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Join us for a week in Italy at the Belvedere Bike Hotel

Want to get some end of season riding in somewhere nice? So do we - so we're going to Italy on 4-11 October and you can come too...

Fancy joining us for an end of season break, on a bike somewhere nice? We’re off to the Belvedere Bike Hotel in Italy at the start of October for what we’re calling The road.cc Italian Week - and if you'd like to come along - you can. We're going from Saturday 4 October to Saturday 11 October.

There’ll be guided rides through the hills of the Emilia Romgana, coffee, great food, more rides, coffee, and great food plus you get to watch a fair chunk of the road.cc team trying to put the website together between rides while drinking coffee. We’ll be bringing some bikes with us to test, so you’ll see how we do it which mainly involves riding them. In fact almost exclusively. Even so…

Why the Belvedere? Well it’s an old favourite of ours - we’ve been visiting it for years - since before road.cc existed. The riding in the hills of the Emilia Romgana and in to Tuscanny is fantastic - and so is the food - and the free bike kit laundry service is a really nice touch too. There’s also a fantastic Wellness Centre in the basement with sauna, Ice room and all sorts of other healthy non-strenuous post ride things to do. For the same reason It’s also a great place to bring a non-cycling friend.

To give you a flavour of what it’s like here’s a link to Vecchiojo's accounts of previous visits. He was also out there earlier this year to ride the Pantanisima.

Stuff we’ll definitely be doing includes riding up to Urbino for coffee and cakes and putting in a visit to San Marino.

Prices are based on the Belvedere’s Super Half Board package and start at €114 per person per night based on two people sharing a room and includes:

• Rich and energizing breakfast buffet
• Afternoon lunch buffet on your return from the ride
• Dinner buffet including free mineral water, iced tea and local house wine.
• Up to 5 daily guided bike rides corresponding to different levels
• Packed lunch for the ride with sandwich, fruit and an energy drink
• Bike wash area with bike cleaning equipment
•12-hour laundry service for bike clothes
• Secure bike storage room with CCTV
• Free WIFI access 
• Free entrance and use of our 450m Spa & Wellness Centre including Spa courtesy set (bathrobe and sauna towel           on free loan and a pair of free spa slippers)
• A Belvedere wash bag with a selection of bathroom amenities
• An informational welcome pack together with a belvedere Bike T-Shirt
• Everyone booking through road.cc will also get a free Belvedere cycling jersey with €50 - just put road.cc in the address line of your email when you contact them.

The easiest way to get to the Belvedere is to fly to either Ancona or Bologna - there are flights from various UK airports. The Belvedere organise transfers from Ancona and Bologna, and if you’re bringing your bike they can cope with that too - just let them know what your plans are in advance and they’ll organise evethting and give you a price. Don’t want to bring your own bike? The Belvedere has a hire fleet of rather nice De Rosa’s.

If this sounds like the sort of way you’d like to spend the first week of October then email bike [at] belvederericcione.com (bike [at] belvederericcione.com) and stick road.cc in the subject line, they'll contact you, and we’ll see you there.

road.cc's founder and first editor, nowadays to be found riding a spreadsheet. Tony's journey in cycling media started in 1997 as production editor and then deputy editor of Total Bike, acting editor of Total Mountain Bike and then seven years as editor of Cycling Plus. He launched his first cycling website - the Cycling Plus Forum at the turn of the century. In 2006 he left C+ to head up the launch team for Bike Radar which he edited until 2008, when he co-launched the multi-award winning road.cc - finally handing on the reins in 2021 to Jack Sexty. His favourite ride is his ‘commute’ - which he does most days inc weekends and he’s been cycle-commuting since 1994. His favourite bikes are titanium and have disc brakes, though he'd like to own a carbon bike one day.

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fast pat | 9 years ago
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Can recommend the Dory - so good been there six times

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J90 | 9 years ago
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What does the jersey look like?

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truffy | 9 years ago
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Unfortunately I have to spend the first two weeks of October with my family...in Tenerife.  16

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Hopalongsteve | 9 years ago
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If the price is too rich for some then there are other bike hotels in the same town.....ten or more of them, it's a realy popular area for cycling. I can recommend the Milano Helvetia, prices for same sort of package are only 70 euro per day max. Hotel is not so modern but its clean, comfortable and the food fantastic!

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Al__S | 9 years ago
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Ooh. I'd totally be there. If I had the money. And the annual leave left.

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DeanF316 | 9 years ago
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I have been to the Belverdere and it's great. The food is outstanding. 8 flavours of ice cream every night and tried them all every night. The only think that was a disappointing is the conition of the local roads. Worst then the UK.

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bohrhead | 9 years ago
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"just put road.cc in the address line of your email when you contact them."

Subject line maybe?

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Gkam84 | 9 years ago
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If everyone chips if for me, I'll run a kids club while you all go out cycling  1

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notfastenough | 9 years ago
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If you could also provide a substitute dad to stand in for me in the UK, I'll be happy to attend!

Where's the envy icon?

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AWP replied to notfastenough | 9 years ago
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notfastenough wrote:

If you could also provide a substitute dad to stand in for me in the UK, I'll be happy to attend!

Where's the envy icon?

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