🚴 Twickenham Dads Peloton 🚴 Grand Départ · Arreau · Hautes-Pyrénées

Pyrénées
2027

Eight cols · Three days · Thirteen dads with something to prove

Thu 10 — Mon 14 June 2027
383km (long routes)
10,692m of climbing
2,215m highest point
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…until wheels roll. Ample time to build the legs. You'll start Tuesday. You always start Tuesday.

Read this bit at least

The Plan in 30 Seconds

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Maratona 2026 is in the bag and the group chat got cocky. So: the Pyrenees, where the Tour de France goes to sort the contenders from the content. Big house, big BBQ, three genuinely enormous rides. Every route has a shorter option for the sensible, and every col has a café at the bottom for the wise. Nobody is judging. Everybody is judging.

  • Dates: Thursday 10 → Monday 14 June 2027 Confirmed
  • Riders: 11 confirmed + 2 unconfirmed — see the startlist below 11 locked in
  • House: Les Écuries de Lisa, Arreau — 12 beds, ~£1,100 total for 4 nights Booked
  • Travel: fly (Lourdes/Toulouse) or drive/van from the UK TBC — travel group to follow
  • Riding: 3 days, long & short options each day Routes ridden & approved

You're in. Dates locked, startlist closed, no take-backs. The house is booked, a travel group is coming, and there'll be small deposits to square up. Training remains, as ever, entirely your own problem — but the Tourmalet keeps receipts.

Jerseys allocated · No transfers · No refunds · No mercy

Official Startlist

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  • Sandy F Host · Directeur Sportif · rode all the routes so you don't have to trust Strava
  • Brendon S
  • Gavin P
  • Hugo K
  • James “Gizzy” C
  • Jim P
  • Neil S
  • Pete E
  • Stuart K
  • Will M
  • James L
  • Richard L Unconfirmed
  • Andrew Unconfirmed

Eleven confirmed, two still negotiating with the home office. The gîte has twelve beds — it sleeps sixteen, but only if people double up — so for now we're comfortably squared away. Tip past twelve and the second-chalet conversation starts, unless it turns out everyone's fond of sharing after a hard day's riding. And a hard night's riding.

The Transfer Stage

Getting There

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✈️ Flying TBC

  • Toulouse — BA from Heathrow, 1h45 drive. Much better car hire, including commercial vans (the great lesson of Maratona). The 7am LHR flight has us in Arreau early afternoon Thursday; a late Sunday flight home is also possible.
  • Lourdes — Ryanair from Stansted, 1h drive. Closer, but it's Ryanair with a bike box. Happily, Lourdes is world-famous for miracles.
  • Hire cars need to be big enough for bike boxes — book early.

🚗 Driving TBC

  • ~11 hours from Calais. Long, but the bikes travel assembled and nobody has to negotiate with a Ryanair gate agent about a bike box.
  • Option A: rent a big van from London with volunteer drivers.
  • Option B: car-pool road trip — leave Wednesday night after work, motel in northern/middle France, arrive Thursday late afternoon.
  • Return: Sunday night, or Monday/Tuesday for those who can extend the pass from home.

A separate travel group will coordinate all of this. Check-in is 4pm Thursday — early arrivals can do the Lannemezan mega-shop on the way in and still make the Arreau market. Volunteer drivers will be showered with glory and first pick of the double rooms.

Village Départ · Les Écuries de Lisa

Base Camp: Arreau

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Les Écuries de Lisa — a large chalet with white balconies on the heights of Arreau, mountains behind Booked ✓
Les Écuries de Lisa · Heights of ArreauAspin that-a-way →
16sleeps
12actual beds
270m²house
3,000m²garden
150m²BBQ terrace

A 270 m² chalet built for sixteen, up in the Bouchède quarter on the heights of the village — which means thirteen dads will positively rattle around it. It looks over both the Aure and Louron valleys, so the balcony photo needs no filter. Everything below is translated from the owners' paperwork so nobody has to pretend they did French GCSE.

The one job — do this before we travel

Call Valérie in the 48 hours before arrival to agree our arrival time and the handover of keys. One phone call stands between the peloton and the beds. Make it, or picture thirteen dads and thirteen bike boxes on a gravel drive.

+33 6 08 72 44 91
Check-in · Thursday 10 June

4:00 PM ONWARDS

Conveniently after the Thursday morning market has packed up and the patisseries have restocked.

