Bowls & Pétanque
Relax playing bowls or pétanque at Don Amott Parks
At Don Amott Parks we work hard to improve and provide the best customer experience we can. This means providing the right facilities so that you can take part in a range of activities – whether you enjoy highly active sports such as tennis and swimming, or something sedate, sociable and strategic like bowls or pétanque.
Don Amott Parks in Nettleton hosts a fantastic pétanque court, easy to find right next to the padel tennis court. Here, you can indulge in a game or two of this French classic, which is played in every town square, park and other area all across France.
Pétanque, similar to boules, is a very simple and social game involving friends and family pitting their skills and strategies against each other in the gentlest way. Players take turns to throw their metal boule as close to a wooden jack as possible – as well as disrupting their opponents’ boule or obstructing it. The basic rules of pétanque are straightforward, which makes it very playable for people of all ages and skill levels.
Nettleton is the best place to enjoy pétanque when you’re holidaying in Lincolnshire.
The holiday parks at Nettleton and Willows offer fantastic opportunities to play bowls on beautifully maintained traditional greens. One of the most relaxing and enjoyable pastimes available at Don Amott Parks, bowls is a very pleasant and undemanding way to keep yourself fit and socialise while you’re doing it. Bowls is a much-loved game involving patience and precision, always extremely popular with the older generations but accessible enough to be played at any age.
It is customary in both bowls and pétanque to use your own equipment, so you’re more than welcome to play with your own bowls and boules at our Nettleton and Willows bowling greens and the pétanque court at Nettleton.
However, if you don’t yet have your own, at Nettleton there are bowls and a set of pétanque boules available to borrow so that you can play. These are free to use on a good will basis (i.e. there is no deposit payable to ‘hire’ them). Ask a member of staff at the swimming pool and they will sort this out for you.
