Testimonials

This was our 2nd year at Marsham Court.  Bowlaway arranged a seamless bowls tour for us.

 We played 4 matches over 5 days. All matches were well arranged, and we were made very welcome.

 Bowlaway, arranged 3 quotations for our coach travel. Again this went perfectly.

 The hotel, was immaculate and all the rooms were large and well equipped. The meals in the Hotel were excellent and the staff were very friendly.

 I would not hesitate in using Bowlaway again in the future.

Everything went very well. The short sharp shower during one of our games didn’t bother any of us. All of the matches were well organised and run (our thanks to Geoff for his contribution). 

The hotel was excellent and in particular the staff who were all very helpful and friendly. 

Thank you Kirsty for your part in the arrangements. Perhaps we can book again sometime.

We had a wonderful time.  The hotel staff couldn’t have been any better and the food was great. Nice clean rooms. Both clubs were very friendly. Thank you   for organising the tour for us.  Think we will be back in a year or two.

Booked a bowling holiday for 28 people with Rod Radwell and Kirsty Speller of Bowlaway who were so friendly and helpful with booking our time at the Marsham Court Hotel and organising our 3 bowls matches. We had a great time at the local clubs.

From the moment we walked into hotel to the moment we left we were treated with courtesy and friendliness.

Rooms – clean, tidy with all necessities including tea and coffee making facilities.
Restaurant- Excellent choice of food on the breakfast and dinner menus with availability For all dietary needs, with Joseph and the waiters and waitresses so obliging.
Staff- congratulations to all staff who were so helpful and friendly.

Thank you for making our first stay at the Marsham Court Hotel and we are planning to return again next year.

We all thoroughly enjoyed our tour and thank you to Kirsty and Geoff for all your help.
The Hotel was very good in all aspects staff,accommodation food and location,everyone was pleased with their rooms and I’m sure you know how difficult it is to please everybody. We would also thoroughly recommend Excelsior Coaches especially our driver Darren who went out of his way to help and also to show us the sights of Bournemouth.

We all arrived back safe and sound and full of happy memories of our 5 days in Bournemouth.Thank you for your help in making it a very successful and enjoyable tour. I would again like to thank the clubs that we visited for making us feel so very welcome.
I would have no hesitation in recommending Bowlaway to anyone interested in organising a bowls tour to Bournemouth indoor or outdoor. Thank you all again and best of luck in the future.

The tour went really well and thanks for your support with everything.

Booked a bowling holiday for 28 people with Rod Radwell and Kirsty Speller of Bowlaway who were so friendly and helpful with booking our time at the Marsham Court Hotel and organising our 3 bowls matches. We had a great time at the local clubs.

From the moment we walked into hotel to the moment we left we were treated with courtesy and friendliness.

Rooms – clean, tidy with all necessities including tea and coffee making facilities.
Restaurant- Excellent choice of food on the breakfast and dinner menus with availability For all dietary needs, with Joseph and the waiters and waitresses so obliging.
Staff- congratulations to all staff who were so helpful and friendly.

Thank you for making our first stay at the Marsham Court Hotel and we are planning to return again next year.

Thanks from all of us. We all really enjoyed our Bowls Tour.
The accommodation provided at the Marsham Court Hotel was excellent.
The all inclusive bowls tour service provided by Bowlaway was excellent.
Our bowls fixtures could not have been better.

Once again thanks to all at Bowlaway for ensuring our tour was smoothly coordinated.

We will definitely be booking with Bowlaway in the very near future.

Thank you for another fantastic organised weekend and all the dedication you put into making our visits so successful. We have been using Bowlaway for a number of years and from first contact have always been delighted with the matches organised by Geoff, the clubs selected several who have now become friends, to our departure at the end of the weekend.
This was our first visit to the Marsham Court Hotel, great welcome, excellent rooms, and the food was a delight. Congratulations to the hotel on their staff selection, a true family atmosphere, we wish you every success for the future. Everybody had a great time and agreed it was the best visit so far, so hopefully we will return next year, if you will have us??

Bowlaway offered us a range of accommodation and services tailored to the needs of our touring party over the last two years. They have been a pleasure to deal with and nothing has been too much.

We had a fantastic weekend, although we did get a little wet one day it didn’t spoil our weekend at all. All the Clubs welcomed us and were very friendly. The hotel was excellent, rooms good, meals good, entertainment good.

