Guided hiking trips - inn-to-inn

Try Backroads or Butterfield and Robinson. I done a couple of trips with Backroads and enjoyed it immensely.

Thanks, Grosenb.

Nice, but rather pricey (e.g. a 1-week walking tour on the Amalfi Coast in Italy for $9,300 p/p, not including air.)

If traveling with group,you might like to look into:
www:ramblersholidays.co.uk
http://www.hfholidays.co.uk/

If independent, www.inntravel.co.uk

sorry, should be: http://www.ramblersholidays.co.uk/

Another very popular thing to do with groups are bike tours. Lots of good bike tours available especially along the Donau and Main.

In Norway website http://www.turistforeningen.no/english/

Have a look at the offers found on the following site

www.wanderdoefer.at

We have done 7 hiking trips with The Wayfarers--England, Ireland and France. They do many more countries. Not the cheapest, but not too expensive either.

I missed you wanting luggage transport, then my suggestion would be out, in Norway we carry our own backpacked when mountain hiking

If you want to go with a group, REI Adventures, Country Walkers, and Mountain Travel Sobek all offer moderately-priced hiking tours in the Alps, Dolomites, and Pyrenees. Some are village-based, but the Tour de Mont Blanc and Walker's Haute Route (from Mont Blanc to Zermatt) are inn to inn These would be in the "moderate to strenuous" category.

We hike indenpendently, but I have looked at the itineraries offered by these 3 companies and they all look nice.

If you want to go independently but with luggage transport, several tourist bureaus in Switzerland will organize it for you. Such as this on in the Valais region:

http://www.sierre-anniviers.ch/en/Activities/Summer/Summer-Hiking/

LLindaC, who often posts here, did this with her husband 2 summers ago (or was it 3?), and wrote a great trip report on it.

Several companies are represented by Adventure Center.

www.adventurecenter.com

We just did Bovec, Slovenia and thought it was great. Its 100 percent an outdoor town. The Soca River valley is beautiful. Went rafting with our kids 10 and 12, so you could easily do that. The gorges are incredible and the countryside. Triglav National Park is right above Bovec. We drove down from Austria, its also not too far from Venice. Food is pretty good, fresh trout and some Italian fare. You can head over to Bled and hike around there as well. Vintgar gorge is pretty.
We stayed at a little b and b in town called Starey Kovac, it was great and the outfitters there in town all speak english and use the web.

I'm looking to do something similar next summer. I found this company, Ryder-Walker, but it looks rather pricey. However, you can do self-guided or guided tours and get your luggage transferred either way.

http://www.ryderwalker.com/

Norway is a stunning alpine option, especially with the midnight sun allowing for hiking genuinely all day long. The Lyngen Alps are phenomenal and alpine.

The below website shows you the type of day-hikes you can do around the country. Very alpine. Easiest to do independently (with car), and then stay at various nearby cabins.

Norway fjords hiking -
http://thenorwayfjords.com/Hiking.html

Lyngen Alps, Norway -
http://thenorwayfjords.com/Lyngen-Alps.html

Our family of three has done seven self-guided walking trips in Europe: the Cotwolds, Alsace, Coast-to-Coast in Northern England, the Alpine Pass in Switzerland, Kerry Way in Ireland, Robert Louis Stevenson trail in France, and the Dordogne and Lot in France. This is a great way to see the countryside and experience more remote areas that most tourists don't see.

We have booked trips through Cotswolds Walking Holidays, Sherpa Walking Holidays, and Sentiers de France. I'd recommend all three. The first two are British companies and the last is French. We've been very pleased with our accommodations. On some trips dinner is included in the price all or most nights.

http://www.cotswoldwalks.com/
http://www.sherpa-walking-holidays.co.uk
http://www.sentiersdefrance.com/

The self-guided approach works really well for us. We like having someone else organize our accommodations and luggage transfer, but we prefer to be independent. We do like the routes that are more standard, where with you have a chance to interact with other walkers. After doing a couple of longer trips, we now find that a one week walk is too short for us.

Kathy