Pezula Resort Hotel & offers the ultimate destination for a leisure holiday set in a stunning place in South Africa’s Garden Route. The resort offers Beach, Family, Golf, Horse Riding, Spa, and Tennis vacations. Pezula is positioned on the Eastern Head of Knysna, a multi-ethnic lagoon-side town. Centrally located along the Garden Route coastline, Knysna…
The Raffles Resort Canouan Island, located on Canouan Island in the heart of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean, is set on 300 acres of a 1,200 acre private estate. The resort features three secluded white sand beaches, all surrounded by one of the world’s largest coral reefs. The new Raffles Resort is set around…
The Glenlivet is thrilled to again be bringing the two most cherished exports of Scottish heritage — Scotch whisky and golf. City Links is a 9-hole golf course and clubhouse touring the country from October 2006 to May 2007. This year, the tour will feature a virtual driving range where visitors will be able to…
The One&Only Palmilla is a posh and peaceful sanctuary on the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. Following a $110 million renovation and expansion in 2003, it has been a favorite retreat for Hollywood celebrities since its opening in 1956. Celebrity clientele includes Dustin Hoffman, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Oprah Winfrey and John Travolta (who…
From November 9 to 12, you can be in golf and culinary heaven. How? Because you can spend your days playing golf on the celebrated greens of pristine Hilton Head Island and its world famous courses at Palmetto Dunes. And you can spend your nights hanging out at the Celebrity Chef Classic with noted foodies…
Whether you’re a hacker like me or a scratch golfer, you’ve probably always dreamed of playing a round where golf was supposedly invented: The acclaimed Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland. On July 1, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts started managing Scotland’s destination golf inn, the 209-room St. Andrews Bay Golf Resort & Spa, a few…
We just watched the Queen Latifah movie, “Last Holiday,” and most of it took place at the Grandhotel Pupp in the alpine town of Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. And what a grand hotel it is! The opulent main building was erected in 1701. The Presidential Suite goes for about $4,000 US per night, but a…
Lahaina, Maui, is a 19th century whaling village that has morphed into a touristy town filled with oceanfront restaurants and T-shirt shops. It wasn’t that way in the late 60s when I first visited this plush, lush island. But 10 miles north is a AAA Five Diamond-rated resort: The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua.
I don’t know if Robert Louis Stevenson was a golfer. But he once called the Monterey Peninsula and Carmel, “the most flelicitious meeting of land and sea in the world.” Spanning eight decades, the Pebble Beach Golf Links hold a firm grip on golf history. From the annual U.S. Open to the AT&T Pebble Beach…
What do you do if you’re a NHL player, or a former one, and getting a little antsy without a season? Get a few silver-bladed buddies together and line up the next best thing – a golf nirvana. Bear Mountain Golf Resort, a 20-minute drive from Victoria, B.C., is the brainchild of Len Barrie, an…
The world’s most famous golf tournament begins Thursday in Scotland on the same historic links course where the game was supposedly born six centuries ago. Back in 1873, the first British Open was staged. The ball was smaller. The clubs had wooden shafts. There were no players named “Tigerâ€? or “Vijayâ€?. Jack Nicklaus wasn’t playing…
Old money? New money? Trust fund? Doesn’t matter. If you have enough money from any source, splurge on a visit to The Breakers Palm Beach, one of the world’s foremost hotels/spa/golf resorts in the old-fashioned tradition.