Golf holidays in Languedoc Roussillon · since 1981

Languedoc Roussillon golf holidays

Montpellier Massane, La Grande-Motte by the sea, and Nîmes Campagne.

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Golf holidays in Languedoc Roussillon start from £420 (≈ €485) (≈ $555) (≈ CA$785) (≈ AU$805) (≈ NZ$965) (≈ CHF 455) (≈ kr 5,385) (≈ kr 5,415) (≈ kr 3,655) per person, across 3 courses we can book, 2 hotels and resorts we sell. Sold ground-only, hand-priced around your dates, and arranged by us since 1981.

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Nimes keeps the best-preserved Roman arena in France and, a few streets away, the Maison Carree, a temple finished in 2 AD and added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in September 2023. Twenty kilometres north-east the Pont du Gard still stands over the Gardon. West of the city the land dries out and hardens into garrigue and vines, with Cathar castles on the ridges and the Canal du Midi running its 240 km of plane-shaded water down to the sea near Agde. The coast is flat and bright.

Golf Planet Holidays has sold golf breaks since 1981. Two hotels and three courses here, which is a short, well-understood list rather than a long one. Ground-only, hand-priced around your dates, with flights available separately as an ATOL-protected add-on and your money protected through PTS 5087.

Why play golf in Languedoc Roussillon

Golf is the excuse and the Roman south is the reason. Nimes has the arena, the Maison Carree and the Tour Magne on Mont Cavalier, and you walk to all three.
Two courses within the city's own hinterland, so a two-round day involves almost no driving.
Winter golf that actually happens. Nimes averages around 2,664 hours of sun a year and 2.4 days of snow, and the ground here drains when British courses are waterlogged into unplayability.
Carcassonne and the five castles behind it make a long, genuinely memorable day out, reached on the A61 west from Narbonne.
Wine built for lunch. Picpoul de Pinet comes off six villages beside the Etang de Thau and was made for oysters, which are farmed a few hundred metres away.
Two hotels, three courses. We know all of them, and we will say plainly which one suits your party.

The courses you’ll play

Three courses, and they divide neatly. Nimes Vacquerolles Golf Club plays over the garrigue hills on the edge of the city, stony aromatic scrub on limestone, and the ground gives you the running lies British golfers stop expecting after April. Nimes Campagne Golf Club sits out on flatter land south of the city, more parkland in character, with mature trees doing the defending. Between them you have a two-course week without leaving Nimes, which is rarer than it sounds. On the coast, Cap d'Agde Golf Club is a 27-hole layout on the old volcanic ground behind the resort, in sight of Mont Saint-Loup, and the tramontane can make its three nine-hole loops feel like different courses on different mornings. Small inventory, then. Which is also why a hand-built week here beats a fixed itinerary.

Where you’ll stay

[Hotel Imperator](/product/hotel-imperator-nimes/) is the one to take if you want the town rather than the beach. It stands by the Jardins de la Fontaine in Nimes, a walk from the arena, with the sort of quiet, properly kept feel that survives a full week: three nights with two rounds from £420pp (≈ €485) (≈ $555) (≈ CA$785) (≈ AU$805) (≈ NZ$965) (≈ CHF 455) (≈ kr 5,385) (≈ kr 5,415) (≈ kr 3,655) on bed and breakfast, four nights with three rounds from £535pp (≈ €615) (≈ $705) (≈ CA$995) (≈ AU$1,025) (≈ NZ$1,225) (≈ CHF 575) (≈ kr 6,865) (≈ kr 6,895) (≈ kr 4,655). On the coast, [Palmyra Golf Hotel](/product/palmyra-golf-hotel-cap-d-agde/) sits at Cap d'Agde beside the 27 holes, so you walk to the first tee and the beaches are close by, from £425pp (≈ €495) (≈ $565) (≈ CA$795) (≈ AU$815) (≈ NZ$975) (≈ CHF 455) (≈ kr 5,445) (≈ kr 5,475) (≈ kr 3,695) for three nights and two rounds or £595pp (≈ €685) (≈ $785) (≈ CA$1,115) (≈ AU$1,135) (≈ NZ$1,365) (≈ CHF 645) (≈ kr 7,635) (≈ kr 7,675) (≈ kr 5,175) for four and three. That is the entire list. Our advice for a week is to start in Nimes for the Roman town and both city courses, then move down to the coast for the last few nights. We will price the whole thing as one break.

