Golf Tours, Trips, Holiday, Vacation, Golf Packages in Southeast ASIA… & More?

GOLFnTours.com is a professional golf tour, golf packages and golf tournament organizer. We organize cost-effective and value-for-money golf tours and golf vacation packages anywhere in Australia, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippine, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and More!

From Beijing to Kathmandu to Bali to Australia, we are your One-Stop-Shop for all your golfing trips in the region!

We understand…even camels have to drink after some time. Call us now!

What We Do We are an internet-based golf tours facilitator. We arrange golf trips and golf holiday packages for anyone visiting the hot golf destinations in the region. Choose your destination, tell us your requirement and make a booking, we tailor accordingly and arrange everything before your arrival. Your just arrive, enjoy your stay and play golf!  Map of Southeast ASIA      中文点击 – 微信: +66 6574 10883

…I will certainly recommend you and your company to anyone planning to travel to golf in Southeast Asia!!!”
– JS, Suomiland Feb. 2010
Hong Kong/Mission Hills/Macau

Thanks Francis and millions of thanks for the fantastic trip (again). Take care 😎
– JS, Suomiland Feb. 2020 Cambodia & Vietnam

...HB Cruise was awesome – thx for arranging those very nice and peaceful cabins..Yes, we’ve enjoyed a lot. Nice arrangements (including the hotel rooms…)..Thx Francis and thank you VERY MUCH for the trip, much appreciated and enjoyed!”
– JS, Suomiland Jan. 2014 Vietnam

Because of our extensive network of local agents, we source our supplies at source so that we are able to offer you very competitive rates that are otherwise not available to visitors coming on their own. We help you SAVE by bundling your requirement to make the most optimally priced golf package! Make the necessary comparisons on prices and let us know how else we can offer you the best!

My summary is very short: Thank you very much for excellently organized travel to Mission Hills Shenzhen. We will never forget it and hoping to come back again.
– Kindest regards coming from: M & J L. – Northfarland, January 2018

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We cordially request a Deposit of 30% at least to confirm your trip with the balance to reach us two weeks before date or cash on arrival, depending on the destination.

This happens when the final itinerary and quotation of your package have been agreed between us and you wish to confirm your purchase. This deposit payment is your commitment to all the facility suppliers whose services (plus ours) you seek to ensure an enjoyable golf holiday. Without this deposit payment for your golf package, no bookings or any other reservations would be made by us for you for the simple reason that the risk of a 'no show' should best rest with you - Our Dear Valued Customer - for important people like you could be called up anytime to attend to whatever mundane by anyone of gainful interests to you. By this arrangement of a deposit, we trust that you appreciate we'd be partly financing your package until your arrival.

The deposit payment can be made either by a direct Telegraphic Transfer to our centralized bank account in Australia or via PayPal using your credit card.

Telegraphic Transfer (Wire) 

For those averse to following online instructions, please make a telegraphic transfer with instruction for "Recipient to Receive Amount in Full" to:

Payee: Francis Hua-Qiang HUANG Bank: Westpac Bank, Australia - Branch# 032-089 Account Number: 732089-564630 SWIFT Code: WPACAU2S For (online EFT) transfers within AUSTRALIA, please use BSB: 732089 / Account Number: 564630

Credit Card Payment:

PayPal accepts most credit cards. It makes a widely acceptable intermediary with whom all parties could feel comfortable making monetary transactions.

All you need to do is to follow simple instructions in the email-Invoice to be sent to you via PayPal to complete the credit card transaction just like you would in any other online purchases. We cordially request though a PayPal's Service Charge of 3.7% on the amount paid; this service charge replaces the fee you'd otherwise have to pay for a bank transfer.

PayPal provides The PayPal Buyer Complaint Policy. We would like you to feel comfortable transacting with us online, particularly if we are organizing your golf trip for the first time.

A Note of Comfort: After we've received the deposit, we regularly receive requests from our clients to TT us the balance before arrival to avoid the hassle of having to prepare cash, sometimes in local currency. The choice remains yours, Madam/Sir.

