2020 will be remembered as the year of Covid. The serious health situation has caused our lives to come to a screeching halt and everything we had as normal has ceased to be so. Luckily, the bike has always been with us and has been the best way we have had to truly disconnect.
On the bike, life seems normal and that is why we need new horizons where we can pedal. If you like the song, you go fireplace Soria, in Burgo de Osma you will find one of the best cycling hotels of our country. Do you want to feel like a professional with your bike? In it Hotel Spa Río Ucero They know how to do it.
"Everyone knows that it is difficult to find in life a place where time passes slowly and without thinking. And the pain is fleeting"Certainly the first verses of the famous Gabinete Caligari song perfectly summarize what Soria offers the cyclist. Miles and miles of roads and trails where we can get lost with our bicycle in the company of nature.
Soria, natural attraction for cyclists
Soria is well known for its gastronomy or for its vast cultural heritage. Having acted as a barrier during the reconquest has plagued the province of archaeological remains and heritage of the first order and that is why many visitors come every year to enjoy its history. But in Soria there is much more than architectural heritage and this is where the bicycle comes into action. His inexhaustible trail network and roads or their back roads With hardly any traffic, they are the perfect setting to get lost on our bike, whether relaxing or training at the highest level. In Bikefriendly We know well that there is no good route without a good cycling hotel and Soria has one of the best Bikefriendly hotels in the country, the Río Ucero Spa Hotel.
What makes special Hotel Spa Río Ucero as a hotel for cyclists? There are certainly many hotels with a cycling profile in Spain but few are as cyclist-friendly as them. From its owner and director to the last of its employees, the Hotel Spa Río Ucero lives the bike in each of its corners.
Among the best Bikefriendly hotels in Spain
Everything in this hotel is designed to make the athlete feel at home and don't miss anything on your outings. That is why they have all kinds of resources to achieve it, such as their 300 m spa with Roman bath, hydromassage and contrast pool or the enormous 300 m square gym with weight and spinning room.
The parking lot is one of the largest spaces in the entire complex and is a Bikefriendly space dedicated exclusively to bicycles. Over there the bikes of all its clients are safely stored but there are also the necessary tools to carry out complete maintenance on the bike after a good ride.
If you come with your team to train, they also have Fully equipped private boxes (tools, water connection, charger for electric bicycles, etc.) where you can store the bikes and all the material you bring. You will have the same services that a professional team needs.
For these reasons alone they deserve the category of Bikefriendly Hotel but there is even more. The Río Ucero Spa Hotel is the headquarters of the Official BTT Soria Puro Oxigeno team and several of its members work intensely at the hotel. This team, made up of Misha Sekulova, Óscar Santander, Raúl Castrillo and José Luis Gómez Miranda He has achieved very good results in national and international competitions and is very involved in the daily operation of the hotel.
Venue for events and professional teams
Therefore, it is easy to see activities of all kinds related to sports during our stay: official cycling clinics (Titan Desert, Gregarios, Lapierre, Wurth), official motor clinics (4×4 routes with Manolo Plaza and Lucas Cruz, offroad routes with Joan Pedrero, etc.) and concentration of professional teams (Rural Fund, etc.). Without going any further, this year they have been the official accommodation of several top-level races, both MTB (Sad Hill ICU) as road (Return to Spain 2020), which gives us an idea of his involvement with our sport.
The passion for pedals of the human team that makes up the Hotel Spa Río Ucero has also caused them to motivate and create different initiatives related to cycling for years (Cycling school for children and adults, mountain biking for us, Bikefriendly Templarios Tracks Route, Bikefriendly weekend getaways, Solidarity Challenge with Perico Delgado, etc..) and that they have top-level specialized services that are difficult to see in a hotel (mechanical service, physiotherapy service, technical advice, biomechanical studies, competition training courses, etc.).
A hotel for cyclists… with its own cycling school!
The enormous number of children who go to the hotel weekly and take their bicycles from the Cycling school located in the hotel It is the best way to convince ourselves that cycling in Soria has a future, a lot of future.
Certainly the Hotel Spa Río Ucero is the best cycling hotel in Soria but it is also one of the best in all of Spain. Although his passion for sports and two wheels have made him a monument to visit, our stay at the hotel does not have to be sporting. In the Spa we can relax after having visited the province in search of mushrooms or capturing the best images of its natural heritage, one of the most virgin in all of Europe. Its 100 spacious rooms with WiFi, the restaurant or the enormous terrace with an outdoor buffet are other attractions that the Hotel Spa Río Ucero has and that are to be enjoyed regardless of whether you come with your bike or not.
Returning to the great topic of Gabinete Caligari, if you are thinking about cycling and disconnecting, in Burgo de Osma you have the perfect place. “I'm going to Soria, I want to rest, erasing from my memory the Covid and else".
Alberto Roncero
Specialized journalist and experienced biker
