Whether you’re idea of a cycling holiday is pottering around country lanes with the family or pushing your fitness up mountainous peaks, a cycling holiday is something everyone can enjoy. Here are six of the Good Hotel Guide’s hotels for cycling holidays in the UK.
Six hotels for cycling holidays in the UK
The Castle Hotel
Bishop’s Castle
Welcoming dogs as well as their owners, it lends itself to a little luxury and for cyclists it aims to make life easy. There is secure bicycle storage, a hose and brushes to clean bikes after traversing muddy paths, and a bicycle repair kit including pump, tools and first aid available.
Trigony House
Thornhill
The hotel offers a route map to take you to local sites such as Morton Castle, while there’s also the 7 Stanes Cycle Routes, a series of mountain bike centres in Forestry Commission Scotland forests in the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway with 400km of all-weather trails to keep you entertained.
The Cottage in the Wood
Braithwaite
With walking and cycling trails from the door and a drying room for when you return, The Cottage in the Wood in Cumbria is a whitewashed 17th century coaching inn with stunning views towards Skiddaw.
Caddon View
Innerleithen
Explore the countryside on your bike in bucolic bliss, and when you return there is storage for bicycles and fishing gear to put your mind at rest.
Pen-y-Gwryd Hotel
Nant Gwynant
For those wanting a pared back experience away from the trappings of the modern world, this is the place for you. The surrounding area is an adventurer’s dream, as evidenced by the fact that in 1953 it hosted Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay as they trained to climb Everest.