Our philosophy is that of a 'boutique tour' facilitator, bringing together the various expertise in our network and our experience in the golf tour industry to best cater to your needs, as well as attending to the finest details of the most discerning customer.

Our forte is our ability to offer you the best price that any value-conscious customer cannot resist!

We accept orders for groups of any size. Come yourself, or with your partner or loved ones, or better still with all your friends, club members, colleagues and business associates. We are also happy to organize Incentive Golf Tours for your employees or your organization.

Need a golf tournament for your big corporation, or your private group? Call us.

We 'make it happen' for you. Take advantage of the economy of scale, let us give you the best price possible and make it a cost-efficient and fun-filled golf holiday for everyone! A quick note on FREEbies: While conditions apply, for your golf package, we can offer you a FREE Room for every 16 purchased and, many airlines and travel agencies do offer a FREE air-ticket for every 15 purchased on a package-to-package basis.

Ask for it, help yourself by helping us to make it a good golfing holiday package for you!

In order for us to ensure our clients enjoy the quality of services as agreed, we regularly conduct quality control checks during the trip to ensure services provided are up to the standard as promised.

We keep in close touch with our clients during the trip by email or instant messaging or simply through telephone calls.

We respect and have no intention to intrude your privacy; we only aim to ensure value for money for all our valued customers.

A package, which includes all of your requirement (your golf green booking, hotel reservation, all local transportation, optional local tours etc.) allows us to give you the best combination of the facilities and therefore the best package price possible.

Some might like to be quoted on item-to-item basis so they reserve the liberty to choose whichever item they like better. We can accommodate that but our sincere advice is that such 'supermarket-type' of selective purchase will quite inevitably result in a much higher package price on the overall.

In this context, booking your hotel rooms separately via online hotel sites or air-ticket purchase will only make your overall outlay higher. Besides online hotel room prices are always higher than our contracted prices. We cordially request that our expertise in tailor-packaging your entire golf trip be put into best use.

Just tell us all that you require for a golf trip, we'll offer the best for you!

We attend to all enquiries promptly. We attempt to programme the itinerary as close as possible to your requirement.
It is to your best interest to provide as much information as you can by filling in our Order Enquiry form available by clicking the 'Order Enquiry' button at the right bars. Brisk exchange of e-mail messages and/or telephone calls will be inevitable to ensure the finest details of your order are not left out.

Step 1: Your Initial Enquiry If you Contact Us or send us an Order Enquiry providing full details of your requirement for a golf tour package, you will receive promptly (Well, almost always) a quotation from us, see sample of an email-Quotation below:

Step 2: Invoicing After numerous email or phone exchanges for further enquiries, changes and fine-tuning of your package, you are finally satisfied with the details and would like to confirm purchase of your package. We will send you an invoice requesting for a deposit, see sample of an email-Invoice here:

Step 3: Receipt of Your Payment When we receive your payment, we will immediately acknowledge by sending you the print-out line of entry in our bank statement showing the payment you have sent us. This serves as an official receipt from us; it is a digital proof of receipt by us (This is times more official than any scrappy pieces of the traditional receipt), see sample here:

Digital Receipt 1

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Step 4: Preparation of Your Arrival You will send us the name list of your group for hotel and golf course bookings, your arrival and departure flight details for us to arrange in advance the vehicle for your airport pick-up and the rest of the trip, your preferred T-off times and all else we need to know to make your tour as seemless as possible, etc., etc.

After all bookings have been made, we will send you the Booking Reference Numbers as in the register of the facility suppliers, in particular from the hotels for your rooms. You are most welcome to check directly if you wish.

Step 5: Your Final Itinerary About 1-2 weeks before your arrival, we will send you the final Itinerary which will detail, apart from the agreed timed-schedule of the various activities, the name, mobile telephone number and a copy of the ID with photo of our representative or your driver meeting and greeting you at the airport. This is particularly important if you have a balance of your Invoice amount to pay us on arrival. See a sample of the final Itinerary here:

Step 6: Arrival & Your Actual Tour Upon arriving at your destination, we will likely contact you via the phone of your driver or guide just to make sure you are properly settled down for your tour. With absolutely no intention to intrude your privacy, we will likely contact you again half-way through just to make sure all's been well.

