Cycling holiday suggestions

Malaga, coastline and mountains.

Fly into Santander and take your pick, east into the basque country or west along the cantabrian coast towards Oviedo/Gijon. You have the beautiful coastline and within 10 km you can be up 1000m into Pico's De Europa. Towns like Ribadasella, Llanes or Cangas Di Onis are gorgeous and cheap as chips to stay and eat in

Biarritz to Girona or Collioure. Don't waste your time with the rolling stuff - you'll look back on any mix-n-match holiday and remember the big cols best. So just do the Pyrenees, end to end. Easy flights, great food, quiet roads with good surfaces...

WRT the Costa Verde (N coast of Spain)...it's nice, but not NEARLY as nice as the Pyrenees, even if it does let you do the Angliru and Covadonga. Also, it's not Verde for nothing - weather and wind are more of an issue there, than in the Pyrenees (in my experience, which may not be statistically robust!).

I would second @Daroxtar suggestion. Obviously I am biased as I am from there myself.

If I was going to the North-west of Spain I would make sure to do some good ground work research. I wouldnt do Angliru or even Covadonga (unless you are determined to do them). Much nicer climbs around, which are not dead ends, with much nicer views.

About the weather. It is predominately mild which is great for cycling, and why most people from the south of Spain come to the north to cycle in the summer. I've never found wind to be an issue in the summer (or even in the winter) and it rains one day a week in average.

Someone suggested Camino de Santiago above. Depending on the type of cycling which you are looking for, isnt a bad option. But I personally find it pretty boring! :-) Best of the views/places to view are off the Camino. But hey.....it is still a nice experience to do it!

I have rode the Camino on road a couple of times with the help of the excellent book " The way of St James, a cyclists guide" by John Higginson. While I agree that parts are boring I think it is an ideal cycling holiday for anyone relatively new to cycle touring. Accomodation is plentiful, food is cheap, it is well marked and most importantly there are cheap flights to Biarritz and back from Santiago. A bonus in Santiago is that there is a bike shop that will pack your bike and organise a taxi to the airport. First day is nice from Jean Pied a Port over the Pyrenees and then all the way to Burgos is pleasant Then you are on the Meseta for a couple of days which is the high plain of central Spain. Personally I enjoy the wide open spaces and remoteness of it. From Leon on you are into spectacular mountain scenery (and climbs) and then you have the final day or 2 in the rolling Galician hills. Santiago itself is a lovely city so while lacking any coastal scenery I wouldn't rule it out for a cycling holiday

brought our own bikes. Road bikes with saddlebags and handlebar bags. About 30 litres in total We booked our first night in St jean and our last night in Santiago. Otherwise we looked at booking .com the night before we were due to arrive in a town to get a feel for availability and then usually booked next morning for that night. It is approx 850km from Biarritz to Santiago and we have done it in about 8 days both times

Was looking for similar but needed something for the family as well so a friend suggested santa ponsa, I can head north for the climbs or east for some flatter roads, have a week in june booked.

Also if you've not been to tenerife it's unreal def one of the best place I've been cycling.

Surprised Gran Canaria hasnt been mentioned. Been twice and would head back in a heartbeat! Great routes where you get a good few climbs of varied difficulty, Pico de las Nieves, Valley of Tears, Lomo de Pedro Alfonso.

Have used these guys before for a couple of their holidays....