For the love of driving

What’s included?

  • 7 nights in a selection of 5* hotels and a beautiful 4* hotel. All include a daily buffet breakfast

  • Return crossings from Plymouth to Santander with 4 berth outside club cabin with TV, ensuite facilities

  • 3 course dinners included on 5 nights in the hotels with wine allocations and water

  • Private parking for your car each night.

  • 7 recced routes across the Pyrenees on pre programmed Sat-Navs for each car

  • Private 2 hour track session at Circuit Européen Pau-Arnos** (Supplements will Apply)

  • Loan of high powered radios for fun on the road during the tour

The Tour of the Pyrenees 2023 is a 9-night road trip (2 days on the ferry) that starts in Plymouth with a 22-hour mini cruise crossing on board the Pont Aven to Santander. The 1500-mile tour of the Pyrenees Mountains begins almost right off the ferry with a great section of road, just 30 km after you disembark.

The 7 routes we have put together for this event include some of the classic Cols in the Pyrenees and many of their lesser-known cousins! The roads to the south of the Pyrenees have been added to this tour giving us the option to dip in and out of the mountains on a great route. The passes over the mountains that we used on last year’s Coast to Coast tour have been reversed as well for 2023. This offers you a completely different perspective on the roads and scenery…. simply, what was in the rearview mirror in 2022, will be the vista through the windscreen in 2023.

The tour includes 7 nights in a fantastic selection of large and smaller boutique 5* hotels plus one 4* hotel, many of which have spa facilities perfect for that massage after a tough day behind the wheel. There will be group dinners on 5 of the 7 nights at the hotels including wine allocations and breakfast each day at all the hotels.

We plan to spend a couple of hours on track at a private session on the beautiful circuit Européen Pau-Arnos. This is not to be confused with the street circuit that runs past the front of our hotel. This is the 3km long circuit just north of the city that has some fantastic undulations and corner compilations that will certainly take more than 2 hours to master, but we can have some great fun trying! (Helmets are available to hire).

Tour of the Pyrenees 2023

7 days of driving the southern and central routes around the Pyrenees including lots of the best-known roads and cols as well as many of their lesser-known cousins.

Tour of the Pyrenees 2023 route map
Tour of the Pyrenees 2023 route map

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The full tour cost of £5400 is based on 2 people sharing a double or a twin room and includes all the items listed in the features section above. The single occupancy price is £4900.

** Please Note: A small supplement may apply for the track session. At the time of launching the event, we are still awaiting full costings for the track hire.

If you wish to secure a place on our starting grid, please fill out the entry form below, and we will send you a deposit invoice for £1500. This will secure your booking, with the remainder of the balance due no later than 90 days before the tour departs. Please note: If the event takes place as planned and the outstanding balance is not paid, it will result in your trip being cancelled and your deposit of £1500 being lost.

By paying the deposit to GTTourz Ltd you are confirming that you have read and understood our Terms & Conditions and refund policy. We advise you to take out suitable travel insurance at the time of booking to cover all eventualities resulting in you having to cancel the tour for any reason.

The tour price does not include:

  • Any Pre or Post tour extensions
  • Road tolls
  • Fuel and Insurance
  • Food and drinks other than those items stated
  • Spa treatments
  • Hotel extras

T&C’s for this event: The Tour of the Pyrenees 2023 is an exclusive event limited to a maximum of 12 cars. Please be aware that GTTourz Ltd reserves the right to cancel the tour if we do not reach the minimum number of cars (6) or for any other reasons listed in the T’s & C’s. If this occurs, we will offer a full refund or a place on an alternative tour of your liking (subject to availability).

Please also note: Hotel and restaurant choices may change if unforeseen problems arise. Should this occur, GTTourz Ltd will endeavour to book the equivalent accommodation and venues and notify all participants of any changes at the earliest opportunity. GTTourz Ltd tours are social driving adventures and are not fully guided tours, races, rallies, time trials, or competitive events in any way.

