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Experience the thrills and excitement of the 2026 La Vuelta a Espana – Tour of Spain.
The 2026 La Vuelta a Espana Grand Depart will commence with two stages in Monaco. Stage one will be held entirely in Monaco, likely short time trial stage, stage two will depart from Monaco.
Indicative dates [TBC] for the 2026 La Vuelta a Espana race are:
Start: Saturday 22nd August – Finish, Sunday 13th September, 2026.
We’ll experience fantastic rides on iconic roads, intercept the race at strategic locations, combined with an authentic Monaco, Italian and French Riviera Grand Depart, then move onto our Spanish La Vuelta experience, including local gastronomic delights.
Feel the excitement of the Vuelta a Espana as we discover the border regions of Monaco, Italy and the Cote d’ Azure France, and mainland Spain.
2026 Ultimate Vuelta a Espana Tour Options:
Choose from our:
6 Day Monaco, Italian and French Riviera La Vuelta Grand Depart tour
7 Day or 10 Day, La Vuelta final stages.
16 Day Ultimate La Vuelta Tour [Combine La Vuelta Monaco Grand Depart & Final 10 Day Tour]
2026 Tour Dates and Locations [Indicative Dates TBC]:
6 Day La Vuelta Grand Depart Monaco, Italian and French Riviera Tour [Indicative TBC]
Tour Start Location: Nice, France Airport, or Nice Train station
Day 0: Wednesday 19th August, 2026. TBC [Recommended arrival day.]
Day 1: Thursday 20th August. TBC
Day 6: Tour Finish. Tuesday 25th August. TBC
Tour Finish: 11am Nice, France Airport, or 11.30am Nice Train station
Ultimate 7 Day Tour to Madrid: [Indicative Dates TBC]
Tour Start Location: TBC
Day 0: Monday 7th September TBC [Recommended arrival day.]
Day 1: Tuesday 8th September. TBC
Day 7: Monday 14th September. TBC
Tour Finish: Madrid
Ultimate 10 Day Tour to Madrid: [Indicative Dates TBC]
Tour Start Location: TBC
Day 0: Friday 4th September TBC. [Recommended arrival day.]
Day 1: Saturday 5th September TBC
Day 11: Monday 14th September. TBC
Tour Finish: Madrid
Ultimate 16 Day La Vuelta [Indicative Dates TBC]
[6 Day Grand Depart Monaco + 10 DayTour]: Our 16 Day Ultimate La Vuelta Tour combines our 6 Day Grand Depart Monaco + our Ultimate la Vuelta Final 10 Day Tour.
6 Day Tour Start Location: Nice, France Airport, or Nice Train station
Day 0: Wednesday 19th August, 2026. TBC [Recommended arrival day.]
Day 1: Thursday 20th August. TBC
Day 6: Tuesday 25th August. TBC
Tour Midpoint Finish: 11am Nice, France Airport, or 11.30am Nice Train station
*Mid tour free program to explore more of the Italian and French Riviera, France, or alternatively explore more of Spain’s regions, we recommend Girona. Alternatively ask us for some suggestions.
10 Day Tour Start Location: TBC
Day 0: Friday 4th September TBC. [Recommended arrival day.]
Day 1: Saturday 5th September TBC
Day 11: Monday 14th September. TBC
Tour Finish: Madrid
2026 Vuelta a Espana Race Dates: [Indicative – TBC]
Saturday 22nd August – Sunday 13th September, 2026
Race start location: Monaco, Italy.
Race Finish location: Madrid, Spain.
*In the meantime, Let us know if you’d like us to send our 2025 Vuelta a Espana Tour program, It’ll give you a great indication of the look and feel for our La Vuelta tours – on and off the bike. Feel free to give us a call, email or video call we’re here to help. Contact Us Now
Tour Highlights:
For us Monaco is in our backyard, we’re based a few hours away in Tuscany, Italy and Spain is like our second home, we were based in the Catalan region in northern Spain for a number of years, we’ve spent over 12 years hosting cycling tours to the La Vuelta A Espana, and to all of Spain’s beautiful regions. We love everything about Spain, its passionate cycling culture, and its proud food, wine and beverage production. We’re sure you’ll love the low-stress nature of the Vuelta and Spain as much as we do.
