Guided Tours
Our Guided Tours are on what we think are the best routes with great scenery and lots of interesting features - with your guide ensuring you don't miss anything!
one of our guided tours after a coffee stop at Clatterningshaws loch We offer one Easy grade 5 day tour and one Easy 2 day Tour which can be combined to make an Easy 7 day cycling break.
Similarly, we have one Moderate grade 5 day tour and one Moderate 2 day Tour which can be combined to make an Moderate 7 day cycling break.
our minibus support vehicle for luggage transfer For a 5 day Guided Cycling Tour, you arrive on a Sunday. You have a free early arrival option of a short cycle ride to Threave Castle or Threave Gardens.
You begin your tour on a Monday and be guided for 4 days including the Friday. Wednesday can be a rest day or we provide a circular self-guided route.
Your first night is in our new 4 star standard B&B with indoor swim spa, subject to availability. The tour includes 5 nights accommodation - with an extra 6th night after your last day's cycling if required.
2 Day Guided Cycling Tour - Similar to above, but arrive on a Friday with cycling on Saturday and Sunday, unless you are already on the linked 5 days tour. Accommodation is in our B&B on Friday and Saturday nights.
Prices shown are based on 2 people sharing a room in a good quality 3 or 4 star B&B, include a welcome meeting to go over tour info, guide and back up service.
If required, Cycle hire - from £14 per day. Luggage transfer - is included in the cost.
Gentle Galloway Guided Cycle Tour - GT1
- An Easy grade tour - around 20 miles a day - Monday to Friday guided cycle tour with Wednesday as a self-guided or a rest day. Price: £595 p.p. (£720 including evening meals) to include cycle hire and luggage transfer.
TOUR START DATES - May 14; July 9; September 10.
This gentle cycle around the Stewartry area of Galloway, suitable for occasional cyclists, gives you plenty of time to look around and experience the interesting features of the area.
departing from Castle DouglasYour first day is a circular route to 'acclimatise' and takes you as far as a coastal National Scenic Area known by the Victorians as The Scottish Riviera with picturesque villages Rockliffe and Kippford.
Apart from our base in Castle Douglas 'food town', you also stay in two riverside towns with character, Kirkcudbright 'artists' town and Gatehouse of Fleet, set in another Fleet National Scenic Area.
As with all our guided tour routes, you will visit various communities with local features and attractions each day including tea rooms and pubs for refreshment.
Gentle Galloway Guided Cycle Tour
The Galloway Explorer Guided Cycle Tour - GT2
- A Moderate grade tour - 25 to 35 miles a day - Monday to Friday guided cycle tour with Wednesday as a self-guided or a rest day. Price: £670 p.p. (£795 including evening meals) to include cycle hire and luggage transfer.
TOUR START DATES - June 11; August 13; October 15.
On this popular cycle tour you get to experience the hills, glens, lochs, coast and countryside of 'Bonny Galloway' - including a tour of Bladnoch Whisky distillery.
Your guide makes sure you don't miss any of the numerous features each day on this tour. You starts by cycling beside Loch Ken to the Glenkens upland area before taking a beautiful peaceful cycle through the galloway Hills to Bruce's Stone - with spectacular views over Loch Trool and nearby battle site.
The second half of the route follows the line of the Solway Coast visiting numerous small towns and villages and many features along the way.
You stay in Wigtown, Scotland's 'book town' for 2 nights. The second day - Wednesday - is a self guided tour to the Isle of Whithorn or you can short tour day or even have a rest day looking around the book shops or visiting the distillery - which also has a good food pub nearby.
You make your way back to Castle Douglas mostly using the National Cycle Route via the atractive towns of Gatehouse of Fleet and Kirkcudbright.
The Galloway Explorer Guided Cycle Tour
Gentle Galloway Weekend Guided Cycle Tour - GT3
- An Easy grade tour - around 20 miles a day - A Saturday and Sunday guided cycle tour. Price: £270 p.p. (£320 including evening meals) to include cycle hire.
TOUR START DATES - May 19/20; July 14/15; September 15/16.
This tour, which can link with GC1 to provide a 7 day tour comprises of two circular routes from Castle Douglas.
Both days are on quiet country roads and take you through some varied terrain to reach the coast.
On Day 1 - after spectacular views of the Solway Firth and Lake District (on a clear day), you cycle two miles beside the coast to Balcary Bay beauty spot with nearby Heston Isle. You can take a short local walk, have lunch in the hotel or take a picnic before contiuing on your way.
After Auchencairn village, we later stop at Orchardton Tower, reputedly the only round tower in Scotland (climb the stairs to the top). We have the slightly longer option to visit Palnackie village, with pub, before making ouir way back to Castle Douglas.
The following day you take an interesting route to a hilltop monument with tea room before heading for Twynholm village with the option to visit David Coulthard's F1 museum and the nearby Cocoa Bean chocolate factory.
Contuing on, you arrive at Kirkcudbright 'artists' town with it's musuem, art galleries, castle and fishing boats in the harbour.
Your guide can also adapt the route to suit group members abilities and interests along the way.
evening meals) to include cycle hire and luggage transfer.
Gentle Galloway Weekend Guided Cycle Tour
The Galloway Explorer Weekend Guided Tour - GT4
- A moderate grade tour - 25 to 35 miles a day - A Saturday and Sunday guided cycle tour. Price: £270 p.p. (£320 including evening meals) to include cycle hire and luggage transfer.
TOUR START DATES - June 16/17; August 18/19; October 20/21.
This tour, which can link with GT1 to provide a 7 day tour and comprises of two circular routes from Castle Douglas.
The first day takes you along the River Urr Valley to Dalbeattie and the Solway Coast with a detour option (guide will discuss) to a nature reserve and light house or just arrive direct to the best beach in the area. The return journey visits a National Scenic Area and coastal villages both sides of the River Urr estuary befoire returning to Castle Douglas.
The next day's focal point is Kirkcudbright 'artists' town which often has a community event taking place during the weekend. Kirkcudbright is Scotland's artists' town with several art galleries mueum, castle and fishing boats, so you can easily spend some time looking around - or your guide can discuss the option to take you a circular detour cycle to the other side of the River Dee estuary b efore heading back to Castle Douglas.
The Galloway Explorer Weekend Guided Tour
Group Tours
Our Group Cycling Tours are self guided Tours starting on specific dates for those who prefer the company of others during their cycling holiday. An Itinerary would be designed using our favourite routes in consultation with those on the tour.
We run two 5 day Monday to Friday Group Tours, Ref. GRC5, and two Weekend Group Tours, Ref. GRC6, at the end of the same week allowing a 7 day Group Tour break if you wish, subject to number being available.'
GROUP TOUR START DATES - July 30; August 20.
