The Bakearen Txokoa hotel at dusk: a compact building of dark timber on a stone base, with a pitched roof, among very large oaks on mown grass. A curved, pale gravel path leads to the lit entrance.

Laukariz · Mungia · Basque Country

Here, you don’t need anyone to accompany you.

A 16-room inclusive hotel among the oaks · Laukariz, Mungia, Basque Country · Opening January 2028

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  • 16rooms, each with its own name
  • 9with a 1.80 m turning circle
  • 0steps anywhere on the estate
  • 2 mwide, every path
  • Freeadapted van from the airport

A place that rests with you

Bakearen Txokoa means “the corner of peace” in Basque; Haritzen Artean, “among oaks”. It sits in Laukariz, five minutes from Mungia and twenty from Bilbao airport, on an estate of mature oaks where the grass is mown and the silence can be heard.

It is a hotel for everyone: couples, families, people travelling for work, wheelchair users, blind and partially sighted guests, deaf guests, people with intellectual disabilities. There is no “accessible wing”: the whole hotel is built so that nobody has to ask for help.

The hotel seen from the clearing in the oak wood: very large, widely spaced oaks on mown grass, the dark timber and stone building behind, with the room terraces lit.

Born accessible, not adapted later

Every measurement was decided on the drawing, not on site. That is why the accessibility is invisible: it is everywhere.

An oak wood, not a hotel with a garden

3,300 m² of mature oaks on mown grass. The hotel is small on purpose: sixteen rooms and silence.

Accessibility you can check

We publish widths, heights, turning circles and gradients. What we say can be measured.

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The hotel at the end of a pale gravel path winding between very large oaks at dusk, its windows lit.

Among the oaks, five minutes from Mungia and twenty from the airport.

Designed for you

There is no “accessible wing”. The whole hotel is built so that nobody has to ask for help. This is what you will find, however you travel.

If you use a wheelchair

Nine rooms with a 1.80 m turning circle in bedroom and bathroom, level shower with seat, transfer hoist, pool hoist, 2 m paths without a single lip and a van with a ramp.

If you are blind or partially sighted

Braille and tactile signage on every door and headboard, tactile paving, high contrast, breakfast menu in Braille, guide dogs welcome and a website that reads well with screen readers.

If you are deaf or hard of hearing

Visual doorbell and alarm alerts in the room, induction loops at reception and in the pavilion, staff with basic sign language and sound therapy you can feel through the body.

If you have an intellectual disability or autism

Pictograms, easy-read, clear routines, quiet spaces without noise, therapeutic painting and yoga with trained professionals. And time: nobody is in a hurry here.

If you are older or tire when walking

Lift, benches every fifty metres in the woods, beds at 50 cm, showers with seats and a salt-water spa that takes the weight off your joints.

If you come as a family or care for someone

While some paint or do yoga, others rest in the spa. Carers need to stop too: here they can.

If you come as a couple

Silence, a terrace onto the oaks, breakfast with no set time and the spa in a private session for two.

If you work from anywhere

A desk, fibre, coffee until eleven and a forest for when you close the laptop. Seven nights or more, 20 % off.

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Bakearen in four minutes

A calm walk through the hotel: arrival, rooms, bathroom, the Path of Silence, the experiences and the spa. With subtitles and a transcript.

Narrated in Spanish. Subtitles in the language of this page.

Read the transcript

Let’s think about this for a moment. What if rest, real rest, the kind that resets you, were within everyone’s reach? No buts.

That is what this is about. Bakearen Txokoa, which in Basque literally means the corner of peace. A small country hotel in the middle of an oak wood in Laukariz, Mungia, ten minutes from Bilbao airport.

And here is the important part: it is not a hotel adapted afterwards. It was born this way, designed from minute zero for people with disabilities and their families. Its motto says it all: rest, for everyone. And mind you, this is not a marketing slogan. It is the foundation of everything: every brick, every activity, every decision.

Let’s start where the journey starts. Because for many families the hard part is not the destination, it is everything you have to organise to get there. Well: the hotel’s adapted van picks you up at the airport for free and drops you at the door.

And when you want to go down to Mungia, to the health centre, the shops or for a drink, it takes you too. No depending on public transport. This is real inclusion: everything easy from second one, even before you set foot in the hotel.

And another detail that changes a lot: the hotel has transfer hoists and shower chairs for anyone who needs them. No need to bring everything from home. It is here, ready.

Level reception, 1.80 m corridors, a lift and not a single step anywhere on the estate. You come in and move around without thinking about it.

Sixteen rooms, thirty-two guests. Few, on purpose. A wheelchair can turn in every one, and nine are truly accessible, with the 1.80 m turning circle in bedroom and bathroom required by the Basque regulations, the strictest there are.

And the bathrooms, which I love: here accessibility becomes invisible. Level shower, rails that are part of the design, a seat that folds away and is barely seen. A beautiful bathroom, nothing like a hospital, for anyone.

And the garden rooms open wide: the forest comes inside. You close the door and all you have in front of you are oaks.

Now let’s go outside. The Path of Silence runs through the whole oak wood: a metre and a half wide, continuous surface, not a single lip. Whether you are in a wheelchair, on crutches or pushing a pram: the entire forest is yours. And there is a dream behind it: that one day this path will reach all the way to Mungia.

But Bakearen Txokoa is not just walls and design. The real magic is in what you live here. Therapeutic painting, in a timber space with natural light, designed for people with intellectual disabilities and autism: a place without hurry to express yourself in colour.

Adapted yoga for every body, from the chair too. Meditation beneath a hundred-year-old oak.

Sound therapy with the murmur of the waterfall in the background. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

And then there is the wishing tree, one of the oldest oaks in the wood, with its timber letterbox at a height anyone can reach. It seems a small thing, but it creates a lovely bond with the place.

