Accommodation between Briancon and Colmar suitable for Balcony Roads wanted, please

47Steve

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Hi All,

I am in the process of planning next years summer trip through the French Alps area and looking for recommendations for stop overs. We will be leaving Briancon and have 2 x nights to get to the Colmar area. I want to plan taking in the Balcony Roads en route back North and looking for any advise on places to stay at. Any help will be appreciated.

TA Steve (y)
 
Afternoon Steve… balcony roads heading north of Colmar?
I wasn’t aware of any. I thought they were all way further south close to the Spain border…..
The Vosges, yes and know that area quite well
Apologies if I have misunderstood your post….
 
Search for the site: world's most dangerous roads.
They are all on there.
 
Ahh. OK. So heading from the south towards Colmar. That makes sense. I can send you our route from the Pyrenees back to Colmar which had some great gorges as well…
 
47Steve said:
I am in the process of planning next years summer trip through the French Alps area and looking for recommendations for stop overs. We will be leaving Briancon and have 2 x nights to get to the Colmar area. I want to plan taking in the Balcony Roads en route back North and looking for any advise on places to stay at. Any help will be appreciated.
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47Steve said:
We will be leaving Briancon and have 2 x nights to get to the Colmar area. I want to plan taking in the Balcony Roads en route back North and looking for any advise on places to stay at
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I read that as you are looking for balcony roads as you drive northwards between Briancon and Colmar. In other words you are NOT looking for balcony roads northwards from Colmar or indeed anywhere else. Is that correct?

If so, there’s plenty of balcony roads and (as it’s probably your main question) places to stay between Briancon and Colmar.

Await you clarification.

:beerjug:
 
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Wapping said:
I read that as you are looking for balcony roads as you drive northwards between Briancon and Colmar. In other words you are NOT looking for balcony roads northwards from Colmar or indeed anywhere else. Is that correct?

If so, there’s plenty of balcony roads and (as it’s probably your main question) places to stay between Briancon and Colmar.

Await you clarification.

:beerjug:
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Yes Richard, that is correct.

I have had an inspiration to include these into our trip next year after looking through Yodagoats Vlog on here. The roads in question seem to be South of Grenoble.

We are looking for places to stay en route to the Colmar area.

TA Steve
 
Just as a bit of fun I pumped the following question into Chat GPT:

Biker friendly hotels for a one or two night stay, to ride the balcony roads between Briancon and Colmar
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Here’s its first go:

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Here's a chat someone thought you'd want to see.
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The first hotel certainly comes up as a ‘Must do’ on these pages.

:beerjug:

PS

It’s possibly interesting how the free AI seeks to engage with the user by asking additional questions, in order to fine tune its responses. Also interesting is that it suggests the cols and roads to ride.

We can leave it to others to debate how much (or little) the AI has removed from (or added to) the spirit of Adventure (capital A) and self help that the ownership of a motorcycle apparently demands.
 
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