Description
Price includes:
- 3 x overnight stay with breakfast (possible dinner, if additional booking)
- Luggage transport
- STO warranty
Reservation fee
- Tourist tax
- Very comprehensive travel documentation (maps and Friesland Travel Guide & Tourist Atlas (four-language travel book, 260 pages)
- Free parking of your car at start and finish hotel
- Free parking and charging of your bicycle at Eleven Cities Route hotels
Price does not include:
- Travel and cancellation insurance (to be taken out with your own insurance company)
- Lunch, dinner and drinks
- Bicycle guarantee, if booked in advance (if the bicycle guarantee is booked in advance, you will receive a new bicycle within 1.5 days in case of breakdown)
Free cancellation up to six weeks before arrival date
Weather conditions are no reason for cancellation at Friesland Holland Travel and cancellation is always covered by travel and cancellation insurance (to be taken out with your own insurance company).
For whom?
This cycling holiday is specially designed for people who want to get away from it all, but who want to experience a lot. Cycling fans who want a taste of the fascinating Eleven Cities culture, but don’t want to have all eleven cities to their name right away.
As part of this package, you will visit the following seven cities: Sneek – Sloten – Stavoren – Hindeloopen – Workum – Bolsward – IJlst. Together, they form the southern Elfsteden route. Besides these seven towns in south-west Friesland, you will also pass the forests of Sint-Nicolaasga and Gaasterland and get to know the IJsselmeer coast and the Frisian lakes. The southwest corner offers the most attractions per kilometre and the greatest variety of nature, landscapes, cultural-historical events and water sports activities, which is why this region is the most chosen holiday destination in Friesland.
Four of the Eleven
Another time and then a little longer on holiday? Then, later in the year or next year, book our 5- or 6-day Northern Eleven route with four of the eleven Frisian cities (Leeuwarden, Franeker, Harlingen and Dokkum), including an introduction to the Wadden coast (UNESCO World Heritage Site), the Lauwersmeer (National Park) and the Northern Frisian Woods (National Landscape).
Starting day
Any day of the week
Start and finish
Hotel on the Southern Eleven Cities Route
STO Guarantee
This offer is covered by the guarantee of STO Garant. You can find the conditions of this guarantee scheme by clicking here
The Eleven Cities Tour from day to day
After booking, you will receive personalised travel information for each day. In any case, on the first day you will be expected at your starting hotel (also the finish hotel) in the afternoon where, if you come by car, you will park your car during your cycling holiday. After checking in (between 15.00 and 19.00) and moving into your room(s), you will enjoy your first evening dinner in the restaurant. Well rested and informed, you will start your first day of cycling the next day based on your personal itinerary. Based on this, you can already choose the sights and scenic attractions to visit at home. You will find these in the thick travel guide and on the Eleven Cities route map, which you will receive after booking. On the last day, you will cycle back to the hotel where you started the tour, the start hotel, where your car is parked. Once your luggage has been delivered by the Friesland Holland driver (between 09:00 and 18:00), you can go home. This also means the end of the package, but if you don’t want to return home yet, you can book an extra night (in advance).
Luggage transport
The luggage service, roughly from late March to early October, is included in the price of a cycling holiday. Friesland Holland will transport your bags from hotel to hotel between 09:00 and 18:00, provided with a Friesland Holland luggage label issued to you. This allows you to visit places to eat and drink and places of interest without worrying about valuable luggage on your bike. Please note that the luggage to be transported must be ready at the reception at 09:00 for transport to the next hotel. The delivery time may be extended due to exceptional circumstances, but these are rare. The driver will only take luggage with a Friesland Holland label. If you take the luggage yourself, for example because you are going home early and do not want to wait for the suitcases, or have to break off the journey due to circumstances, please report this to Friesland Holland. This avoids unnecessary delays due to the driver searching for your luggage and people at the tour operator’s office worrying about travellers. Also important: your suitcase(s) or bag(s) – one per person and please no heavier than 15 kg (think of the courier’s back!) – should be of robust stackable quality. No plastic bags and so on. Friesland Holland cannot be held liable for any damage to your luggage, such as a loosened wheel or handle, which very occasionally occurs with inferior suitcases. Incidentally, Friesland Holland is only responsible for the luggage from the time of collection from a hotel to the time of delivery to the reception of the next hotel.
Pech assistance with mobility guarantee:
The price of every Friesland Holland cycling package includes breakdown assistance with mobility guarantee. With this unique service, you are assured of replacement transport (luxury bike) in the province of Friesland, with the exception of the islands, if you have a breakdown or accident on the road with your own bike or a rental bike and it cannot be repaired on site or in the workshop of a bike shop nearby within an hour. You will then be loaned a replacement electric bike with many gears and bags free of charge for the duration of your holiday and/or be taken to the day’s final destination by the Friesland Holland Assistance vehicle free of charge. The driver of the Friesland Holland Assistance trolley will normally bring your own defective bike to the start hotel, but can, upon special request and in consultation with the assistance driver, take your own defective bike to a bike repair shop near the accommodation address for repair.Uiteraard zijn de kosten van de reparatie van uw eigen fiets voor uw rekening. In ieder geval kunt u met Friesland Holland Assistance altijd uw reis vervolgen. De service wordt verleend van eind maart tot begin oktober, 7 dagen van de week. Tip: Rent-a-Topbike’s luxury rental bikes are equipped with the best anti-puncture tyres. If you are going to ride the Eleven Cities Tour on your own bike, we recommend you also have anti-puncture tyres fitted, for example Marathon E-Plus with multiple puncture protection layers (level 7). The Friesland Holland bicycles are also equipped with these. The chance of a puncture is then minimal.
Extra night
If you no longer feel like going home at the end of the last day of your arrangement, Friesland Holland can book an extra night’s stay in the start and finish hotel – or another Eleven Cities Route hotel – for you. It is highly advisable to book this extra night when booking your arrangement, due to the high occupancy rate of our hotels.
Documentation set
Those who book this special trip will receive a 260-page A4 travel guide about Friesland and the Eleven Cities immediately after booking, complete with stories (in four languages: Dutch, German, English and French), lots of photos and maps and all sights along the way. So you can already enjoy all the beauty Friesland has to offer at home and choose the sights you would like to visit. The contents of the information package you will receive at home after booking per room:
- This is an important document that you should definitely have with you when travelling in Friesland. It is a personal travel programme with your lodging addresses, the routes to be covered and the distance to be driven each day. The guest information also serves as a voucher/access to the hotels that have been notified by us of your arrival.
- Friesland Travel Guide & Tourist Atlas (four-language travel book, 260 pages)
- Road maps
- Situation maps of the Eleven Cities route to the hotels and back to the route again
- Elfsteden stamp card (per person). For a fee of 10 euro, you will receive a named Elfsteden certificate after completing the Elfstedentocht of Friesland Holland
- Holiday passport of Friesland
- Booking conditions
