Tennis Holidays in Spain: Region-by-Region Guide

Type "tennis holiday spain" into Google and you get a wall of options with no obvious way to compare them. Andalucia. Murcia. Costa Brava. Different courts, different coaching styles, wildly different prices for what looks like the same thing.

Region	Operator	Coaching Style	Built Around
Costa de la Luz (Andalucia)	Andalucia Playa	1:1 private lessons only	The hotel and the beach
Murcia	La Manga Club	Structured academy hours + video analysis	The training program itself
Girona / Costa Brava	Us	Small groups matched by skill level	The region, coaching plus coastline

Here's what actually separates them, based on what each region's operators publish about their own programs, and where we, running the Costa Brava end of it, think we fit in.

The short version

All three include accommodation in the headline price (La Manga's public page doesn't confirm this either way), so pricing is more comparable than it first looks, what actually varies is coaching style and how much of the trip is built around the court versus the region.

Costa de la Luz (Andalucia): private coaching, beach resort

Andalucia Playa sits in Novo Sancti Petri, near Chiclana de la Frontera, about 35 minutes from Jerez airport. It's a 5-star, 237-room hotel complex directly on La Barrosa beach, with clay and hard courts and a coaching model that's private, one-to-one only, no group sessions at all, unusual among the three regions here. Board options run from bed and breakfast up to full all-inclusive, and beyond the courts there's pool access, a spa, and the resort's own entertainment programming.

Packages start around £465/week in low season, £955 in high season depending on board type. Single travelers and large groups are both accommodated, and the coastal setting puts traditional Andalusian villages within reach on days off.

That structure suits someone who wants intensive individual attention and doesn't mind paying resort-hotel prices for the room half of the trip. It's a weaker fit if you actually want to train alongside other people, group coaching isn't offered here at any price.

Murcia: the academy option

La Manga Club is the heavyweight here. 28 courts across clay, AstroTurf, and hard surfaces, 13 full-time coaches, and it's been the LTA's official winter training base, hosting Davis Cup and Fed Cup ties. The coaching is tiered: a 10-hour academy (2 hours on-court daily) or a 15-hour academy that adds an hour of video analysis using their V1 digital system each day, Monday through Friday. There's a junior pro academy for tournament kids, group programs by age, and private one-to-one lessons if you'd rather skip the group format.

Packages start from £599 per person, and courses fill up, advance booking matters. This is a genuine training camp built around an academy, not a looser holiday format with tennis attached.

Right pick if you want structure, court variety, and the kind of feedback (video analysis, tiered intensity) a smaller retreat doesn't offer. Wrong pick if what you actually want is a trip that happens to include tennis, not a training program that happens to include a hotel room.

Girona / Costa Brava: small groups, coastline built in

This is us, so read the rest of this section knowing that. We run out of Costa Brava, the coastline from Barcelona up to the French border, clay courts, a Mediterranean climate, and a stretch of coast that's quieter than the bigger resort belts further south.

We run two set formats, plus a custom option. The Weekend Escape, 3 days from €629, includes your accommodation, 6 hours of court time, 3 local meals, and 2 coastal activities, kayaking, biking, or a hands-on workshop. The Week Getaway, 7 days from €1,899, scales that up to 21 hours of coaching mixed with tactical clinics and competitive match play, accommodation, 7 curated meals, and 4 coastal excursions, snorkeling, a boat cruise, a wine tasting. Your room is included in both, we work with local partners so you can land anywhere from a shared apartment to a private villa depending on your group's budget, rather than one fixed hotel everyone gets stuck with. If neither fixed format fits your dates or group size, we also do custom retreats, flexible dates and accommodation, built around whatever you're actually planning.

We split groups by skill level rather than everyone training together, beginners get technique and movement work, more experienced players get competitive play and tactical refinement, same retreat, different focus. Solo bookings are common too, we set up a group chat before you arrive so you're not meeting everyone cold on day one. Getting here's easy: Girona airport is about 30 minutes by car, Barcelona around 90.

Andalucia and Murcia built their trips around the court. We built ours around the region.

If that's the version you want, see what a weekend or week actually includes on the Retreats page.

So which one's actually right for you?

Want intensive 1:1 coaching and don't care about the region? Andalucia Playa's private-lesson model fits, though you'll pay resort prices for it.

Training for competition, want structure, court variety, and video analysis? La Manga's tiered academy is built for that.

Want to train in a group matched to your level rather than alone or in a generic class? We do that, so does La Manga, Andalucia Playa doesn't offer group coaching at any price.

Traveling solo and want to know in advance you won't be the odd one out? That's specifically what our pre-trip group chat and skill-based grouping are for.

And if you want real coaching plus a trip you'd take even without the tennis, that's us. We'll say it plainly: that's the pitch.

Frequently asked questions

What's the difference between a tennis holiday and a tennis retreat?

"Tennis holiday" usually just means a trip with courts and lessons available. "Retreat" tends to mean a structured multi-day program, set coaching hours, meals, group activities planned in, closer to what most of the operators above, us included, actually run.

Is private coaching or group coaching better for a first trip?

Private coaching, like Andalucia Playa's model, gives more individual correction per hour. Group coaching split by skill level, like ours or La Manga's, costs less per person and adds the social side of training. Neither's objectively better, it's whether you want a coach's full attention or a group experience.

How much does a tennis holiday in Spain typically cost?

Room-inclusive packages start around £465/week at Andalucia Playa, and from €629 for a weekend with us (accommodation, coaching, and meals all included). La Manga's academy starts from £599/week, though their public page doesn't confirm whether that covers your room. Worth checking what's actually bundled before comparing headline numbers.

Do I need to be an advanced player?

No, across all three regions above programs are structured by skill level, except Andalucia Playa, which is private-lesson only. With us specifically, beginners get technique and movement coaching while advanced players get competitive match play and tactical work, same retreat.

Can I go alone?

Yes. With us, solo bookings are common enough that we set up a group chat before you arrive, and skill-level grouping means you're playing with people at your level from day one. Andalucia Playa explicitly accommodates single travelers too.

Which region has the best weather for tennis?

All three get reliable outdoor tennis most of the year. Andalucia and Murcia run slightly warmer in winter, we're more temperate and arguably more comfortable for full-day outdoor coaching in peak summer.

What if the fixed dates or group size don't work for us?

Ask us about a custom retreat. Same coaching and setup, but built around your dates and group instead of the standard weekend or week format.