Team Marmot

Since 2004, the Marmot Tours experience has been crafted and honed by passionate and experienced cyclists, mountain experts, and outdoor enthusiasts. Over the years we’ve evolved, tweaked, and carefully developed our fully supported European road cycling holidays into a product that we’re immensely proud of. Everything we do is with a personal and attentive touch – whatever you need, we’ll do our very best to help.

We’re incredibly proud of our dedicated team. They are a remarkable bunch of people, from a variety of backgrounds but all with a wealth of experience and passion for the outdoors.

While we are experts in running group cycling holidays, we recognise that each rider has needs and goals unique to them, and our guides work tirelessly with this in mind. They genuinely care about supporting our riders as individuals on their cycling holiday, regardless of the challenge they have set themselves. 

While on the road, our guiding team has the unique ability to know just what you need and go the extra mile (sometimes literally) to deliver – whether that’s parking the van in strategic positions where they know you’ll need a breather or filling your water bottles to help you achieve your target time on the climb. It might be lending you one of our spare jackets if you've forgotten your own, or bringing you a track pump and tools when you need them on the road.

Our cyclists tell us these little touches add up and really mean a lot. Their ability to encourage you up those climbs, advise on tricky descents, support you with mechanical issues, or have a laugh over a few beers – they’re all crucial ingredients in the Marmot Tours mix. 

If you’d like to know more about guiding for us, head over to our page Working as a Marmot Tours Guide.

Our office team is no less committed in their quest to find you the perfect cycling holiday experience.  We’ve made a deliberate choice to not operate a transactional website: we strongly believe that the personal touch we offer in finding you the right cycling holiday is more valuable than if you clicked ‘BOOK’ from your phone in the middle of the night. Our client liaison team knows our itineraries like the back of their hand, and they’re on hand to answer all your queries by email. They're also at the end of the phone if you'd prefer a personal chat, whether that's because you're wondering whether you're fit enough, or had specific dates in mind and wanted to check availability.

We take planning seriously, and we mean, REALLY seriously! We leave no stone unturned in the preparation of your holiday. Our operations team are total planning ninjas – they live and breathe logistics – so that every eventuality is covered in the crafting and delivering of your cycling holiday. From the carefully planned airport transfers to the re-stocking of snacks and mechanical spares in our support vehicles. From our col profiles detailing elevation gain so you can prepare yourself with sufficient pre-trip training, to the RidewithGPS files and the Marmot app detailing all your daily route options and where you’ll see the next coffee stop. It’s our goal that all you need to think about is turning the pedals and enjoying the ride – we will have thought of everything else, so you don’t have to.