Self-Guided Tour 8 - French Alps Motorcycle Tour

Depart and return when it suits you

French Alps Motorcycle tour

On this tour, you find not only challenging very varied biking roads that reward the rider with views in clear weather to the jagged Mont Blanc and surrounding peaks, but also quality hotels offering a blend of comfort, good service and delicious food.

This tour is easily done in six days, however, it can be extended by as many days as you wish.

You start this tour with an early departure from Folkestone and relaxing ride from Calais into rural France where you’ll stay in a three star hotel with secure parking, swimming pool and its own excellent restaurant.

This tour has a certain note of adventure as you base your self in Chamonix - the capital of extreme sports. From here you’ll have the perfect opportunity to ride some of the most challenging mountain passes of the French, Swiss and Italian Alps. such as Col de la Forclas, Col du Grand St Bernard, Col du Petit St Bernard, Col de Roseland, Col des Aravis, and Col de la Colombiere, just to mention the few.

One of the free days can be used to visit the delightful lake side town of Annecy. This is a lovely medieval town in a great location with the mountains as a backdrop often referred to as ’the Venice of the French Alps’.

Your base hotel on this tour is a quality four star with en-suite facilities, safe underground garaging, swimming pool, bar and fantastic restaurant.

In Chamonix you’ll have a chance take a stroll around and sample some of the French traditional Alpine delicacies offered by town’s many fantastic eateries.

A perfect place to have a rest day and enjoy the tranquil Alpine scenery. From here the journey takes you back North on some great and almost traffic-free roads to your last overnight destination in the Champagne region. A final ride across rural France, still on those quiet roads, will take you to catch a late afternoon crossing back to the UK.