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Ready Golf Packages

SINGAPORE

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4nite 3golf Play Sentosa Serapong Course Marina Bay & Orchid CC Stay W Singapore Sentosa Cove Hotel All local transfers

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MISSION HILLS SHENZHEN

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3nite 3golf Play any 3 of the 10 top courses available Stay MH’s
Dongguan Hotel All transfers ex-Hong Kong Airport

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KHAO YAI National Park

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4nite 3golf Play Toscana, Kirimaya & Sir James GCs Stay Rimtarn Inn + ‘1nite in Bangkok’ All local transfers

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“…and chances are, COO COOs, you probably won’t be able to do a simple task like organizing a good golf holiday for yourself!”
– Our In-house Rocket Yahoo message us for your golf vacation package in Southeast ASIA Scientist!
Why not leave it to us?
“…and we’ll do a ‘Mickelson’ with a 64 Degrees to show how the price dropping!”

Tell us you have a bigger group!

MANILA: MAKATI

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4nite 3golf Play Riviera, Forest Hills & Sun Valley GCs Stay Citadel Inn All local transfers Min 4 Golfers, the More the Merrier!

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SPAIN: BARCELONA

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10nite at Hotel Eurostars Bcn Design Play 8 of the best courses in
& around Barcelona, Barcelona City Tour All local transfers

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MYANMAR: YANGON

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5nite 4golf Play Pun Hlaing, Mingaladon, YCDC & Myanmar GCs Stay Park
Royal Hotel All local transfers Min 8 Golfers

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Do NOT purchase if our package is not good enough for you!

GOLF – The Power of Imagination
A good golf shot has often been described as consisting of 80% mind game – only 20% goes to physical delivery Find Out More?

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GOLF – The Game of X
A graphical representation of the path to satisfaction, wellbeing and excellence in golf transposed on the life-long pursuit of fun and more wins in the game Go Read?

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Taichi-Golf-Zen
To understand how a golf swing is made takes only minutes…to do it right, it often takes a life-time!
Read about it?

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BOTUMA Golf…anyone?
Underlying the player must have full control over the shot…do you?
Read about it?

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Is Golf An Endeavor of A Lifetime For You?
A Japanese golf club has on its website: “Golf is Life in Itself!”
You might have your own insight
Read about it?

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Are You The Mickelson of Your Trade?
Go to the Article and Read about Phil…or may be YOU!

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US Open 2008: Rocco Mediate Succumbed to Seduction!
Let’s Dig It!

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Psst! Want to know how…
President Marcos, Christina Kim, Lee Kuan Yew, Dr. Christian Bernard
and a resident golf pro with a colourful past got together?
Oui!

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Do you need Travel Insurance?
Generally golf tour packages do not include any travel insurance cover.
You are advised to seek on your own any insurance cover you deem necessary.
Let us know if you require one

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Ask your travel agents to go fly kites if they can’t arrange a 9-hole quickie just before the last boarding call on this New Golf Course (ah well, still relatively new) in Chiang Mai! …. T-off there?

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What WAS in 2008?
Two new golf courses openned for play:
One in Phanthiet and another in Pattaya!

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Getting Married?
Yes, we can organize for you a romantic wedding ceremony
under the canopy of green leaves of the tall rain trees on a golf course in Bali!
You can tee-off there immediately after they (hmm…maybe you!) say the brave words “I do”!
Just do not forget to bring enough clubs!

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If there’s a Very Good Reason why you should join our golf tour, here it is:

A very encouraging letter from one of our groups:

Northern Beauties: For some there could only be one good reason for a Chiangmai Golf Package! Go there NOW?

Francis Huang from GOLFnTours arranged everything for us and the trip went like clock work. As usual we had a few last minute changes with a missed flight but Francis was able to swiftly put alternative arrangements in place.

Whilst Francis did not attend our golf trip, he kept in touch constantly ensuring all was running smoothly. The cold beer on the 2 hour bus trip to Wanning was much appreciated and enjoyed. The golf courses, accommodation, food and transport were all first class.

