La Manga Club, Europe’s leading luxury sport and leisure resort, has been shortlisted in the Luxury Golf Resort category of the World Luxury Hotel Awards. Now in their third year, the awards celebrate the world’s finest hotels and resorts. Award winners set the benchmark for luxury hotels in achieving recognition for their world class facilities and service excellence.

Shortlisted in the Luxury Golf Resort category, Spain’s La Manga Club has offered first class golfing facilities and five-star accommodation for over 20 years. In 2007, Q-Plus, an organisation founded by the National Association of Greenkeepers of Spain, awarded La Manga Club the first certificate in Spain for the quality of its three, 18-hole championship courses.

La Manga Club’s three championship golf courses have been host to a wide range of sporting legends including Jose Maria Olazabal, Seve Ballesteros and Colin Montgomery and a number of leading tournaments such as the Spanish Open, Spanish PGA Championships, BMW Golf Cup International. It is also the winter training base for the German PGA.

With three 18-hole championship golf courses, year round sunny climate and high-tech practice facilities, the resort is the ideal winter holiday destination for golfers of all levels. The resort is also famed for its leading golf tuition and academies which are ideal for golfers of all ages and abilities.

Set over 1,400 acres of picturesque Spanish landscape, La Manga Club is home to a five-star hotel, four-star apartments and a luxury spa. The resort also hosts over 20 bars and restaurants, 28 tennis courts and eight football pitches.

Murcia airport is just 30 minutes from La Manga Club, airlines currently flying direct include: bmibaby, easyJet, Flybe, Thomsonfly, Jet2.com, Monarch and Ryanair; Alicante is around an hour from La Manga Club.