One of our bowlers who had his birthday whilst away was very pleased with his cake, it was a surprise to our members.

Thank you very much to you and Geoff Jones for organising our very pleasant weekend.

We have just completed our 14th annual indoor tour with Bowlaway and have stayed at the Marsham Court for the past 2 years. On our return this year, I am pleased to say that refurbishments have been done to a very high standard & has greatly transformed the dining area. From the time we arrived until the time we depart we are always well looked after by the friendly staff. Our thanks to Geoff who does a great job in arranging all our matches & it is always a pleasure to be greeted with a hug from Kirsty. Over the years we have had many memorable tours & I have always been happy to recommend Bowlaway to anyone looking to tour in the Bournemouth area & will continue to do so.

Hi Kirsty,
Every member of our group thoroughly enjoyed our recent Bowls Break in Bournemouth organised by Bowlaway.
The Hotel was excellent, in a good position near the sea front, with modern, tasteful decor, good food & charming staff.
We enjoyed the two friendly Bowls Matches against local clubs arranged for us by Bowlaway, even though our skills have yet to reach the very high standard set by the Bournemouth Bowlers – we live in hope !
Every member of our group has asked to be included in a return visit planned for next year.

Our club from Jersey have been using Bowlaway for many years and always found them very helpful and efficient

Hi Kirsty
A huge thank you for a lovely week in Bournemouth for our 2018 tour, hotel and staff were great and nothing was too much trouble from helping with our 2 disabled members, to arranging a room for a 70th birthday party. Clubs we played against were friendly and the weather was kind to us. As it was my first attempt at arranging a bowling tour the help given by yourself and the others in the office was very much appreciated – certainly made things easier from my point of view. Hope to see you again in the future.

Dear Kirsty,

Will you please pass on our thanks to all involved in arranging our tour last week. We all thoroughly enjoyed our stay in Bournemouth. The Hotel was wonderful, the food was splendid, and the fixtures you arranged for us were all played at very friendly and hospitable clubs. Even the weather was kind despite somewhat intimidating forecasts!

Although I am unlikely to organise another Bowls Tour, I shall certainly recommend your company to anyone who proposes to organise one in the future.

Hi Kirsty

I would like to say on behalf of everyone that came on my tour to your hotel what a wonderful time we had. Thank you to you and all of your excellent staff for a great weekend in a great location.

Thanks for all your help during our tour

Hi Kirsty another tour done and dusted!

On behalf of my Committee and members may I thank you and your staff for the wonderful way that you all looked after us last week.

Your staff without exception, were friendly, welcoming and helpful, the food was first class.

As you are aware, I have been arranging bowls tours for some 30 years and am asked by my many clubs for recommendations of hotels that cater for bowls tours. I will confidently advise them that Bowaway can help. You wouldn’t like to open a hotel in say Plymouth, Dartmouth, Dawlish, Ilfracombe, Padstow or Newquay as I am constantly looking for a good one in those towns?

Kind regards

Good afternoon Kirsty, This is to say thank you for a super tour, everyone was very pleased with their stay, so far we have had no complaints. That has to be a first.

The rooms were superb and the meals were excellent.

My good wishes to you and to all members of your staff. here’s hoping you all summer well.

Kind regards

On behalf of my club I would once again like to thank you and your staff for a very pleasant stay. We were made to feel very welcome and would not hesitate to return in the future.
Please thank Kirsty and Geoff for all their work with the Bowls matches, all of which went very smoothly, so much so, that we had next year’s County President with our party, and he was particularly impressed with the friendliness at Pelhams B.C. and has asked me to try and arrange a game against them for next year.

Once again, thank you and I wish you well for any plans you may have in the future,

Kindest regards

This is my third visit for a bowling holiday and all of them have been very enjoyable and successful. You dealt with my difficult diet beautifully and the waiters were charming and helpful. Matches went well and thoroughly enjoyed our games. It was great to have the drying facilities on the very wet Monday. Many Thanks

Dear Kirsty,
Now that the dust has settled, I would like to thank you and your lovely staff for helping to make the Tour a resounding success. We all had an enjoyable time and can’t wait to come again. The clothing left behind has now been returned to the owners and it was kind of you to let me know about this.

Yours sincerely

Dear Kirsty

On behalf of SV Bowls Club, I would like to thank you and your staff for an excellent weekend.