We have used Francis previously for our golf trips in Asia and again he has delivered a first class golfing experience and I would recommend GOLFnTours.com to anyone looking for a hassle free golf experience.

Thanks Francis.

BE, Affirm Software Group Australia, April 2013

And, one more :

Hello Francis,

We all had a wonderful golfing holiday in Manila, the accommodation, transport and golf courses were all excellent. The holiday was everything we could have hoped for and we do not hesitate in recommending your service to other golfers looking for an Asian golfing experience.

Please feel free to post this email on your website.

Regards

C White, Townsville, Nov 2014

More Clients’ Comments:

AG is a professional; his job takes him to all over the world. Currently he is based in his company's outlet in Singapore. Recently he came on our tour to Manila with seven others and, he had some generous words for us:

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When SS and friends wanted to pay on arrival in Zhuhai the cash balance of their package price for his golf holiday there last month, our appointed representative could not produce the official receipt because he left it in the office. SS, acting according to our earlier instruction ...

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Hi Francis,Thanks for your arrangement. We had a good time and was very pleased and satisfied with your arrangement. Looking forward to further trips with you later.Regards.

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Doc T, a medical specialist and CEO of a large medical center rang urgently from his shangri-la(ish) enclave across the vast sea, not for the operating table together with us, of course. They wanted a short but golf-intensive holiday in China but the horrible earthquake of May 2008 ...

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K Hughes of Sydney had difficulties in securing golf bookings in Shanghai on his own. For those new to the golf club scene in China, most of the golf clubs there are privately owned. Very few are open to the public in the sense that one could easily ...

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S. C. of Hawaii was on a business trip with some friends to Shanghai and Beijing, China and wondered whether we could arrange a couple of rounds of golf for them to 'de-stress'. No probs Sir, as we have a network of local associates in all the major ...

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S Viswanath of Mumbai, India travels regularly with his delegates to Malaysia to visit their branch office. We were happy to arrange a 'golf-only' package for them in Kuala Lumpur. But S wasn't too familiar with PayPal and got jittery over whether to sign up as a member ...

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Efficiency and Professionalism

Dear Francis,

Namaste! ..thank you for everything ..pleasantly surprised with the efficiency and professionalism that the trip was conducted ..Nepalese golf courses – tough, challenging and definitely good training for our legs ..all exhausted and even the lady golfers are asking for more.

We had a wonderful time and hope to use your service again in future.
Thank you Francis, for a great vacation!

L W, Singapore
May 2014

We had a great time

Thanks Francis,
We had a great time.
All the arrangements worked perfectly.

S S, USA
Apr 2009

Quick Responses

Overall Francis,
I appreciate all your efforts and planning and your usual quick responses in communicating prior to the trip and after. I will highly suggest to others going to China of your services. What you have is excellent and provides fair pricing.

Thanks a lot! It was a pleasure working with you on our trip. The guys enjoyed it..and everything went smoothly just as you would want it on a vacation.

S C, Hawaii
Apr 2006

Kindly Assistance

Hi Francis,

Thank you kindly for your assistance. I found everything went according to clock work.

Joyce and the Driver are very nice people and very patient with extremely good manners.

The golf course I thought, was very good and I must admit – I won the day! Thank you once again and I hope I can use your company again in the future. Regards

K. Hughes, Sydney
Sept 2007

Well Organized

Hi Frank,
I must say the trip to Hanoi was well organized despite the little hitch on our side trip to Halong Bay on rainy days. The small hotel you got us was superb. Thank you so much.

Jude, Sydney
Sept 2007

Enjoyed The Trip

Hi Francis,
We appreciate your arrangements, all of us enjoyed the trip & the program that you customized for us.

Thanks for the nice request, the group golf photos plus any other interesting ones will be sent to you when they are ready.

At last I want to thank once again of YOU, the young & brilliant tour guide Md. Helmy Ahmad & your counterpart for everything you arranged for us.
Keep in touch.

T Lam, Macao
May 2008

We Had a Good Time

Hi Francis,
Thanks for your arrangement. We had a good time and was very pleased and satisfied with your arrangement. Looking forward to further trips with you later. Regards.

