Overview
Escapades is a small company that provides high quality trips in very special places in America with spectacular scenery and distinctive local culture. On Escapades’ trips, you will bike on quiet roads, learn about the area and enjoy the best local accommodation and food. Their trips are fully supported and their experienced, local guides are trained to provide friendly service and information about the local communities they visit.
Bike Trips for All Seasons in Places of Cultural Interest in the USA
Escapades’ "Bike Trips For All Seasons" series provides trips at most times of the year to suit the seasonal needs of individual bikers. The visits are planned to allow you to visit distinct cultural areas in the USA at peak season: sunny Arizona and the California Anza Borrego Desert in bloom in February, azaleas on the Georgia Coast in March, the world famous cherry blossoms on DC/ Virginia Hunt Country Trip and wildflowers in the Texas Hill Country in April, summer by the sea on the Maine Mid-Coast in July and August and the Fall Foliage in the Hudson River and the wine harvest in Southern California in October.
Personal Attention to Each Guest
The trips are tailored to meet the needs of each person, combining biking alternatives of differing distances with other activities for those who would prefer to combine biking with hiking, kayaking, visiting art galleries or just relaxing. These trips are deliberately kept small to assure personal attention to guests. Escapades’ guides are from the area you will be visiting and will give you the inside story on what is happening there. The accommodations are carefully selected to provide inns and B&Bs that are comfortable and consistent with the ambiance of the region.
Convenience and Cost
Most Escapades trips are timed to allow you to enjoy a fabulous bike trip and to be back home in a week. Escapades trips are almost always far less expensive than those of larger tour companies and frequently of higher quality. The reason for this is that Escapades is a small, consumer-friendly company with low overheads and margins that focuses on making first class trips affordable to as large a range of people as possible.
And You Will Be Giving!
All after-tax profits of Escapades are donated to New Futures, a non-profit organization providing scholarships to low-income youth for post-secondary education.
Affiliations
- Washington Area Biking Association
- Potomac Peddlers
- Maine Biking Coalition
Payments Accepted
- American Express
- MasterCard
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Cancellation Policy
Escapades will refund all but $200 of your deposit or other payments made to them if you cancel at any time up to six weeks before the start of the trip. Because of hotel cancellation policies and other logistical considerations, they will not refund your deposit or any other payments if you cancel for any reason six weeks or less before the start of the trip. In the unlikely event that Escapades cancels your trip, all payments made by you to Escapades for this trip will be refunded in full.
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