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Picos de Europa family multi-adventure
- Diversity of activities to choose and landscapes to enjoy
- Varied distances and differing degrees of difficulty, to suit your preferences
- Stunning flora and striking limestone formations
- 7 night´s acommodation in a rural guesthouse
- Option of canoeing, canyonning or hiking to a famous mountain refuge with the whole family
From: 145 €
Tripcode: ESSK020
1 Comfort
Level 1 - EN:
Simple accommodation, often with multiple rooms like huts, cottages or guesthouses. Sometimes with bunk beds and often with shared bathrooms. All camping trips fall into this category.
Level 1 - EN:
Simple accommodation, often with multiple rooms like huts, cottages or guesthouses. Sometimes with bunk beds and often with shared bathrooms. All camping trips fall into this category.
Level 2:
Simple to good inns, small family hotels, B&Bs and agriturismo (farmsteads), generaly with private bathroom. Often chosen for their excellent location in relation to the itinerary.
Level 2:
Simple to good inns, small family hotels, B&Bs and agriturismo (farmsteads), generaly with private bathroom. Often chosen for their excellent location in relation to the itinerary.
Level 2:
Simple to good inns, small family hotels, B&Bs and agriturismo (farmsteads), generaly with private bathroom. Often chosen for their excellent location in relation to the itinerary.
Level 3:
Good hotels, inns, B&B, agriturismo (farmstead) with ensuite private bathroom, often wel located and serving good meals
Level 3:
Good hotels, inns, B&B, agriturismo (farmstead) with ensuite private bathroom, often wel located and serving good meals
Level 3:
Good hotels, inns, B&B, agriturismo (farmstead) with ensuite private bathroom, often wel located and serving good meals
Level 4:
Special hotel with excellent food, ambiance and service. Accommodations with a special touch.
Level 4:
Special hotel with excellent food, ambiance and service. Accommodations with a special touch.
Level 4:
Special hotel with excellent food, ambiance and service. Accommodations with a special touch.
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3 Difficulty
Level 1:
Walking levels:
Trips with short walks of generally three to four hours (excluding breaks) and/or optional day excursions; flat or slightly hilly terrain using well kept paths.
Cycling levels:
Easy biking in nearly flat landscape; also possible for people with little or no bicycle experience. The daily distances are approximately 30-50 km in general. Bicycles with up to 3 gears can do the job. All our adult rental bikes have at least 21 gears.
Level 1:
Walking levels:
Trips with short walks of generally three to four hours (excluding breaks) and/or optional day excursions; flat or slightly hilly terrain using well kept paths.
Cycling levels:
Easy biking in nearly flat landscape; also possible for people with little or no bicycle experience. The daily distances are approximately 30-50 km in general. Bicycles with up to 3 gears can do the job. All our adult rental bikes have at least 21 gears.
Level 2:
Walking levels:
Moderate day walks, 4-5 hours per day (excluding breaks) on hilly to mountainous areas using well kept, sometimes stony paths.
Cycling levels:
Biking on gently undulating terrain, you may encounter short climbs from time to time. The daily distances vary between 30 and 65 km. A bicycle with minimum 7 gears will do. All our rental bikes have at least 21 gears.
Level 2:
Walking levels:
Moderate day walks, 4-5 hours per day (excluding breaks) on hilly to mountainous areas using well kept, sometimes stony paths.
Cycling levels:
Biking on gently undulating terrain, you may encounter short climbs from time to time. The daily distances vary between 30 and 65 km. A bicycle with minimum 7 gears will do. All our rental bikes have at least 21 gears.
Level 2:
Walking levels:
Moderate day walks, 4-5 hours per day (excluding breaks) on hilly to mountainous areas using well kept, sometimes stony paths.
Cycling levels:
Biking on gently undulating terrain, you may encounter short climbs from time to time. The daily distances vary between 30 and 65 km. A bicycle with minimum 7 gears will do. All our rental bikes have at least 21 gears.