EXPERIENCE:
The opening stages of the 2026 La Vuelta Grand Depart in Monaco and surrounding Italian and French Riviera – plus all of the excitement of the Final stages of the 2026 Vuelta A Espana to Madrid.
STAY:
Personally selected chic 4*, cycling-friendly hotels on the French / Italian border region – and Spain’s Asturias, Galicia, Basque Country, La Rioja, Castilla Y Leon, and Madrid regions.
Ride:
Minimum of 3 Daily, Supported Ride Options: Short, Medium, Long or approx 40km-120km /250m-1500m avg climbing. Additionally, optional – extra km’s are available each day should you like to ride more in your day, ask us how.
Non-Cyclist:
We highly encourage non-cyclists to join on all our tours, we are the industry leaders in ensuring non-cyclists, cycling fans, or cyclists taking a day off the bike – experience as much of the La Vuelta race and or experience Spain’s many wonderful locations as does the cycling group.
Hire Bikes and E-Bikes:
Fancy hiring one of our superb modern road bikes, or a E-Road bike so you can ride comfortably each day? We have a fleet of new Road and E-road bikes. Or, you may like to ride a little some days and join in the non-cycling program on other days.
About Our Tour:
We’ll pick up the La Vuelta A Espana Grand Depart in Monaco and at various key points for the final stages of the race. We’ll take in many classic Vuelta rides and locations in the beautiful northern coastal areas, iconic mountains and wine regions, plus on the 10 day tour will experience the iconic Alto Algliru, Porto de Navacerrada plus many more classic Spanish rides to strategic race viewing points.
We’ll have a taste of what it’s like to be a pro rider, often in our day’s we’ll ride sections of the Vuelta A Espana racecourse ahead of the race. Plus, we’ll be there to ride the final stage in Madrid the morning prior to seeing the final race stage in Spain’s Capital city.
Our tour will conclude after a farewell breakfast, on the Monday morning after the Vuelta A Espana finishes, we include a complimentary airport, or train station transfer on this final day
*Note, each of our Grand Tour itineraries is new – unique to each edition of the Vuelta A Espana. Our Itineraries our new each year to adapt to the racecourse route and direction it loops around Spain, each edition varies dramatically for each year of the race. We adjust and custom-make each of our Vuelta A Espana itineraries to ensure efficiency, maximise your riding, transfer less, include varied strategic race viewing points, non-cycling activities and overall program on our Ultimate Vuelta A Espana.
inclusions
- Pro mechanical support on tour
- Support vehicle each day to carry daypacks, spare parts, hydration and ride snacks
- Separate Spectator Itinerary for Non-cyclists
- Itinerary, including daily ride maps
- Free download of our GPS Ride Routes
- Hotels
- All breakfasts
- Welcome and farewell dinner and drink [additional evening meals as per detailed itinerary]
- Complimentary return airport – or Train station transfers
- Daily Bike Spa including Bike Wash, Mechanical check and tune, by a Pro Mechanic
- Our Premium Quality Rider Pack includes: Jersey and Custom Scicon Wet/Rain Bag
- Our Premium Quality Spectator Pack includes: Designer Ride International Tours Polo Shirt, Custom Scicon Bag
itinerary
DAY 1
DAY 1 – Friday, 5th September 2026
Arrival Day: Welcome Ride – Getting settled
Race Stage 8. Huesca – Sabiñánigo 185.8km
Travel: Ride starts from hotel.Guests ride or drive to the base of the famous Alto de l’Angliru climb.
Rides: 2 ride options
Meal Inclusions: Breakfast, Dinner
Welcome to the 2026 Vuelta. Below is a “sample la Vuelta a Espana” itinerary.
