We’ve driven down to the Alps with our bikes several times over the past couple of years and we usually break the journey by staying in a French stopover hotel near the motorway.
I’m always paranoid about leaving the bikes on the car roof so I ‘smuggle’ them into the room, although the receptionists never seem bothered.
This year I was struck by the number of high value bikes just left overnight in bike racks – loads of ’em, mostly on Dutch/French cars but some Brits too. I noticed a new Spesh full sus, lots of Cubes/Ghosts/Lapierres on the foreign cars plus some expensive looking road bikes.
Got 2 trips planned for next year and just wondered what others do?
Anyone ever been stopped from taking their bikes into a hotel room?