European Driving Tours

In addition to France, Switzerland and Italy European Car Tours also cover Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Our escorted tours are always accompanied by Mark and Alison the company’s directors. We stay in the same hotels, eat and drink in the same restaurants and always remain with the group during the day. We believe that only by doing this can we ensure the quality of the service that you receive. In addition there is always someone there that can offer help and advice should you need it.

Our goal is to ensure that your holiday is perfect. Our European Driving Tours really are a friendly experience. We treat our guests as friends and friendships made on our holidays last a lifetime.

We aim to provide a service that is as inclusive or as flexible as our clients require. On European Driving Tours you have the opportunity to stay with the group at all times or you are free to explore different places along the route and meet at the hotel in the evening.

Our accommodation aims to reflect the friendly and relaxed style of our tours. We mainly use family run hotels which offer a true flavour of the countries that we are visiting rather than the larger hotel chains. All of our hotels are good 3 star or better. They are all booked on a bed and breakfast basis but all have access to good restaurants. Appropriate parking is always included.

European Driving Tours aims to capture the joy of exploring Europe by road. We welcome all types of vehicles and believe that our tours appeal to all types of people. All of escorted our tours are led by ourselves and our routes offer varied scenery and themes. Most people considering this type of holiday will enjoy the challenges of mountain passes and the famous driving roads but we also try and offer routes that allow you the opportunity to experience places of cultural and historical interest in addition to being able to enjoy regional gastronomic experiences.

Itinerary

Escorted Tours
These are the fully escorted Tours that we are currently offering. We personally lead these Tours ourselves and are available at all times during the Tour.

June/July 2020 Passes of the Pyrenees

A spectacular 13-day driving tour with three nights in fabulous 5* hotels (all other hotels are 4*), that takes you right across the Pyrenees from the Atlantic coast in the north to the Mediterranean coast in the south. We will spend 6 days in the Pyrenees before returning via the Costa Brava, the Cote Vermeille, Millau, the Cevennes, the Tarn Gorge, Oradour-sur-Glane and Poitiers. As always the Tour is offered on a bed & breakfast basis with return Channel Tunnel crossing included in the price. There is also an option to use the Portsmouth to Bilbao ferry for the outward journey rather than driving down through France.

This Tour is limited to 14 places.

July/August 2020 A Viennese Whirl

A spectacular 13-day driving Tour that takes us through central Europe to visit a number of motoring and transport related places of interest in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. As you would expect, the Tour features some splendid driving roads and in addition we have the opportunity to spend two nights in Salzburg and three nights in Vienna, where in addition to all of the well known sights, we will also be able to visit the free open air film festival and food and drink extravaganza held in the square in front of the Town Hall during our stay. On this Tour all of the hotels with the exception of night 1 are 4* and as always the Tour is offered on a bed & breakfast basis with return Channel Tunnel crossing included in the price.

This Tour is lmited to 14 places

September 2020 – Balkan Blast

A wonderful 21-day escorted Tour into the heart of Croatia. We will travel down in three days and then spend eleven days in Croatia where we will spend our time on the Dalmatian Coast, Istria, Montenegro and in the National Parks. We will have a free day in Split, the Plitvice National Park and two free days in Dubrovnik. We will also visit Rovinj, Mostar and the wonderful amphitheatre in Pula. Our journey back over seven days will include a free day at Lake Bled in Slovenia and superb driving in the Soca Valley and across a number of spectacular passes including the Vrsic & Podkoren passes in Slovenia, the old Brenner pass and the Silvretta pass in Austria and the Black Forest and Northern Vosges National Park. As always, bed & breakfast, hotel parking and return Channel Tunnel crossings are included in the price.

This Tour is limited to 14 places