Check-out · Monday 14 June

2:00 PM SHARP

The departure checklist is below. Start it before the last coffee, not after.

The Address

Les Écuries de Lisa
9 rue Bouchède
65240 Arreau, France

Top of the village map, Bouchède quarter. Sat-nav it; do not attempt to navigate by feel after the Peyresourde.

→ The listing (gitesarreau.fr)

Problems During the Stay

Owners Jérôme & Laetitia — friendly, local, used to groups. Which is fortunate.

+33 6 30 37 22 81 +33 6 17 52 11 21

Wi-Fi throughout — network name and password handed over at check-in. One TV (123 cm, with DVD player), which covers Tour highlights and precisely nothing else.

What's Provided So don't pack it

  • Bed linen — included for our booking (sheets, duvets, pillows, all made up)
  • Kitchen basics — salt, pepper, oil, washing-up liquid, dishwasher tablets, tea towels
  • Firewood for the log burner, plus heating and electricity — all in the price
  • Cleaning kit — vacuum, products, washing machine and tumble dryer for four days of kit-washing
  • Towels — the one gap. On short stays they're an optional extra rather than standard. Bring a towel (and a swim towel for Balnéa and lake stops) unless told otherwise on WhatsApp.
  • Outdoor kit — plancha, BBQ, three terraces of tables and chairs, two sun loungers for the GC contenders

There's a €1,000 security deposit riding on the state we leave the place in — the full sporting regulations are below.

A Brief History of Arreau

Arreau (population 725, peak 1,593 in 1841 — everyone left before Strava) sits exactly where the Aure and Louron valleys meet, the Neste du Louron flowing into the Neste d'Aure in the middle of town. That crossroads position made it the historic capital of the Pays des Quatre Vallées and a proper market town: it grew rich on fairs and wool in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the Thursday market still runs today under the market hall — conveniently, we arrive on a Thursday.

  • Château des Nestes — 17th-century riverside château, once a commandery, now the tourist office and the Musée des Cagots, a museum about a mysteriously persecuted medieval Pyrenean outcast community. Genuinely strange. Worth ten minutes.
  • Maison des Lys — a late-16th-century half-timbered house with its facade carved all over in fleur-de-lys, protected as a historic monument since 1912. The lilies are said to reflect royal favour; nobody can name the king, which feels very French.
  • The town sits on a secondary Way of St James pilgrimage route through the Aure valley — so people have been suffering through these mountains voluntarily for about a thousand years. We're a tradition, not a midlife crisis.
  • The railway arrived on 1 August 1897, bringing spa tourists in search of restorative mountain air. It's long gone. You're the spa tourists now, and you've chosen a considerably stupider way to take the air.
Sleeping arrangements & kitchen inventory

The House

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Highlights: a 4-metre dining table, a log burner, a table football, and enough raclette hardware to constitute a cry for help.

12 beds 4 doubles + 8 singles = 12 riders sleeping solo. Sixteen only if the doubles get shared.
First floor — the GC rooms

4 double rooms, each with a 160 cm bed, wardrobe and 12 hangers. Doubles go to whoever committed first; snorers will find each other organically.

Second floor — the autobus

Dorm of 8 single beds (90 cm) under the eaves, with 4 wardrobes, Velux windows and blackout blinds for the truly committed sleeper.

Ground Floor

  • Kitchen, industrial-grade: two pyrolytic ovens, induction hob, two microwaves, American-style fridge-freezer, 16-place dishwasher, food processor, pressure cooker, stock pots and pans, island with 5 stools.
  • Coffee, all denominations: Nespresso, Senseo and filter machine, plus kettle, toasters and a citrus press for the vitamin-conscious.
  • Party hardware: 2 × raclette (8 pers each), 2 × crêpe makers, waffle maker, 2 × electric fondue sets with extension leads. Nobody planned this. It's simply available.
  • Dining room: one elm table, 4.1 metres long, 16 chairs. Team briefings happen here.
  • Lounge: log burner (wood supplied), 4 sofas, TV + DVD, USB dock, board games and a table football for settling disputes the road couldn't.
  • Utility room: washing machine, tumble dryer, spare fridge, vacuum, hanging rail — plus a third WC.

Upstairs Plumbing

  • Shower room with double basin, WC, heated towel rail, hairdryer.
  • Bathroom (with bath) — double basin, WC, fan-assisted towel rail, hairdryer.
  • Two 200-litre water heaters. Sixteen showers is a stage race: ride your own tempo, but ride it briefly.
  • Three WCs in total. Plan mornings like a team time trial.

