Top Family-Welcoming Tennis Resorts

Here’s your go-to resource for the top-ranked tennis resorts and tennis training camps in the world which accommodate families and their tennis-playing children. It’s time to get off the coach and make 2021 the year to up your game.

We would like to thank critic Roger Cox and his comprehensive website, TennisResortsOnline for providing us with his readers’ selection of the Top 100 Tennis Resorts & Camps in the world. 2019 is the most recent year the survey was done because of the COVID-19 pandemic. That year, as in others past, the Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina was selected as best overall resort for instruction and facilities.

How to Rank a Tennis Resort and Methodology

“These rankings represent the collective wisdom of thousands of tennis players,” Mr. Cox explains. “They are asked to evaluate each resort or camp in 20 different categories, including all aspects of the tennis experience—from game matching and teaching staff to tournaments and round robins—and such diverse characteristics as the quality of the lodging, restaurants, children’s programs, and value for dollar.”

“Those reviews are then tabulated to compile a numerical ranking,” Cox adds.

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Choosing the Best Tennis Program for Your Family

TRO’s detailed evaluations enabled the site to highlight resorts with the top Overall Children’s Programs (both for teaching tennis and for taking care of kids) and the Best Junior Programs (for teaching tennis to serious young players.) While Cox has not tried every youth program, he encourages site visitors and their children to contribute first-person reviews to keep the site current.

Read on, and you’ll see that each of these category winners is linked to a detailed review of its property and programs, to better help families choose the right facility for their needs.

Then, it’s game on, whether you are traveling with toddlers, teens, grands or all of the above.

Top 10 Tennis Resorts for 2019

1. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina
2. Rancho Valencia Resort & Spa, California
3. Wild Dunes Resort, South Carolina
4. The Resort at Longboat Key Club, Florida
5. Bio-Hotel Stanglwirt, Tirol, Austria
6. Boulders Resort & Spa, Arizona
7. Punta Mita, Nayarit, Mexico
8. Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii
9. Four Seasons Resort Nevis, Nevis, West Indies
10. JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa, California

Top 5 Tennis Camps for 2019

1. Roy Emerson Tennis Weeks, Switzerland
2. PBI Tennis Camp at Bio-Hotel Stanglwirt, Tirol Austria
3. Cliff Drysdale Tennis at Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort, Florida
4. John Newcombe Tennis Ranch, Texas
5. New England Tennis Holidays at Sugarbush, Vermont

Best Overall Children’s Programs for 2019

1. Club Med, Sandpiper Bay, Florida
2. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina
3. Wild Dunes Resort, South Carolina
4. Stratton Mountain Resort, Vermont
5. Horseshoe Bay Resort, Texas

Best Junior Tennis Programs for 2019

1. Wild Dunes Resort, South Carolina
2. Rancho Valencia Resort & Spa, California
3. Boulders Resort & Spa, Arizona
4. Sea Colony, Delaware
5. Cliff Drysdale Tennis at Omni Amelia Island Resort, Florida

Due to rapidly changing public health conditions in several US states and countries, you’ll have to check on each resort when you’ve decided your 2021 vacation schedule. For more ideas on how to up your game, with or without the kids and their racquets, visit TennisResortsOnline.