Everyone enjoyed themselves the rooms were fine and the meals were good.

Thanks for loaning us the Bingo machine and for Annie, she was a big success with the members, please thank her for me as well.

As always somebody forgets something, thanks for returning the book of jokes, It was posted through my letterbox before I got up on Tuesday morning, what service! I will post you some stamps to cover the cost.

We all had a wonderful time and a good weekend’s bowling.

I hope the Club will want to go to Bournemouth again in the future.

Dear Kirsty

On behalf of SV Bowls Club, I would like to thank you and your staff for an excellent weekend.

Everyone enjoyed themselves the rooms were fine and the meals were good.

Thanks for loaning us the Bingo machine and for Annie, she was a big success with the members, please thank her for me as well.

As always somebody forgets something, thanks for returning the book of jokes, It was posted through my letterbox before I got up on Tuesday morning, what service! I will post you some stamps to cover the cost.

We all had a wonderful time and a good weekend’s bowling.

I hope the Club will want to go to Bournemouth again in the future.

Dear Kirsty,

Everyone is home. No-one was lost, admitted to hospital or arrested. Phew. My stress levels can return to normal levels. This is in no small way due to you, your organizational skills and your lovely staff. Thank you. We were lucky with weather too.

Yesterday at the misdemeanours court I asked for comments (dangerous with our crowd!) . These are some of them.

Bed was too comfortable. I slept longer this weekend than in years. (That was a compliment I think) I’ve put on weight, food was lush.
Lovely linen tablecloths.
Immaculately clean (this from cleaner supervisor in our local hospital.) Wish we could stay for a few more days.
Will definitely come back.

The clubs we bowled were nice especially Kynevton Gardens. Please thank Geoff for finding them. We have invited them both to our club whenever they like.

Thank you all so much for your help. We will be recommending you to our friends in other clubs. And we did take the tinsel and turkey brochure.

Good morning Geoff

Just a short note to say thank you for organising my tour to Bournemouth. Everything went like clockwork and that’s down to your hard work and organising skills so thank you very much. Everyone enjoyed all the venues and we really had some fun even managing to win some of the games which is unusual for us when we are on tour.

Thank you again and best wishes

Hi all
Just to say thanks for a well organised weekend from you all. We had an enjoyable weekend. Please pass on our thanks, everyone thought it was a good Hotel with very lovely food!!
Our three games went well, all clubs being very friendly, even if we did lose all our matches!!
Thanks again

Hi all
Just to say thanks for a well organised weekend from you all. We had an enjoyable weekend. Please pass on our thanks, everyone thought it was a good Hotel with very lovely food!!
Our three games went well, all clubs being very friendly, even if we did lose all our matches!!
Thanks again

Dear Kirsty
Please thank the staff i.e:- restaurant, bar and bedroom cleaners for helping to make our bowls tour brilliant and very enjoyable

Dear Kirsty,
On behalf of our club I would like to extend a large “Thank You” to yourself and all your staff for all the help prior to and during our recent stay.

All the staff were friendly and efficient. Any problems encountered were dealt with speedily and effectively and any constructive comments made by us were listened to and taken on board for the future.

I would have no hesitation in recommending your hotel to any other group.

When I bring another tour to Bournemouth Bowaway will be my first contact for reservations.

Once again “Thank you” and I hope to see you again in the not too distant future.

Yours Sincerely

Just a note to say how much we enjoyed our week with you on our Bowling Club Tour. Speaking for myself, I would like to thank you and your staff and in particular your chef who dealt with my dietary needs over and above the norm. The food offered was excellent and the care given to me by all your staff was wonderful. Please pass on my thanks to everybody.

Once again, many thanks

This is to thank you and all your staff for helping to make our bowls week the best ever. Everyone has been so enthusiastic about the whole week with nothing but compliments for the hotel, the food, the cleanliness of the rooms and, more than anything, the friendly, co-operative members of your team who could not have been more helpful. Everything about the week worked for us with amazing weather, some great bowls and a lot of fun.

It is such a bonus having all our games arranged for us so I do hope that Bowlaway continues its good work. Once again, many thanks for all that was done to make our stay so enjoyable and I look forward to a return visit.

I would like to thank you and your staff and also congratulate you all, on behalf of our Association, for the service and accommodation provided during our bowls tour.