Outside

  • South terrace, 150 m² — 3 tables, 16 chairs, 2 sun loungers, and the mountain view that justifies the entire trip.
  • Covered terrace — plancha, barbecue, 2 more tables and 16 more chairs: the post-stage debrief happens here, where gradients grow 2% per beer.
  • North terrace — 2 picnic tables for anyone in disgrace.
  • Electric shutters throughout and remote-controlled outdoor lighting, so the house is better equipped than most of our bikes.

Small Riders Dept. Also on site: 2 travel cots, 2 high chairs, a booster seat, a potty, and family card games — none of which should be required on this particular expedition, but it feels important that you know the potty is there.

Musette contents, from the owners' local intelligence

Feeding the Peloton

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Cooking is divvied up across the four nights — whoever takes night one sets the bar, whoever takes night four has to clear it. Lunches are out on the road; a croque monsieur at altitude is half the reason we're going. Here's where the raw materials live, plus the phone numbers for the nights ambition fails.

Supermarkets

ShopNotesFrom the house
Carrefour ContactArreauIn the village — daily top-ups on foot0 km
IntermarchéAncizanNearest proper supermarket~5 km
Carrefour Market + DriveBourispThe big shop, near Saint-Lary; order online, collect by car~10 km
Carrefour MontagneSaint-LaryHandy mid-ride resupply in town~12 km
Carrefour Market + DriveLannemezanOn the way in from the A64 — do the arrival mega-shop here~25 km

Arreau itself: butcher, patisseries and regional specialities you'll pretend to know about. 3 pubs, 2 restaurants — the restaurants are, officially, average. The patisseries are emphatically not. Budget your calories accordingly.

Takeaway, Delivery & Caterers For the nights the legs say no

Pizz'AdoreArreauPizzeria with a 24/7 pizza vending machine. An emergency service, and we will have emergencies.+33 7 81 91 13 16
Pizz'en AureSaint-LaryThe other pizza option, for range anxiety+33 5 62 39 84 72
Aux Petits OignonsAncizanCaterer — delivery or collection, proper cooked dinners+33 5 62 43 31 53
Chef Jules & NathAsian food truck, delivers to the door+33 6 86 78 42 78
Atelier Traiteur FermierGerFarm caterer, vacuum-packed dishes; delivers for group-sized orders — thirteen counts+33 6 99 71 40 94
La Cave à VinSaint-LaryWine shop doing Pyrenean raclette — the house owns two raclette machines; connect the dots+33 5 62 39 41 32
La GrangeSaint-LaryRestaurant, does takeaway+33 5 62 40 07 14
ICCSaint-LaryRestaurant, ditto+33 5 62 39 53 74
Histoire de GâteauAncizanGâteau à la broche — the Pyrenean spit-cake, made before your eyes. Visit, buy, carry home like a trophy.+33 6 70 90 17 75

Numbers are tap-to-call. Whoever orders the pizza at 11pm is, by ancient custom, exempt from washing up.

The Roadbook

Three Stages

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All three routes have been ridden and vetted by your host, so nobody gets to blame the map. They're long days, but with plenty of regrouping — after every major climb there's a designated lunch or drink stop, and nobody gets left behind. Routes can flex with the weather. The only non-negotiable: rolling by 9:30am. The mountains are indifferent to your hangover, and so is the lunch stop.

Stage 1 · Friday

The Tourmalet — Queen Stage

Arreau → Col d'Aspin → Bagnères-de-Bigorre → Argelès-Gazost → Luz-Saint-Sauveur → Col du Tourmalet → Hourquette d'Ancizan → Arreau

Straight in at the deep end: the most famous climb in Tour de France history, approached the classic way from Luz. Warm up over the Aspin, roll the valleys to Argelès, lunch, then settle in for 19km of legend. Home over the quiet, beautiful Hourquette d'Ancizan. Stage 6 of this year's Tour came through Arreau and straight over the Aspin–Tourmalet combo — Pogačar attacked 43km from the finish and soloed to yellow. We will be attacking the lunch stop instead.

