The luxury sports vacation has evolved. Travelers are no longer content to spend a week in a beach chair. They want mornings of competitive drills, afternoons of doubles, and evenings of farm-to-table dining with a mountain view.
Few states in America have cultivated such a storied, year-round tennis culture, and fewer still can claim a concentration of world-ranked resorts like the Palmetto State.
Tucked directly among the vines at Le Logis, two private pickleball courts sit within the private luxury estate in the heart of France’s Cognac region.
The luxury sports vacation has evolved. Travelers are no longer content to spend a week in a beach chair. They want mornings of competitive drills, afternoons of doubles, and evenings of farm-to-table dining with a mountain view.
Few states in America have cultivated such a storied, year-round tennis culture, and fewer still can claim a concentration of world-ranked resorts like the Palmetto State.
Tucked directly among the vines at Le Logis, two private pickleball courts sit within the private luxury estate in the heart of France’s Cognac region.
The unquestionable lure of this particular program is its setting along the Costa de la Luz overlooking La Barrosa Beach.
The Markson program offers the usual 15 hours a week of intensive tennis at a club with seven European red-clay courts and four hard courts. Guests bed down in one of two hotels: the 413-room Royal Andulus, which is open all year, and the somewhat more elegant 237-room Andalucia Playa, which is open May to October. Both have swimming pools and fitness center, while the Andalucia Playa also has a spa. Whichever option guests choose they are a five-minute stroll from a handsome tennis club with 7 European red clay and four hard courts. Markson’s intensive tennis program runs three hours each morning leaving the rest of the day free to explore or hang out at the beach.
The Markson program offers the usual 15 hours a week of intensive tennis at a club with seven European red-clay courts and four hard courts. Markson’s intensive tennis program runs three hours each morning leaving the rest of the day free to explore or hang out at the beach.
Off Court
Both hotels have swimming pools and fitness center, while the Andalucia Playa also has a spa.
Accommodations
Guests bed down in one of two hotels: the 413-room Royal Andulus, which is open all year, and the somewhat more elegant 237-room Andalucia Playa, which is open May to October.
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