John Cowden it's possible to visit Scotland without Perry Golf or another company adding 100% to the bill.
A 7 day golf package is $550 add 7 nights in a B&B at $130 a night. Add a business class flight in May for $3400 to Edinburgh from JFK on BA or AA and there's a week for $5k. Fly zoo and knock $2k off the price.
Chappers,
I'll bite on this one - as pals you'll hopefully know my tone is jovial, all be it a little defensive as a tour op myself, but thats absolute nonsense you've written about mark-up.
Perry Golf's mark up will work nicely for them but I'm taking a very educated guess the end user will probably pay about a 10% more than could do it for him/herself at a SIMILAR standard....if, and big if, they could get access to the tee times on the Old. I do realise the "100% added to the bill" was a throw-away statement.
Perry will get excellent margins at the likes of the Old Course Hotel and the Fairmont, on a par or better than Bandon's lodging quality no doubt, therefore allowing them to make good money while offering a premium product and an uptick for doing all the work for the client.
Its not quite fair to compare the lodging at Bandon to B&Bs on Murray Park. Although I know your point is you can stay at B&Bs to make it cheaper.
In terms of the $550 for golf, if the comparison is Bandon v Scotland then its implicit that we are comparing the courses there to the likes of the Old, Kingsbarns, Carnoustie. KB alone is the guts of £240, Old Course time at best is £175 if you ballot (multiply that by 3 for an advance trade time); two courses you would definitely want to play and we are already at your $550 mark.[/size]We are all well versed from the endless (and apologies to the guys [/size]genuinely [/size]asking for help) "I'm doing a trip to Scotland, I'm asking for help but really I'm not, please tell me how great my trip is" threads to know how to do it on a shoestring. Bandon is expensive for most golfers and so is Scotland at that standard of accom and golf courses we are comparing.[/size][/size]