Highlights of Kattegattleden Bike Tour
8 days / 7 nights
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Highlights
- Walk the rhododendron gardens of Sofiero Palace on your first morning
- Round the Kullaberg peninsula from Mölle, the coast's one real headland
- Ride twelve kilometres of sand at Mellbystrand, the longest beach in Sweden
- Swim at Tylösand, where the beach runs for kilometres under the pines
- Take a cold dip and a sauna at Varberg's bathhouse on stilts
- Finish in Gothenburg through Haga's wooden houses and harbour cafés
What’s included in the price?
Self-guided
Those who like good adventure and limitless flexibility should go on a self-guided cycling holiday. It offers complete freedom, multiple detour opportunities, and exploration at your own pace without having to adapt to a group.
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OPTIONAL EXTRAS
Carefully selected 3- and 4-star hotels, guesthouses, and B&Bs, all with private en-suite rooms and breakfast included. Expect comfortable, well-appointed rooms with attentive hospitality, typically in convenient and scenic locations — some properties also offer on-site dining.
These are examples of the type and standard you can expect. Actual properties may vary depending on availability.
Every cycling country has one route that everyone rides first. In Sweden it is the Kattegattleden, the national cycle route that opened in 2015 along the west coast and gave the country a signed, mostly car-free path from Helsingborg to Gothenburg. We ride it in six days, a beach town every night.
The riding is easy. Apart from the Kullaberg headland on the first day and the Hallandsås ridge on the second, the path is flat, paved, close to the sea: old railway embankments through pine forest, promenades along town beaches, small roads between fields and fishing harbours. The wind decides how hard a day feels, which is the argument for an e-bike, and every stage ends with a swim.
The towns carry the week. Helsingborg with its royal gardens at Sofiero; Halmstad with the long beach at Tylösand; Falkenberg, where salmon run up the river under a stone bridge; Varberg, with a moated fortress and a cold-water bathhouse on stilts that has been the town's ritual since 1903; and Gothenburg at the end, a harbour city that rewards a bike more than a car.
Six riding days cover 334 km, from 37 to 74 km a day, with the longest stage first.
You ride it self-guided: hotels booked, bags moved every day, the route on your phone and a support line for anything the road throws at you. Bring your own bike or add one of ours when you book: a trekking bike, a gravel bike, or an e-bike, which is worth it in a headwind.
The beds are mostly small-town hotels, but this is a coast of guesthouses too: on one or two nights the address may be a bed and breakfast run from the family's own house. Where the house serves no dinner, we book you a table nearby or tell you where the locals eat.
Couples, friends of mixed fitness, first-time tourers: the coast has room for all of them.
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