Riu Pravets Resort will host the “UniCredit PGA Professional Championship of Europe 2011” (Bulgaria)
|
|
Riu Pravets Resort will host the “UniCredit PGA Professional Championship of Europe 2011” (Bulgaria)
|
Category: Europe - Bulgaria
This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2011-09-12
The hotel features 242 rooms and is next to its own 18-hole Golf Course which offers spectacular views of the breathtaking Balkan Mountains
RIU Hotels & Resorts will host from the 27th to the 30th of September 2011 the “UniCredit PGA Professional Championship of Europe 2011” at the Riu Pravets Resort Golf & Spa in Pravets, Bulgaria.
This top event is to be held at the recently inaugurated Peter Herradine designed Pravets Golf Course, managed by Braemar Golf, which is 45 minutes from Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria. This Professional Tournament will be preceded by a Pro Am, to be held on the 26th of September 2011, where amateurs will have the opportunity to play side by side with the professionals.
Lachezar Todorov, CEO of TerraTour Service mentioned: “TerraTour Service is proud to have UniCredit Bulbank as the Official Sponsor of this prestigious tournament which will allow us the opportunity to showcase our fantastic Golf course, the Riu Pravets hotel and the Pravets Golf & Spa Resort as a whole. We are excited to bring this event to Bulgaria for the next three years”.
Riu Pravets Resort was opened in December 2009. The property is an elegant 242-room resort, which is located directly on the Lake of Pravets and is next to the 18-hole Golf course, which offers astonishing views of the lake and the Balkan Mountains.
The resort, located only 2 km from the town of Pravets, and 60 from Sofia, is ideal for those who wish to spend quiet vacations surrounded by nature as well as those who travel for business, being just 45 minutes from Sofia. The modern hotel offers 24 Hours room service, high speed internet, in room safe and mini bar, outdoor swimming pools, a heated indoor swimming pool, a 3500m2 Spa, a virtual golf training point, 2 tennis courts, bicycle hire, childrens playroom & playground, pianobar, nightclub, gourmet restaurant, casino and entertainment shows during several nights a week.
The hotel also provides an exclusive executive floor designed especially for business, where guests may relax, read the press, be tempted by a delicious continental breakfast, and enjoy snacks and drinks which are free of charge. The resort also offers six conference rooms with a capacity for up to 400 people, all with wireless high speed internet access.
About RIU Hotels & Resorts:
The international RIU chain was founded by the Riu family in 1953 as a small holiday firm and is still owned by the family's third generation. The company specialises in sun and sand holiday resorts. More than 50% of its resorts offer RIU's acclaimed all-inclusive by RIU formula. With the inauguration of its first urban hotel in 2010, RIU widens its range of product with a new city hotel product line called RIU PLAZA. RIU Hotels & Resorts now has more than 100 hotels in 19 countries and 23,400 employees which welcome over 3.1 million guests a year. RIU is currently the world's 27th ranked chain (according to HOTELS magazine in 2010), one of the Caribbean's most popular and the fourth largest in Spain.
|
|
