live within a few days timeframe on our sites:

www.discoverfrance.com
www.cyclingclassics.com

Discover France Selected Best Trips for 2010

National Geographic Adventure has selected another Discover France tour for their annual award list known as the "25 Best New Trips for 2010". The November issue is now on news stands and the online article can be found at this link: http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/2009/11/best-new-trips-2010/trips-text

The trip chosen is our new Crossing the Pyrenees Trip which is actually listed on the Cycling Classics Website at this page: http://www.cyclingclassics.com/pyrenees_traverse.php
This is a challenging trip as it involves cycling from the Atlantic Coast to the Mediterrean Coast over the passes and through the famous Pyrenees Mountain chain. It is however a dream trip for strong cyclists and long distance riders who love to get away from it all! The big draw and main selling feature in selecting this trip for this prestigious list is the fact that the Pyrenees remain a true natural setting that have gone largely unnoticed by mass tourism development.

Small villages that depend on agriculture and livestock as well as a few small industries still keep people in these remote and wildly picturesque hill sides. This is still France and so food is an important tradition everywhere in France. Cycling all day is rewarded with comfortable lodging, a warm welcome, and hearty traditional cuisine!

We referred to this trip as an 'expedition' style trip of days gone by. Imagine leaving the glitzy Atlantic coast at Biarritz behind and riding into the 'unknown'?! Passing from small village to small village and crossing quiet lands and soaking up raw mountain beauty creates anticipation and a bit of concern. The cycling is hard - so participants need to be ready! We offer guided and self guided options to do this tour; prices are posted on the link above!

Award Nomination for Discover France

Discover France Adventures has been selected as a finalist by the French Government Tourist Office in New York in the category of Best Special Interest Tour Operator. This is part of the annual French Affairs meeting in which top operators to France meet to discuss the business of tourism in France. Awards in different categories are presented. Discover France has previously won Best Website and been nominated in Most Extensive Product Offer category 3 times.

Discover France Offical Tour Operator for Tour de France

Discover France Adventures is pleased to announce that we are now recognized as an official licensee and Official Tour Operator to the Tour de France by Amaury Sports Organization, owner of the Tour de France. As one of only five tour operators worldwide with this status, Discover France is now in a position to bring exclusive race access to our clients including access to media areas, team areas, and special access to be on the closed roads of the race just prior to the arrival of the pro riders themselves.

Interest in the 2010 Tour is already tremendous and volume is expected to be very high. As a result, Discover France is planning to offer numerous tours of different cycling levels from challenging to moderate as well as different budget levels from deluxe VIP access to moderate self-guided 'go as you please' access.

Discover France will also offer an Etape du Tour program for amateur cyclists who want to ride a full stage of the Tour de France over closed roads in what is known as a cyclosportive. This is an organized ride with SAG support, cheering fans, and about 7000 participants from around the world.

Finally, Paris Tour Arrival packages will be available for those who want privileged access to the final stage in Paris on the Champs Elysees! We can book for groups of up to 50 persons or individuals will be able to book a place.

All this will require advance planning to get the best place! We are already holding space in numerous hotels, but as we have no better advantage than anyone else, we also have to wait until October 14 to know for sure what the 2010 Tour route will be. After that, we will finalize our offers and post them for booking. Anyone can book now - RISK FREE. Anyone who wants to put themself in a position to have a 'first right of refusal' should book now before our tours are posted. We will allow a 100% refund of any deposit paid up to December 15. So, if you are interested, you should book now!

A new website for www.cyclingclassics.com and new pages within the Discover France Adventures domain are in construction and will be launched on October 14 with the announcement of the Tour route. Press releases will go out the following week. Our logo and links will appear on the Tour de France website shortly after this. It is a very exciting time at our offices - we encourage anyone interested to contact us as soon as possible!

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Discover France Is Cycling Classics

At Discover France Adventures we are known for our broad offers of cycling and hiking tours in France, as if you as a reader didn't already know!! What you may or may not know is that the brand Cycling Classics is also our brand! Why a separate brand if it is also for cycling tours?

The brand Cycling Classics at www.cyclingclassics.com is dedicated to promoting only more challenging cycling tours. We do not list any hiking tours on that site, and all tours are for strong, experienced cyclists looking for a challenge. The most common theme under the Cycling Classics brand is routes of the Tour de France: Alpes, Mont Ventoux, Pyrenees, and the actual Tour de France itself!

In a few days, Discover France Adventures will be announcing that we are an Official Tour Operator to the Tour de France in 2010 and all tours will be listed on the website www.cyclingclassics.com as well as our own Discover France site. Just earlier today, I posted a blog note about our new status as Official Operator and put up some of our early info on what we see for the Tour de France in 2010: check it out