Tour includes Greece's top-ranked Navarino Dunes course

Voidokilia Beach, where Odysseus met the goddess Athena [Courtesy of Centum Golf]
Voidokilia Beach, where Odysseus met the goddess Athena [Courtesy of Centum Golf]

Centum Golf announced Tuesday the launch of "Golf Odyssey," a package tour to filming locations of the Hollywood blockbuster "Odyssey," which drew more than 10 million moviegoers in South Korea. The package also includes rounds at four of Greece's top coastal courses.

The nine-day, seven-night itinerary includes sightseeing around Voidokilia Beach and the port town of Pylos on the southern Peloponnese peninsula, where the film was actually shot. It also features rounds at four courses in the Costa Navarino area, widely regarded as home to Greece's best golf courses, the company said. The package will run during two periods when the weather turns cool in South Korea — this November and December, and next March and April.

Costa Navarino was ranked the top resort in Britain's Golf World "Continental Europe's Top 100 Resorts 2022" list. Among the courses included in the package, Navarino Dunes, which opened in 2010, is ranked the No. 1 course in Greece by Top100GolfCourses.com. The Bay Course, which opened in 2011, ranks second in the country. Two more courses, the Hills Course and the Olympic Academy Course, comprising 36 holes, opened in 2022. This allows travelers to play all four distinct courses without much travel in between, the company said.

According to the company, the tour also includes guided tours led by travel experts to Santorini, a Mediterranean coastal village. It also covers the roads of the Acropolis in Athens, where Socrates once walked, and the Parthenon, which Plato and Aristotle passed by. These are in addition to the "Odyssey" filming locations.

"Attention toward the film has been rising recently, drawing large numbers of travelers to the region as well," a Centum Golf representative said. "This is a good opportunity to comfortably tour Greek historical sites and the film's filming locations while staying at a golf resort and enjoying rounds of golf."


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