Best time to play golf in Languedoc Roussillon

Spring and autumn, and it is not a close call. April to mid-June, then September into late October, give you warm dry golf and towns behaving normally. July and August are a different proposition. Nimes averages a high of 31.5C in July and 31.2C in August, with days above 34C common, which is pleasant enough for a swim and hard labour over eighteen holes, and the coast is at its fullest in exactly those weeks. Winter works better here than people expect, on all that sunshine. It is also when the tramontane is strongest, gusting past 100 km/h in the worst episodes and blowing more than 100 days a year over the Roussillon plain to the south-west. Local wisdom holds that once it starts it lasts three, six or nine days. Plan for it rather than against it.

A sense of Languedoc Roussillon

History & heritage

Nimes was a Roman town and still reads like one. The arena, first or second century AD, is the best-preserved in France and still fills for events. The Maison Carree was completed in 2 AD and inaugurated a few years later, dedicated to the two grandsons Augustus adopted and then outlived, and UNESCO listed it in September 2023. The Tour Magne stands ruined on Mont Cavalier above the gardens, and 20 km north-east the Pont du Gard carried the city's water. Then it gets medieval. In August 1209 the crusading army of the papal legate Arnaud Amalric besieged Carcassonne; its viscount, Raymond-Roger Trencavel, died in his own dungeon, and the townspeople were turned out with almost nothing. Viollet-le-Duc rebuilt the walls between 1853 and 1879, all 52 towers of them. UNESCO listed the Cite in 1997.

Food & wine

Oysters first. The Etang de Thau covers 7,012 hectares between Sete and Marseillan, where 750 producers work 2,750 oyster tables and land around 13,000 tonnes a year, plus some 3,000 tonnes of mussels. Bouzigues is where you eat them, on the water, with Picpoul de Pinet from the six Herault villages just inland: Pinet, Meze, Florensac, Castelnau-de-Guers, Montagnac and Pomerols. Nimes cooks differently, being on the edge of the Camargue. Brandade de morue, gardiane de taureau with Camargue rice, olives, and salt off the lagoons at Aigues-Mortes. Sete has its tielle, an octopus pie under a fierce red lid. The reds are the value here: Faugeres, Saint-Chinian and Pic Saint-Loup nearby, then Minervois, Corbieres and Fitou further west. Finish with a Banyuls if anyone insists.

Beyond the fairways

The Canal du Midi is the best half-day in the region. Riquet began digging in 1667 and it opened on 15 May 1681, 240 km of it from Toulouse to Marseillan on the Etang de Thau, with the eight lock chambers at Fonserannes stepping boats down into the Orb at Beziers and the round lock just north of Agde where the canal meets the Herault. UNESCO listed it in 1996. The plane trees shading the towpath are in real trouble from canker, so see them while they stand. Otherwise the Camargue for flamingos and white horses, Aigues-Mortes inside its walls, and Agde itself, a Greek colony founded in 525 BCE by Phocaeans out of Massilia and built in black basalt, which is why they call it the black pearl. Sete for lunch. And the five castles known as the sons of Carcassonne, Aguilar, Peyrepertuse, Puilaurens, Queribus and Termes, up on their ridges in the Aude.

Getting around & exploring

A car, and one warning about the motorway. The A9 runs 280.5 km from Orange down to the Spanish border at Le Perthus, through Nimes, Montpellier, Beziers, Narbonne and Perpignan, and it is the spine of the region. At Montpellier it splits, with the toll-free A709 taking local traffic: exits 28 to 32 can only be reached from the A709, and if you stay on the A9 by mistake you can find yourself 35 km from the next exit. Learn that before you drive it. The A61 runs west from Narbonne to Carcassonne and Toulouse, the A75 heads north from Beziers, and the A54 links Nimes to Arles. Away from the motorways the D roads are quick and quiet outside August. Park on the edge of Nimes and walk in.

Good to know before you book

Getting there

Three airports, and the right one depends on your base. Beziers Cap d'Agde is closest to the coast, 11.5 km south-east of Beziers near Vias, with seasonal Ryanair services from Bristol, Edinburgh, London Luton, London Stansted and Manchester. Montpellier is the safe one. Montpellier Mediterranee sits 7 km east-south-east of the city at Mauguio, with easyJet from Gatwick all year, plus seasonal British Airways from Gatwick and easyJet from Manchester. Nimes has its own airport 9 km south-south-east of the city at Garons, near Saint-Gilles, but the British service is seasonal Ryanair from Stansted alone, so do not build a trip around it. Toulouse and Marseille both work as fallbacks. Flights are a separate ATOL-protected add-on rather than part of the break, so tell us what you have booked or ask us to price them with the ground arrangements.

