Lac de Verde
This week, after a short period of silence, she came up with her first ‘How we can improve the state of Romanian tourism’ suggestion of her new tenure:
Let’s build Romania’s first 18-hole golf course at Snagov, near Bucharest.
“It’s just an idea I had, to build a golf course,” Udrea said, as though nobody, ever, had thought to build a golf course in Romania before.
That Romania lacks in golfing opportunities is not in dispute. There is a six-hole course at the Diplomatic Club in Bucharest, and three nine-hole courses: at Selas near Potigrafu in Prahova County (where they also play polo, of all things); Lac de Verde near Breaza – pictured above – and Recas near Timisoara. That, currently, is it.
There has been talk of a golf course in Poiana Brasov for years, but nothing has yet to happen, while any and all attempts to build one around Bucharest have always fallen flat, usually because of the prohibitive price of buying enough land.
Golf courses also require time: you need to seed the greens long before you can play on them (years before in fact). We are fairly certain the lovely Elena knows that of course.
Ultimately though, is it really the Romanian government’s business to go around building golf courses?
No. Building a golf course is a job for the private sector, entirely. Governments should not even be considering partially financing such folly.
Eventually, it will happen: Romania will get a full 18-hole golf course, probably when there is enough local interest in the game to make a full course viable.
Building a golf course near Bucharest in the hope that it will do wonders for Romanian tourism is absurd. It would really have to be some course to attract foreign visitors specifically for the purpose of playing golf. Most golfers head for countries where there is a variety of courses to choose from: not just one.
Keep ‘em coming Elena.
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It seems that Selas is about 10-15 km from Snagov which may just have escaped Dna Udrea. Maybe she could arrange a bus service there from Snagov to bring all the aspiring golfers who live there……
@Parmalat: Then they might have managed to stop Hayssam escaping… (Though I read this morning he might be on his way back)
I think we should settle for some paintball courses.
Actually if we build enough paintball courses on various tematics (hostage situations for example, where we place a real old plane on a field and we say that a team are terrorists and the other team are SWAT) I think we could get some tourists for that
Just imagine a paintball resort with 10-15 paintball fields – one with a plane, other with a warehouse, other with some jungle, other with an office building etc… that would be some attraction!
Dracula Land. Now there was a brilliant idea. Needless to say Nuti Udrea’s golf course will be just as successful in getting off the drawing board.
Bring back the plans Dracula Land!
O stimam pe Elena Udrea si ii sustinem proiectul.We support this project because it’s really helpful.