At this early stage, we know the first 2 stages of the 2026 Vuelta a Espana will be held in and around Monaco. The exact details of our itinerary will be confirmed once the balance of the race route has been officially announced by the race organisers. Contact us for the most up to date itinerary, program. *Please Note the itinerary below is only a “sample itinerary” to give you an indication of the look and feel for our La Vuelta tours on and off the bike.
As alway,s we recommend arriving at our Team Hotel a day or two prior to your tour start, it’ll reduce travel stress and you’ll adjust to the local time zone far better. If you are already in Spain you can navigate to our Team Hotel or alternatively we can collect you on Day 1 of the tour:
Once we have all convened at our Tour start hotel we will set up and fit our bikes, readying them for the rigours of the Vuelta a Espana.
We start our tour with the now traditional welcome ride, an easy’ish 45km with sufficient bumps to get the heart pumping and set the theme for the days to come.
Tonight’s welcome 3 course dinner, is a time to celebrate in style with a classic welcome meal and drinks at our superb 4 star Hotel. It’s a great chance to catch up with new friends and old and talk about our sojourn into La Vuelta.
Our Ride: Welcome Ride 45km / 650m climbing
We’ll show you one of our favourite local Training Loop. This afternoon we head straight out of the door from our Team Hotel along some small lesser know, yet lovely and quiet roads of the region.
Today’s ride is a nice way to make sure your bike and body are all working well for the following days ahead.
Non-cycling options:
Explore our beautiful village, there’s plenty to see and explore, take some time to settle in or relax in the spacious grounds of our historic hotel. If you fancy being active, we have plenty of great walks and hikes we can suggest.
Alternatively, ask us for some options based on your personal interests, we have some great recommendations.
Vuelta Race: Huesca – Sabiñánigo 185.8km
We’ll catch the last hour of the race live on TV as the Vuelta heads north toward us.
Après Ride: 3 Course Welcome Dinner and Drinks.
Tonight we gather in the superb restaurant at our hotel for our welcome dinner and drinks. Our hotel and restaurant showcases a bygone era of opulent travel, the elegant restaurant is complete with wood floors, chandeliers, great local food, wine and service with an abundance of character
Accommodation:
Luxury 4 Star, Spa and Bike Hotel.
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Pricing
2026 Ultimate Vuelta a Espana Tour
Tour Dates:
7 Day Tour:
Day 0: Monday 7th September [Recommended arrival day.]
Tour Start Location: Vigo, Spain. Vigo Airport (VGO), Avenida do Aeroporto, or Vigo Urzáiz Train station
Day 1:Tuesday 8th September
Day 7: Monday 14th September
Tour Finish: Madrid
11 Day Tour:
*NB. Includes Spain’s most famous climb, the amazing Alto El Angliru.
Day 0: Thursday 3rd September [Recommended arrival day.]
Tour Start Location: Oviedo, Spain [Aeropuerto de Asturias [Oviedo Airport], or Oviedo Train station, Asturias region.
Day 1: Friday 4th September
Day 11: Monday 14th September:
Tour Finish: Madrid
Tour Pricing:
A $750 AUD Advanced Booking deposit (Approximately $550 USD – £400 GBP – €465 EUR) secures your position on the tour.
7 Day Tour:
2026 Tour Pricing $6475 AUD (Approximately $4250 USD – £3150 GBP – €3600 EUR price is per person (twin-share).
Single Room Supplement Price $975 AUD ((Approximately $480 USD) applies for guests who are travelling individually or prefer a room for themselves.
11 Day Tour:
2026 Tour Pricing $8750 AUD (Approximately $5600 USD – £4200 GBP – €4900 EUR price is per person (twin-share).
Single Room Supplement Price $1250 AUD ((Approximately $820 USD) applies for guests who are travelling individually or prefer a room for themselves.
ROOMS / SINGLE SUPPLEMENT
* Our twin share prices are per person based on two people ie couples, partners, family, friends sharing one room. If you are travelling alone, you’ll be allocated a room to yourself by paying the additional single room supplement.
Book now! or contact us for more details.
*Note, each of our Ultimate Vuelta A Espana tour itineraries is new – unique each year, we adjust to each new Vuelta racecourse route every edition. We use our experience to maximise your vacation, riding, transfer less and include the best, strategic race viewing points for cyclists and non-cyclists.