Level 3:
Walking levels:
Trips with strenuous day walks or trekking in mountainous areas. 5 to 7 hours walking maximum per day, sometimes carrying backpacks with stuff for one night; height differences between 500 & 1000 m. per day
Cycling levels:
Strenuous biking trips in areas where you cannot avoid steep slopes. Some bicycle experience in short trips is needed. The daily distances range from 30 up to 75 km.
Level 3:
Walking levels:
Trips with strenuous day walks or trekking in mountainous areas. 5 to 7 hours walking maximum per day, sometimes carrying backpacks with stuff for one night; height differences between 500 & 1000 m. per day
Cycling levels:
Strenuous biking trips in areas where you cannot avoid steep slopes. Some bicycle experience in short trips is needed. The daily distances range from 30 up to 75 km.
Level 3:
Walking levels:
Trips with strenuous day walks or trekking in mountainous areas. 5 to 7 hours walking maximum per day, sometimes carrying backpacks with stuff for one night; height differences between 500 & 1000 m. per day
Cycling levels:
Strenuous biking trips in areas where you cannot avoid steep slopes. Some bicycle experience in short trips is needed. The daily distances range from 30 up to 75 km.
Level 4:
Walking levels:
Trips with heavy excursions in high mountains, sometimes carrying backpacks with stuff for several nights. 6 to 8 hours maximum per day; height differences up to 1200 meters per day; only for participants with an excellent condition and without fear of heights.
Cycling levels:
Serious and strenuous biking trips in mountainous area, the slopes are longer and/or steeper than at the previous category. Requires a good physical condition, a broad cycling experience and adequate mountain climbing bicycle. The daily distances range between 30 and 80 km.
Level 4:
Walking levels:
Trips with heavy excursions in high mountains, sometimes carrying backpacks with stuff for several nights. 6 to 8 hours maximum per day; height differences up to 1200 meters per day; only for participants with an excellent condition and without fear of heights.
Cycling levels:
Serious and strenuous biking trips in mountainous area, the slopes are longer and/or steeper than at the previous category. Requires a good physical condition, a broad cycling experience and adequate mountain climbing bicycle. The daily distances range between 30 and 80 km.
Level 4:
Walking levels:
Trips with heavy excursions in high mountains, sometimes carrying backpacks with stuff for several nights. 6 to 8 hours maximum per day; height differences up to 1200 meters per day; only for participants with an excellent condition and without fear of heights.
Cycling levels:
Serious and strenuous biking trips in mountainous area, the slopes are longer and/or steeper than at the previous category. Requires a good physical condition, a broad cycling experience and adequate mountain climbing bicycle. The daily distances range between 30 and 80 km.
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Duration: 8 days
Details
Picos de Europa Family Multi-adventure
Picos is the most surprising mountainous destination of our With the Kids program, designed for families travelling by car. Rural guesthouse accommodation in villages with true local flavour. The unique charm of a small but incredibly varied mountain range. Lush fields, cool woods, deep valleys and limestone landscapes, with a chance of spotting herds of sheep and chamoix and soaring griffon vultures. Wide range of optional routes for families, optional "river package" that includes a canyonnig and a canoeing activity or optional "mountain package", including a mini-trek to the mountain refuge at the foot of the Picu Urriellu, Asturias' most famous peak, sharing a dormitory with real climbers.
Itinerary
Expand itinerary Collapse itineraryDay 1: Arrival in the Picos
Arrival at your cozy guesthouse accommodation in a tiny village (two options: in Sotres - an apartment in a mountain village- or in Berodia - with several independent traditional-style houses). Within minutes, you'll begin to enjoy the peaceful atmosphere of these beautiful surroundings.
Challenge: Settle into your new "home for a week" and meet your S-cape agent.
