Tennis Camps in Spain

Transfer service from Alicante airport, bus station or train station from 8:00 to 22:00 is NOT included in the package price. If you wish, a representative of ZadorSpain will pick campers up at the airport and bring them directly to their place of accommodation. Since Alicante airport is small, you will quickly see a person with your name that will be waiting for you when you exit the terminal..

If you want to come with your children or organise the trip own your own, the easiest way is to arrive to Alicante airport (El Altet). It is located only a short distance from the city centre and it takes about 20 min. by car. There are international and domestic flights that connect Alicante to the main European and Spanish cities like .Madrid or Barcelona. There are buses every 40 minutes (from 7:00am to 11:00pm) from Alicante airport to the center of Alicante (Bus stop at the exit of the terminal; the bus goes till the Plaza del Mar – last stop).

If you arrive to Madrid or Barcelona another option is to take a train. You can check times, frequency and prices on www.renfe.es

In any case, please feel free to contact us.

For Spain, we can say that Alicante is a medium size city. It has around 340.000 inhabitants.

Alicante in Costa Blanca area enjoys over 2,800 hours of sunshine throughout the year, with an average annual temperature of about 19.3ºC, giving its microclimate ideal characteristics for living in Alicante and Costa Blanca region all year round.

The numerous clear, sunny days make the province of Alicante an excellent place for leisure and holidays, because it is possible to enjoy the fresh air every day of the year.

The Alicante Weather is well known for a very mild climate amongst the cities at the Costa Blanca. Covered in the north by small hills and further north by rather high mountains (about 1600 m high), the area keeps the Alicante weather in a kind of microclimate. This limits the rain days per year to just about 20 per year. The average temperature even in winter time does not fall below 16° C.

The Tennis camp is designed for teenagers from 14 to 17 years old (there is a special tennis camp for children from 8 to 13 years old and Tennis Program for adults).

For parents who want to visit Alicante while their kids are in the tennis summer camp, we can suggest different hotels and activities or we can arrange necessary lodging and activities for them to enjoy their stay. If they want, they also can play tennis or having tennis lessons at the tennis Academy. Please feel free to enquire for further information.

As in all cities, Alicante offers different possibility for visitors’ comfort: from hotels to rural houses, apartments… Alicante has a hotel trade of over 6,000 rooms located in the proximities of the city’s most interesting places and near the majority of the beaches. Moreover, in the last years, the city has emphasised higher quality tourism, and several superior quality establishments have opened in different areas of the city. In addition, there are small boarding houses and guesthouses, mainly located in the old town and in the centre of Alicante. There are many tourist apartments in San Juan beach and its neighbouring areas.

▪ Accommodation per category (approximate prices per double room): o
5 stars: between 200 and 300 euros o
4 stars: between 100 and 200 euros o
3 stars: between 70 and 130 euros o
2 stars or less: less than 60 euros.

Here you have a list of Hotels in Alicante.

Of course. There are many websites with information about Alicante, surrounding area, festivities and events in the city... Here you have some.

▪ Alicante Tourist Information:
http://www.alicanteturismo.com/index.asp?ididioma=2&idioma=en
▪ Valencia region
— Costa Blanca region
http://www.costablanca.org/home.aspx
▪ Spain Tourist Information:
www.spain.info
▪ Of course, you can visit ZadorSpain main Website, where you have information about our Spanish language schools, Spanish programs, information on Alicante and much more.:
www.zadorspain.com

There is a tennis trainer with small groups from 3 to 4 tennis players per tennis court..

Tennis players are distributed in groups according to their age and TECHNICAL tennis level.

Junior Tennis Camp is an intensive tennis training camp whose main objective is the practice and training of young players in technical and especially in tactical and psychological tennis skills and help them to improve their performance and competitive tennis level to prepare them for tennis tournaments.

Development tennis training: minimum 3 years playing tennis

Pre-competition tennis training: minimum 4 years playing tennis

Tournament tennis training: minimum 5 years playing tennis

The majority of the tennis courts are clay courts (17 clay courts). There are 4 hard tennis courts. For mini-tennis there are also grass courts.

Tennis training sessions are divided as follow:

10,00 to 11,00: streching, other sports such soccer, basketball, paddle tennis, Soft Ball or Touch Rugby. Once a week video lesson.
11,00 to 13,30 horas: technical and tactical tennis training on court.

A piece of advice to prepare your Spanish + Tennis Camp in Spain: Begin packing several weeks in advance to avoid last-minute shopping or at least check this list.

Workout gear per week
6/10 T-Shirts and 6/10 gym shorts
10 pairs of socks
2 pairs of tennis shoes
2 sweatshirts and tracksuit
2 tennis rackets

Daily Clothes: casual clothing
Shorts, pants, T-Shirts
Sweater and thin raincoat
Plenty of socks and underwear
Pijamas/nightdress
Beach towel, 2 bathing suits, bathing cap (compulsory for the swimming pool), hat for the sun
Shoes or sandals and flip-flops for the shower and the swimming pool
Sunglasses
Small toiletries kit or basket so your kid can carry and keep track of essentials such as soap, shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrush, floss, deodorant, comb and brush. Bath Robe .
Sunscreen
Fun
Towels for the shower
. * Electricity supply in Spain is AC 220 Volts, 50 Hertz. Sockets meet European regulations and use the round pin system. Bring adaptors and make sure that the electrical appliances you are going to use (computer, mobile phone charger, shavers, fun…) work at this voltage.
* Put your child's name or initials on everything —clothes, hat, swim suit, towels— with either a laundry marker or iron- or sew-on labels.
* Laundry bag for wet or dirty clothing with your child's name

Documents, medicines
— Passport (Original and 1 copy)
— 2 photos
— Medication if needed. Send medication in its original container, along with explicit dosage instructions to the camp nurse or healthcare facility. A signed medical-release form should accompany all prescription medication (in English or Spanish).
— Parental Permission form.
— Medical Certificate and Release and Waiver
* If camper has glasses or contact lents, bring 2 glasses and contact lens cleaner.

