Tennis Ventures

We just returned from the Tennis Ventures Italian Trip and let me just say that as a Director at 2 large Country Clubs and taking members on over 50 trips, running over thousands of events over the years, dealing with thousands of different kinds of people, this is all to lend credence to what I am about to say- Chadwick & Camilla Byrd and Chris Ryan are the absolute best! They are totally committed to there job, very thorough, patient, happy, fun, just plain great, I can’t think of any more adjectives. If you want International Tennis travel they are a first class act.👍👏 Marc & Jill Gelina 41 years USPTA Certified Professional USTA Senior Professional

I had booked trip for Australian open 2020 . Had to book and pay for it 14 months in advance. The company highly recommends that you insure your trip since the cost for a single person is $16,000.. Well with out going into a lot of detail , the fires hit Australia. I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and my dr suggested I not go. I contacted the owner Chadwick Byrd telling him I might have to cancel. Next thing I know I get a cancellation letter from him. Please know that I was still on the fence . But he told me it was too late. My insurance Reimbursed me for the trip except for the $5000 to upgrade my airline seat since it was done only 6 months before my trip. I paid for that seat and Chadwick cancelled my trip weeks before so I’m sure he received an airline credit. I contacted him about the credit going to me and he said since he booked it only he could change it and I would not get any credit. Don’t book with this company . They only care about protecting their investment and paying for their own trips. I would like to know if they received the credit for my hotel and my australian open tickets. I’m sure they benefited from that as well. I wouldn’t know since no one from the company has contacted me after I was cancelled. So much for customer service

I have just come back from my 4th trip with Tennis Ventures. While that fact, alone, should be enough of an endorsement, I will elaborate on why this is such a great company. In 2010, my financial position had improved to where I felt able to take a real vacation. I started planning and almost immediately came to the conclusion that since I do logistics for a living, the last thing that I wanted to do was plan all the details of a trip. I started looking for an interesting package and since I would be traveling alone I thought that maybe something tennis related would be a good idea, because I would at least have one thing in common with the other people on the trip. I looked into a few packages but while the tennis portion of the trip looked good, you seemed to be on your own for the rest of the time.
Then I came across Tennis Ventures trip to the Australian Open: the Sidney Harbor Bridge climb; a day on a yacht; winery tour; the zoo; playing tennis; AND the Australian Open? Had this [redacted] been reading my journal of places I wanted to go and things I wanted to do? Then I saw the hotels and restaurants; everything 5 star and luxurious. A perfect vacation – I’m frugal in my daily life – vacation is the time the splurge. It seemed too good to be true. I loved the notion of an all-inclusive vacation and paying it off ahead of time but surely there were hidden fees, there had to be limitation. I sent [redacted] an email and he responded with his phone number and asked me to call. I had several questions and by the end of our conversation he had answered them. I checked out the hotels, independently, to see if they looked as good as they did on his web site. A little more research; a few more questions – it was a lot of money, more than I had ever spent on myself – he patiently answered them. I thought about it for a week and decided to sign up. I haven’t regretted it for a moment. I feel that I have more than gotten my money’s worth. Each trip has far exceeded my expectations - and I was expecting a lot to begin with.
I’ve said that I do logistics for a living so I tend to be highly critical of other people’s organizational skills. [redacted] is a master; not only the initial plan but solving problems as they come along. Plans do go awry but by the time we knew something was wrong, [redacted] already had the solution in place. I have been particularly impressed with the quality of the plans because three of the four trips that I went on were new trips for Tennis Ventures. I loved the detailed, daily itinerary – just show up and have fun. Playing tennis at different clubs, on different surfaces – I’ve now played on real grass, artificial turf, red clay and synthetic hard court – at the greatest places. Each trip has its own character and special events. In 2011 I went to Australia; 2012 was Rome-Paris and the French Open; 2013 was [redacted] and the [redacted] and finally in 2014 Wimbledon and Ireland. And I would do it all over again. Hopefully, there will be other trips that [redacted] puts together so that I can continue to adventure with Tennis Ventures.