Book the ultimate 3 centre golfing itinerary to The Far East including a short stay in Singapore, a week at The Sanchaya Resort on Bintan Island, in Indonesia and a week at the sensational Datai Resort on Langkawi Island in Malaysia
If you have never played much golf in Scotland why not try one of our exclusive multi centre itineraries, great tours including Aberdeenshire and the Highlands with venues like Castle Stuart, Cruden Bay, Nairn and the awesome Royal Dornoch. Or try the Best of the West with venues like Machrihanish, The Machrie, Ardfin and Turnberry!
Check out our superb new addition to our Jamaica programme with the new inclusion of the exquisite Round Hill Hotel & Villas, near Montego Bay, with golf on the exceptional Tryall Golf Course.
Check out our escorted golf tours across Japan including all the best golf and cultural venues, taking in Mount Fuji, Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima plus more!!
Coming very soon the Island of Barbados and the wonderful Sandy Lane Hotel, arguably the best golf and beach property in the world.
Book now to the Ritz-Carlton, Abama for late summer to take advantage of unlimited golf offers – September is a wonderful month – the best month for sunshine in the entire year and still low season golf and hotel prices.

ALL REVIEWS

 by Steve on Island Golf Holidays

We have just returned from our luxury golf vacation to Dubai and Mauritius with Island Golf Holidays.

This is the third ‘ big trip’ that we have booked through David Sledmere and all three have been exceptional.

His experience and expertise in the travel industry and his love of golf result in tailor made experiences which fulfil all the requirements for discerning golf  and travel lovers.

Vietnam and Cambodia was a unique experience and Argentina including Buenos Aries, Mendoza and Patagonia was equally amazing especially given the rise of Covid and imminent lockdown. David managed to repatriate us from a locked down Buenos Aries on the last flight out in 2001!!

The most recent holiday was a fortnight in Mauritius with a 3 night stop over in Dubai at the excellent One and Only Royal Mirage Arabian Court taking in a guided Dubai Creek tour, visiting the Gold and Spice Souks and a round of golf on Jumeirah Estates Earth course. The transfers from airport to hotel and to golf were seamless and were provided by the excellent, on the ground in Dubai, Desert Adventures.

In Mauritius our hotels were superb and the two venue split of the fortnight enabled us to play 6 of the 11 courses on the Island with the pick being the outstanding Bernhard Langer designed Ile Aux Cerfs - boat ferry to the Island where the course lies and amazing beach and mountain views on almost every hole.

In the South the Heritage Telfair Hotel with its five restaurants ( Le Chateau the pick), and great ‘on the beach’ ( literally) location had The Chateau course and off site the brand new La Reserve, a testing examination of the best golfers ability and home to the upcoming DP World Tour AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open.

Moving to the East of the Island the Constance Prince Maurice was the best hotel we have ever stayed in, had a wonderful beach front location and two courses to play in the Links and Legends which host a Staysure Seniors Tour event. Mautourco, the Island based taxi and transfer operators which Island Golf Holidays use had excellent helpful, friendly and knowledgable drivers providing a guided service.

The Mauritian people are so happy and wherever we went the local people were friendly, helpful and welcoming to the visitors on their Island.

Confirmation of our satisfaction with all the organisation of Island Golf Holidays is evident in our booking of our holiday next year.

We can highly recommend David at Island Golf Holidays and unreservedly recommend his company to any golfers wanting to experience a luxury golf holiday at its best.

 by Steve on Island Golf Holidays

We have just returned from our luxury golf vacation to Dubai and Mauritius with Island Golf Holidays.

This is the third ‘ big trip’ that we have booked through David Sledmere and all three have been exceptional.

His experience and expertise in the travel industry and his love of golf result in tailor made experiences which fulfil all the requirements for discerning golf  and travel lovers.

Vietnam and Cambodia was a unique experience and Argentina including Buenos Aries, Mendoza and Patagonia was equally amazing especially given the rise of Covid and imminent lockdown. David managed to repatriate us from a locked down Buenos Aries on the last flight out in 2001!!

The most recent holiday was a fortnight in Mauritius with a 3 night stop over in Dubai at the excellent One and Only Royal Mirage Arabian Court taking in a guided Dubai Creek tour, visiting the Gold and Spice Souks and a round of golf on Jumeirah Estates Earth course. The transfers from airport to hotel and to golf were seamless and were provided by the excellent, on the ground in Dubai, Desert Adventures.

In Mauritius our hotels were superb and the two venue split of the fortnight enabled us to play 6 of the 11 courses on the Island with the pick being the outstanding Bernhard Langer designed Ile Aux Cerfs - boat ferry to the Island where the course lies and amazing beach and mountain views on almost every hole.

In the South the Heritage Telfair Hotel with its five restaurants ( Le Chateau the pick), and great ‘on the beach’ ( literally) location had The Chateau course and off site the brand new La Reserve, a testing examination of the best golfers ability and home to the upcoming DP World Tour AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open.