Long 155 km · 3,895 m The full queen stage
Short 90 km · ~2,500 m Turn back at the top of the Tourmalet, home via Argelès-Gazost

📍 Strava route — Arreau → Tourmalet via Argelès

Stage 2 · Saturday

Lac de Cap-de-Long & Col du Portet

Arreau → Lac de Cap-de-Long → Saint-Lary-Soulan (food stop) → Col du Portet → Arreau

Two monsters that share a valley. First the road to the Cap-de-Long dam — a serious, spectacular climb to a glacial lake at 2,160m. If it's hot: lunch and a swim at the top. Then back down to Saint-Lary to refuel before the Col du Portet, the newest and arguably hardest summit finish in the Tour. Shorter day on paper. Only on paper.

Long 106 km · 3,122 m Both climbs, full menu
Short 74 km · ~1,800 m Pick your one monster

📍 Strava route — Arreau → Lac du Long → Col du Portet

Stage 3 · Sunday

Superbagnères & Azet

Arreau → Col de Peyresourde → Luchon → Superbagnères → Col d'Azet → Arreau

Over the Peyresourde to Luchon, then up to the Superbagnères ski station — the amphitheatre where LeMond and Hinault had their famous 1986 showdown. Coffee in Luchon, then home over the Col d'Azet, which is short, steep and entirely unreasonable for a final climb of the trip. That's why it's there.

Long 122 km · 3,675 m The full farewell
Short 101 km · 3,035 m Skip the Azet, retain the dignity

📍 Strava route — Arreau → Superbagnères → Azet → Arreau  ·  Alternative shorter day: swap in the Col de Peyresourde loop

Know Your Enemy

The Climbs

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< 4% 4–7% 7–10% 10–13% > 13%

Col d'Aspin

▲ 1,490 m

Stage 1 · From Arreau · The warm-up. Everything is relative.

335655678777701 m1490 m
12.4 kmlength 6.5%avg gradient 12.4%steepest 100m 802 mascent

🏆 71 Tour appearances since 1910 A first-Pyrenean-stage original. In 1950 spectators pelted the riders with bottles and stones here and the Italian team — Bartali included — quit the race in protest. The bar is low; just keep pedalling.

Starts from the front door, which neatly removes your last excuse. Gentle for 2km, then a steady 5–8% staircase with six hairpins. Worth remembering: this is the easy one.

→ Full climb details on climbfinder

Col du Tourmalet

▲ 2,115 m

Stage 1 · From Luz-Saint-Sauveur · The one you'll dine out on

477788887714 m2115 m
18.3 kmlength 7.7%avg gradient 11.7%steepest 100m 1,401 mascent

🏆 ≈90 crossings — the most of any climb in Tour history First crossed in 1910, when Octave Lapize pushed his bike over the top and called the organisers assassins. In 1913 Eugène Christophe snapped his fork on the descent and forged a new one himself in Sainte-Marie-de-Campan. Pogačar soloed over it to take yellow in this year's Tour.

18km at a metronomic 7–8%, exactly one merciful kilometre at Barèges, then a 9% ramp to finish. No tactics, no clever line, nowhere to hide — just you, your gearing choices, and the consequences of both.

→ Full climb details on climbfinder

Hourquette d'Ancizan

▲ 1,564 m

Stage 1 · From Campan via Payolle · The scenic way home

224434376–6664 m1564 m
22.5 kmlength 4.3%avg gradient 9.6%steepest 100m 966 mascent

🏆 6 Tour appearances — all since 2011 One of the Tour's newest Pyrenean roads: it didn't debut until 2011, mostly because nobody had bothered to surface it properly before. Quiet, beautiful, full of marmots.

14km of false flat during which you'll assure everyone you've recovered from the Tourmalet, then a 6–8% reminder that you have not. Features a cheeky mid-climb descent — a gift or a taunt, depending entirely on how your day has gone.

→ Full climb details on climbfinder

Lac de Cap-de-Long

▲ 2,161 m

Stage 2 · From Saint-Lary-Soulan · The one with the swim

24336877794846 m2161 m
22.2 kmlength 6.0%avg gradient 11.9%steepest 100m 1,318 mascent

🏆 0 Tour appearances — ever The only climb of the weekend the Tour has never touched, for the excellent reason that the road ends at a 100m-high dam holding back the biggest reservoir in the Pyrenees. No through road, no race. We're doing it anyway — it's higher than the Tourmalet, and if it's hot, lunch and a swim at the top.

Seven gentle valley kilometres to lull you into confidence, then a 10km core at 7–9% up to a glacial lake at 2,161m. A brutally serious climb dressed as a nice day out. Bring trunks; earn the swim.

