Provence Tour Companies

Enjoyed the trip. All hotels were very good and breakfast was also good. Overall the trip was very enjoyable and memorable.

Unusual style with minimal contact with the tour operator. The private excursions selected and pre-booked by the operator were excellent. Organising a hire car to let us get to the special events and to explore Provence based on their recommendations but in our way actually worked better than I expected. Recommended for the more adventurous.

So Provence did an excellent job planning our trip for us! They organized tours that immersed us in the flavor of Provence. Every tour leader was punctual, friendly and very knowledgeable! They made sure we had every transportation connection.

Commitment to customer satisfaction, going “above and beyond” in service delivery.

Another great cycling trip from Intrepid

Had a wonderful time, great rides, great group, and very good group leader, Erwin.

Excellent itinerary; personable, responsible, helpful guide; and good trip organization. Very much like being based in only 2 locations for the week.

Rooms very small and bathroom tiny. No choice of meals. Loud announcements early each morning whether you were going on an excursion or not. No chance to sleep in if you wanted to. No advance notice of the final destination port until the day before the end consequently all the direct trains to Paris we're booked out. It cost is an €80 taxi fare.

I really enjoyed this trip and am now considering another French river cruise with this company for next year.

Amazing tour with every detail carefully handled. Highly recommend!!🚴🏻‍♀️

This was my first bike tour and it was everything I could have hoped for. The guides made thing very easy with clear route markings and keeping my bike in perfect working order. The food and accommodations were excellent. The cultural extras were high quality and provided opportunities that I wouldn't have found independently. The French countryside was absolutely beautiful.

The trip was excellent, even though it was changed due to strikes, we end up doing the Saône instead of the Rhône, the crew, and the whole team did a great job providing us with a memorable trip.

Overall we had a wonderful time. Nina was very kind and attentive. Thanks Desley

Regarding our cycling tour - Hilltop Villages of Provence: Cons: 1. We were not provided with information on how to get from the train station to our hotel once we arrived in Carpentras. We had provided the train arrival time and destination and expected some information from the tour operator on either being picked up or details on how to get to the hotel. Instead we sat at the train station for ages and had to make our own way to the hotel. 2. There should have been some information provided on dealing with the extreme heat that we encountered during our tour. We were at serious risk of heat stroke, biking for almost 8 hours and having elevation gain of over 1,000 meters (as recorded by my Fitbit) on the first day of our trip. We took the initiative on the second and third days to map out alternate routes to get to our destinations, that involved biking on very busy roadways, but we felt the risk of competing with the traffic was less than the risk of heat stroke. 3. On the day that we returned to the hotel where we started, we were told that dinner was included, but there was no information provided to us on where, when or how we would get to wherever we were supposed to go. We had to make several calls to get this information from the tour contact person. 4. The bell was broken off one of the bikes we had, and there were times when it was necessary for us to alert pedestrians and other cyclists with the bell - but there was no bell! Pros: 1. Having the Headwater GPS application was very beneficial for determining the routes we were to follow, however a backup map should have been provided, as we had to change our routes due to the extreme heat. Also, our phone battery did not last the whole day, so having a backup map would have been helpful. 2. Baggage arrived in the right hotels every day! 3. The hotels were fantastic, really enjoyed our stays at l'Hotel Hermitage, Hotel Les Sables D'Ocre, and Hotel du Poete. Comments: The holder on the handlebars for the cell phone to allow us to use the Headwater navigation app did not work for us, as it was so hot that our phone overheated while it was stored in the holder. My travelling partner felt that the self-guided tour did not provide enough support, especially with the extreme heat that we encountered, and said that she would not take another self-guided tour.