Costa Navarino

Golf vacations in Greece offer everything you need for a sun-soaked European golf trip. The Costa Navarino resort is home to four outstanding golf courses and four luxury hotels, spanning nearly seven miles of the beautiful Ionian Sea coastline in Messina, where the famous Kalamata olives have been grown for centuries.

As an ecologically sustainable development, guests and players here can look forward to one of the finest golf resorts in Continental Europe.

Whether you choose to play one or all four of the 18-hole signature courses at Costa Navarino, you can count on amazing views of the sea and surrounding Kalamata olive tree lines, hills, and valleys. The play here also offers something for everyone, with plenty of challenges and fun along the route.

The four resort hotels ooze luxury, and two are family-friendly (Westin and Luxury Collection Romanos), which is ideal if you’re bringing the children along on your Greece golf vacation.

The W and Mandarin Oriental properties overlook historic and beautiful Navarino Bay, where a decisive 1827 naval battle was fought that helped Greece gain independence from Turkey.

Each of the hotels have front line beach access, multiple swimming pools, giant spa’s, a wide variety of dining venues, and complimentary shuttles around the different properties, golf courses and activities.

Everything is new, clean, well appointed and luxurious.  Among the best features are the purpose-built Agora’s, which are outdoor markets with many shops, indoor and alfresco restaurants, open-air cinema and activities like wine tasting and concerts.

There is so much to do and see that a week long visit is almost the minimum duration to take it all in!

If it was just the golf courses alone that made the experience at Costa Navarino world-class, it would still rank highly anywhere on earth. But it’s the little things that make it special. 

Outside of maybe a uber-private club or two in France or Spain, no courses are better maintained in Continental Europe that the four layouts at Costa Navarino. The practice facilities are first class, with new balls in perfect pyramids and groomed short game areas and practice putting greens that match the course green speeds. 

There is a proper Starter on each #1 tee who tells the course story and makes sure everyone knows where the ice-cold water stations are located every three holes, and where the bathrooms are located. The golf carts are new and have all the bells and whistles imaginable, including ordering food or drink or extra golf balls from the interactive screen. 

A beverage cart makes frequent rounds, and the course Marshall brings you scented cold refresher towels at different stages of the day. When you are done, the staff clean your clubs, give you more scented cold towels, and seamlessly move your equipment to tomorrow’s golf course, where they’ll be waiting for you on your golf cart. 

Think of the best private country club service you’ve ever experienced, and that is what they provide daily at Costa Navarino. 

Did we mention the gorgeous open-air clubhouses with views of the sea? Here again, these are unmatched facilities in Europe with great service and excellent, fresh food. But be forewarned, a post round drink or clubhouse lunch tends to stretch into the afternoon because people don’t want to leave. A week of golf at Costa Navarino is as good as it gets. Make the trip, it’s certainly worth it!