For the Spanish lessons
Pocket dictionnary.
Some material for the lessons (notebook, pens…)

Other items
BackPack or something similar to go to the Camp, for off-campus activities and excursions.
Camera and batteries
Cell phone (and charger) /calling card

Could be a good idea to download and print the items to bring tho the Basketball Camp and check them because probably we forgot something that your child consider important.

There are some questions on the enrolment form about your Spanish language knowledge. With your answers we can get an idea about your Spanish level. The first day of the Tennis Camp, you will have —on Monday afternoon— a written test and an interview. With this information we can place you in the apropriate Spanish group according to your Spanish level. If you are beginner, you will have Spanish lessons the first day at 16:00.

There is a maximum of seven students per classroom.

Our Spanish lessons in mini groups will:

- allow you to get the most from our personalized teaching,
-facilitate active and dynamic participation in the lessons,
- maximize the use of classroom interaction techniques, thus facilitating your ability to speak Spanish fluently.

No, but do not worry if you are a beginner: it is a question of a few days. It is an immersion program and therefore you will surrounded by Spanish everywhere. Many of our students have no previous knowledge of Spanish.

Our teachers have the training and the experience to teach beginners and the total immersion system allows you to learn very quickly. We have a Spanish/English translator as part of our staff, who will be glad to help you communicate if you have any questions.

It is a good idea if you have your own pocket dictionary, some pencils, some pens and a note book. The first day you will receive a file with the teaching material or a book.

You are going to have a General Spanish course and depending on your level you will learn vocabulary about different topics. Of course, you are going to learn many words about tennis.

Yes. You will recieve a Certificate of Attendence, with the number of Spanish lessons that you have attended and your Spanish level.

Yes. If you do not want to play tennis for all your stay, you can continue learning Spanish in our language school and practice other sports taking part in Windsurfing Camp, Sailing Camp or golf Camp -all of them in July and August- and the last two weeks in July in a Basketball Camp.

Yes, all the tiket entrance or price for the activities are included in the price. However, if students want to drink or to eat something out of the tennis camp, students have to pay for them.

Yes, all the transports to go from the Residence or the host family to the Tennis Academy and for the off-campus activities programmed are included in the price. In some cases transports are public and in other private transport.

Yes, there is always at least one group leader every 15 students in the activities programmed.

Yes to both questions. Residence p are in the suburbs of Alicante in a very quiet and safe area, at the University of Alicante area. If tennis camp participants have residence accommodation, are highly supervised. Only during their free time (and they do not have a lot) or during the time to rest they could be in the common rooms or watching TV without camp counsellors, although they are in the building. Campers have to participate in all the scheduled on-campus and off-campus activities and in all the activities are adults with them. Campers can not go out from the camp premises alone.

There is a question in the Enrolment form where you can specify if you travel with a companion and you can write the companion's name. Thus, if you have the same sex, we can accommodate together.

Healthy with quality, variety and taking into account that you are playing hard. You will have three main meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus 1 snacks (1 dietary supplement —juice, fruit, yougurth, snacks or sandwiches) during the training sessions.

Sportsman’s breakfast at the Residence restaurnat: fruit, cereal, yogurt, milk, ham or cheese, bread roll
Lunch Monday to Friday at the Tennis Club restaurant: starter, main course and dessert.
Evening meal at the Residence restaurant: self-service with starter (from two choices), main course (from two choices) and dessert.

At the weekend, players participating have breakfast and an evening meal at the residence, and are provided with a packed lunch to take on excursions.

Once a week they have a tapas tasting dinner in a restaurant to try typical Spanis tapas.

The residence has a laundry room with washing and dryer machines working with coins (approx. € 1,5-€2 per machine) and players can do the laundry in their spare time.

Participants can also contract a laundry service for an additional cost: a private laundry company takes the clothes on Wednesday and Sunday. Put your child's name or initials on everything —clothes, hat, swim suit, towels— with either a laundry marker or iron- or sew-on labels and bring a laundry bag.

Yes, it is possible from 30th June to 17th August. The housing accommodation is available with an extra-cost, although it is possible you have to change the room at the Residence-Dormitory. The extra-cost depends not only on the accommodation price but on the activities scheduled for the extra days, because players can not be alone at the Residence.

Yes, except arrival or departure transfer service, lunch the firts day for early arrivals or lunch the last day for late departures, optional laundry service and personal expenses (beverages, ice-creams...). All the ticket entrance or prices for the activities are included in the price. However, if campers want to drink or to eat something out of the camp, they have to pay for them.