Spain's La Manga Club is living up to its global reputation by serving up a mouth-watering array of international cuisines to help guests celebrate the new year in style next month.

Europe's favourite sports and leisure destination resort is offering a feast of culinary delights for couples and families to enjoy as they welcome in 2017, with a choice of Italian, Asian and traditional Spanish-themed dining options all on the menu.

Visitors looking for some glitz and glamour can enjoy a sparkling evening of fine-dining, live music and entertainment with a New Year's Eve black tie gala event in La Manga Club's grand ballroom. After being treated to a cocktail reception, guests will sit down to a lavish six-course gourmet dinner which will be accompanied with prestigious reserve wines, champagne and an open bar with premium bands.

And for parents with children, the resort will even look after their kids with a special New Year buffet with supervised fun, clowns and surprises galore.

Those people seeking an authentic Italian new year experience can head to Luigi's restaurant for an evening of delicious food and wine while La Manga Club's Asia restaurant will be celebrating 2017 with a taste of the Oriental, with a selection of wines, cava, beer and soft drinks included at both venues, before the party continues after midnight in the resort's newly refurbished Piano Bar.

Accommodation is provided in La Manga Club's five-star hotel, with prices based on two people sharing a room, and all packages also include breakfast, VAT and access to the venue's fitness centre, indoor pool, saunas and steam rooms to get rid of any hangovers.

Set across an area of 1,400 acres and the official overseas training base of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) , La Manga Club boasts unrivalled facilities as a sports and leisure destination including three 18-hole golf courses and extensive practice facilities, a 28-court tennis centre and a 2,000sqm spa and fitness centre. It also offers the choice of a five-star hotel, four-star serviced apartments and townhouses and more than 20 bars and restaurants.

Couples can enjoy two nights' bed and breakfast hotel accommodation at La Manga Club this new year, including a ticket to the New Year's Eve gala dinner, from €450 (approx £400) per person. Prices are based on two people sharing a deluxe room and include complimentary use of Spa La Manga Club's fitness centre, indoor pool, saunas and steam rooms.

For more information or to book call 00 34 968 17 5577, email reservas@lamangaclub.com or visit www.lamangaclub.com.

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Press release written and distributed on behalf of La Manga Club by the Azalea Group.

La Manga Club
La Manga Club – www.lamangaclub.com – is an unrivalled sports and leisure paradise which sits between the low hills that separate the Mediterranean from the Mar Menor Sea, just 20 minutes from Murcia airport and an hour from Alicante.

Set out over an area of some 560 hectares (approx. 1,400 acres), it enjoys a mild year-round Mediterranean climate and offers visitors a prestigious five-star hotel, luxury vacation apartments and extensive sports facilities, including three 18-hole golf courses, extensive practice facilities, a 28-court tennis centre and eight grass sports pitches. The resort is also home to innumerable leisure facilities, such as the 2,000m2 Spa La Manga Club with its 13 luxurious treatment rooms, comprehensive fitness centre and 25m indoor swimming pool; meeting, banqueting and incentive facilities, and more than 20 restaurants and bars.

As well as hosting both Davis and Fed Cup tennis matches, La Manga Club has signed a long-term deal to be the overseas training resort of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) until 2019. It has also staged the Spanish Open golf championship and regularly attracts professional and international football teams to the first-class year-round training facilities which are also used by rugby and cricket sides.

As a result of more than four decades of continued investment, innovation and commitment to excellence, La Manga Club is widely recognised as Spain's flagship resort and as one of the finest sports and lifestyle destinations in the world. Evidence of this is provided by its numerous awards and accolades.

La Manga Club was the proud recipient of a 2013 Certificate of Excellence from TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel website, for the facilities and service on offer at its five-star Hotel Principe Felipe. The resort has been voted 'Best Golf Hotel/Resort in Spain' by UK readers of Today's Golfer magazine for the last five years and was named 'Best Golf Hotel in Spain' at the 2014 and 2015 World Golf Awards. La Manga Club has long been a staunch supporter of women's golf, being the official overseas resort partner of the English Women's Golf Association for three years as well as hosting the Ladies European Tour (LET) Qualifying School from 2009-12. La Manga Club is also the venue for the Ladies Murcia Open, an LET Access Series event, and regularly hosts top women's amateur events and teams.

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For more information on La Manga Club contact Pete Simm on 01730 711920 or email petes@theazaleagroup.com