And if there was any doubt left, the spa. A therapeutic salt-water pool, gentler on skin and joints, with a hoist into the water. Sauna, massage room. Everything, absolutely everything, to be enjoyed one hundred per cent without having to ask for help. And not only for those with a disability: also for those who accompany and care for them every day, who need to stop too.

That is the idea for families. While some paint or do yoga, others rest in the spa or go for a walk. And when you feel like it, you share it all. Nobody has to worry about anything.

And for associations, a nearby destination for day trips and group stays, with the van, the hoists and the whole team ready from the first minute.

In the end, after seeing all this, a question hangs in the air. Because Bakearen Txokoa is more than a hotel: it is a model. What if this level of inclusion, good taste and respect for the environment were not the exception, but the norm?

Bakearen Txokoa. Rest, for everyone. We would love to build it with you.

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A day at Bakearen, with no one to accompany you

This is the whole journey. Every step is designed to be done alone, if that is what you want.

  1. You arrive

    The adapted van collects you free of charge at Bilbao airport and drops you at the door. Two 3.50 m parking bays if you bring your own car.

    The Bakearen Txokoa adapted van, dark brown with the oak logo, at Bilbao airport terminal at dusk: a wheelchair user goes up the rear ramp helped by a driver in black uniform, while a couple with suitcases waits to get in.

  2. You walk in

    1.20 m automatic door, reception desk at 80 cm with induction loop, 1.80 m corridors, lift with voice and Braille.

    Hotel reception: a low timber desk, continuous pale stone floor, warm light and the oak wood visible through the glass wall behind.

  3. You rest

    Your room has a name, a phrase on the headboard and a Braille plaque. 1.80 m bed, open step-free bathroom, terrace or balcony onto the oaks.

    Lurra room at the Bakearen Txokoa hotel: a large bed with a throw and cushions in sand and earth, a timber headboard bearing the name “LURRA”, the phrase “Tread softly; the earth holds you.” and a Braille plaque above a lit stone band. A large glass wall opening onto the oaks and the grass, with warm evening light entering the room.

  4. You shower

    Level shower with fold-down seat and rails that are part of the design. Shower chair and hoist available free. A beautiful bathroom that doesn’t look like a hospital.

    A room’s open bathroom: level shower with fold-down seat and grab rails, built-in basin without pedestal and a tilting mirror, toilet with rails on both sides; warm timber and pale stone.

  5. You bathe

    Therapeutic salt-water pool at 33 °C with hoist, dry sauna, Turkish steam bath with menthol and heated stone loungers.

    The spa’s salt-water pool with lit water, a pool hoist beside the edge and warm indirect light on the stone and timber walls.

  6. You walk

    The Path of Silence runs through the whole oak wood: 2 m wide, continuous surface, benches and warm-light bollards. The entire forest is yours.

    A wheelchair user travels alone along a curved, pale gravel path among oaks towards the lit hotel in the background.

  7. You have breakfast

    In the glass pavilion, facing the oaks, with bread baked that morning and local produce. And tomorrow, again.

    The glazed breakfast pavilion at sunrise: several solid oak tables with linen cloths, timber chairs, artisan ceramics, bread, fruit and juices. A man and a woman drink coffee in the foreground; an older couple sits behind, and in the centre a woman in a wheelchair has breakfast with her companion. Beyond the glass, large oaks and grass in golden morning light; on the right, a timber sideboard with fruit and someone pouring coffee.
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The private terrace of a garden-level room: timber decking level with the interior floor, two timber armchairs and the oak wood two steps away, in golden light.

You close the door and all you have in front of you are oaks.

Rooms

Sixteen rooms, sixteen names

Each room is named after something that lives in this forest, with a phrase on its headboard and a Braille plaque. Garden-level and ground-floor rooms open onto a terrace or balcony; the upper-floor rooms onto a wide window beneath the beams.

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Spa

The spa

Salt-water pool with hoist, dry sauna, Turkish steam bath with menthol, heated stone loungers and a massage room. Changing room with low lockers and accessible bathrooms, shower chairs and a continuous floor without a single step.

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The spa’s salt-water pool with lit water, a pool hoist beside the edge and warm indirect light on the stone and timber walls.

Breakfast

Breakfast facing the oaks

The glass pavilion opens onto the forest. Local produce, bread baked that morning and tables you can reach without help.

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The glazed breakfast pavilion at sunrise: several solid oak tables with linen cloths, timber chairs, artisan ceramics, bread, fruit and juices. A man and a woman drink coffee in the foreground; an older couple sits behind, and in the centre a woman in a wheelchair has breakfast with her companion. Beyond the glass, large oaks and grass in golden morning light; on the right, a timber sideboard with fruit and someone pouring coffee.

Experiences

Experiences

Adapted yoga, therapeutic painting, meditation under the oak, sound therapy by the water and the Path of Silence.

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A group doing yoga in a forest clearing at sunset: several people on mats and two in wheelchairs, arms raised towards the light coming through the oaks.

Long stays

Long stays and remote work

For digital nomads and stays of seven nights or more: a desk, fibre broadband, silence and a forest for when you close the laptop.

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The Aire room set up for a long stay: a woman works on a laptop at a timber desk beside the window, with the blue-throw bed behind her and exposed ceiling beams.

Accessibility

Verifiable accessibility

We don’t just say “accessible”. We publish the measurements: door widths, heights, turning circles, gradients. So you can decide for yourself.

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A room’s open bathroom: level shower with fold-down seat and grab rails, built-in basin without pedestal and a tilting mirror, toilet with rails on both sides; warm timber and pale stone.
Aerial view of the estate at nightfall: the lit hotel among oaks, the pond with its waterfall and the paths marked by warm-light bollards.

What if this were not the exception, but the norm?

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