Has anyone done a self-guided bike tour in the Cotswolds recently?

I'm looking at some four-day tours offered by various companies in the area. We would like to go in July and stay at B&Bs.

Thanks in advance!

Any experience with this? Did you enjoy it? Any recommendations?

Thanks!

Can't help you w/ tour info. But to me it really doesn't make a lot of sense to pay a company to organize a bike trip in the Cotswolds -- when you can rent a cottage or stay in a B&B in any village and hire bikes and just ride.

Sure you may not get the relief wagon tagging along - but when you say "self guided" it doesn't sound like it is a group tour w/ relief anyway.

That is just MHO. . . . . . .

Janis, thanks for your opinion. Last year we explored Northern and Southern Devon by car. I thought this year we could do something different. Will do more research.

Didn't intend to discourage - maybe someone will have bike tour info for you. I just meant that almost half of the cottages I've rented in the Cotswolds have had bikes available - and there are bike hire companies in several Cotswold towns.

So you can still bike through the Cotswolds - just me personally, I would do it independently. That way on that horrible stormy day you wouldn't have to slog to the next village in a downpour - you could stay in your warm cottage planning the next day's ride.