FC Barcelona Pre-Season Training

Spabreak Direct arrange the venue and facilities for FC Barcelona's pre-season training

Earlier this year we were contacted by IMG, the premier global sports and media group, with the remit to source a suitable venue for a top European football club to hold their pre-season training camp. FC Barcelona were playing in the inaugural Wembley Cup featuring games against Tottenham and Al-Ahly and needed a superb hotel and first class training facilities close to London. We recommended Danesfield House Hotel and Spa in Marlow, Buckinghamshire and Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre.

Danesfield House Hotel & Spa
Danesfield House Hotel and Spa is a picturesque Country House Hotel set within 65 acres of magnificent estate grounds overlooking the Thames. It was converted in 1991 from a Victorian country mansion house to the magnificent luxury hotel it is today. The hotel has a four star AA and RAC with Blue Ribbon rating, a four-star Silver Award from the English Tourism Council and provides guests with superb spa and leisure facilities. The hotel has numerous amenities which helped the players start to get ready for the coming season. After working hard on the training ground the squad could do extra exercise in the gym next to the hotel and then relax after their physical effort in the next door spa.

Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre
Only 10 minutes from the hotel and set in quite spectacular and secluded surroundings, Bisham Abbey is one of the UK's National Sports Centres - training grounds and centres of excellence for the country's leading sportsmen and women. Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre offers some of the best sporting facilities in the UK, ideal for sports training camps. Servicing the needs of many renowned sporting teams and organisations, most recently Barcelona FC, but also Manchester United and both England’s and Scotland’s international rugby teams.

FC Barcelona
Both Danesfield House and Bisham Abbey were delighted to host FC Barcelona from the 21st to the 26th July 2009 and the superb quality of both facilities was greatly appreciated by this prestigious European football club. The Vice President of the club, Rafael Yuste, presented Alan Dooley, Deputy General Manager at Danesfield House, with a commemorative plaque along with Victor Valdez and Bojan Krkic and congratulated the hotel on its high levels of service and excellent hospitality.