Cycling Tours Encompassing Giro d’Italia Race Highlights

 ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours Engages Cycling Guests This May

In Seven-Day VIP Tour Encompassing Giro d’Italia Race Highlights

FORT COLLINS, CO, Jan. 26, 2012 – ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours that in 1972 was the first North American company to offer bicycle tours in Europe (http://www.experienceplus.com/) announces a six-night / seven-day cycling tour from May 8 to May 14 that includes witnessing three stages of the 2012 Giro with additional riding through the regions of Marche, Umbria and Emilia Romagna, among the most beautiful corners of rural Italy.

The per person double occupancy rate of $3,550 ($500 single supplement) includes six nights of accommodations, use of a quality 27-30 speed bicycle, van support, bilingual tour leaders, some meals (4 dinners, 1 lunch and 6 breakfasts), and three stages of the famed Giro d'Italia, one of the original “grand tours” of cycling (along with the Tour de France and the Spanish Vuelta).

See: http://www.experienceplus.com/tours/tours.html?tid=2775

“The Giro is a must for any cycling enthusiast. It’s far less crowded than the Tour de France so you can ride the routes better and get closer to the action, and not feel like you are constantly dodging throngs of people,” explains Maria Elena Price, ExperiencePlus! co-director. “Plus the food throughout the tour is fabulous! Calorie-burning guests like the fact that you can have all the gelato you want and the best homemade pasta in the world!”

The trip, spanning up to 277 miles of cycling, begins in the Province of Ravenna in Faenza (famous for Italian ceramics and handmade pasta) and concludes in Umbria where guests can catch trains north to Florence and Bologna or south to Rome. Accommodations the first two nights are at Faenza Hotel Vittoria , an ancient palace near the International Museum of Ceramics. Faenza is also Italian headquarters for ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours and a town through which the 2012 Giro d’Italia will pass.

Day two begins the cycling journey into the foothills of the Apennine Mountains, stopping to picnic at the ExperiencePlus! headquarters. Day three includes a ride in the morning before viewing the Giro on the ancient Roman Via Emilia. Once the peloton passes, vans shuttle guests to Fano to watch the finish later in the afternoon. The day ends in the coastal town of Pesaro in the Marche region.

Guests pedal the Giro d’Italia route on day four from Urbino and through the hills of the Marche, stopping enroute to watch the race go by. This night is at Hotel Claudiani, Macerata in Macerata, still in the Marche region. Guests will be able to experience the morning hustle and bustle of a stage start of the Giro on day five before a loop ride takes them to the hills and the small town of Fabiano. Day six, the final day of cycling, is a long, but stunning ride to Assisi, home of St. Francis of Assisi.

In June 2012 the company rolls out a 40th Anniversary Bike Across Italy - Pisa to Venice tour with four members of the Price family: Rick and Paola Malpezzi Price and daughters Maria Elena and Monica Price who in 2008 assumed ownership and management of ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours from their parents. See: http://www.experienceplus.com/tours/tours.html?tid=562#itinerary

About ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours

No North American company has been running European cycling tours longer than ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours (http://www.experienceplus.com/ - (800) 685-4565 or (970) 484-8489). Launched in Italy in 1972 the Colorado-based company now offers global cycling tours immersed in local character to 20 countries on five continents. Throughout the years as the business and industry have evolved, E
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