Originally Posted by Boudicca

I just did a wonderful self-guided trip in Europe. One of the owners of the company met us at the start of the ride, gave us maps, GPS, vouchers for the hotels, detailed route directions and a cellphone that worked in Europe. And after that we were on our own. Some mysterious individual who we never saw took the luggage from one hotel to the next and all we had to do was ride, eat and drink beer (this was Czech Republic. Seriously good beer). And yes, it was nice to have a number that we could call, and to know that the luggage would be in the hotel room when we arrived.

Nice hotels too. Seriously fun trip.