CHIANG MAI – CHIANG RAI GOLFING PACKAGE,

5 DAYS / 4 NIGHTS

Day 1:  ARRIVE IN CHIANG MAI (D)

Arrive in Chiang Mai airport, meet and transfer to 

hotel for check-in. Orientation tour of the city to let you feel at home in this fair city, the largest in northern Thailand. It is a lively city with gentle people steeped in Buddhist traditions and Lanna culture. The northern Thai dialect is widely used in every day speech. We visit the two most revered temples, Wat Phra Singh and Wat Chedi Luang for its Lanna-style religious architecture. Meet the monks at Wat Chedi Luang for a “Monk Chat” to find out how they live as monks or about Buddhism. This evening we attend a Khantoke dinner, which is traditional northern Thai hospitality with cultural shows and hilltribe dances for entertainment. Pick up at your hotel lobby at 7pm. After the dinner at about 9.30pm you have time to stroll in the interesting Night Bazaar full of stalls selling northern Thai handicrafts and souvenirs. Coffee cafes and ice cream parlors jostle with restaurants, money exchange booths, massage places and beer bars along the Night Bazaar street of Changklan Road.

Overnight at Rydges Hotel or Tamarind Village (4-star), Chiang Mai.

Day 2: CHIANG MAI (B)

 Buffet breakfast at the hotel. 

A morning round of golf at the Chiangmai-Lamphun Golf Club of 18 holes with caddy service, green fee and transportation included. 

(Lying at the heart of northern Thailand’s most beautiful scenery, Chiangmai-Lamphun Golf Club is a dream come true for golfers and their families. Established in 1990, it is the first private golf course of Northern Thailand. The 18-hole championship course, 6919 yards, par 72, lies in a natural valley surrounded by beautiful rolling hills. Thousands of mature native trees together with well-designed traditional-style buildings give the golf course its unique, distinctly northern character. Its contoured terrain, interspersed with creeks and water hazards, offers a challenge to golfers of all handicaps whilst its lovely natural scenery soothes the senses.)

Free afternoon to relax and enjoy Chiang Mai. Tell your guide what you want to do and he will arrange it for you. Or explore the nearby Warorot market, have a foot or body massage along Tapae-Changmoi Road.

Overnight at Rydges Hotel or Tamarind Village, Chiang Mai.

Day 3: CHIANG MAI – CHIANG RAI (B)

 Buffet breakfast at the hotel.

Morning transfer to Chiang Rai, a drive of 2.5 hours through teakwood forests, hamlets, hot spring resorts and hill tribe villages. Arrive in Chiang Rai and do an orientation tour of the town before driving the 35km to check in at the Waterford Valley Golf Resort.

Overnight at The Legend or Waterford Valley Golf Resort, Wiang Chai.

Day 4: WATERFORD VALLEY CHIANGRAI (B)

Breakfast at the resort. Morning round of golf at Waterford Valley Chiangrai with caddy service and green fee included. This truly beautiful golf course and resort is set in lush green landscape and surrounded by mountains with two 18-hole courses. Designed by Rathert International of USA, these courses have wide, undulating fairways and large greens.

The course playing from the back tees is just short of 7,000 yards. Altogether, there are five sets of tees at this 18-hole layout and players can be forgiven if they were distracted by the background of mountainous scenery. There are eight OB holes, numerous water hazards and lovely flowers adorning the surroundings. The service in the clubhouse is very friendly and the complex has its own hotel fringing the golf course. From November through March the cool weather is ideal for golf and family enjoyment. Designed by Rathert International Golf Design Inc. 18 holes with par 72. Total yardage Blue 6,847, Yellow 6,352, White 6,023 and Red 5,218.) Then be at own leisure to enjoy this splendid resort.

Non-golfers might like to learn to cook some Thai dishes in a cooking school. A morning’s cooking lesson will start with a trip to the market to choose the fresh ingredients of herbs, vegetables and meats for cooking. You have to eat what you cooked in order to know how well you have excelled in cooking Thai dishes. For non-cooks you might want to experience a traditional foot or body massage and stroll about the town before returning to your hotel.

Overnight at The Legend or Waterford Valley Resort, Wiang Chai.

Day 5: SANTIBURI GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB (B)

Breakfast at the resort. Morning round of golf at Santiburi Country Club set among lush greenery. This 18 hole, 7,000 yards, par 72, Robert Trent Jones Jr. masterpiece is widely regarded as one of the best conceived, and conditioned golf courses in Asia. This brainchild of Khun Santi Bhirombhakdi, the owner of Thailand's Singha Beer, is an exquisite example of understated elegance. Santiburi offers an aesthetic feast for the golf connoisseur. The golf course is world class, yet it is playable and enjoyable for golfers on every skill level. Set into the contours of a valley, it offers a superbly landscaped golf course that winds beneath a canopy of magnificent shade trees, across crystal clear lakes and streams, reflecting turquoise skies and pearl white clouds above, and the lush green foothills and mountains of Chiang Rai in the distance. After golfing, transfer to the Chiang Rai airport for departure flight.

  End of Program

Price Per Person in JPY

SURCHAGES:

For WEEKEND and Public Holiday play, please add:JPY 4000 to the above Golfer Rates.