B Yeoh, Penang
May 2008

The Tour Went Well

Hello Francis,
The tour went well. We enjoyed the golf. Only one thing, the credit card payment procedure tends to be a bit confusing. Hope you can improve on it.

S Viswanath, Mumbai
Feb 2008

GOLFnTours.com:
We agree, S. But that’s the way PayPal would go all out to get people to sign up for membership. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Never Perfect but Always Good

Chiangmai Golf Package: Never Perfect but Always Good

“G’day mate, Thanks for your good work. I concur with michael re inthanon but it was not too bad. Caddy English wasn’t flash not that I can blame them for that.

And little things like condition of paths edgings and areas behind tees etc. Highlands and royal, in regard to those finishing touches were just superb. Driver Mit and his new van were 100% fantastic!

Truly, great trip – no worries

– Dd, Australia May 2011

Chiang Mai Intensive Golf Package

Doc T, a medical specialist and CEO of a large medical center rang urgently from his shangri-la(ish) enclave across the vast sea, not for the operating table together with us, of course. They wanted a short but golf-intensive holiday in China but the horrible earthquake of May 2008 took place. We recommended Chiang Mai, Thailand and the group duly arrived despite difficulty in securing connecting flights. The group comprised mostly seasoned golfers who did two rounds per day at different courses for two days. Together with the other round of 18-hole play immediately on arrival, they clocked up five rounds each over three days. No mean feat for these ‘mature’ golfers, the youngest was 45 year-old and the oldest 58.

While the non-golfers enjoyed their fair share of shopping and sight-seeing; the golfers made full use of their time in the evening to unwind and relax their tired muscles by having massages by professional masseus.

For those not too familiar, amongst many other things, professional full-body massage and foot reflexology-massage are the latest health craze the city has to offer at the moment, and at a reasonable rate too. No? Ask the Doc!

Kuala Lumpur Golf & Tour Package

T Lam and friends are members of their local club in Macao. Regularly, they visit other hot golf venues overseas. We arranged a golf and tour package in Malaysia for them in May 2008. They played at the championship-level Palm “Cobra” Course of Saujana Golf & Country Resort which is just outside the capital city, Kuala Lumpur. They were also accommodated there at the resort. Additionally they also had a round at the historic Royal Selangor Golf Club as reciprocal members.

Special programme for the evening were also arranged; not least was a dinner at the KL (Revolving) Tower for a full panoramic view of the city while enjoying Malaysian and International cuisines. T and group enjoyed their golf package and the holiday in general. We were more than inspired and grateful for their kind comments on our arrangement. We look forward to organizing again for them, perhaps in another city in Southeast Asia.

Fast Boat to Shanghai?

K Hughes of Sydney had difficulties in securing golf bookings in Shanghai on his own. For those new to the golf club scene in China, most of the golf clubs there are privately owned. Very few are open to the public in the sense that one could easily ring up and make a golf green booking.

K contacted us for no less a good reason: under special arrangements, we could not only secure golf green bookings but also at a much discounted rate compared to that for the walk-in guests accompanied by members of the club. K and friends enjoyed their rounds of golf there and this is what K told us about his golf tour.

Singapore Sling

Hi, Francis
Safe and sound back in Australia.
Thank you very much for organizing this – we had a great trip and everything was first class.

We’ll certainly keep you in mind for future trips to Asia – having someone to organize everything for you makes the travel so much easier.
Cheers,

S. W. – Sydney Oct. 2012

Swing of The Sumatran Tigers

Sumatran TigerWhat did 4 men from the deep of Sumatra (Where? Sumatra of Indonesia, where long ago the last of the Sumatran Tigers was spotted alive!) do when their wives and kids went back to the Americas for their R & R? Just things boys do!

Well, they actually golfed from Sumatra to Singapore and Batam, then on to Bangkok and Pattaya, and back to more in Singapore and Batam before going back deep in Sumatra!

And, EC summed it up: “Best golf ever! We need to start working on the next golf trip!”

