We Love Golf Travel Golf Package

Carden Park Hotel sits on 1,000 acres of rolling Cheshire countryside, and it announces itself in style. The mile-long drive winds right through the Nicklaus Course before delivering you to the front door of what locals rightly call Cheshire's Country Estate. This is the largest independent hotel in the North-West, a former 17th-century estate that now packs in two championship golf courses, a five-star spa, five dining options, and even its own three-acre vineyard producing thousands of bottles of estate-grown wine every year. Yes, you can drink wine grown next to the first tee. Try doing that at your home club.

The golf is the real headliner. The Nicklaus Course, designed by Jack Nicklaus and his son Steve, is one of the rare Golden Bear designs in England, stretching to over 7,000 yards with water in play on more than half the holes. Jack himself called it a thinking man's golf course, and the double-option fairways on the 7th and 15th prove his point. You pick your line, you live with the consequences. The closing stretch runs right in front of the hotel, so hold your nerve on 17 because the terrace crowd is watching. The Cheshire Course is no consolation prize either. It climbs through wooded fells behind the clubhouse, plays tighter and trickier than its famous sibling, and finishes with a downhill 18th teed up on sandstone cliffs with views to the Welsh hills. Plenty of regulars will tell you it is the better of the two, which is exactly the kind of argument best settled over 36 holes.
Between rounds, warm up on the 11-bay floodlit driving range, then reward yourself at the leisure club, the spa garden hot tubs, or the clubhouse bar. Chester and its Roman walls are 30 minutes away, and Manchester Airport is under an hour, so getting there is the easy part. Named England's Best Golf Hotel at the World Golf Awards, Carden Park is the kind of place where one night never feels like enough.

Example package:
1 night bed and breakfast in a double or twin room
2 rounds of golf, one on the Nicklaus Course and one on the Cheshire Course
From 159 GBP per person (midweek arrivals, seasonal dates apply)