[Closed] Recommendations for mountain biking and beach holidays please

Sierra Nevada, Spain.

An old thread appeared the other day about Finale

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/whos-been-to-finale-ligura

Cheers Drac, Sierre Nevada? Bit of a trek to the beach there Steve

Try this company. First rate biking/beach holidays and still the cheapest out there after 16yrs in business.

http://www.sierracycling.com/

Matt

Lagos, portugal.great food and beaches- lots to do.Best of all MTB adventures, ask for Jim.

Amos - not really, plenty of bike companies based near Malaga, virtually on the beach.

We looked at Finale but ended up going to cantabria, great beaches and Picos 45 mins away

link here
http://www.cantabriaenbici.es/index-en.html#Introduccion

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I live in the Basque country, the beaches are far nicer than anything darn south, the food is regarded as the best in Spain, there's lots of nice mountains too. Lad who posts on here Doug, has a guiding/holiday company called Basquemtb, based in Hondarribia on the Spain/France border, its a lovely town with mountains and beach on your doorstep. San Sebastian isnt far away if you want a bit of culture and more beaches.

http://www.basquemtb.com/

You could try Costa Adeje in Tenerife.
Great beaches, lovely food and some great trails too! Highest mountain in Spain at 2500m, Mt Tiede.
Also a great mtb company www.lavatrax.net

Neilson. Top holiday for mixed groups like that

Hondarribia is a avery nice place, been and the paths in the area look good for mtb, we walking rather than riding taht year.

Hi guys. Thanks for the link Mark! This is a lovely part of the world if you like to ride and / or hit the beach. You can do this in the morning:
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and this in the afternoon:
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Not wanting to plug the area too much but today I did a route that went from just below the peak here right the way down the ridge to the right and ended up about sea level. With a couple of climbs we did almost 2000m's of descending.
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I hope that's not too much of a advert. A friends guides for Sierra Cycling and I'm sure they're fantastic too.

Amos

If you want info on finale, give us a shout, we work with many of the guides and hotels in finale.

for 2010 we will also be operating there.

there are also hotels there that are specailly catered for children and babies also so the aprents can have some free time together.

Ciao fornow

[url]www.rivierabike.co.uk[/url]

Cyprus?

I was out there and it has 1800m (ish) Troodos Mountains which are 1 hr away from beach. Fantastic singletrack. You can pick some lovely quieter areas to stay in too (as opposed to the clubbing crowd, although that might be your thing?). I'm afraid I cannot remember the names of the guiding companies but another option worth looking at.

Mat,
We are the only biking company based on the coast in Southern Spain, safe enclosed garden, pool and on the beach.
Great singletrack rides during the day & lively night life with excellent restaurants on the coast at night.
Lots of checkable recommendations from families on our guestbook [url] http://www.sierracycling.com [/url].

Barmouth in Wales - CYB et al 20 mins down the road, fish + chips etc + great crab fishing!

Canaries or the South East coast of Portugal.

Well thanks everyone for some really useful feed back, I'll put it to the rest of the group and be in touch with some of you guys soon I'm sure!

I did the Costas hol package deal(Globespan)with the SO and then had 2 days biking with Alan @ sierra cycling. Easy enough to get to Fuengerola(sp)by train, runs from the airport all the way along the Costas so you can stay anywhere. Big hotel across the road from Alan looks good and he reckomended it if I go again, forget the name tho.
Recommended.

Lake Garda is also worth a look.

Isola2000 in France. Gran Canaria. Tenerife. Benalmedina/Malaga.

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