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As cycling and walking holiday experts, Bents lead the way…

We take care of everything – from flights and hotels, to the choice of route. Best of all, we ensure that you have the freedom to explore at your own pace. Bents Bicycle & Walking Tours is a member of AITO, the Association of Independent Tour Operators. All members of AITO are fully bonded, so you can book your holiday with confidence. We also guarantee that the price of your holiday shown on our booking confirmation is the price you'll pay - no surcharges or other nasty surprises.

Each of our centres is carefully chosen to offer a wide variety of activities, from mountain walking and water sports to visiting historical monuments and castles. Most importantly, excellent cycling and walking excursions are available in each area with carefully researched itineraries to suit everybody.

This year, we’re exploring new territory with exciting new tours added to our ever expanding and increasingly cosmopolitan programme. The poetic beauty of Tuscany is offered on our first Italian foray - Tuscany’s Treasures, a 11 day tour through classic Tuscan scenery of cypress trees, olive groves, sunflowers and vineyards. Meanwhile, the well-deserved popularity of Bavaria continues with an intriguing new 11 day tour to The Allgäu, a relatively undiscovered cycling paradise along the Austrian and Swiss borders. And finally, our Enns Valley and the Austrian Lakes cycle tour and our Bummel through the Bavarian Alps walking holiday make welcome returns, thanks to popular demand.

2008 also sees another innovative addition to our programme - ‘One Night Stops’, enabling you to stay for two nights in your first hotel followed by just a single night in each subsequent hotel. Of course, the success of our specialist holidays has been built on the standard itinerary of two-night stays in each hotel, moving on alternate days. And it’s a winning formula that we have no intention of changing. However, we’re now delighted to introduce this alternative format for those who want the complete cycling or walking adventure but simply have less time to spare. Available on selected dates for all tours, ‘One Night Stops’ is well worth considering.

Once again, we offer scheduled flights with British Airways, Lufthansa, Swiss or KLM to Munich, Frankfurt, Zurich, Salzburg, Pisa and Genèva fro  up to 14 regional UK airports.

Ready to go? We look forward to hearing from you soon.

 Stephen Bent

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