• It may or may not be necessary to ride a bike between our Paris office and the station. If you are headed to your trip, any such ride will be accompanied by a Blue Marble guide. If you are returning from the trip, a detailed route description will be provided, using cycle lanes / paths and / or quiet streets (this can actually be a lot of fun). If luggage must be moved simultaneously, we will fund a taxi to do so.
• “Ride the Bike Train” discounts on trains to the trip are only available to guests who have spent the previous night in Paris, and who have good alarm clocks. The tickets are not refundable or exchangeable, and the reliability of our helpers must be absolute.
• You rarely travel alone on a cycle train. Often the Trip Coordinator or another Blue Marble employee shares your pain. Even when he isn’t there, we try to put at least two riders aboard each cycle train, so that they can help each other out (one moves the bikes while the other watches the luggage, for instance).
• There are a limited number of “Ride the Bike Train” discount tickets available per trip: as many as we need to subsidize to get the job done. But if you ask for one, and it’s not available, we’ll tell you, and let you pick a different train if you want to.
  
• Your responsibility for the bike(s) in your care is limited to the value of the discount you receive on your travel arrangements.

If this process scares you, it should. NO! What we meant to say is, don’t worry. We explain the trip carefully, everything always goes smoothly.... Kidding aside, we don’t ask you to do anything super-human. After all, they’re our bikes. You are never responsible for more than two, and we are grateful for the help.


How to Read the Access Table (below)

The Access Table lists every trip, with its start and end city. Click on the city name to open the page discussing that city (if there is no link, the package is currently being revised, and will be re-posted soon). This page...

• ...lists the closest airports to the trip start or end point, and...
• ...describes your choices for getting to or from the trip.

Puzzle through them (contact us if you need help). Then reply to this questionnaire. Even if you are getting to the trip start point under your own power, we are grateful for that information, as it means we can stop worrying about you. Finally, if you would like our help with air tickets, follow this link.