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Welcome
The Chain Stay is a cycling guest house located in the heart of the Flemish Ardeens. We have available 3 guest rooms for short to long term stays along with 4 rooms which are dedicated to long term stays for cyclists wishing to racing in Belgium.
-Gregg and Holly-
Contact
Gregg can be contacted by:
E-mail - dbcyclist@yahoo.com
Skype - dbcyclist
Cell Phone - (+32) 498 36 51 10
Rooms we offer
There are two types of accommodation available, long term and short term. We have 4 rooms that are dedicated to cyclists wishing to stay for either the full road season, or the full cyclocross season. These rooms are available from February the 15th to September 31st for the road season and October 1st till February 14th for the cyclocross season.
We have 3 other rooms which are our larger guest rooms. These are available from May 1st to the end of September. They are rented to up to two people with preference to riders with a longer stay.
Rates for rooms
Currently we are offering cyclists wishing to stay in Belgium for the full road season a special rate. The rate for the full road season is €2450 for February 15th till the end of September (7.5 months). This rate includes such items as:
- Your own room, no sharing with other riders
- Limited number of guests/riders in the house of 10 total
- A place on the ASFRA/Flanders Cycling Team based in Oudenaarde (clothing included for the long term guests, with 100€ returned if you don't keep the clothing). With good results you will be eligible to ride top UCI Interclub races.
- Use of our large 9-person van to drive to the races. Gas is not included and the use is conditional.
- All electrical costs
- Access to a washer and dryer
- Wireless internet
- Secure bike storage area
- Access to tools for bike maintenance
- Dedicated area for washing bikes
- Cable TV with many television shows in English. We also have a digital-recorder, so you can watch shows on your time and not the TV's, great for recording a movie that starts late or a bike race and watching it later after your long ride.
- Full kitchen with all the amenities you could want
- Large library of English books including many cycling books
- Some small items like toilet paper and garbage bags are paid for by the house, further saving you money.
- A modern house with a feeling of home. No student look or feel about our house, just a comfortable, calm, clean and organized place to achieve your cycling dreams.
The rates for lengths of stay are:
Our base rate is 450€ euros per month, or 150€ a week. The rate will be less for longer term (more than 2 months) or group stays; just e-mail us with your lenght of stay and details and we can get you a quote for the lenght of stay.
Reasons to stay with The Chain Stay
It would have been quite easy for us to have bought a cheap and large house in the middle of nowhere, but we choose to find a house in the best location we knew of in all of Belgium Oudenaarde. This medium sized town is full of shops, a train station and great training roads, all the while being in the center of East Flanders with it's abundance of races.
- Prime training location, on the footsteps of the Flemish Ardeens with plenty of hills and small roads to train on. There are also many great canal roads nearby that are perfect for long time trial style efforts
- Everything you want is close by: Cheap food shopping less than 800m away, a train station only 1.5km away, the city center of Oudenaarde less than 2km away. A local market every Thursday morning. All the amenities are within walking or a very short bike ride.
- Your own room, no need to share a room with a stranger. Your own private place to relax and escape to.
- Gregg offers up his many years of experience to all of his guests and tries to guide you through their Belgium experience all the while helping you avoid the time consuming mistakes he made while in Belgium.