Good to know

The tramontane blows more than 100 days a year over the Roussillon plain and gusts past 100 km/h in winter. Cap d'Agde feels it. Nimes, further east, sits on the edge of it.
July and August are hot enough to change how you play. Take the early tee times, or come in May or October instead.
Only three courses here, so a week means two rounds around Nimes and the rest on the coast, or the reverse. We would rather say that than pad the itinerary.
Beziers Cap d'Agde and Nimes both run British flights seasonally. Montpellier is the year-round option.
Breaks are sold ground-only. Flights are a separate ATOL-protected add-on, money is protected through PTS 5087, and we hold IATA accreditation.
Send us your dates and party size and we will hand-price it around them. Our team replies promptly.

The courses you can play in Languedoc Roussillon

Cap d’Agde Golf Club, Le Cap d'Agde — Languedoc Roussillon golf

Cap d’Agde Golf Club, Le Cap d'AgdeDesigned by Ronald FreamPlayed on stay & play breaksDiscover this course →

Nimes Campagne Golf Club, Nimes — Languedoc Roussillon golf

Championship pedigreeNimes Campagne Golf Club, NimesDesigned by Léonard Morandi and Donald HarradinePlayed on stay & play breaksDiscover this course →

Nimes Vacquerolles Golf Club, Nimes — Languedoc Roussillon golf

Nimes Vacquerolles Golf Club, NimesDesigned by Bill BakerPlayed on stay & play breaksDiscover this course →

Golf resorts — stay & play on-site

Palmyra Golf Hotel, Cap d’Agde — Languedoc Roussillon golf

Palmyra Golf Hotel, Cap d’AgdeCap d’Agde Golf Club, Le Cap d'Agde · Nimes Campagne Golf Club, Nimesfrom£425 (≈ €495) (≈ $565) (≈ CA$795) (≈ AU$815) (≈ NZ$975) (≈ CHF 455) (≈ kr 5,445) (≈ kr 5,475) (≈ kr 3,695)per personDiscover this resort →

Hotels — play the area’s courses

Hotel Imperator, Nimes — Languedoc Roussillon golf

Hotel Imperator, NimesNimes Vacquerolles Golf Club, Nimes · Nimes Campagne Golf Club, Nimesfrom£420 (≈ €485) (≈ $555) (≈ CA$785) (≈ AU$805) (≈ NZ$965) (≈ CHF 455) (≈ kr 5,385) (≈ kr 5,415) (≈ kr 3,655)per personDiscover this hotel →

Hand-built around your dates

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Frequently asked questions

Golf holidays in Languedoc Roussillon. The questions our golfers ask most.

How long is LeShuttle crossing time to France

The Eurotunnel LeShuttle from Folkestone to Calais takes about 35 minutes, which makes a self-drive trip genuinely easy for the Northern France golf resorts. Le Touquet, Hardelot and the courses around the Somme are roughly two to three hours on from Calais, so you can load the clubs, drive on and be on the first tee the same day, and on those breaks we can include the crossing in the price. For the south and southwest, such as Biarritz, the Riviera and Provence, most golfers fly into Nice, Marseille, Biarritz or Bordeaux and we arrange transfers on the ground.

How much does a golf holiday in France cost?

Golf holidays in France start from £235 (≈ €265) (≈ $305) (≈ CA$435) (≈ AU$445) (≈ NZ$535) (≈ CHF 255) (≈ kr 3,015) (≈ kr 3,025) (≈ kr 2,045) pp with Golf Planet Holidays. That is a hand-built ground package, and the final price depends on your hotel, the courses you play and the season.

When is the best time to play golf in France?

May, June, September and October are the best months, with comfortable temperatures and courses in peak condition. The south of France stays playable into late autumn.

Where should I play golf in France?

There are more than 700 golf courses in France. As first steps we would recommend Northern France. There are ten great courses here. Chat with us about the various choices if you wish to venture further afield.

How many golf courses are there in France?

We feature 130 courses and 102 resorts across France including Saint Malo Golf Club and Sept Tours Golf Club. Your specialist matches the courses to your group's standard and budget.

Is it easy to get around in France?

Getting around France is straightforward. Self-driving is the most popular option — if you've come via Le Shuttle, you already have your car. Trains are excellent for city-to-city travel, particularly from Paris to Bordeaux (2 hours on the TGV). Within golf regions like the Algarve or Brittany, a hire car gives you the freedom to explore at your own pace. We include all airport or station transfers in our packages and can arrange inter-course transfers, so you're never left without options.

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