Insider Tips

It's not difficult to understand what makes Scottsdale so special when it comes to golf. Forget the 300 days of sunshine a year, forget the endless blue skies, forget the gentle breezes and mountain views. What makes Scottsdale and it's immediate surrounds a player on the national golf scene is it's 200 golf courses, most […]

Your plane is late, you had to wait for the car rental shuttle, you get lost on your way to the hotel and by now you are one unhappy camper. You have been looking forward to this golf trip to Scottsdale with your buddies for some time now and it is not getting off to […]

It's important that after plunking down a credit card, the customer is left with the feeling they made the right choice and got a fair price for their vacation package to Scottsdale. Due to the advances in technology some courses and hotels are advocating the hands-off approach to stay and play packages by providing point […]

The Discount Game 
Most Scottsdale golf package operators will price their packages at a point somewhere between a percentage of profit added to their "net" and what the market will bear. In the end, the package can be priced at a percentage under "rack" rate, or offered at the "published" rate just by adding the components […]

While a lot of travel agencies and packagers out there whine about how the Internet killed their business, to me this attitude represents laziness and a fear of change. You snooze, you lose. My friends and I in Scottsdale who are in the business of packaging golf and lodging, embrace it. As the technology changed […]

Very few golf packagers have the money to spend on expensive, glossy ads in national golf magazines. What little they do have budgeted for marketing purposes is most likely spent on SEO (search engine optimization) for their websites. Or if they are aggressive enough they will work with a search engine company like Google where […]

Definition of a Scottsdale Golf & Lodging Packager/Wholesaler - (generally referred to as Golf Package Provider, Golf Packager, Golf Tour Operator or Golf Travel Agency). A third-party person, persons or agency who represents a variety of accommodation types at Scottsdale Hotels, Resorts, Vacation Rental Condos, Private Homes and Golf Courses - via a contractual net […]

Once again we become victims to the "maximizing revenue" monster when golf courses in Scottsdale/Phoenix consider Friday as part of the weekend (my boss sure doesn't!) and the rates go up an average of 20% for play on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The golf courses are packed on the weekends in high season (January 10th […]

Scottsdale is an interesting mix of luxury and resort hotels, boutique hotels, limited service hotels, extended stay hotels and economy hotels that all claim to cater to a certain "niche" market. In the case of both N. Scottsdale and Old Town Scottsdale most of the hotels direct their efforts to what is referred to as, […]