A polo holiday in Argentina is a great adventure. Even if you have never been on a horse before, we can teach you! Check out the following options:
- Polo clinics, spend one or two weeks in polo heaven...
- Polo working holiday, very cheap polo for students, per week or per month
- Polo, Tango and learn Spanish... Special June, July and August promo because of unstable weather conditions.
- Polo lesson
- Free Stick & Ball
- Polo day
Polo clinics
During a polo clinic you will have polo coming out of your ears. You will be surrounded by polo professionals and play polo all day, every day.
A typical polo clinic includes:
- Transport to and from the airport, or Buenos Aires
- Accommodation at the club
- All food & drinks included
- Polo classes or stick & ball in the morning
- 4 chukkers in the afternoon (6 days a week)
- Theory lessons
- Practice your swing on the wooden horse
- Polo tournaments at Don Augusto
- Laundry service
- Internet is available. Although slow, itīs good for checking email
- Visits to other clubs to watch tournaments and games
- Optional: take a spanish lesson of one hour and a half
Or read the testimonials and let yourself be convinced.
Polo working holiday
The idea is you can try and learn to play (or improve your) polo for a fraction of the going rate. Contact us for this seasons prices and availability.
We will give you 4 horses to take care of and accommodation with shared facilities (2 or 3 beds per room, shared bathroom). Food is not included, you have to buy and cook for yourself with your team mates/grooms. The 4 horses are your responsibility for your entire stay. That means you have to feed them, move them and you are also to use these 4 horses for your own stick and ball and to play your own chukkers. If a horse gets injured or ill or for whatever reason can not play anymore, we can not guarantee a replacement. In general this would mean you can play 3 4 times a week (besides the stick & ball). You have to help mount other players when they play chukkers, when you donīt play. And you will be helped with your horses when you participate in the chukkers yourself. During low and high season the Pilar area is buzzling with activity. There are so many clubs together that you can watch matches every day. There are also horse auctions organized during seasons.
Apart from the polo the Pilar area has quite a famous bar and dance scene, where you can meet other polo players. Pilar is definitely the place to be during high season with itīs peak the first week of december.
Send us an email to check availability.
Polo, Tango and learning Spanish...?
June, July and August are winter months in Argentina and usually there is not a lot of polo going on.
Don Augusto however, is always open during winter months and we play whenever the weather allows us. Last year we had such a mild winter we played almost every day. In order to share these winter polo opportunities with you, we decided to make up a "Winter Package".
The Winter Package has an alternative program for when it rains. We combine your polo holiday with Tango and learning Spanish.
Imagine getting up in the morning and have 3 hours of Spanish lessons to start the day. Then when the weather is right, you can do a bit of stick & ball, a polo lesson or just ride a horse. After lunch itīs chukkers, or if itīs a bad day we go to Buenos Aires for a Tango lesson and in the evening visit a Milonga, the place where locals dance the real Tango.
This includes:
- Transport to and from the airport, or Buenos Aires
- Accommodation at the club
- All food & drinks included
- Laundry service
- Polo classes or stick & ball in the morning (weather permitting)
- 4 chukkers in the afternoon (weather permitting)
- 5 times a week, 3 hour Spanish lessons
- Two afternoons/nights to Buenos Aires for a tango lesson and visit a Milonga
Polo lesson
If you donīt have time to spend a week at our polo school, you can go for the polo lesson. A typical polo lesson takes about one hour. First we go through the
basics and then itīs more focused on improving your game. The instructor looks at your level and gives you hands on advise. The lessons are for beginners as well as for more
advanced players.
Contact us for this seasons prices and availability.
Free stick & ball
If you already know how to play and donīt want a lesson or join a few chukkers, there is always stick & ball. You can rent as much horses as you like. The average is 2 horses, but if you want more, or less that is possible.
Contact us for this seasons prices and availability.
Polo day
Enjoy a nice day in the country in combination with polo. A full polo day includes the following services:
- Transportation to and from Buenos Aires
- Reception at the club with tea, mate and home made empanadas and cookies
- Polo lesson with a professional bilingual instructor
- Asado criollo (Argentina style barbeque) which means great meat and very good wines. Also includes salad, dessert and/or soft drinks
- Leasure time; enjoy a siesta or the swimming pool
- Second polo lesson, or free stick & ball
- Afternoon tea with coffee, tea or maté and home made cakes and cookies
Contact us for this seasons prices and availability. We can also arrange transportation.