Wales

[Bill_McBride]

More kudos to Ran and GCA.com.  How many of us would have ever met Mark Rowlinson without this website?

Sounds like a wonderful trip, Jeff.  Your guys will have a great time.

[Tommy Williamsen]

Final golf itinerary in-tee times made.
As always many tee time and availability logistics made this a trying exercise.

Thanks to all who helped. Particularly, Mark Rowlinson's incredible website and UK golf website as well as comments on this thread.
Sean Arble, who hopefully can find a way to join us.Tom Dunne, Ed Tilley etc.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Any places there are question marks (?) please feel free to chime in with a recomendation.

Depart Newark 10 pm Monday June 2

Day 1 -Tuesday June 3
Arrive Manchester 10 am
Play North Wales 2:10
Dinner- Conwy(Groes Inn)
Stay -Bull Bay- (Trecastle Hotel)

Day 2  Wednesday---tough day
Bull Bay 9:10
Nefyn  3:15
Dinner/Stay  Harlech  (Y Branwyn Hotel)

Day 3  Thursday
Royal St. David's 9:10
Aberdovey 3:44
Dinner/Stay  Aberdovey (Dovey Inn ?)

Day 4  Friday
Drive to Cardigan
Cardigan 12:00
Drive to Tenby
Dinner/Stay Tenby (??)

Day 5  Saturday
Tenby 9:30
Pennard 4:00
Dinner ()
Stay -The Mumbles  (Tides Reach Guesthouse)

Day 6  Sunday
Ashburnham 10:00
Pennard -(possibly again) 4:00ish
Dinner ()
Stay- The Mumbles (Tides Reach Guesthouse)

Day 7 Monday
Southerndown 10:00
Royal Porthcawl 3:30
Dinner/Stay- (Royal Porthcawl Dormy house)

Day 8  Tuesday June 10
Depart Bristol 10:30 flight

Thanks again-I hope others have found this exercise helpful
I think Mark Rowlinson should not be allowed to post anymore.
It's about to cost me my job

That's my kind of trip.  Play golf, eat, play again eat, sleep.  You have a great itinerary.  Have a great time.  When you play Bull Bay you need to suspend any notion of what a course should be like.  On number two there will be a surprise when you crest the hill.  It is wild wackey and fun.  I played the other courses and they are different from each other and very good golf.  

When Mark Rowlinson and I played Bull Bay we drove all the way from Manchester.  It was worth the trip.

[Ed Tilley]

Final golf itinerary in-tee times made.
As always many tee time and availability logistics made this a trying exercise.

Thanks to all who helped. Particularly, Mark Rowlinson's incredible website and UK golf website as well as comments on this thread.
Sean Arble, who hopefully can find a way to join us.Tom Dunne, Ed Tilley etc.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Any places there are question marks (?) please feel free to chime in with a recomendation.

Depart Newark 10 pm Monday June 2

Day 1 -Tuesday June 3
Arrive Manchester 10 am
Play North Wales 2:10
Dinner- Conwy(Groes Inn)
Stay -Bull Bay- (Trecastle Hotel)

Day 2  Wednesday---tough day
Bull Bay 9:10
Nefyn  3:15
Dinner/Stay  Harlech  (Y Branwyn Hotel)

Day 3  Thursday
Royal St. David's 9:10
Aberdovey 3:44
Dinner/Stay  Aberdovey (Dovey Inn ?)

Day 4  Friday
Drive to Cardigan
Cardigan 12:00
Drive to Tenby
Dinner/Stay Tenby (??)

Day 5  Saturday
Tenby 9:30
Pennard 4:00
Dinner ()
Stay -The Mumbles  (Tides Reach Guesthouse)

Day 6  Sunday
Ashburnham 10:00
Pennard -(possibly again) 4:00ish
Dinner ()
Stay- The Mumbles (Tides Reach Guesthouse)

Day 7 Monday
Southerndown 10:00
Royal Porthcawl 3:30
Dinner/Stay- (Royal Porthcawl Dormy house)

Day 8  Tuesday June 10
Depart Bristol 10:30 flight

Thanks again-I hope others have found this exercise helpful
I think Mark Rowlinson should not be allowed to post anymore.
It's about to cost me my job

Jeff,

When I stayed in Tenby, I stayed at the Tenby House Hotel:

www.tenbyhousehotel.com

This is a lively pub /restaurant with decent rooms at a reasonable price. However, be warned that in holiday season Tenby Old Town is closed to traffic during the day so you won't be able to park your bus at the Hotel. This is a bit of a nightmare although, at the time you are arriving, you will be able to drive to the hotel and drop clubs etc. off.

I don't know if you can't get on on these days but have you thought about playing Ashburnham - it is closer to Tenby than Pennard - on the Saturday and having a full day at Pennard on the Sunday?

[jeffwarne]

Ed,
Thanks for the Hotel tip.

Pennard has their member-guest Saturday -Sunday in the morning so those are the only days any of it can work.
Everything on this itinerary has been hashed and thought about=endlessly.
Besides, Pennard is quite near The Mumbles so we've got to head that way anyway after golf at Tenby.

Staying all day at Pennard would've been nice though.
As it is we've got it set up as optional second round on Sunday after Ashburnham and it's sot've on the way back to the Hotel Sat and Sunday.

Thanks again,
Jeff