Canal du Midi
Enjoyment and precious buildings.
Arrival in Toulouse
Welcome briefing and distribution of rental bikes (if booked).
Many buildings are built with red bricks in Toulouse, therefore this city is also named “ville rose”. A wonderful place of interest is the basilica St. Sernin de Toulouse. A culinary delicacy is the duck breast with green beans.
You cycle to water reservoir St. Férról. The clear water and sandy beaches as well as paddleboats, canoes and catamarans are inviting you to a wonderful day at the beach.
Carcassonne free disposal or a round trip to Montolieu. There are 15 antique stores with over 200.000 books in the worth seeing city of book “Montagnes Noires”. The former royal textile manufacturing was declared to a National Monument in 2004.
Enjoy of the most scenic parts of your journey alongside the Canal de la Robine and the Canal du Midi. Villages, wine-growing estates and vineyards are located pictorially around the waterways. You reach Olonzac. You will have the chance to taste some good wines.
You cycle to Capestang and on to Narbonne with its impressing buildings as the palace and cathedral Saint Just.
Béziers is the goal of today. The city is the centre of winegrowing und birth place of Paul Riquet, the builder of Canal du Midi.
You start your tour of today in the port and fishermen-town Sète, where the Canal du Midi flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The town is surrounded by water and its surname is “Venice des Languedoc“. The reasons for this surname are beneath the Canal du Midi countless additional waterways, which cross the town. Your cycling alongside the Canal du Midi leads you past masterpieces of engineering like the lock of Agde. It is the only round lock of the Canal du Midi and was built with volcanic rock. The basic measurements of the lock are 29.90 metres diameter and 5.20 metres depth. Cap d´Agde at the Mediterranean Sea is your destination today. The biggest European marina is part of the French town Agde and a paradise for water sportsmen like divers, surfers or sailors. But people, who just want to bath and to rest at the beach, get their money‘s worth too.
The "modern" Sète was built in the middle of the 17th century by Paul Riquet so that his Canal du Midi would have a port on the Mediterranean. There were Romans here, naming this Mons Setius some 17 centuries earlier, and pirates were ensconsced on Mont Saint-Clair in the 16th century. But it was Riquet's new "Port-Saint-Louis-du-Cap-de-Cette" that became the seaside and canal town of today.
Departure or extension
Tour character
You will cycle on partly uneven, with roots interspersed sand and pebble paths, partly asphalted, as well as on little frequented side roads.
| Season 1 26.03.2022 - 08.04.2022 25.09.2022 - 01.10.2022 arrival saturday | Season 2 09.04.2022 - 24.06.2022 28.08.2022 - 24.09.2022 arrival saturday | Season 3 25.06.2022 - 27.08.2022 arrival saturday | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canal du Midi, 10 days, Cat. A, FR-CMRTS-10D | |||
| Base price | 1,399.00 | 1,499.00 | 1,549.00 |
| Surcharge half board 9x (evening meal: mostly multi-course, sometimes outside the property, payable with voucher) | 375.00 | 375.00 | 375.00 |
| Surcharge single room | 330.00 | 330.00 | 330.00 |
| Canal du Midi, 10 days, Cat. B, FR-CMRTS-10X | |||
| Base price | 1,079.00 | 1,139.00 | 1,179.00 |
| Surcharge half board 9x (evening meal: mostly multi-course, sometimes outside the property, payable with voucher) | 250.00 | 250.00 | 250.00 |
| Surcharge single room | 260.00 | 260.00 | 260.00 |
Category A: 3***- and 4****-hotels (french classification) and Cambre d'hotes
Category B: 2**- and 3***-hotels (french classification) and Cambre d'hotes
| Season 1 Mar 26, 2022 - Apr 8, 2022 Sep 25, 2022 - Oct 1, 2022 arrival saturday | Season 2 Apr 9, 2022 - Jun 24, 2022 Aug 28, 2022 - Sep 24, 2022 arrival saturday | Season 3 Jun 25, 2022 - Aug 27, 2022 arrival saturday | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toulouse | |||
| Double room p. P. cat. A | 80.00 | 80.00 | 80.00 |
| Surcharge single room | 40.00 | 40.00 | 40.00 |
| Sète | |||
| Double room p. P. cat. A | 107.00 | 107.00 | 107.00 |
| Surcharge single room | 87.00 | 87.00 | 87.00 |
| Toulouse | |||
| Double room p. P. cat. B | 72.00 | 72.00 | 72.00 |
| Surcharge single room | 37.00 | 37.00 | 37.00 |
| Sète | |||
| Double room p. P. cat. B | 72.00 | 72.00 | 72.00 |
| Surcharge single room | 58.00 | 58.00 | 58.00 |
Included:
- Accommodation in your selected category
- Breakfast
- Welcome briefing (German, English)
- Luggage transfer
- Best developed route
- Detailed travel documents 1x per room (German, English)
- GPS-data available
- Service hotline
Optional extras:
- Half-board evening meal (mostly multi-course, sometimes outside the property, payable with voucher)
- Bike rental, including rental bike insurance
- Return transfer to Toulouse (minimum 4 persons) every Saturday and Monday, costs EUR 85 per person, extra EUR 19 for your own bike, maximum 6 persons can be transported, reservation is necessary, to be paid for at the time.
Arrival / Parking / Departure:
- Train station Toulouse and Sète
- Airports Toulouse, Montpellier or Béziers/Cap d´Agde
- Multi-storey car park close to the hotel, approx. EUR 16 per day
Things to note:
- Tourist tax, if due, is not included in the price!
- Further important information according to the package travel law can be found here!
