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Planning on heading over to France to watch a few stages of the Tour, plus get some good riding in. Have been looking at Lac Annecy as we'd like to get to both a time trail and a mountain stage. However, it would appear that Annecy is both very busy and very expensive!
So any suggestions / recommendations for somewhere which is:
- within about 30/40 miles cycling distance of Annecy and / Le Grand Bornand (still happy to be by Lac Annecy if anyone can recommend somewhere suitable)
- self-catering (for 2 people) - apartment / chalet / gite / cabin on a campsite
- not absolutely heaving or massively expensive
- has a good range of cycling routes (without having to drive)
Would prefer village / countryside to town centre. Also open to any other possible Tour watching locations eg Gap / Embrum, but don't want to be based by Bourg D Oisans.
Cheers folks!
theres a campsite right near the center of grand bornand, i stayed there for over a week, they have apts of various sizes as well as pitches for camping. its a great site and the couple that own it are really nice. they have a few garages/sheds where you can lock up your bikes if you need too.
http://www.campinglescale.com/en/services/
Not sure if they have cabins etc but we parked our motorhome at Camping Bleu Nicolas, right at the bottom tip if the lake. Got a pitch waterside and it is beautiful. Give them a call they might recommend somewhere if tehy dont have some.
if you look on google maps, alongside route d'annecy there is a old tarmac-ed railway line I think I goes all the way to Annecy
We also stayed at Grand Bornand site, brilliant location ,there's a really good open air municipal pool.
We stayed here last year at the start of our Alps trip. We had a duplex.
Rooms were good and clean, there is bike storage in their garage. Supermarket is 2 mins walk. Its on the main road that runs around the lake and 5mins walk to the lake.
Would stay there again
Thanks for the suggestions - will definitely check them out.
Any other recommendations?