We’ll keep everyone on our “Advanced Booking” list updated as the race organisation provides us with additional official information on the race route for 2026.
Our “Itinerary in Brief” outlines your tour dates, the program and the locations/regions we visit and see the race, this allows you to forge ahead to confirm your travel arrangements, and plans.
Contact Us to take a look at our 2026 Vuelta Itinerary in brief, or one of our previous Vuelta itineraries, it’ll give you a great indication of how your 2026 Ultimate Vuelta A Espana cycling vacation will look and feel, on and off the bike.
We highly recommend arriving/meeting at our Pre-Tour Team Hotel [Day 0] the day prior to our official tour start on Day 1. Arriving early, pre-tour is also a great chance to explore the wonders of our local area, it will also assist you with adjusting to the local time zone, reduce travel stress, and have you in great shape for the action-packed tour start. Ask us how and we can take care of Day 0 Hotel – pre tour booking details for you.
Payment Options
ROOMS – ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
As always we have varied room options for our guests depending on your preferences. Choose between double, single and twin share options, list price is for double and twin share rooms per person. If you are travelling alone you’ll have a room to yourself by paying the additional single room supplement.
*Indicative pricing for 2026 La Vuelta tours is based on pricing of our 2026 La Vuelta tours. Final pricing to be confirmed with guests as soon as the race organisation provides us with all of the final event details.
Let us know if you’d like us to send a previous Vuelta a Espana Tour itinerary. It’ll give you a great indication of the look and feel of the tour – on and off the bike. Feel free to give us a call, email or video call we’re here to help. Contact Us Now
YOUR HOSTS
phil anderson
You’ll spend the famous race days of the Tour of Flanders and Paris Roubaix on a VIP experience with Phil Anderson as we follow the races in our vehicles. Champagne – gourmet picnic lunch’s included enroute during both classics.
Phil was based in Belgium for much of his early pro cycling career, he was passionate about doing well in these early season Spring Classics races, including winning the Amstel Gold Race, 2nd at the Tour of Flanders and many podium places in the one-day monument races.
Our experience allows us to see the races at multiple viewing points en route, including being at the finish of the Paris – Roubaix in the velodrome.
PAT FITZPATRICK
Director of Ride International Tours – With a keen passion for improving riders fitness and technique in Road biking, MTB, Gravel and Cx riding. Originally Pat hails from Adelaide, South Australia, but resides half the year in Brunswick, Melbourne Australia – The balance of the year is spent in Europe hosting tours, while in Europe he's based out of lovely small medieval Spanish village, Solsona near the Pyrenees mountains.
When not on tour, Dadding is the priority - doing the bins, clothes washing, dishes and cleaning up after our very energetic young twin daughters.
Riding and racing from when I could walk, racing since the age of 7. BMX, Motorcross, Mountainbike XC, Downhill, 4cross, Road and criterium racing. Coaching and improving riders in their fitness and technique since 1997
OUR GUEST REVIEWS
“Both Pat and Grace have excellent people skills, they build relationships quickly, they were always well organised with itineraries or plans for the day re weather, road changes, or unexpected issues that arose. Hard work from them made our tour of two weeks a dream holiday along with all the extra drama of the biggest cycling race in the world.”
“Thanks very much for a highly enjoyable and excellently run tour. You and your team certainly exceeded my expectations, not only with the rides but local knowledge which helped make life simple.”
“It is the small things that you guys do behind the scenes that makes all the difference. It was an amazing experience to ride in Italy and experience the Giro first hand. Thanks again and looking forward to the next tour.”
“I first met Pat and Grace on a cycling tour in Europe in 2013. Pat and Grace make the perfect team to run these types of tours, both are friendly, bubbly and outgoing in their personalities and each bring their own invaluable skills to touring with a group.”
“Wow, two of the greatest tour guides I know. Knowledgeable, multilingual, always helpful, a great team to handle your once in a life time tour. I’ve done at least 4 two-week cycle tours with one or both of this husband wife team. Every one has been extraordinary. You will not go wrong with one of these two as your tour coordinators.”