From Manila with Love

J A of Singapore made good use of the no-frills airline currently flying to Manila and came on with us for a 3 day 2 night golf tour with a friend of his. They had reciprocal membership with some of the clubs there and we took care of their hotel accommodation and roundtrip transfers to the golf courses. We got them the type of hotel they wanted but more specifically, it was at the center of Manila’s entertainment area, just where they had eagerly wanted to be.

When contacted after the trip, J A was quite mum about the details of their activities there except that everything went well; we did not even ask about how Manila was somehow painted red while they were there either!

Malacca Golf Tour

Yes, we really did enjoy the Malacca golf trip that you planned for us! The coach dropped us off right next to our hotel, and we were greeted by BL, the Guest Relation Manager, who told us that you had just called him to ensure that our welcome was organised. That demonstrates your great attention to detail, Francis. The hotel was just as we had hoped and all the staff were fantastic.

– Wendy & Al, London October 2010

Mission Hills Golf Tour

Neng D, the very efficient and affable secretary handled the Mission Hills golf tour for her boss. We enjoyed working with her; if only she was a bit less impatient and had not hounded us (Yes, she did! Oh, b….!) so much for info so early while we were still working at it, to a point we suspect one party at least must be terribly annoyed by the other, if not mutually so by each other, mindful of the fact that she’s as much part of our Dear Valued Customers! But this is what she said after:

“I’m happy to inform you that Pak E and all the members were happy and satisfied with your arrangement. We appreciate all your efforts organizing such a great golf trip for us and giving the best of service.
– Neng D, Jakarta, December 2010″

Phew…ma’af ya, neng.

Life: A Bed of Roses?

In September 2010, a Nepomuceno of Bulacan did a no-show on us two days before arrival for reasons we were not even aware of. The 30% deposit he sent us was forfeited; but it wasn’t even enough to cover the penalty imposed by facility suppliers on us for their hotel rooms that were cancelled so late into arrival. We requested for the shortfall to be made good but to no avail. If you think, we thrive on a very thin margin only from the thousands that clients pay for their packages, what else could we resort to except in hoping for a samaritan solicitor client/visitor to our website to offer us a service for recovery?

In life, you only need one in the lowly league to tell you otherwise – shame, shame, shame, what golfer!

Brag We Do!

The plane for departure flight was still on the tarmac of Bali Airport and TK sms “Dear Francis, we enjoyed a lot, thanks for the good organization. Regards TK”. One week later, AG wrote: “I believe that returning customer is the best evidence of a good service rendered by a company and since we were very pleased with your organization of our golf trip to Bali, we would like to make use of your service again.” Period.

TK and AG are members of a group of Euros happily married to Southeast Asia for their expertise by their respective companies. Their next destination would be Bangkok and we were more than happy to arrange the golf package for them.

We love to brag, don’t we? YES, WE DO! but only remaining ever so thankful to our Valued Customers for being so appreciative of our service; it humbles us.

And, for their golf trip to the Lost Island of Koh Samui:

“Francis, Thanks for the flawless organization. The logistics were perfectly organized, drivers were friendly, on time, helpful etc. Compliments to you and your staff! ……=> Bottom line: We all enjoyed the trip tremendously!”

– MW Singapore June 2010

We will be back

And, from the ever-winning member of the group:

“Hi Francis,

On behalf of all my colleagues thank you very much for making our golf event such a pleasant and memorable one! As in the past everything turned out impeccable…. pick-up, daily transport, TOFF times as well as accommodation. GOLFnTours seems to be a reliable partner even for non-vanilla countries like Vietnam where walk-in visitors are normally not welcomed on weekends! Thanks for your help and we will be back!

Regards, PB June 2011

Kunming Golf

HjN is a professional in the building trade, a religious man, an equity holder of a famous golf club and not least, an avid golfer himself [and an ‘OP’ too!]. He is a lucky man as well if you think his wife and son are also regular golfers.

He liked the Kuming golf package we offered and ended up pulling his friend and family to come along making it a two-family group.

