The difficulties in arranging golf holidays for groups. Spain or Portugal or somewhere else. Everyone has different opinions on the golf courses...

[carled]

Having played while staying at Vilamoura and Albuferia. Vilamoura, esp the marina area ticks more boxes for me.

I know it'll be a lot better than this example, but golf resorts always conjure up visions of somewhere like the Manor/Ashbury complex near Okehampton. It's just likely to be full of oi oi boys and stag groups in my head! We quite like having a bit more independence really. Not ruling it out yet, but not grabbing me.

 

[carled]

I’ve championed that Costa Blanca thread as this will be our first golf trip abroad. As chief organiser I have spent many hours researching this.

What I have noticed is that things won’t always go smooth sailing. It was a trip originally for 12 but we lost a couple on the way and now have an awkward number of 9. That won’t spoil our fun and 3 x 3 balls will work with our Ryder cup being 3 teams of 3 just for added spice/banter.

Not going to lie, I really enjoy the planning side of trips. I’ve booked countless group trips in the past (non golf related) but this trip has been a little different. Mainly due to me booking it with pals I haven’t known as long.

The trip did infact work a lot easier once the divas / time wasters were filtered out.

We now have accommodation, 3 rounds + buggies, airport transfers, course transfers, flights + luggage all booked up for 9 of us without a middle man taking a big slice of the pie.

Considering this is our first trip abroad as a group , it feels oddly satisfying to have finally accomplished and secured the above.

5 days / 3 rounds (at top courses) with literally everything thrown in bar your food / drinks has cost us around £600. Having that extra bit of flexibility to eat and drink anywhere was a massive thing for us.

Really looking forward to it

Yeah, it was your thread that inspired me to ask the question here. I guess we're lucky in the group as we're all chucking £100 each per month into a pot and have been doing for a while. We've got a trip in 26 and 27 for big birthdays and will have around £2k per head budget for each. We'll do cars rather than transfers as it'll give us that bit more independence and we're all fine with driving abroad anyway. Should be plenty of money to thoroughly enjoy ourselves from what I can see at the moment. Hope yours goes well, I look forward to the trip report!

 

[Bamberdele2.0]

Yeah, it was your thread that inspired me to ask the question here. I guess we're lucky in the group as we're all chucking £100 each per month into a pot and have been doing for a while. We've got a trip in 26 and 27 for big birthdays and will have around £2k per head budget for each. We'll do cars rather than transfers as it'll give us that bit more independence and we're all fine with driving abroad anyway. Should be plenty of money to thoroughly enjoy ourselves from what I can see at the moment. Hope yours goes well, I look forward to the trip report!

£2k is more than tripple what we have paid so I’m certain you’ll be playing in Hollywood compared to us. As you said, VRBO & Airbnb is a great bargaining chip to have in the locker which bring costs down immensely.

Will be sure to post a report of ours when it comes round it May.

We have milestone bdays in 26 so be sure to keep us posted on which country and courses you finally go along and book with.