Barcelona and Costa Brava Golf

BARCELONA & COSTA BRAVA TOUR

6 nights & 5 rounds of golf

Barcelona, the modern and exciting cosmopolitan city on the Mediterranean is also capital to a region of six million people, namely Catalonia, which is rapidly emerging as one of the finest areas in Europe for playing golf, with a great variety of top quality courses for all levels. The Costa Brava won the IAGT award as the world's emerging golf destination in the year 2000. But Catalonia is not just the home of some beautiful and testing golf courses; it is also famous for its culture, food and wine, the exciting day and nightlife of Barcelona, beautiful beaches and crystal waters, and most of all the warmth and friendliness of its people.

The first three nights of your stay will be spent in the fabulous Condado Hotel in Barcelona City centre. Close to restaurants and the principal landmarks of the city, this family run hotel will provide you with a very warm welcome. Whilst in Barcelona, play the Royal Golf Course El Prat designed by Greg Norman and the Jose Maria Olazabal course, Masia Bach. El Prat is set in beautiful rolling countryside on the outskirts of Barcelona and Masia Bach borders the wine growing area of Penedes.

For the second part of the trip you will be transferred to the PGA Catalunya Resort on the Costa Brava to play on one of Europe’s finest courses and previous host to the Spanish Open. You will have the opportunity to play both courses at the resort together with Golf d’Aro.



Package Includes		Golf
- 3 nights at the Condado Hotel - 3 nights at PGA Catalunya Resort (Superior Room) - Sharing twin/double accommodation with breakfast - 5 rounds golf as shown - Transport options as shown		- Real Club El Prat - Masia Bach - PGA Catalunya (Old & New) - Golf d’Aro
		Transport
		- Chauffeured transport between 4 persons - Includes 2 airport transfers, hotel and golf transfers or - Self drive rental

PRICE PER PERSON
From 1,242 euros - chauffeured
From 1,094 euros - self drive (based on two sharing)

HOTELS

Condado Hotel, Barcelona

Hotel Condado is delighted to give you a warm welcome to the open and dynamic Mediterranean city of Barcelona. As an international destination, Barcelona boasts a vast range of cultural, artistic, commercial, and gastronomic and leisure attractions which have made it the perfect business and leisure centre. In order to offer you a comfortable, functional and welcoming hotel, its brand new facilities are now at your service following complete refurbishment in 2006, in line with a meticulous integral interior design project that has enhanced the attractiveness of the establishment. We trust that the warmth of our hotel and the welcoming character of the city will make the perfect combination for you to have a most enjoyable stay in Barcelona. The hotel has 75 rooms and 1 suite, fully refurbished in 2006, offering all the charm and comfort of a traditional hotel with excellent service

Hotel PGA Golf Catalunya, Costa Brava

Inaugurated in April 2006, the hotel was a project of the Vichy Catalán group and PGA European Golf Courses assigned to the Godia & Barrio architects studio in Barcelona. The objective: to create an imposing, stunning and modern hotel integrated with its natural environment and absolutely unique for the region. The hotel had to blend in perfectly with its surroundings: two magnificent golf courses. The lobby is the authentic heart of the building, occupying a part of each floor and connecting them in a single quadruple space looking outwards onto nature. Each floor has a viewing area of both the outdoor scenery and the indoor design. The white and wavy building is a backdrop to the scenery, while the black stone at its base makes it appear to be floating on air. The restaurant terrace provides excellent views of the gardens to be enjoyed at breakfast, lunch or dinner in a setting of peace and tranquillity. The rooms are equipped with a wide range of facilities: golf motifs, an intelligent lighting system to help create different types of atmosphere. Each room has a bathroom with window allowing you to take a relaxing bath and watch your favourite TV programme at the same time.

GOLF

Real Club de Golf El Prat

The Real Club de Golf El Prat inaugurated in 1954 has now been moved to its new home in Terrassa on the outskirts of Barcelona. The new El Prat Golf course comprising of 45 holes and designed by Greg Norman is set in beautiful rolling countryside and is a test for any golfer. With its modern facilities and spectacular design, the Real Club de Golf El Prat without doubt will be holding competitions both national and international in the very near future.

Masia Bach Golf Club

‘Masia Bach Golf Course’ was designed by Jose Maria Olazabal and founded in 1990. This is a very demanding and tight course even for the best of golfers and is sure to prove a test of character; the shorter 9-hole course however is less demanding and a pleasant playing experience. The readers of Golf Digest magazine recently voted ‘Masia Bach’ 5th best course in Catalonia. Set on the border of the Penedes wine growing region, Masia Bach Golf Club also commands some spectacular views of the Montserrat Mountain.

Sitges Terramar Golf Club

The Terramar club in Sitges is the second oldest in Catalonia, being founded in 1922 and designed by FW Hawtree, Manuel Piñero and Jim Fazio. The microclimate of Sitges permits golf to be played in perfect conditions at any time of the year with beautiful views out over the Mediterranean. The course is not particularly difficult but greens strategically placed and water hazards on many holes tend to make life more difficult on this all-together pleasant course. The Sitges Terramar Golf Course has recently undergone some alteration work and counts on some superb putting surfaces.With over 300 days a year of sun, the Sitges Terramar Golf course can always be enjoyed.

PGA de Catalunya

The PGA de Catalunya golf course on Catalonia's Costa Brava was voted one of the ten best golf courses in Europe in 2001 by Golf World magazine and one of its writers, Steve Carr, described it as the 'jewel in the crown'. It truly is a stunning course with the Pyrenees as a backdrop. Ddesigned by Neil Coles and Angel Gallardo, and after only opening at the end of 1998, has already hosted the Sarazen World Open in 1999 and the Spanish Open in 2000. It is located near the small town of Caldes de Malavella in the Costa Brava area of Cataluña and is set on undulating land with evergreens, oak trees and heather lining its perfect fairways. It's a technical course which suits both amateurs and professionals, and boasts some truly spectacular holes.

Club de Golf d'Aro (Mas Nou)

Club de Golf d'Aro or Mas Nou Golf Club is built high above the resort of 'Platja d'Aro' at the southern end of the Costa Brava in a spectacular setting with panoramic views of the surrounding coast and landscape. It is an undulating course with water hazards and stategically placed bunkers making it challenging but interesting, an opportunity to use every club in your bag. It would be advisable to bring the camera as the views are worth preserving.

Empordà Golf Club

The Empordà Golf course offers two 18 hole courses, the Links and the Forest. The course was designed by Robert von Hagge, who integrated an area of great natural beauty with two superb golf courses, using the rolling landscape of dunes and pine forest and combining it with two large lakes. The end result has been to create two superb courses for golfers of all abilities and to give them golf in Empordà at its best. The Links course at Empordà Golf meanders around dunes and lakes and one may well imagine being on one of Scotland’s famous courses. The Forest course is tighter and follows the Mediterranean Pines and lakes.

BARCELONA GOLF . COSTA BRAVA GOLF . CATALUNYA GOLF . GOLF SPAIN . SPANISH GOLF .