GROUND-ONLY, TAILOR-MADE SINCE 1981
Thirteen courses cut through the pines, and one plays under floodlights.
This is the strip of Mediterranean sand where the European Tour pitches up: Montgomerie's course at Maxx Royal Belek runs hard and fast between the pines, and Carya at Regnum Carya lights up after dark, the only floodlit round in Europe. Thirteen courses inside a short transfer, with Gloria Verde and Titanic Deluxe a few minutes either way. Easy to see why the buggies barely cool down.
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There is nowhere else in Europe quite like Belek. Half an hour east of Antalya, in the pine forest between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean, sits the densest collection of championship golf on the continent: sixteen of Turkey's twenty-one courses, designed by names like Colin Montgomerie, Sir Nick Faldo and five-time Open champion Peter Thomson. Around them stand some of the most complete resort hotels in world golf, where all-inclusive genuinely means what it says. You play a tour-pedigree course in the morning, you are back at the pool by two, and nobody reaches for a wallet all week.
Belek golf holidays with Golf Planet Holidays are ground-only and built around your dates: hotel, green fees and private transfers from
Because everything is close, everything is included, and the golf is serious. Belek has hosted the DP World Tour's Turkish Airlines Open, Brooks Koepka won here in 2014, and the IAGTO has named it Europe's Best Golf Region. Yet the whole cluster sits within a few minutes' transfer, so a week here is all golf and no coach.
The courses share the same coastal pine setting but play nothing alike. The Montgomerie Maxx Royal is the championship name, Colin Montgomerie's balanced six-par-3, six-par-4, six-par-5 layout that staged the Turkish Airlines Open in 2013-15 and 2019. Carya is the one golfers talk about on the flight home: a proper heathland course by Thomson, Perrett & Lobb, ranked among the world's top hundred, and the first in Europe you can play under floodlights after dinner. Cornelia's Faldo course gives you 27 holes in three loops and the region's sternest examination; the PGA Sultan at Antalya Golf Club runs it close, tree-lined and guarded by around 122 bunkers.
For something different, Lykia Links is the only true seaside links on this coast, a Perry Dye par 73 in the dunes. The National is where Belek golf began in 1994, from David Feherty and David Jones. Add the Gloria Old course with its seven lakes, Gloria's New and Verde layouts, Sueno's Dunes and Pines, Kaya Palazzo, Robinson Nobilis and 36 holes at Titanic, and a fortnight would not exhaust the place.
Belek's hotels are half the point, and the sensible move is to match your hotel to the course you most want on the doorstep. The Sueno Golf Hotel is the value entry to the cluster from
Wherever you sleep, you can still play across the whole cluster; the courses sit a short private transfer apart, and we arrange every tee time before you fly.
April, May, October and November are the prime months, with settled days of 20-26°C and the courses in their best condition. High summer is for the committed: July and August average around 35°C, so take dawn tee times and give the afternoon to the pool, or better, to the sea, which reaches 27-28°C in late summer. Winter stays mild at 15-18°C and Belek has become a genuine winter-sun option, though December and January carry most of the year's rain. Book the spring and autumn windows early; those tee sheets fill first.
A sense of Belek
This coast was Roman long before it was golfing. Aspendos, a short drive from Belek, holds one of the best-preserved Roman theatres anywhere, still staging performances two thousand years on, and the ruined colonnades of Perge are closer still. In Antalya itself, the old quarter of Kaleici winds down to a Roman harbour through Ottoman houses, minarets and bazaar streets. A half-day between rounds covers any of them, and all three are worth it.
The eating is a reason to come in itself. A proper Turkish breakfast, olives, honey, cheeses, warm bread and strong tea, sets up an early tee time better than any buffet croissant, and the evenings bring meze, charcoal-grilled lamb and sea bass, and baklava you will think about for weeks. The five-star all-inclusive kitchens at the top resorts run to a dozen restaurants each, so a week never repeats itself, and a cold Efes on the terrace after the eighteenth is one of golf's simple pleasures.
The same resorts that hold the courses run the rest of the holiday: hammams and serious spas, private beaches, pools measured in acres. Families have the Land of Legends theme park on Belek's doorstep, and the Duden waterfalls and the boat trips out of Antalya's old harbour fill a lazy day off. Non-golfers do not merely cope here; they often book the return trip first.
You will not need a car. We arrange private, air-conditioned transfers throughout: airport to hotel, hotel to tee, and back again, timed to your bookings, with drivers and representatives who speak English. Within the cluster most courses are ten to fifteen minutes from most hotels, which is why Belek suits societies and mixed groups so well.
Antalya Airport is around 33km from Belek, a transfer of thirty to forty minutes. Direct flights from London take about 4 hours 15 minutes, with roughly 77 non-stop departures a week as of mid-2026 on easyJet, Jet2 and SunExpress, and Manchester is about 4 hours 30 minutes non-stop. British passport holders need no visa for stays up to 90 days in any 180; your passport needs 150 days' validity beyond arrival and a blank page. Turkey runs two to three hours ahead of the UK, and while the lira is the currency, the resorts happily take euros and pounds.
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Golf holidays in Belek — answers to the questions our golfers ask most.
Belek has over a dozen luxury all-inclusive resorts, each with a different atmosphere. Golf-integrated hotels like Titanic Deluxe, Gloria Golf Resort and Regnum Carya put courses literally on your doorstep. Larger resort hotels like Maxx Royal and Sueno Golf Hotel combine excellent facilities with a livelier atmosphere. We ask about your group size, preferred style (quiet or social), budget and any specific requirements — then match you to the right property. Call us on +44 1277 284284 for a personal recommendation.
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Yes — Belek packs several top championship courses within a short transfer, so societies can play a different course each day and stay in one resort.
For golf holidays in Belek, a hire car is not necessary. All our Turkey packages include private transfers between Antalya Airport and your hotel, and most resorts run a complimentary shuttle to partner golf courses. Belek's 20+ courses are clustered within 15km of each other, so your hotel or our transfers cover everything you need. You can step off the plane, check in, and be on the first tee without worrying about driving.
Spring and autumn (March to May, October to November) are most comfortable, and Belek's mild winters make November to March popular too.
Buggies are available at virtually all Belek golf courses and we strongly recommend reserving them in advance, particularly from November to April when courses are busiest. Some resorts include buggies in green fees while others charge separately — typically €20–35 per round. Belek's courses are generally long and the Turkish sun can be intense even in winter months, making a buggy a worthwhile addition. We handle buggy bookings as part of your overall package.
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