Hotel Taeru

Here you will find a sports hotel with rooms at simulated altitude. This way you can have a high-altitude training session at 5000 meters at a height that is over 10 times lower.

Taeru is Japanese for "persevere".

This is an initiative by Dirk Baelus. As a triathlete, he completed five Ironman races in under nine hours. He also started the sports nutrition brand Innerme, which later Kim Clijsters joined. 'I used to train often in the Ardennes, but something was always missing,' he says about his motivation. 'Sometimes you couldn't wash your bike, other times there was no kitchen to prepare healthy food. And there was never a swimming pool. The fact that we have all these amenities makes our concept unique.'

From the hotel, we have mapped out our own cycling and running routes.

Pascal Brackman