| ABOUT US |
Our aim is to provide a responsive and personalised service to ensure you a have a pleasant peaceful holiday in our beautiful countryside. We are glad that all our customers have expressed their satisfaction with our service. See comments of previous customers. We are able make use of our local knowledge to be flexible to meet customers specific requirements.
OUR TEAM
Proprietor Robin Hogg has worked and resided in Dumfries and Galloway for nearly 50 years. Robin is assisted by Tommy, Callum, Tom, Tina, Brian and recently Bill who all vast array of skills and knowledge of different areas of the region. Tour guides Gavin and John are enthusiastic cyclists both in the region, in UK and abroad. We are developing our mountainbiking expertise with Bob, John and Steven keen mountainbikers.
Robin and colleagues have numerous friends and contacts throughout the region to call on to ensure we have up to date local knowledge of the best places to stay, eat or visit.
We are members of Dumfries and Galloway Tourist Board and have received Welcome Host training to augment our already excellent 'people' skills.
Robin contributes to Sustans, the National Cycle Route developers and is a member of CTC, the Cycling Tourists'Club.
As well as Castle Douglas Cycle Centre who supply and maintain our cycles, we liaise with G&G Cycles in Dumfries and Mark Da Prato Cycles in Newton Stewart who provide their local advice and assistance as required. |
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| OUR HISTORY |
Galloway Cycling Holidays is a developing business and has been in existence for 4 years. We are pleased with our progress during the past 4 years and have several ideas to develop niches and continue our development to provide a quality service to our customers.
We are pleased that our past customers have commented favourably about our service and regard this as important to check our progress and gain any learning points as we develop. |
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Robin at a Route Briefing |
| OUR EXPERIENCE |
We have extensive business knowledge as well as local knowledge of the geography, towns, villages and places of interest in the area. During our route selection process we have also obtained the advice of many locals, including postmen, countryside ranger and of course local cyclists. |
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| OUR BASE |
We are based in the thriving market town of Castle Douglas (pop.3600) which has its own loch - Carlingwark Loch. Castle Douglas is easy to reach, being by-passed by the A75 roadway, the main route between Carlisle in England and Stranraer, gateway to N. Ireland. The coast (Solway Firth) is only seven miles away to the south and the Galloway Hills, including the Galloway Forest Park is a similar distance to the north. The area is becoming increasingly popular with cycling groups. Most of our tours begin from our base in Castle Douglas. We would normally arrange to meet our customers once they have settled into their arranged accommodation. A welcome tour briefing is then carried out when the tour pack including map(s), itinerary and tourist leaflets of places on your tour are provided. We are pleased to be associated with Castle Douglas Cycle Centre in Castle Douglas who provide our cycles and ensure a high standard of maintenance. |
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