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GOBA is a camping tour; however, you are welcome to take advantage of gym floor sleeping space, hotels and B&Bs, or dorm rooms in our host communities at your own expense.
Route and town details subject to change; watch newsletters and our homepage for updates
In addition to doing a hotel search in the Internet, we highly recommend you contact each of the local visitors bureaus for the latest on lodging availability, including hotels and B&Bs. Be sure to ask them the distance to the campground. We make no claims about the quality of these establishments. Most rooms are gone by early spring, even earlier in towns with very limited beds. We suggest you ask for written confirmation or a confirmation number and reconfirm these reservations before the tour.
Contact the bureaus and chambers below. Please note, some of the towns are limited on hotels, so any B & Bs will go fast.
Saturday, June 15
Urbana, OH 43078
Champaign County Chamber of Commerce
& Visitors Bureau
877-873-5764 or 937-653-5764
www.ChampaignOh.com
click the link at the top "Stay & Play"
Sunday & Monday, June
16 & 17
Troy, OH 45373
Miami County Visitors & Convention
Bureau
800-348-8993 or 937-339-1044
www.VisitMiamiCounty.org
Troy Area Chamber of Commerce
937-339-8769
www.TroyOhioChamber.com
Tuesday, June 18
Greenville, OH 45331
Darke County Visitors Bureau
888-504-2995 or 937-548-5158
www.VisitDarkeCounty.org
Wed. & Thur, June 19
& 20
New Bremen, OH 45869
Southwestern Auglaize County Chamber
of Commerce
419-629-0313
www.Auglaize.org
Auglaize & Mercer Counties Convention
& Visitors Bureau
800-860-4726 or 419-394-1294
www.SeeMore.org
Friday, June 21
Sidney, OH 45365
Sidney Visitors Bureau
866-892-9122 or 937-492-9122
www.VisitSidneyShelby.com
You must make your own reservations and your own arrangements to get to and from these motels; GOBA will deliver your baggage in large luggage trucks to the designated campgrounds, but not beyond. Be sure to mention to the motel that you are with GOBA. You may ask these motels if they have a baggage shuttle service available. [The GOBA town bus shuttle is limited and does not serve the hotels.]
In order to get their necessities to their motel, many riders bring a small pannier or backpack. Each day, they take just what they will need for the night from their larger bag and leave this bag in the campgrounds with a friend. They then can ride to their motel with a light load. In the morning, they ride with the pannier back to camp and load the overnight things back in the larger bag, put it on the truck, and are ready to go.
Another lodging alternative is to purchase a lodging/shuttle package. We have licensed Ohio Travel Treasures to offer a package of rooms during GOBA that will include transportation to and from our campsites along with baggage shuttle. For more information, see the OTT Motel Package [pdf] or call Ohio Travel Treasures at 513-923-9112.
If available, these will be in the March and May GOBA newsletters. Any fees associated with these options are at your own expense. With encouragement from GOBA, it is up to the overnight towns whether they can or are willing to offer these options. In some towns, these options are organized after the last newsletter deadline, so be sure to check at the Local Information Booth as you arrive in each town for last-minute additions.