UK’s Top Resort Offering Unlimited Golf, Four Complimentary Room Nights, 2010 Ryder Cup Season Ticket and More
(NEWPORT, Wales) – The Celtic Manor Resort – host of golf’s 2010 Ryder Cup and premier luxury retreat less than two hours outside London – announces an International Membership offer for individuals with primary residences outside the UK.
For an initiation fee of £2,000 (approximately $3,250) and £2,000 annual dues, members enjoy full playing privileges on The Twenty Ten – the first course in history designed and built specifically to host the Ryder Cup – as well as four complimentary room nights per year in the five-star Resort Hotel. Members joining before March 31, 2010 are also entitled to one 2010 Ryder Cup season ticket with daily access to the Twenty Ten Club members pavilion and opportunity to purchase an additional pass.
“This is a fantastic chance for golfers living outside the UK to experience a Ryder Cup layout and its associated world-class amenities at an exceptionally reasonable price,” says Dylan Matthews, Chief Executive of Celtic Manor. “They will be warmly welcomed and showered with Wales’ unrivaled hospitality.”
Other International Membership highlights include unlimited play on Celtic Manor’s other two championship courses — the Roman Road and Montgomerie — full access to the Twenty Ten Clubhouse’s luxurious facilities and private members’ lounge, complimentary membership to the Forum Health Club and Spa and two season tickets to the PGA European Tour’s Celtic Manor Wales Open (June 3-6, 2010).
In addition to the four complimentary room nights per year, members receive preferential accommodation rates and discounts at on-site restaurants, bars, retail outlets and spas. Each will also receive a Twenty Ten members’ blazer, tie and cufflinks.
Says Matthews: “We’re confident our outstanding service, proximity to Wales’ cultural and historical sites and ease of access from London will quickly make Celtic Manor our International Members’ preferred ‘home away from home.'”
For more information: www.celtic-manor.com and 44 (0) 1633 413 000.
About Celtic Manor Resort
Located less than two hours outside London, Celtic Manor Resort will host golf’s 2010 Ryder Cup and is the UK’s foremost luxury retreat. Featuring 1,400-plus acres of panoramic parkland and wooded hills, it is recognized as the “Gateway to Wales.”
A popular destination among business and leisure travelers, golf-tour operators and corporate incentive agents, five-star Celtic Manor offers myriad amenities. These include three championship golf courses (the Twenty Ten, Roman Road and Montgomerie), two lavish hotels (the majestic, 330-room Resort Hotel and historic, 70-room Manor House), five savory restaurants, two tranquil spas and state-of-the-art health clubs, a golf academy and miles of hiking trails. A convention center, exhibition hall, array of well-appointed suites, meeting rooms and large ballrooms are also available to host groups up to 1,500 for conferences, weddings and other special events.
Celtic Manor is privately owned by founder Sir Terry Matthews, the Ottawa, Canada-based telecommunications entrepreneur who was born on the Celtic Manor site when the original Manor House was a maternity hospital.
Getting There: Celtic Manor is 45 minutes from Bristol International Airport (BRS) and Cardiff International Airport (CWL). Daily, non-stop flights are available from Newark, New Jersey (EWR) to Bristol on Continental; and daily, one-stop flights are from New York (JFK) to Cardiff on KLM via Amsterdam. London Heathrow Airport (LHR) is a two-hour shuttle, with rail service from Paddington Station (London) to Newport, Wales also available.
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