Holiday Like an Athlete: Four Destinations Built for Peak Performance

Holiday Like an Athlete: Four Destinations Built for Peak Performance

With Wimbledon having just wrapped, the FIFA World Cup reaching its final stages, and The Open beginning this week, sport is dominating the summer conversation. Even Pope Leo XIV is embracing the active-holiday trend, spending his summer retreat swimming and playing tennis in Castel Gandolfo. A few of the properties we work with sit at the heart of this, several of them doubling as training grounds for professional athletes. This is a timely hook for an alternative summer holiday feature: how to holiday like the people who train for a living.

The Capra, Saas-Fee

Glacier conditions here in Saas-Fee, one of Europe’s only year-round snow-sure destinations, are so reliable that skiing continues right through summer, up to 3,600m.

· Saas-Fee is one of the preferred summer training bases for World Cup and Olympic ski teams.

 

BILL&COO, Mykonos

A hotel that treats movement as part of the stay, not an afterthought:

Consorzio Costa Smeralda, Sardinia

Quietly building something more substantial than its glamorous reputation suggests:

Quietly building something more substantial than its glamorous reputation suggests:

The Red Sea, Saudi Arabia

Adventure sits alongside a different kind of sport entirely:

Adventure sits alongside a different kind of sport entirely:

 

 

Four destinations, four very different ways to train, and none of them require an athlete’s schedule to enjoy.