Villages along the way: Arenas de Cabrales, Sotres/Berodia
Day 2-7: Excursions and activities in the Picos
For the next week, you will choose from a variety of walks and/or activities to enjoy summer pastures with stone barns, cool woods, high meadows with wild flowers, rushing streams and rocky areas with bizarre limestone formations. Options include: 10 different routes de hike in the Picos, different distances and degrees of difficulty; a "Mountain Package" that includes a mini- trek to a mountain refuge; a "River package" that includes a conoeing activity and a canyonning activity; a "Baby package" which includes a cot, a special carriage, a baby-rucksack and some other items for walking and enjoying your trip with babies or small children.
Villages along the way: Arenas de Cabrales, Sotres, Tielve, Bulnes, Poncebos
Day 8: End of arrangement
"¡Adiós a los Picos!" Your arrangement comes to an end this morning, yet you leave with the feeling that you will soon return.
Challenge: Travel from Asturias.
Practical info
Included:
- Accommodation in a totally equipped traditional village house
- Welcome basket
- Bed linens and kitchen utensils provided (except at mountain hut)
- Trip notes and detailed descriptions of excursions and activities
- Mountain pacakage: overnight accommodation in an authentic mountain hut (in dormitory rooms on a half-board basis)
- River package: canoeing activity (kids ages over 6) and canyonning activity (kids min height 1.40m and over 8 years old)
- Extra information about excursions, cultural visits, places of interest and local festivities.
Not Included:
- Meals (except one dinner and one breakfast at the mountain hut)
- Bed linen and towels in the mountain hut (take sleeping bag and/or linen with you)
- Transport to and from accommodation
* Although this arrangement is designed to be a self-drive trip, extra transfers from and to the nearest bus stop (in Arenas de Cabrales) or airports (Santander, Oviedo and Bilbao), can be arranged.
Optional Services:
- Although this program is designed to be a self-drive trip, extra transfers from and to the nearest bus stop (in Arenas de Cabrales) or airports (Santander, Oviedo and Bilbao) can be arranged.
- Baby cot and baby carriage and baby rucksack can be provided
Extra Overnights:
Extra nights cannot be booked. Standard trip is one week, from Sunday to Sunday.
Getting there and back:
- This trip is programmed as self-drive arrangement and we recommend bringing your own car or renting a car at the nearest airport. If you're travelling by bus, it is possible to reach Sotres by public transport in combination with some extra taxi-transfers at 40,- extra cost.
- The nearest airports to the Picos de Europa are Oviedo (OVD), also known as Asturias airport, Santander and Bilbao.
- From the airports there are good bus connections to the city centre bus stations, where you can continue your trip by bus (ALSA bus company, see time tables at www.alsa.es).
- From Oviedo centre there are direct buses to Arenas de Cabrales, though these services cannot be booked in advance.
- From Santander and Bilbao you take a direct bus to Unquera and then continue by taxi to Arenas de Cabrales. It is wise to book your bus tickets and taxi transfer in advance, especially on arrival and when travelling during summer or on Friday afternoons. You can buy your bus tickets through the ALSA website www.alsa.es or through your S-cape office in Spain, also responsible for booking your taxi from Unquera to Arenas.
- At the end of your trip, the return journey is by the same route. Our S-cape office in Arenas de Cabrales can help you make the reservations.
Reviews
Start: Sotres de Cabrales
Finish: Sotres de Cabrales
Dates & prices
Trip availability: 15 May to 1 October
| Dates of the trip | Price |
|---|---|
| 2 adults + 4 children: | 145 €/person |
| 1 adult + 4 children: | 160 €/person |
| 2 adults + 3 children: | 160 €/person |
| 1 adult + 3 children: | 185 €/person |
| 2 adults + 2 children (1 bathroom): | 185 €/person |
| 1 adult + 2 children (2 bathrooms): | 210 €/person |
| 2 adults + 1 child: | 220 €/person |
| 1 adult + 2 children: | 220 €/person |
| 1 adult + 1 child: | 285 €/person |
Other prices
| Dates of the trip | Price |
|---|---|
| River package: | 59 €/person |
| Mountain package: | 44 €/person |