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are not alone in experiencing some significant growth. “This autumn, we start building an event space of 400 square metres right next to the hotel,” head of marketing, Lisa Thorén, reveals. “We’ll see large conferences, small-ish trade fairs, parties, weddings and cooking classes fill the hall, which is due to open next summer.” Moreover, while business golf has been a little bit on the back-burner for a few years, it is now picking up quickly again, as is the interest in beginner’s classes and club membership. With its very own Golf Academy including three simulators, golf carts and equipment for hotel guests’ use, alongside an 18-hole golf course that promises never to take you further than 10 minutes away from the hotel, Sankt Jörgen Park is the busy golf lover’s dream. As Thorén puts it: “If what you want to do is play golf, why waste time getting to and from the tee?” New this year is that the resort’s Golf Package includes two green fees – for the same price as before. “The course has never been in better shape, and we owe that to gifted green keepers as well as an early spring,” says Thorén. “It bodes well for the autumn golf season!” An active, healthy lifestyle As the leading ritual spa in the Nordics, Sankt Jörgen Park treats mental well-
being and physical health as equally important and perfectly dependent on each other. “It’s all about that active, healthy lifestyle,” says Thorén and boasts about exercise classes ranging from zumba to yogilates and food options covering RAW food as well as organic juices and traditionally Swedish culinary treats. While less is certainly more in regards to noise and impressions, the resort being an oasis of calm right next to the city in the truest sense of the term, it is the wealth of options that gives guests the chance to really relax and recharge – be it
through a round of golf, a spa treatment or simply a quiet hotel break. And that goes for business and pleasure alike: “On Fridays, the suit comes off and the bathrobe comes on,” says Thorén about the resort’s typical guests. Countless accreditations and awards courtesy of bodies including Svenska Spahotell and Reseguiden just do not lie. Most likely, neither does the need to expand or fully booked golf classes. Sankt Jörgen Park was a very rapidly rising star when it opened in 2008, and it is showing no sign of stopping.
For more information, please visit: www.sanktjorgenpark.se
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