A Grand Tour of France Touring Holiday
A touring holiday in France is perhaps the best way of seeing and enjoying the diversity of this richly treasured country in one go. A Grand Tour of France includes a stay at six very different hotels, each enjoying a beautiful location in the regions of Champagne, Burgundy, Provence, the Pyrenees, Carcassonne and the Loire Valley. This itinerary for a touring holiday of France makes an ideal honeymoon or just a marvellous holiday. You can use this suggestion as it is, or let us help you to adapt it to suit your own tastes and budgets.
This is the classic grand tour! Starting from the gateway to France, Calais, journey across country south-eastwards, reaching the vineyards of Champagne and then those of Burgundy, with its Romanesque churches and abbeys. From here you soon join the mighty River Rhône and follow its course southwards, the scenery changing as you go, until you reach the bright skies, cypress trees and red terracotta roofs of Provence. Delight in this charming region, ancient province of the Romans, land of poets and painters and then continue even further south towards the great mountain range of the Pyrenees. Here the culture is Catalan. Along the foothills of the Pyrenees to the Land of the Three Musketeers, Gascony, then northwards to the picturesque Dordogne. The scenery then changes once more as you reach the Loire Valley with its more temperate climate, majestic chateaux and hunting forests. The final region to discover is that of Normandy, its close links with Britain over the years still obvious. Our Grand Tour of France is a luxurious tapestry of different textures and colours, reflecting the variety of the regions of France.
Included in your Grand Tour of France Touring Holiday:
• One night’s bed and breakfast at Royal Champagne in Champagne
• One night’s bed and breakfast at Le Montrachet in Burgundy
• Two nights’ bed and breakfast at Hotel les Frenes in Provence
• Three nights’ bed and breakfast at Hotel la Terrasse au Soleil in the Pyrenees
• Two nights’ bed and breakfast at the Domaine d’Auriac near Carcassonne
• Two nights’ bed and breakfast at the Chateau de Marcay in the Loire Valley
• Return P&O ferry crossing Dover to Calais for a car and two passengers
From £1650 per person