Cantabria Coast in Spain

Green Spain Cantabria Coast, Isla 6 Days

This region is another stunningly scenic part of Green Spain between The Basque Country and Asturias. Rolling meadows, orchards, wooded reservations, criss crossed by streams and rivers and looming behind the coast is the Cantabrican Cordillera on which sits the Picos de Europa range, the first sighting of Europe for the returning Spanish explorers of years gone by. All along the coast are rugged outcrops or little rivers coming down from the mountains dividing the golden beaches. Our base is the 4* Hotel Olimpo which overlooks a sandy beach giving out to the Atlantic Ocean at. Spacious and comfortable rooms, good food and a friendly welcome are the basic requirements from any hotel and this modern hotel, which we first visited about 17 years ago, has all this in abundance.We’re very pleased to be making a return and we’ll know that you will get superb value-for-money.

We set off from Bath and pick up as indicated below en route to Plymouth. Here we catch the 1600 sailing to Santander. When we land in Spain on Monday at 1230 we drive out of the city and eastwards into Cantabria.
We will reach the hotel after about 30/45 minutes and will check in for three nights . After checking in, lunch will be served. The rest of the day is then free to explore the small village of Isla. In the evening there’s a welcome party with sangria before dinner.
Next day we will head westwards and start to climb up the Besaya Valley to Reinosa, a mountain town at the entrance to the ski slopes where we will stop for a while.
We now cross the Ebro Dam to the summit of the Pas Valley and make a descent admiring its stunning scenery. Our final halt is at Puente Viesgo, a small spa village. Returning to the hotel we have dinner.
On Wednesday we travel to the fishing port and resort of Laredo where we pass the morning. This is an extremely popular holiday resort for the Spanish with a colossal sandy beach stretching for miles. There’s an old Quarter in addition to the modern shopping district. In the afternoon we return to the hotel by way of Santoña where we stop for sightseeing in the town. We now continue to Isla and have dinner at the hotel.
We leave on Thursday and make our way to the Hypermarket on the outskirts of Santander and then some final sightseeing before boarding for the 1500 sailing to Plymouth. We reach England at 0930 on Friday and the coach then returns to the original pick up points.

The cost includes: all travel by executive coach; ferry crossing with 2-berth cabin ; three nights at a 4* hotel with buffet breakfast and dinner with wine(choice of main course), lunch; all excursions

Departure date

Dates	Price
*October 3rd	£389

* Jazz Tour with the Panama Jazz Band(only 3 rooms now available,no singles) See Jazz Tours

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Pick up points:
Bath - Bristol – Taunton – Exeter - Newton Abbot - Plymouth