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One of my mates wants to have a night away for his birthday in Sept. There will be 4 of us. We will be looking for ideally
somewhere within 100 miles of Cambridge and has 2 courses and either 2 or 3 rounds and under £150 for golf, dinner B&B. I have looked at Barnham Broom in Norwich which seems OK.
So over to you guys....can you recommend anywhere that you stayed and played?
 
gripitripit said:
One of my mates wants to have a night away for his birthday in Sept. There will be 4 of us. We will be looking for ideally
somewhere within 100 miles of Cambridge and has 2 courses and either 2 or 3 rounds and under £150 for golf, dinner B&B. I have looked at Barnham Broom in Norwich which seems OK.
So over to you guys....can you recommend anywhere that you stayed and played?
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Forest of Arden will fit your criteria. Been there a couple of times and played both Aylesford and Arden courses. Hotel is really nice and Your Golf Travel do some excellent deals. Can get busy at weekends though so rounds might be a little slow.
 
If you want a cheap but good golf break , try Ashbury Hotel in okehampton devon , 7 courses to choose from , snooker in the evenings plus lots of other events , heard lots of good reports , not been there myself but i will be making the trip in april , others are carden park cheshire , belton woods , you can get these deals from golfbreaks .com and others like them
 
Woodhall Spa, it's a bit out of the way and you will struggle to get it under £150 if you are going at the weekend, but it's so worth spending that little bit extra on. Absolute quality, especially The Hotchkin. Stay at the Petwood Hotel, get yourself on the snooker table all evening, living the dream.

I thought Arden was over rated, but may be I got it on a bad day, it was very wet and very busy when I was there. Forest Pines is probably just over 100 miles but it's got 3 good loops of 9 which you can mix and match. And it drains well.

My tip would be to book an early tee off time on the Sunday morning if you are going over the weekend. As on every golf break I have been on, I have seen horrendous queues on the 1st tee mid mornings on a Sunday. The stay and play venues tend to be very busy so you could easily be looking at 5 hour plus rounds, which is no ones ides of fun. We teed of at 8.15am on a Sunday on The Hotchkin and had the course to ourselves, absolutely magical, definitely worth getting out of bed for.

I've always used golfbreaks who have been very good every time. Apart from Woodhall Spa where you book direct with them.
 
Cheers Guys.
Forest Pines too far as is Devon,Wales and Cheshire. I do fancy Woodhall Spa but we are not the greatest of golfers and might find it a bit daunting.
Stoke by Nayland also appeals.
 
gripitripit said:
Cheers Guys.
Forest Pines too far as is Devon,Wales and Cheshire. I do fancy Woodhall Spa but we are not the greatest of golfers and might find it a bit daunting.
Stoke by Nayland also appeals.
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I am a mid 20s handicapper and I found Woodhall Spa OK. You do need a handicap certificate which I do not have, but my mate has one so he 'got' one for me. Having said that, when we played The Bracken the group in front of me was being followed by one of the starters in a buggy, as they were crap. Well 2 of the 4 were crap, but thought they were good as they were the type that waits for the green to clear 240 yards away, and then sprottled it 30 yards.

It was quite ironic as the starter was talking to me as he was following the group in front, and he was moaning about the group in front being crap and probably faking handicap certificates, when that was exactly what I had done. But luckily I was having a good day and wasn't embarrassing myself, in fact he turned up one as one of my mates (who also had a faked certificate) just eagled a par 5. So he thought we were pros in comparison with the group before us. I ended up breaking 95 on the Hotchkin which I was pleased with.

I think as long as you don't look too much like a bunch of hackers you will be fine.
 
gripitripit said:
Was thinking The Belfry and get a Villa home match at same time but the beer prices do put me off..!
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From my experience the beer prices are pretty horrendous at most stay and play venues. One alternative may be to do one of the city breaks that Golfbreaks offer. You stay in a hotel in a city centre so you are not restricted to buying your beer from one place. We're doing one in Leeds in April, playing Moortown one day which is apparently a cracking course.
 
Hacker Khan said:
From my experience the beer prices are pretty horrendous at most stay and play venues. One alternative may be to do one of the city breaks that Golfbreaks offer. You stay in a hotel in a city centre so you are not restricted to buying your beer from one place. We're doing one in Leeds in April, playing Moortown one day which is apparently a cracking course.
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That why at the moment Barnham Broom appeals as it only a short taxi into Norwich and the nightlife not bad in Norwich.

Has anyone played/stayed Barnham Broom?
 
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