→ Full climb details on climbfinder

Col du Portet

▲ 2,215 m

Stage 2 · From Saint-Lary-Soulan · The hardest thing here

8109108898819 m2215 m
16.1 kmlength 8.7%avg gradient 12.5%steepest 100m 1,395 mascent

🏆 2 Tour appearances — both summit finishes The Tour's newest monster: Quintana won its 2018 debut (the day Froome cracked), Pogačar won there in yellow in 2021. PJAMM rates it the second-hardest road climb in France — harder than the Tourmalet.

Opens at 10% and sees no particular reason to stop. One flat half-kilometre at the Espiaube hairpin — wave at it as it goes past — then relentless to 2,215m, the roof of the trip. Scheduled, with love, for the day after the Tourmalet.

→ Full climb details on climbfinder

Col de Peyresourde

▲ 1,569 m

Stage 3 · From Arreau · The commute to Luchon

321225778707 m1569 m
18.1 kmlength 4.8%avg gradient 10.0%steepest 100m 870 mascent

🏆 ≈70+ crossings since 1910 Part of the very first Pyrenean stage in 1910 — the Luchon–Bayonne 'Circle of Death'. In 2016 Chris Froome attacked over the top and descended into Luchon sitting on his top tube like a lunatic. Please don't.

Ten kilometres of cheerful chatting up the Louron valley, then seven kilometres of conspicuous silence at a sustained 7–8%. There is a crêpe shack at the summit. This is not a rumour, it is the entire plan.

→ Full climb details on climbfinder

Superbagnères

▲ 1,795 m

Stage 3 · From Bagnères-de-Luchon · The amphitheatre

255776869635 m1795 m
17.1 kmlength 6.8%avg gradient 11.2%steepest 100m 1,161 mascent

🏆 7 Tour summit finishes The stage where LeMond beat Hinault in their famous 1986 civil war, and where Robert Millar won in 1989. Back in the Tour in 2025 after 36 years (Arensman won, Pogačar in yellow). The gradient labels on the hotel switchbacks are printed on the road.

Irregular and sneaky — breathers at km 4 and 8 that lure you into spending matches, then an 8% run from km 11 and a 9% finish to the ski station. The views at the top are the second-best reward. The first is stopping.

→ Full climb details on climbfinder

Col d'Azet

▲ 1,580 m

Stage 3 · From Génos · The last word

88108668964 m1580 m
7.4 kmlength 8.3%avg gradient 11.5%steepest 100m 616 mascent

🏆 10 Tour appearances since 1997 Marco Pantani led over it on its 1997 debut. Next door is Val Louron, where Indurain took the first yellow jersey of his five-Tour reign in 1991. Short climb, long list of victims.

7.4km at 8.3%, as the final climb of the final day, with the first 4km all at 8–10%. Yes, it was put there on purpose. Complaints may be submitted to the management in writing, from the top.

→ Full climb details on climbfinder

The Evidence · 10–14 June, 2016–2025

What the Weather Actually Does

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No forecasting, no wishful thinking — here is what those exact five dates actually did for the last ten years running (50 days of data, Open-Meteo historical archive), down in the Arreau valley and up at summit level (~2,100m). Read it and pack like an adult.

🏡 In the Valley (705 m)

21° avg high · 12° avg low

  • Hottest trip-day: 31.7°C (2022)
  • Coldest daytime high: 10.9°C (2019 — grim)
  • Rain ≥1mm fell on 34 of the 50 days — mostly classic Pyrenean afternoon storms, not all-day soakers
  • Wettest single day: 31mm (2018)

⛰️ At the Summits (~2,100 m)

13° avg high · 4° avg low

  • It has been as warm as 22°C up top (2022, 2025)…
  • …and as cold as −9.7°C overnight (2019)
  • It snowed on 11 June 2019. Actual snow. In June.
  • Moral: pack the gilet and arm warmers even if the forecast promises beach. Descending 20km at 5°C in a summer jersey is character-building exactly once.

The Last Ten Editions

Average valley daytime high for 10–14 June each year. Roughly a 50/50 split between glorious and character-building. Feeling lucky?

201618.0°
201726.7°
201816.1°
201915.1°
202016.4°
202124.1°
202227.3°
202320.7°
202417.6°
202527.0°
Recovery, rest hours & the owners' activity book

When the Legs Are Cooked

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The owners left a whole booklet of things to do in the Aure and Louron valleys. Filtered here for a cycling trip: recovery first, everything else after.