Itinerary

Tour of the Pyrenees 2023

Wednesday 3rd May | Arrive at Plymouth: Ferry crossing to Santander in a 4-berth club class cabin with a window. The last check-in time will be 11:00am for a departure at 12:15pm. Please note the boat will leave without you if you’re not checked in on time, so please allow yourself plenty of time to get to Plymouth.

Thursday 4th May | 5.5 hour drive 365km: Disembark the boat in Santander at 10am. As we don’t want to miss a day on these epic roads the route heads into the mountains just 30km outside the city on a great pass that will get you warmed up, and ready for the week ahead. The route then takes you through the mountains of Cantabria to the historic Spanish city of Pamplona where we will check in slightly later than normal due to the late start, but the roads are more than worth it!

Friday 5th May | 5.5 hour drive 340km: The Journey East across the Pyrenees on day 2 to Boltana includes some fantastic less well-known cols just north of our hotel, that offer great driving challenges to tick off before stopping for coffee. Couple these with some better known parts of the N260 in the afternoon before arriving at the hotel, and you have all the ingredients for a fabulous day on the road.

Saturday 6th May | 6 hour drive 385km: The route across to our most easterly hotel is a fantastic mix of passes and open fast roads that include a new favourite to do before lunch that we discovered on the recce. It was that good we had to turn around and do it again! The end of the day includes a very technical stretch of road across to Ripol, before we drive down to Hotel Camiral, a member of the ‘Leading Hotels of the World’ group, for a chance to take in some evening sun around the pool terrace overlooking the PGA Golf course!

Sunday 7th May | 5.5 hour drive 285km: The tour heads north across 3 countries on day 4 to the tiny principality of Andorra, on some well-known passes including the Collada De Toses, and Port d’Envalira, before reaching a couple of lesser known passes on route to our hotel in the centre of Andorra La Vella. Once in the hotel you will have a free night to eat where you like and shop till you drop in the duty free capital of the Pyrenees.

Monday 8th May | 5.5 Hour Drive 340km: Day 5 will be the start of the journey west on route to Pau, and following the feedback from last year’s tour, we are staying at this lovely hotel for 2 nights. The route includes some of the best roads in the Pyrenees that commence as soon as we leave Andorra, on a great section of the N260. This is followed by one of our personal favourites, Port de la Bonaigua en route to the lunch stop. The afternoon includes tackling the Col du Portillon and the Col de Peyresourde, as well as some lovely sections of link roads before we head onto the motorway, one of the very few sections on this tour, to reach our hotel on the side of the historic Pau road circuit.

Tuesday 9th May | 3.5 Hour drive 180km plus track session at Pau Circuit: Day 6 we have planned a scenic route around some of the Pyrenee’s more well-known passes that include the beautiful Col De Soulor and the Col d’Aubisque, definitely 2 passes that are not for testing your left foot braking techniques. Alternatively, the 2-night stay in Pau offers a chance to have a lie-in and maybe have a Spa morning ahead of a late afternoon track session at the Pau and Arno’s circuit**.

Wednesday 10th May | 5.5 Hour drive 270 km: The final day of proper driving heading across to Biarritz has a great mix of roads that begin with some technical passes before opening out onto some fast-flowing roads that include the Col de la Pierre Saint-Martin and Col de Belagua. The final night’s hotel in the beautiful coastal city of Biarritz overlooking the beaches of Miramar offers you a chance to relax and have a beer sitting by the lovely heated outdoor pool, ahead of the final night’s group dinner.

Thursday 11th May | 2.5 hours 245km: The final drive back to Santander to catch the ferry for a 1:30pm departure will get underway at 8:30am, and sadly this time we will have to take the direct route, as the ferry will leave without us if we don’t make it on time. The 22-hour crossing back to Plymouth offers you plenty of time to relax and enjoy a few beers and chat over the week’s tour with some new friends.

Friday 12th May | Grab breakfast on the ferry ahead of disembarking the boat at 10:00am

Please note: Routes and exact timings are just a guide to the day’s routes and are subject to change.

** Please Note: A small supplement may apply for the track session. At the time of launching the event, we are still awaiting full costings for the track hire.

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