Moving to the East of the Island the Constance Prince Maurice was the best hotel we have ever stayed in, had a wonderful beach front location and two courses to play in the Links and Legends which host a Staysure Seniors Tour event. Mautourco, the Island based taxi and transfer operators which Island Golf Holidays use had excellent helpful, friendly and knowledgable drivers providing a guided service.

The Mauritian people are so happy and wherever we went the local people were friendly, helpful and welcoming to the visitors on their Island.

Confirmation of our satisfaction with all the organisation of Island Golf Holidays is evident in our booking of our holiday next year.

We can highly recommend David at Island Golf Holidays and unreservedly recommend his company to any golfers wanting to experience a luxury golf holiday at its best.

 by Tim on Island Golf Holidays

I wanted to just say thank you for a wonderful holiday.

Costa Navarino even managed to surpass our expectations this time. The Romanos accommodation is world-class, the resort continues to develop (I hope they’re making money with all this investment and a shortish season?) and the weather was hot and sunny with little wind from dawn to dusk.

I know your thoughts on the golf courses but am not sure you have played all four? My personal favourite comfortably remains The Dunes because it is the most challenging, but the other three are all more scenic and great fun to play. The Bay is breathtaking, quirky and highly entertaining, it also offers the best chance of a low score. The two new Hills courses are again incredibly located as is their Clubhouse with great views over the mountains and the Bay, take a while to get going, but have terrific back nines and a real feel-good factor.

With regard to the restaurants, Flames at the resort is a magnificent steak restaurant and quite outstanding. We ate out in Gialova three times at either Kochili or Notre Maison and also at the village next to the resort at Katerina’s. All three are excellent, good value and authentically Greek.

 by Alan on Island Golf Holidays

The hotel is excellent and the weather perfect. View from balcony is beautiful. Played Son Muntaner today and looking forward to Son Quint tomorrow. I’m just back from a walk to Son Vida and had a peek at a few holes which although quirky will be fun to play on Saturday. Flight was only 2hr 25 and transfer in limo extremely comfortable. I even managed a 4pt lead over Christine today.

 by Jennifer on Island Golf Holidays

We had a lovely stay at the Madrigueras.  A lovely hotel, with wonderful food in the restaurant, and staff to whom nothing seemed too much trouble – they were especially helpful in arranging a car hire for our free day and golf at another course on our last day.   While we enjoyed the Las Americas golf course, its location in such a built-up area of hotels (with inevitable loud music and enthusiastic kids’ entertainers) reduced the experience.


We visited 2 of the restaurants - the Rosso Sul Mare and La Torre del Mirador, the latter being exceptionally good.  We found the Rosso a bit mediocre – also staff in much of a hurry to serve us.


Flights etc. all went to plan. So all in all - a very enjoyable holiday if a bit hot at 40 degrees most days!  Many thanks again for all the detailed planning and arranging.

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 by Geraldine 

We have all had a great holiday.


The resort is vast! The buggies were essential as the villa was at the furthest point, a  newly developing stretch of land where building started in the area at 7 am every morning so pretty noisy!
The golf was fantastic and well run.
We had a couple of disasters where we took the bus from the resort down to Mullins from RM and the beach was shut! This was mainly due to the fact the beach is very small and with tides in, it disappears completely. We were puzzled why there was no communication with the resort to report this on the days it happened and the bus runs still went ahead, and we were stranded there a couple of times! 


Otherwise, a successful trip. 


  


 


 by Mollie

It’s all wonderful so far. Thank you. The hotel, our suite and the conservatory restaurant are all just right for us. The staff too are excellent. Always laughing and joking with us. You and your SA agent have done a brilliant job. The overnight Virgin flight was pretty grim though. Not worth the money at all. The beds were awful and neither of us slept at all so we were shattered all day Sunday until we had a good night’s sleep. We played Steenberg yesterday with a couple of very nice English brothers - our golf not so good! We walked up to the botanical gardens today and looking forward to our special dinner tonight. It’s very hot here and snowing in Cornwall. How lucky are we.

 by Lyn & Gordon

Gordon and I had a super holiday thank you.  Everything was great.  We enjoyed all the courses we played although some took a little longer than others😂. One round was five hours! But at least it was in the sun..  hotel was good, nice food and great staff.  Our favourite course was Monte Rei so that will be back on our list sometime. All in all though a very good holiday and you and you friends recommendations of restaurants were fab.

We will be touch again for our next adventure.

 by Michele

What a fabulous time we had at the Gloria Serenity. The quality of the product on offer at the Serenity is incredible given the price point. The standard of service was as good as any of the supposedly top hotels  we have stayed in around the world. We are definitely ‘buyers’ and have plugged in the same week for next year.

