Family Resorts

Specialist Reports Holiday by Accommodation Family Resorts Club La Manga 

	Club La Manga
Los Belones, 30385 Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
tel: +34 968 33 1234

Bookable through Barwell Leisure, The Coach House, Elm Road, Chessington Surrey KT9 1AW
(020) 8786 3000
http://www.barwell.co.uk

The largest operator to La Manga Club with flights from Manchester, Birmingham and Gatwick to Murcia airport, 20 minutes from the resort, and transfers. Packages include golf, tennis and family holidays. Buzz flies to Murcia.
Sports names like Jeremy Guscott and Steven Redgrave are employed as roving ambassadors for the club and others like Nigel Mansell and Kenny Dalglish own properties. Soccer facilities are particularly good so big name teams often train there.

Where

Murcia in southern Spain.

Style

The entire resort is the size of Monaco. There is a range of accommodation including the five-star Hyatt Regency Hotel with its own pool and facilities, Hyatt Las Lomas apartments in traditional Spanish style on the hillside with fully equipped kitchens, barbecues on terrace, heated pool, and separate children's pool. There are restaurants next to the apartments including more and less formal options. A courtesy bus service links the apartments with the rest of the club.
Sports facilities include three championship golf courses, a tennis centre with 28 courts, squash, bowls, paddle tennis and crazy golf, horse riding, mountain biking.

Facilities for Children

There is Mini Club at the tennis centre catering to children from 3 months to 12 years, which as well as more standard options also includes quad biking, football training, tennis, snorkelling, diving, windsurfing, sailing, water skiing and more, some activities with age restrictions. (The resort has its own dive centre.) There are instructors qualified in all the different sports.

Sample Price

Seven nights in August for four people in a two bedroom, two bathroom apartment, from £489 per adult and £473 per child including flights with BA and transfers.