In the summer of 1992, I found myself riding in a sheepfold truck on top of a hill of rafts, oars and life jackets after having made the descent of the FiloBobos River, in Veracruz. With me was Alfonso de la Parra, who had just arrived from the summit of Everest, becoming the third Mexican to do so. There, on that journey over a winding dirt road that would take us to the town of Tlapacoyan, Veracruz, was where we talked for hours and the idea of creating the first and most prestigious adventure travel and experience company in Mexico that we would call Rio y Montaña was born. In our minds, we would never settle for less, we were going for the big one. No business plan, no financial runs, just the dream of traveling and discovering the most remote and beautiful places in Mexico, and sharing them with people who had the desire and openness to join us.
We made expeditions to many corners of the world, taking with us guests whose lives were changed by those trips, just as they changed ours. And so this dream was born and eventually became RODAVENTO HOTELS. This took us from being explorers, cooks, waiters, adventure guides, entertainers, to being hotel entrepreneurs with a philosophy that has not changed and has distinguished us from the others. Unfortunately my partner and friend Alfonso lost his life in a mountaineering accident in North India, but the philosophy that we formed together is still as alive today as it was in the beginning. I have always said that we ended up being hoteliers but we started the other way around. We have always been specialists in developing innovative activities for our clients, but we needed rooms. We took on the task of designing them so that they would also be an experience by themselves.
It is for this reason that in our hotels EXPERIENCE is what counts. We do not sell rooms, we share experiences, as we did twenty years ago camping next to a river, only now we have evolved to a first class level of comfort, sophistication and quality. Welcome to the world of RODAVENTO HOTELS.