I would also like to say as people who normally organise their own holidays, flights etc what a joy it was to have someone do it for us, even down to booking our airplane seats! So thank you, we had a great time, everything worked exactly as per the booking and you have two very happy customers who will be looking to rebook next year.

 by Steve

Transportation between the airport and the hotel was fine - both ways. Our hotel room was excellent as usual. They are spacious and ideal for a golfing holiday. Housekeeping was also excellent with a turn down service in the evening and everything was spotlessly clean, although they sometimes forgot to replace certain items in the room like water glasses, face flannels, snacks in the fridge but nothing drastic. The food was up to its usual very high standard although between us we had a few duff steaks in The Steakhouse restaurant. Excellent choice of food in the buffet and also at the BBQ. We enjoyed all the restaurants - lunchtime at The Italian was particularly nice. Good choice of wines, spirits and soft drinks. It also made it more enjoyable having the golf club as part of the all inclusive package. There is a new (to us) outdoor swimming pool which has been well designed. Evening entertainment in the main bar was good as was the entertainment at the amphitheater and the outdoor stage. One of the nice things was that the outside ‘noise’ finished at midnight.

The golf ‘experience’ was fine. Improvements on the new course are noticeable, especially the work done around two of the par three’s. All courses were in good condition. Chris, Mickey and Jane all work very hard to try and ensure that you do not have to worry about anything yourself.

 by John

The check-in at Gatwick and the service of Turkish Airlines going to Belek and returning to UK was superb. I simply can’t fault it. Matrix was right on cue and as far as we were concerned, did a very good job.  The quality of food & beverage was excellent with a massive variety of dishes available. You could eat yourself into a stupor!  Malliet and I are not drinkers so I can’t comment on the quality of wines etc but the Turkish beer was very good. The same applies to the rooms and service. Quite honestly, the Turks were so pleased to see visitors returning that they bent over backwards to help and be of service.

But I can’t fault the holiday and golf – it was a great experience and as usual Mickey, Chris and Jane made us feel very welcome and part of the family.

 by John

It was a very successful holiday. The hotel perfect for our needs, helped by not being full and being by the sea made it warmer and less windy than in the hills. The access to coastal walkway made sure that R could get out easily.

 

 by John & Joyce

Great and memorable holiday. Telfair Hotel and golf fabulous.

Thank you for organising and will be back for more!

 by Tim

A great trip that we all enjoyed immensely with so many happy moments.

 by Helen and Viv W

Hi David – all over the jet lag and the self imposed “coronavirus isolation” – all well, no signs of virus!!!

 

In terms of feedback – I will call the holiday Part 1 (golf) and Part 2 (travelling)

 

Part 1:

We had a fab time, the courses were wonderful.  Buggies and caddies seemed a bit excessive, but if that is how it has to be done so be it!
Hotels were all very special – especially the hotel in Cambodia – truly lovely.  The Hotel in Hoi An was the “least good” – it was fine, and we were told we were upgraded to Executive rooms, but frankly if they were executive rooms, I dread to think what the ordinary rooms were like – rooms were small and very cluttered.
We were very glad that we went to Hanoi for a few days before the golf otherwise we would not have been able to see Hanoi, and would have been straight into the golf the day after we landed.  It was great to have a few days as a tourist to see and experience the culture.
We did find that there was a lot of travelling on this part of the tour which we had not really expected – we think with better planning, a lot of travelling time could be saved – for instance playing Ba Na Hills course from Hoi An, when it is very close to Lang Co (where we stayed at the Laguna Hotel) – with hindsight it could have been better to play Ba Na Hills from Lang co instead.
One thing we did think was that there was no need for a guide on the days that we were playing golf.  The driver would have been more than ample.  All the guides did was accompanied us on the bus on both journeys – and added nothing really!

 

Part 2

This part of the trip was really great – we had a good time, managed to keep away from touristy areas most of the time, and the hotels were very comfortable.  Especially the hotel in Phu Yen (Son Cau) – that merits a special mention.
We enjoyed the flexibility of the two different guides – Dang who accompanied us to Ho Chi Minh City and Tin who was our guide in the Mekong.  They were both willing to be very flexible and help us to have the holiday we dreamed of.
The downside was that the holiday was during the TET celebrations – we had not understood that everything will be closed for 7 days!  If we had not been such experienced travellers and if our guides had not been flexible, it could have been very different.
The towns and cities that we visited on this part of the tour were lovely – we were not so keen on Nha Trang (too touristy) but Dang was able to get a local guide who took us up into the mountains and forests and enabled us to do some wild water swimming – fab.
We were surprised that we had to tip so much on this part of the holiday $35 (plus extra for the extra guides added in) a day was quite a lot on top of the cost of the trip.  However, the guides and drivers were very good!
Finally, just so you know, it was a good job we were able to make other arrangements for our golf clubs (friends took them home for us) as with TET we probably would not have seen them again at Ho Chi Minh City – everything was closed down – so it would have been unlikely that they left Da Nang!!

 

Hope this helps you to know more about the area and the tours.  All the feedback is meant in a constructive spirit.

 

Warmest wishes,  Helen and Viv

Hi Helen and Viv - thank you for the detailed feedback, thank God we got you home before COVID-19 spread across the world.

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We have just returned from our luxury golf vacation to Dubai and Mauritius with Island Golf Holidays. This is the third ‘ big trip’ that...

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