{"id":870714,"date":"2026-08-25T09:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870714\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T09:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:08:10","slug":"hotel-flooded-with-hilarious-reviews-after-vuelta-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870714\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel flooded with hilarious reviews after Vuelta storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cycling is a sport littered with unusual stories. On Monday, the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a added a new one to the mix. Due to severe weather, the riders themselves called off the third stage<\/a>. All of a sudden, an unsuspecting road-side hotel was awash with freezing cold and soaking wet bike riders. The hotel in question was subsequently flooded with positive reviews.It was quite remarkable, after all, that the finish of the third stage of the Vuelta turned out that way. Beforehand, no one had actually mentioned rain<\/a>, let alone such a violent storm that would cause the peloton to call off the race. But rain it did. On the final climb, the heavens opened, resulting in apocalyptic scenes.At first, Wout van Aert<\/a> had to take shelter in a van<\/a>, but the Belgian ended up at a hotel a short time later. As it turned out, that\u2019s where he found the rest of the peloton, which had spontaneously gathered at the GESA Village Club Mont Louis Les Sorbiers. The hotel suddenly had to welcome an entire peloton, which it did with great enthusiasm.It sparked a flood of positive reviews<\/a>. For example, Uno-X rider Tobias Halland Johannessen wrote: \u201cPerfect location during hailstorms, and they even delivered towels within two minutes after 180 cyclists arrived unannounced. They deserve every star they can get!\u201d The Norwegian left a 5-star review.<\/p>\n

Picnic PostNL did the same. \u201cA warm and friendly welcome from the staff. It\u2019s also a nice place to take shelter from bad weather in the area,\u201d the Dutch team added.<\/p>\n

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Cycling fans show their best side in reviews<\/p>\n

More riders from the peloton crossed the finish line. Julien Bernard of Lidl-Trek said, \u201cWhat a warm welcome! Thank you so much!\u201d William Barta of Tudor, in turn, commented, \u201cIncredibly friendly and helpful staff!\u201d All of this came with a 5-star review.<\/p>\n

Tudor rider Roland Thalmann gave it 4 stars, but judging by his comment, that might have been a mistake. \u201cDefinitely the friendliest hotel I\u2019ve ever seen. Well-organized, and they were even able to provide free towels, drinks, and food to nearly 200 impromptu guests,\u201d wrote the Swiss cyclist.<\/p>\n

In addition to cyclists, cycling fans also shared their thoughts in the reviews. \u201cThe lobby was a bit crowded, and a man, dressed entirely in red, knocked on my door and asked for an extra towel in exchange for his sunglasses. Unexpected, but still a good trade in my opinion,\u201d wrote one humorous fan, for example.<\/p>\n

There were also reviews like: \u201cA really nice place to stay. I even saw Tadej Pogacar<\/a>. 5\/5, highly recommended\u201d and \u201cI was sitting in the lobby when an older man\u2014I think from the Balkans\u2014came up to me in a wet cycling outfit and said, \u2018Worse weather than during ski jumping, huh?\u2019\u201d The hotel now has nearly 1,000 reviews, with an average rating of 4.9 stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cycling is a sport littered with unusual stories. On Monday, the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a added a new one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,225903,82,1422,301174,12290],"class_list":["post-870714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-latest-cycling-news","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-vuelta-a-espana-2026","tag-wout-van-aert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}