Lakes & Easy Days

  • Lac de Loudenvielle — around the Balnéa baths: bike and scooter hire, lakeside walks, skate park, paragliding off the hill for anyone with adrenaline left over.
  • Agos leisure lake, Vielle-Aure — lake, playgrounds, skate park and trails, ten minutes down the valley.
  • Lac de Payolle — the picnic-perfect lake over the Aspin; we ride past it on Stage 1.
  • Néouvielle massif — proper high-mountain hiking among glacial lakes, for anyone who somehow wants more altitude.
  • Free tennis & multisport courts at the entrance to Saint-Lary, for settling what the table football couldn't.

Full Send Department

  • Moudang treetop rope courses — suspended forest circuits · +33 6 83 18 13 43
  • Le Repaire des Huskys, Arreau — meet a yard of huskies, in town · +33 6 62 15 25 26
  • Scenic flights over the Pyrenees — Croisi'Air, from Bagnères-de-Luchon: see Sunday's cols from a seated position · +33 7 49 02 19 85
  • Lannemezan adventure park — giant zipline and assorted fairground bravado, 25 km north.

Guides & Gear

Culture, Ten Minutes Of

Arreau's own sights — the Château des Nestes, the fleur-de-lys-carved Maison des Lys, the Thursday market hall — are all marked on the village map, conveniently walkable from an armchair-adjacent radius. The history bit up in Base Camp tells you what you're looking at.

Pack for the off-bike hours too: swim shorts (Balnéa, the lakes, a possible dip at Cap-de-Long), a towel of your own, walking shoes, and something warm for the terrace after dark — the house sits at 700 m and June evenings in the valley drop fast. It has, historically, snowed up top in this exact week.

The sporting regulations — as issued by the commissaires (Jérôme & Laetitia)

Ride Nice, Get the Deposit Back

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A €1,000 security deposit is riding on our conduct, returned in the week after departure once the owners have inspected the house. The rules are short, the deductions are real, and the neighbours are permanent residents.

Noise

Past a reasonable hour, music down and voices with it — the neighbours live here all year and have heard every version of "one more won't hurt". The terrace carries sound down the valley beautifully. So will you.

Smoking

Strictly outside only. Ashtrays are provided on the terraces. Anyone smoking indoors funds the deposit shortfall personally and descends the Azet on a hybrid.

Bins & Recycling

Two wheelie containers in the street: one for plastic packaging & cardboard, one for general waste. A glass bank sits 50 m down the end of the road — it will see heavy traffic. Empty every indoor bin (bedrooms and bathrooms included) into the right container. Containers go out to the street on Sunday evening. The bin lorry does not wait for the autobus.

Pets

Animals are welcome if kept quiet and damage-free. This clause also covers any rider who cramps on the Portet.

The Cleaning Economics Read before arguing

The owners offer a paid end-of-stay cleaning service — but it covers cleaning only (floors, bathrooms, kitchen), never tidying. Whichever way our booking is set up, the tidy-up is ours:

If cleaning is booked

We must still tidy the house, empty the dishwasher and take out the bins. Skip it and the owners deduct:

−€50

If cleaning is not booked

The gîte goes back exactly as found — floors done, bathrooms and kitchen cleaned, vacuumed under the beds. Fall short and it's:

−€100

€1,000

The security deposit. Handed over for the booking, returned within the week after departure once the owners have walked the house. Every deduction on this page — and anything broken — comes out of it before it comes home. Fold the duvets like they're worth €83 each, because split thirteen ways, they are.

The broom wagon protocol · Monday 14 June · Out by 2pm

Leave No Trace (of the Raclette)

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The owners' own checklist, translated in full. Divide the rooms up like lead-out duties and it's done before the second coffee. Beds get stripped — but mattress protectors stay on — and all linen piles up in the dining room. Tick things off here: this page remembers on your phone.

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Bedrooms & bathrooms

Lounge

Final sweep

Kitchen & dining

Target: house handed back, vans loaded, rolling for home — deposit intact and the raclette machines cooling.

Out by 2:00 PM
Arreau · village map

Where Everything Is

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Illustrated tourist map of Arreau: the village between the Aure and Louron rivers, numbered sights, and the Bouchède quarter at the top
🏠 The house

The house is up in the Bouchède quarter — top of the map, above the village. The blue pen line is the owners' own directions in from the main road; follow it and you arrive. Ignore it and you arrive eventually.