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Old 05-14-13 | 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by bikemig
I've been looking at adventure cycling trips. Their prices seem OK for a supported camping trip; they seem to run $200 a day for a supported camping trip. I imagine the food is pretty good as it the support but you are camping.
I did their Cycle Vermont trip back in 2010 when our plans for a self-contained tour fell through. Back then, that trip was camping. Now it's an inn-to-inn tour.

The staff was a pleasant group and supportive. We even got one of them to stop off on the way to camp to pick us up a bottle of wine after she broke down the rest stop she was running. The quality of the food was good. However, the particular caterer they used that year was new. Way to much meat and not enough carbs. I think that was an anomoly. The other thing I found lacking was lunch. You made sandwiches in the morning, bagged them up and put them in a cooler. They were then transported to the lunch stop, where there were some other items like potato chips and usually some fruit. The sandwich fixings were not that filling so we found ourselves buying heartier lunches on a couple of hard days. Note that tips were solicited the night befoe the last day of riding.

While I believe it's sold out this year, if next year ACA uses the same route for Cycle Montana that it's using this year, I highly recommend it. I did much of it during a self-contained tour a few years ago. Very nice.

$200/day is high compared to something like Cycle Oregon, which is a higher-end, supported camping event. That runs about $950 for the entire week and includes meals (usually pretty good) and mechanical support (parts extra). But there are reasons for the price difference, including the fact that many of the workers on Cycle Oregon are volunteers and there and economies of scale.
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