I have personally been involved in organising tours during the past 25 years and I would say without doubt that you would rank at the top of the list of hotels used.

You could not be faulted in any way. From the request for a quotation right through to our departure we received complete co-operation and excellent service from you and your staff.

Room standards being very good, restaurant service and fare excellent. Add this to the fact that personally I did not have one complaint or moan during the stay, never known in my experience of large parties. What more can one say.

Please pass on our thanks to your staff.

I would certainly recommend Bowlaway to any bowls tour organiser.

We have received plenty of very positive comments from our members.

From our point of view as organisers of the tour, the service you gave in setting up the games,providing maps and answering questions was first class. We liked the size of the hotel, it was compact enough to keep us together and it is well positioned in the town. The food was good and the rooms were clean. We thought we received value for money. The staff were friendly and helpfull.

We were unsure whether to take up your offer of a singer, they can be rather naff, but he was well received and people enjoyed the entertainment.

I am not aware of a single moan and everyone had a smile on their faces. That must be good.

Kind regards

Dear Kirsty

We would just like to say how much we all enjoyed our trip to the hotel and the bowling clubs. We were made to feel very welcome everywhere and since we have been back everyone has been very positive.

Thanks for helping us through the arrangements. We would certainly be interested in doing another one!

Regards

To all the staff

Thank You for everything

It is now just over 3 weeks since we returned from our Tour in Bournemouth. The vast majority of our tourists felt that this year’s tour was one of the best if not the best that we have ever had. Everyone was most complimentary about the hotel and the staff, all of whom were friendly and helpful and made our break such a success.

The weather was extremely kind to us throughout our week in Bournemouth, but then in 30 years of our tour we have only lost 2 days bowling in all that time, so this must be a time of year when it is settled.

As regards our matches during the week we managed to win 5 of the 6 so most of us were happy there as well. Many thanks to Geoff Jones for getting these just right for our group. Bournemouth is a good venue for a Bowls Tour as there are sufficient clubs there to ensure that you do not need to travel too far, unless you want to. The added bonus is that the greens are much better than those we play on locally at home, and this makes players raise their game as well and increases their enjoyment.

I am quite sure that we will want to return to you some time in the future as a Bowls Tour, and I would expect that several of us will want to return as individuals in the future for a break.

Dear Kirsty,
When we returned home we gave all our members a form covering all aspects of the tour.
The Hotel. Superb.
Bedrooms. Good value for money.Good central heating
Meals. Good choice, excellent presentation,hot & nicely cooked.
Bar Facilities. Good & staff very helpfull.
Staff Service. Very helpful & pleasant.
The Bowls Matches. All very enjoyable, but Weymouth too far.
Hotel Entertainment. Good, but needed more support.
All members would like a return visit in the near future

Thank you Kirsty for all your help,and hope to see you in the near future.

Another excellent weekend. No complaints. Looking forward to next year.

Excellent well maintained bedroom. Very good food, all the waitresses exceptionally polite and helpful. Good choice of food. The arrangements for the bowls matches were good. The holiday met our every need. I think this is our 4th visit and you have never let us down. No improvements to suggest. Thank You

Again excellent bedroom and very clean. Excellent first class service. Very good meals. For me it was a very good weekend – no complaints at all. Thank you.

Everything was first rate. Enjoyed the Quiz. It couldn’t be better.

Bedroom decor superb. Excellent meals. Excellent arrangements for bowling matches. Great weekend!

Thanking you and your staff very much for the friendly welcome. Everyone had an enjoyable time – our first bowls tour was a great success.

Many thanks from all the party from our Bowls Club – we have had a most enjoyable stay.

On behalf of our Bowls Club may we thank you and all your staff for all the arrangements and service you provided. Good Luck for the future.

Thank you for your hard work. Everyone in our bowls group had a really lovely time. Food and hospitality we couldn’t fault. Thank you – it looks like we’ll be back next year!

All the members of bowling club thank you and your staff very much for the warm and friendly welcome and care and kindness given to us on our recent stay with you. Everyone had a very enjoyable and happy holiday.

Thanks so much for a relaxed, comfortable and friendly stay. We’ll be back. All good wishes.

A super tour, super hotel, service excellent. Many thanks.

I will have no hesitation in recommending you to anybody I hear that intends staying in Bournemouth. Congratulations on your achievements so far and best wishes for your continued success.