Cycling Trip Planning Concierge Service
Don't know where to start?
Tour group or Self Tour?
“Should I take my bike?”
Who do I fly with?
“Car? Campervan? Cost?!”
With the VeloNomad Cycling Trip Planning Concierge, help is now at hand.
“What Is The Planning Concierge?”
The VeloNomad Cycling Trip Planning Concierge Service is the fun and easy way to get a helping hand with planning your dream cycling trip.
It's a personalised service that leverages my in-depth knowledge of, and huge experience with, planning cycling trips to France, Spain and within Australia.
Tim hard at it
In short? I know what the hell I am doing.
Using my insights and obsession for logistics and planning, I'll come up with a bespoke (custom) trip plan for your holiday based on the following information:
- Who is going on the trip; you and a partner, or you and some mates
- Your budget
- What is your desired sightseeing
- How much riding you want to do, what type (climbs, flat) and where
- Where you're flying from
- How much baggage you have
Who the Trip Concierge is For
- Have no idea where to start your planning (Basic Package)
- Are time poor (Gold, Platinum)
- Want to leverage my vast cycling travel experience and contacts (all packages)
- Want a hassle-free trip (All packages)
- Want to save time and money (All packages)
- Heading to France or the Spanish Pyrenees from anywhere in the world
- Coming to Australia (good for the Tour Down Under)
- Wanting to follow the Tour de France
- Planning on Tackling Etape du Tour
The concierge will give you a big head start on planning your trip in order to save you time, hassle and money.
For most people the general information on this website, in the Cycling Through France Guide and other Guides will be enough to help you plan your trip, albeit with a fair bit of research and planning.
The trip plans come in 3 flavours:
- Basic
- Gold
- Platinum
Each offering caters to different markets and is designed for 3 different types of cycling adventurer.
Basic Concierge
With the Basic Concierge, I just want to give you a push in the right direction and let you plan your own trip, bearing in mind any insights I can bring to bear.
You'll get a 30 minute Skype call to discuss your plans and your trip and follow up email summarising my thoughts.
- 30 minute Skype call discussing your trip, rough plans, and anything I think you should consider
- Follow up email summarising my feedback
- Audio recording of the call for you to refer back to (free optional extra)
Note: if you decide to get a Gold or Platinum Concierge after this call, I'll deduct the Basic package cost from the Gold or Platinum cost.
Gold Concierge
This service is for those who just want to save hours and hours of research time, hassle and money. You'll get an outline of where to go, what to do, what to watch out for and more.
After a 30 minute Skype consultation to talk about your trip, you'll get a personalised report detailing:
- The best airlines to fly (based on where you're flying from, and how much baggage you're likely to have)
- Where to fly into
- Recommendation on car versus campervan
- Whether to take your bike and how to insure it and travel with it safely
- High level trip plan and itinerary including suggested towns, riding to do and some tips and tricks.
- Audio recording of the call for you to refer back to (free optional extra)
PLEASE NOTE: This product is a service. You will be contacted after purchase to get your plan started.
Platinum Concierge
This service is for those who want much more detail about the logistics of their trip, including drive times and routes, and much more.
Everything in the Gold Package, plus:
- An extra 30 minute Skype consultation (1 hour total)
- Detailed trip itinerary including transit plans, Google Maps plan based on your itinerary and suggested towns to stay, rides to do.
- Pitfalls, tips and tricks and things to consider on your particular trip
- Recommended mobile phone SIM cards to have 3G internet on your smart phone
- Audio recording of the call for you to refer back to (free optional extra)
PLEASE NOTE: This product is a service. You will be contacted after purchase to get your plan started.
Why I am Good at This and Why My Knowledge Benefits You (“This really works because…”)
Regular readers of VeloNomad know me as a logistics and planning obsessive and specialist.
When I plan a trip I want the little things taken care of so there are no hidden surprises.
Why spend thousands of dollars on a trip only to have it ruined because a small detail was overlooked, or something unplanned popped up and threw a spanner in the works.
Planning
“Is it right for me?” (Why this is a great investment)
Even if you value your time at $50/hour, you're looking at $1500 of time. So like I said above, if you want to save a load of time planning your trip then this could be just what you need.
Hey, some people love spending hours planning their trip – it's part of the fun, right?
Even if that is you, the concierge could still be for you.
Why? Because I can take your itinerary and your trip goals and point out any little tips or tricks, or add my suggestions, all from the point of view of having done all this several times before.
When I was trying to plan my Etape trip in 2010 I begged some guy running cycling tours in Melbourne to dish the dirt on how the logistics of caravanning etc. worked in France and how to plan my trip. In the end it seemed too hard to organise myself so I booked accommodation and organised an Etape package through a UK firm. I know that this meant I paid more than I needed to. I still felt uncomfortable about the logistics.
Then of course there was the choice of airline which ended up costing me tonnes in excess baggage that could have been avoided with the right airline choice and your insights.
Paying for someone to guide the way and explain the ins and outs is valuable to me for sure.
Ben D, Australia
Guarantee
REFUND POLICY: I’m so confident you'll be completely satisfied with your purchase and this service, that you’ll receive your money back, guaranteed, if you're not happy with the outcome.
Frequently Asked Questions
This is the planning part of a personal tour, without the on-the-ground guiding. Plus it's a lot more personal, than a “personal” tour.
Guided group tours are a great solution for a reasonably tailored tour. However, they usually cost upwards of a few thousand dollars (not including airfares) and usually include other people (strangers) on your tour. They usually also are pretty inflexible with regard to itinerary, meaning you're stuck doing exactly what has been laid out. What if you find the most amazing riding spot? Too bad, you have to keep going.
Private tours (you and your friends only) can cost significantly more than guided tours.
The VeloNomad Concierge service will provide you with the planning side of the personal tour and give you enough information to book your trip with a minimum of fuss. You'll then be responsible for guiding yourself once you hit the ground, which is where the true holiday fun and adventure is anyway.
For those with the budget to accommodate a group tour (let's say around $7000-$8000 for a few weeks), then that is certainly a viable option.
After I receive your payment, I'll contact you to confirm some details and your trip goals and to book your Skype consultation.
From there I will construct a plan in line with the service you have requested. The itinerary is usually ready within a week for the Gold Concierge and 2 weeks for the Platinum Concierge.
I currently only do this for France, the Spanish Pyrenees and Australia but will look to expand in the future into the rest of Spain, Italy and Belgium.
Save Time and Hassle
This service is designed to save you time and hassle endlessly searching the internet. There is no doubt that this service will save you valuable time and frustration.
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