Advance Bookings:
We open up our Advance Reservations for trips early so you can book and plan well ahead. We guarantee your position by booking prior. If you’d like to organise and book your trip further out than the dates/years we have listed on our website, please contact us via email, phone, & or video call and we’ll arrange everything so you can place an advanced booking.
An advance booking, accompanied by a fully refundable $750 AUD (Australian Dollar) ensures priority booking status when the trip details are announced. Note, an advance booking is not considered final until payment is received.
Once specific trip itinerary details are finalized, we’ll contact everyone on the advance reservation list via email, we’ll include the itinerary and offer a priority booking position before opening up bookings to the wider community.
If a trip fills – as it often does in the advance bookings, we create a waiting list and then offer reservations on a first-come, first-serve basis (based on the date the advance reservation was made) once our advanced booking guest have finalised.
To cancel an advance reservation a cancellation request must be submitted in writing/ via email within 10 days of the trip details being published. The (AUD) $750 advance reservation payment will be immediately refunded for any cancellation received within this 10-day period.
Travel Insurance:
As a Ride International Tour participant, it is compulsory to have your own travel insurance. We recommend activating your travel insurance as soon as you’ve placed your booking deposit to ensure you are covered from the outset. Please ensure that your policy includes coverage for:
- Cancellation charges
- Medical expenses in the event of an accident or illness.
- Baggage
- Cycling activities and associated risks
- Cycling equipment
We encourage each participant on our tours to contact your travel agent, and or travel insurance provider directly. Your travel insurance experts are best equipped to provide clarification, recommendations for best providers and or further information on the cover that suits your specific needs.
Final Payments:
Please Note: Our Tour de France Tours, and various other tours operate in the “Peak European Travel Season” each year. Our Tour de France tours take place in the regions, towns and city’s in the vicinity of the Tour de France, hence it’s considered “Ultra Peak Season” by our suppliers.
Our suppliers engage their special conditions during “Ultra Peak Travel Season”, including non-refundable payments for bookings to secure the needs to operate our Tour de France tours.
Our Tour de France tours require payment conditions which include a 50% tour progress payment once we supply our tour “Itinerary in Brief”. We forward your first progress payment invoice/s via email, these tour progress payments made to Ride International to secure your position/s on the tour are non-refundable by our suppliers.
Travel Insurance is compulsory for guests on all our tours, should you need to cancel your tour once your tour progress payment/s have been made, contact us via email to notify us of your intention to cancel. We can provide you with written confirmation that your tour position/s have been cancelled, this confirmation of cancellation can then be forwarded by guests onto your travel insurance provider for their consideration.
The balance of your tour payment/s is due no later than 150 days prior to your tour departure date, we will forward via email your final payment invoice. You can choose to make full payment earlier if you prefer to finalise your trip payment early, contact us and we will arrange for an invoice to be sent.
What if I have to transfer, change or cancel my trip:
We understand you may not be able to go on your tour, you have the option to cancel, change or transfer due to personal or medical reasons if you’ve paid a tour advance booking deposit, and or it’s within 10 days of receiving your tour “Itinerary in Brief. Post the 10 day period after you have received your “Itinerary in Brief”, tour payments, progress payments are considered final, non-refundable. If you have a question give us a call or email.
Due to the high demand, limited hotel availability and the advance payments expected by our hotels, various suppliers, and restaurants we use, the following cancellation conditions apply to all of our trips.
AFTER BOOKING, IF YOU CANCEL:
| Prior to 150 days before to departure | 50% cancellation fee of the tour price |
| 149 – 61 days prior to departure | 75% cancellation fee of the tour price |
| 60 days and less prior to departure | 100% cancellation fee of the trip price |
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ABOUT US
We are a passionate family business that prides itself on hosting exceptional cycling vacations since 2007.
Whether it’s your first time cycling abroad, or you’re an experienced rouleur, our team takes care of all the details on and off the bike to create wonderful travel experiences.
