There is a change this year when reserving hotels for the Mountains to Coast ride. Using the Travel Agent supplied by Cycle NC, you must pay for the hotels rooms at time of booking instead of later during the ride. That may or may-not be a hardship on riders.
Yes, Cycle NC is excited to finally have a travel agency partner to make the hotel reservation process much easier for your Mountains to Coast hotel reservations! The travel agency (Travel Direction) was able to negotiate lower hotel rates than the CNC office was able to get, so participants will pay less for hotels this year even with the convenience fees the agency is charging to make all of your reservations. The agency was also able to get several hotel restrictions waived that will benefit participants, such as the no cancellation policy at some hotels and some two night minimum requirements. Participants have been asking for an easier hotel reservation process to prevent having to make numerous calls to multiple hotels in the 8 overnight towns looking for availability when most of the hotels are already sold out. Now you can easily select your hotels for each night during CNC registration process. Participants still have the option to call around to make reservations on their own at official CNC hotels if you don't need CNC hotel luggage transport service, but reservations will cost more and take a lot more of your time. We look forward to seeing everyone in October (and April/August if you are joining us for our weekend rides) for another great adventure across our beautiful state. Just email the CNC staff at cyclenc@ncsports.org if you have any questions for the staff, or if you need any assistance from the staff.