While they enjoyed the trip on the overall, there were certain things that he thought could have been better. We were grateful to him for his long and constructive email he took time to write us after the trip. We’ll just show the summary he’d kindly listed out for us in his email:

“…about golf in Kunming, I would rate it 10/10. Ground handling was probably 6/10, mostly because of transport. Spring City as a resort, I would rate it 6/10. Grand Park Hotel, 8/10. Kunming itself, 5/10. Halal food in Kunming, 9/10.”

During their tour, as a small gesture, we sent them a fruit basket of mainly huge mangoes for those items not scoring close to “10”. After reading his email, we’ve made up our mind if HjN comes on our tour again like he said he would for Chiangmai, we’d definitely include a big Durian in the fruit basket (Note: Durian is ‘King of All Fruits’ in S.E. Asia!). HjN, thanks for joining our tour and helping us improve too.

Golfing in Manila

AG is a professional; his job takes him to all over the world. Currently he is based in his company’s outlet in Singapore. Recently he came on our tour to Manila with seven others and, he had some generous words for us:

Hi Francis, Thanks for the arrangements and changes. Some feedback: The S Golf Club is a fantastic course. It’s a bit far but well worth the effort…Great choice !! The M Golf Club…is interesting and different and the setting gives it a unique charm…but the quality of maintenance kills all its fine attributes. The transport and the tour assistant were excellent…Overall we had a really enjoyable time and thanks to you and all involved for making it happen.

You made our day AG; couldn’t be more gratified.

Zhuhai: No Receipt? No Payment!

When SS and friends wanted to pay on arrival in Zhuhai the cash balance of their package price for his golf holiday there last month, our appointed representative could not produce the official receipt because he left it in the office. SS, acting according to our earlier instruction to pay only if accompanied by an official receipt, refused to hand over the cash and stuck to his ‘500cc Ball Launcher’ [Note maximum volume allowed by USGA!] for two days until the receipt was finally presented to him. The representative was of course severely reprimanded for poor attentiveness in his duty while the 6 rounds of golf over 3 days for our guests got going as planned. We thanked SS for helping us maintain a high standard of quality control of our golf tour.

SS is a man in-charge of massive deliveries on a global basis for his company. For all the resources and the many people from all over the world he has to deal with on a daily basis, he appears a man of few words…read what he says.

Intensive Golfing Package

Intensive Golfing Package – Khao Yai National Park, Thailand

B Yeoh and friends of Penang form a private club of sort of their own within the golf club to which they all belong as members. Unfortunately the golf club has recently gone bust apparently for no good reasons and legal proceedings are underway for them to be compensated for the purchase price of their membership, and that means a long, long wait if not forever depending on the outcome of the proceedings, before they could hope to be back at their regular playground. Poor boys. Since then they have been out on other venues for their regular private golf outings.

They contacted us for golf packages in China but finally settled for something more refreshing like golfing in a national park. We gladly obliged and a golf trip was organized for the Khao Yai National Park, a stone’s throw away from Bangkok, Thailand. For a 4-day 3-night’s stay, we managed to pack in five rounds in all of 18-hole golf play (One in Bangkok though, just before boarding!), all at different golf courses, just to make the boys happy. Credit must also go to B’s good flight arrangements. Did they enjoy it? Hear what B says on behalf.

Chiang Mai Intensive Golf Package

Doc T, a medical specialist and CEO of a large medical center rang urgently from his shangri-la(ish) enclave across the vast sea, not for the operating table together with us, of course. They wanted a short but golf-intensive holiday in China but the horrible earthquake of May 2008 took place. We recommended Chiang Mai, Thailand and the group duly arrived despite difficulty in securing connecting flights. The group comprised mostly seasoned golfers who did two rounds per day at different courses for two days. Together with the other round of 18-hole play immediately on arrival, they clocked up five rounds each over three days. No mean feat for these ‘mature’ golfers, the youngest was 45 year-old and the oldest 58.

While the non-golfers enjoyed their fair share of shopping and sight-seeing; the golfers made full use of their time in the evening to unwind and relax their tired muscles by having massages by professional masseuse.

For those not too familiar, among many other things, professional full-body massage and foot reflexology-massage are the latest health craze the city has to offer at the moment, and at a reasonable rate too. No? Ask the Doc!