People searching for extra motivation to get fit and healthy in 2016 can hit the ground running this winter at Spain's La Manga Club – Europe's premier sports and leisure destination resort.

While heavy rain and galeforce winds have signalled the start of winter in the UK, the sun continues to shine in Murcia, south-east Spain – which enjoys an average 300 days' sunshine a year – making La Manga Club the ideal place to work off any unwanted pounds.

The award-winning venue is running a range of new three and five-day health and fitness programmes and spa pamper experiences to help people fight the flab over the coming months – with prices starting from €199 (approx £140) per person for a three-night beginner's fitness break.

Available at both beginner and advanced levels, the fitness packages include fitness and nutritional assessments and body composition and ECG tests as well as individual work-out routines and access to group classes and weight control.

Optional weight control, detox and wellness menus are also available on a full-board basis for €35 per day, while additional personal training sessions can also be booked along with physio and massage sessions to ease any aching muscles and bones.

Alternatively, two and three-day spa pamper experiences – which include a selection of treatments and massages – cost from €220 per experience (approx £155, excludes accommodation), and guests can choose from a range of accommodation options in La Manga Club's five-star Hotel Principe Felipe or the resort's four-star Las Lomas Village.

Complimentary use of Spa La Manga Club's fitness centre, indoor pool, saunas and steam rooms are also included, with all packages based on two people sharing a room.

La Manga Club is an ideal venue for health and fitness training at any time of year with extensive facilities, including a large comprehensively equipped gym and 25-metre indoor pool.

The nearby Mar Menor and Mediterranean Sea allow open-water swimming and the surrounding areas provide various routes and terrain for running and cycling in beautiful unspoilt Mediterranean countryside, with expert advice available on the best course to use and a wide range of high-performance bikes available for hire through the Independent Activity Centre on resort.

La Manga Club boasts unrivalled facilities as a sports and leisure destination including three 18-hole golf courses, a new Leadbetter Golf Academy – the only one in mainland Spain – 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.

For more details on La Manga Club and to book, 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 championship golf courses, a new Leadbetter Golf Academy – the only one in mainland Spain – 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 2016. 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 40 years 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 four 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