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Send your bike from Santiago to home with Tournride

June 18, 2010

In the constant effort of improving their services and to facilitate logistics to pilgrims from around the world, Tournride has released a new bicycle delivery service from Santiago. With this service, pilgrims from all over Europe arriving by bicycle can leave their bikes on the street Laverde Ruiz, 5, and our staff will provide everything that involves the return of the bike to their country of origin. Our company has specially designed boxes for pilgrims bikes who have done the Camino de Santiago, adaptable to almost any frame size, and even small sized boxes for bikes which have to be dismantled to be sent either by bus or car, or even by plane. The cost of these boxes is the most competitive and shipments are made by the higher quality companies in this area: SEUR and UPS for Spain and Europe. And don’t forget that you can get a 5% discount if you reserve your return one week ahead at least. The return of your bike for this Xacobeo year will be easier with Tournride.

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More than 4000 pilgrims arrived by bicycle on May 2010

June 17, 2010

The bike hire for doing the St. James Way with Tournride is being very succesful this Xacobeo year. Not only at Tournride,  according to the OAP (Pilgrims Reception Office), during the month of May of this 2010, 28.787 pilgrims have been received; 2004, past Holy Year they were 16.862. 4.042 of them have arrived by bicycle, which is more than 14%. According again to the OAP and Tournride data, Germans are the large group of pilgrims per country from the 11.523 foreigners that make the camino. Germany contributes 2.608 cyclist in May (22,63%); France, 1.398 (12,13%); Italy, 1.166 (10,12%); Portugal, 849 (7,37%); Netherlands, 443 (3,84%); Ireland, 443 (3,84%); Austria, 416 (3,61%); and United States, 409 (3,55%), among many others.

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5% discount for transport service for bookings one week before

June 1, 2010

At Tournride we’re improving all our processes and so we’re proud to announce a 5% of discount in all the bike returns to Europe.

This discount has been possible due to better transport scheduling, so it’s applied for transport reservations made one week before the bike arriving date. You can make the reservation through our website. Click here

For those who don’t know our service’s quality yet, we can say:

  • Self-designed box,wide enough to send your bike dismantling the minimum. A couple of easy operations and you will get your bike to ride again.
  • Dismantling and boxed by our mechanics, bike experts.
  • Shipping through leader companies to your home. Yes, to your home.

If you reserve you will also save time, since we’ll have all the data, and so you only will have to bring your bike and identify yourself.

This discount won’t be applied to all the reservations made before 2010 June, 1st.

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Tee Travel and Tournride together for Xacobeo 2010

May 21, 2010

On this Xacobeo year, both companies,Tournride and Tee Travel continue with the mutual collaboration on their pilgrim services. Tournride is the official bikes providerfor all of Tee Travel customers who decide for this way to arrive Santiago, and Tee Travel will provide complementary services to Tournride customers: acommodation, luggage transport between stages, aid car for groups and so on. Both companies encourage their customers to close the reservation with a prudential time, due to this special year in order to give the best service in these dates between which it’s foreseen than hundreds of thousands of pilgrims will come to Santiago by several routes.

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