The PistonHeads 'Brittany Raid' Tour
Petrolhead Nirvana and PistonHeads launch another great 2011 road tour
Best of all is the proximity to the UK. This means a weekend tour is perfectly manageable and you'll get to fully explore the area at a relaxed pace, covering a reasonable daily mileage. To make the most of this area in just one weekend, we head out from Portsmouth early on a Friday morning and return to Portsmouth early on Monday evening.
Tour dates: 15th-18th July 2011
Day 1 - 163 miles
Portsmouth to St Brieuc: We start the day with an early morning ferry from Portsmouth to Cherbourg, followed by a warm-up drive down to the spectacular Mont St Michel for lunch. After lunch, we'll continue to follow the coast road to our hotel for the night, situated on the outskirts of St Brieuc.
Day 2 - 191 miles
St Brieuc to Lorient: Starting the day with breakfast and a drivers' briefing, we head further west into the Breton peninsula and up to the famous pink granite, which can only be found in only two other places on the planet - Corsica and China. From here we'll head south, through the forests towards Lorient, stopping for lunch on the way. After lunch it's time to head towards our hotel for dinner, drinks and some relaxation time.....well, it is Saturday night after all.
Day 3 - 187 miles
Lorient to Le Mans: Leaving Lorient and heading east, we thread our way along the quiet country lanes on our way to the car museum at Loheac - a fantastic place crammed with all manner of French racing cars and the odd rarity too. With over 400 cars to view it's one of the highlights of the tour. We'll stay there for lunch before heading to the overnight stop just outside the famous city of Le Mans.
Day 4 - 128 miles
Le Mans to Portsmouth: Heading north from Le Mans we go into the hills, stopping at a glorious lakeside beach, buried deep in the hills near Beaumont. Continuing north along some truly magnificent Tarmac (on some of the quietest and most picturesque roads in the region) we reach Caen in time for our afternoon ferry back to Portsmouth.
- Prices Places on this tour are priced at £599 per person, sharing a twin or double room
Deposit payment of £250 required per person to secure your place(s) on this tour
- What's included?
Two Tour Managers in lead and chase cars, return ferry journeys to and from Portsmouth/Caen, three nights hotel accommodation (including bed and breakfast). Sat-nav files, walkie talkies, info packs with route notes, maps and general info.
- What's not included?
Drinks, lunch, dinner, fuel, tolls, breakdown cover (for your own peace of mind we make this a requirement on all tours).
To book, call the Petrolhead Nirvana office on +44 (0)845 838 7363.
By booking your place on tour, you accept our terms and conditions. Please make sure you've read our (not so) small print here.
To view the PhN website click here
The Dates (as well as being the odd shaped fruit in a box) are July 15th to 18th (Friday to Monday)
Also one thing i don't think was mentioned in the article was the early booking discount of 10% which brings the price down to £539pp
However once my finances are sorted, hopefully before next years trips it will be
£599 x 2 people
£150 petrol (at 30mpg)
£200 (at £25 pppd) food/drink
£1550 for a couple to go on a 3 day weekend! Thats not including French tolls and the cost of driving to Portsmouth so it could easily be £1700+.
You could have a 10 day hoon round the alps for less!
£599 x 2 people
£150 petrol (at 30mpg)
£200 (at £25 pppd) food/drink
£1550 for a couple to go on a 3 day weekend! Thats not including French tolls and the cost of driving to Portsmouth so it could easily be £1700+.
You could have a 10 day hoon round the alps for less!
As always, a fair question although your maths are slightly off in this case and don't take into account the standard of hotels and the service you get from coming along on a trip.
You could do this trip on a shoestring, stay in F1 style hotels, worry about where you leave your car etc but at the same time you could spend £5,000 doing the same route.
We look after everyone on our tours and provide great value for money. There are 11 tours on this years calender, ranging from £224 per person up to £2,300 per person from 3 to 11 days going to Wales, Norway, and America (as you may have seen.)
Most of our tours get sold out and we like to offer something different from the norm, in fact, Scotland, Wales, USA and the two Alpine tours are pretty much sold out already for this year so we can't be that pricey.
If you want to do something like this we could always arrange something for you without the support of tour managers, route notes, .itn files, walkie talkies etc and using cheaper hotels...it might not be as much fun going on your own but it can be done. Just give us a call if you want us to help you out mate.
£599 x 2 people
£150 petrol (at 30mpg)
£200 (at £25 pppd) food/drink
£1550 for a couple to go on a 3 day weekend! Thats not including French tolls and the cost of driving to Portsmouth so it could easily be £1700+.
You could have a 10 day hoon round the alps for less!
Does look like a fantastic weekend but alas I can't afford it...
It just a case of priorities - mine is moving house, mountain biking (PDS) at the moment.
I am very very tempted by Scotland Tour next year.
The only tour that looks expensive is the Norway tour - but (big but) you try visiting Norway on the cheap - it is impossible, it has to be one of the most expensive countries in the world!
Just remember - cost is what you pay, value is what you get!
These trips are expensive in the same way a you could spend £3k on a perfectly good car, so why spend £30k on a premium car, you get what you pay for.
That said I would love a cheaper alternative, perhaps hiring out complete campsites and having the lead vehicle full of tents & sleeping bags - one for the French vineyards in summer though instead of scotland!
We do try hard to find a balance between cost and luxury and the cost is in the main down to the style of hotels we pick, we do our best to make them fit the style of the tour, So Scotland is about local rustic charm, location and good food, Alpine is about location and the length of time we are likely to spend there and Norway is about trying to make sure we get best value for money, which as everyone knows is a very tough task in Scandinavia.
The Brittany hotels we chosen for their location, style and the way they fit with the relaxing long weekend trip we've created.
Whatever we create some will want more luxury and some less depending on their budget, we've tried to hit the middle ground on this trip as we do on all the tours we run.
Camping trips are easier to organise (assuming there are suitable grounds in the right locations) but are very wearing on the traveller. setting up and disassembling, sorting dinner/breakfast, keeping the cars safe every single day takes away valuable driving and relaxing time.
Most of the people who have done one or more of these tours tell us they are cheap for what we provide, for us the proof is in the fact that people rebook year after year....and that's down to the hard work preparing and looking after people while they are on the trip.
See you in September
To have a look at the trips we're running have a look here
http://www.petrolheadnirvana.com/
The Scotland and Wales trips in April and May are pretty much full, the two Alpines are 90% full (maybe 2 spaces left on each) and USA is full with a waiting list as we are trying hard to source more cars but it is a real struggle at the moment.
The supplement for traveling on your own would depend on whether you were still happy to share a room or whether you wanted one to yourself, we can arrange both of those options.
For a lot of people they are too expensive, but for the target audience, they are a holiday free of the hassle of organisation and all about the R&R.
As others have said, you can ALWAYS do it cheaper. But I wouldn't want to considering the huge number of benefits I get from doing it this way
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