For clubs and hotels.
Alola brings a small group of the right guests to the best private courses and houses in Asia, and names the ones that welcome them. This is what we ask, what you receive, and what we never do.
Where the name opens a door
The houses and clubs that already welcome Alola members. What each has agreed stays in our correspondence.
Hotel · Shanghai
The Peninsula Shanghai
Preferred terms for members, a named contact on the Bund, and the welcome of a returning guest.
Visit The Peninsula Shanghai →Hotel · Jeju
A dedicated contact for every stay, a Jeju welcome on arrival, and priority for upgrades, early check-in and late check-out when the house allows.
Visit JW Marriott Jeju Resort & Spa →
Who our members are
Founders, owners and senior principals of their own businesses, most in their forties to sixties, every one playing to an honest handicap and every one vetted in person before joining: a member introduces them, they play a round with one of our committee and share a meal with a second member, and the committee votes.
They play regularly, travel often and well, and know how to be a guest at a good club. They book direct when they know where they are going, and they come back to a house that remembers them.
How a journey works
One a quarter, to a private course and a five-star stay. A small party of members, two or three days, playing as the club's guests under its rules, with a table in the evening and a name at the club who knows ours.
Members book and pay the club, the hotel and any operator directly. Alola plans and hosts; it arranges nothing commercially and takes nothing. There is no third party in between, and nothing owed to anyone.
What we ask of a club
To host a journey, or in Singapore a round and a table for the vetting of candidates. Later, once the club has grown, reciprocal courtesy for members visiting on their own.
What we ask of a hotel
Your preferred terms for Alola members and their guests booking direct with you, on your dates and in your words, along with the small things a returning guest values: a named contact for our members, early or late where the house allows, a table that knows the name.
What a partner receives
- A party of members on each journey, booked direct, with no third party in between.
- Members travelling on their own who choose a partner house or course first.
- Your name on the Partners page every member sees in the Alola app, with your contact beside it, the day the arrangement is agreed.
- A club whose people arrive on time, play fast, dress properly, thank the caddie by name, and behave. Our house rules say so, and members sign them every year.
- Several of those who came as a group come back on their own. That is the whole point, for both of us.
What Alola never does
- Take a commission, a share or a referral payment from a partner. Members pay you; Alola is paid by its members and nobody else.
- Package rooms, rounds or flights, or hold a member's money for you.
- Show your terms, or any figure, on the public website. Members read the terms you give us, in your words, only inside the members' app once the chair has approved them.
- Bring a gaming or casino property into the club, under any name.
- Send you anyone we have not met, played with and eaten with first.
To reply
Write to the chair. Twenty minutes by call or in person is all it takes to agree the shape of a first visit.
m@alola.com