Resort to Romance

If it's world class golfing, fishing or hunting packages your group is looking for, then the Rend Lake Resort & Conference Center is your destination. For couples, our "Resort to Romance" package has become one our most poplular requests.

Give yourself and the one you love a romantic get-a-way. Treat yourselves to an intimate stay far from your daily routines with champagne by firelight in your room, an outstanding, romantic dinner in our Windows Restaurant and strolling hand-in-hand by the waterside.

Your "Resort to Romance" package includes:

• Overnight Lodging
• A bottle of chilled champagne in your room
• Two Rend Lake Resort souvenir champagne flutes
• Rend Lake Resort gift cards worth $60 at Windows Restaurant, Reilly's Lounge or the Blue Heron Cafe.

Resort to Romance Package Rates

• Double- $178
• Cabin- $193
• Boatel- $188
• Boatel Suite- $193
• Spa Room- $193
• Flagship Spa Suite- $215

• Double- $145
• Cabin- $170
• Boatel- $170

Golfing

The Rend Lake Resort & Conference Center serves as the perfect host and central location for a world-class golfing experience.

Leave all the arrangements to us, and you can count on enjoying excellent accommodations at the Resort and memorable golf outings at any of three nearby, high-quality golf courses, each within easy driving distance of the resort.

After your day of golf, relax in Reilly's Lounge, enjoy the outdoor swimming pool, bike or rent one of our boats for a refreshing runabout on the lake. Or, enjoy hand-dipped waffle cones at the Blue Heron General Store.

Kokopelli

A Steve Smyers-designed facility, Kokopelli Golf Club in Marion, Illinois has a course rating of 71.6 to 75.6 and a slope rating of 128 to 139, making it the highest-rated course in Southern Illinos. It features 18 spectacular holes of golf spread over 160 acres of beautiful terrain; five sets of tees, rolling fairways, 96 bunkers and undulating greens.

PACKAGE (for two)

18 holes of golf with cart, overnight lodging at Rend Lake Resort (double occupancy) and a $30 food and drink credit per person

• 2009, Jan - Dec $232.00*

*Cost for 2 people

Franklin County Country Club

Leisure golfers will delight in the beautiful setting, while more experienced golfers will be intrigued by the water hazzards, mature hardwoods, and earth berms and bunkers.  The Franklin County Country Club is a great course for any skill level, truly a "resort" course.

The course features 6,600 yards of golf for a par of 71.  The course rating is 71.8, and the slope is 133.

PACKAGE (for two)

18 holes of golf with cart, overnight lodging at Rend Lake Resort (double occupancy) and a $30 food and drink credit per person

• 2009, Jan -  Dec, $224.00*

*Cost for 2 people

Rend Lake Golf Course

The Rend Lake Golf Course has hosted the Illinois State Amateur Championship. earned a 4.5 star rating from Golf Digest magazine and it has been ranked as one of the best public courses in the Midwest.

Designed by renowned Chicao architect Lawrence Packard, it offers five sets of tees, large bent grass greens, zoysia fairways and tees, numerous water hazards and meticulous landscaping. Just five minutes from Rend Lake Resort!

PACKAGE (for two)

18 holes of golf with cart, overnight lodging at Rend Lake Resort (double occupancy) and a $30 food and drink credit per person

2009, April through October:

• Monday through Thursday, $234.00*
• Friday through Sunday (and holidays), $244.00*

November 2009 through March 2010

• Monday through Sunday, $214.00*

*Cost for two people

Hunting and Fishing Packages

Todd Gessner Outdoors

The Rend Lake Resort has teamed with top professional hunting and fishing guide Todd Gessner, of Todd Gessner Outdoors, to help make your next hunting or fishing tip a success.  One of the most experienced guide services on Rend Lake, Todd Gessner and his team have provided fishing and hunting guide service to thousands of guests at the Rend Lake Resort.  Todd Gessner and his team will provide you with bait, tackle, boat, motor and gas and expert guidance to the best fishing spots. If you are hunting, Todd Gessner Outdoors will lead you to the best opportunities for waterfowl, deer, turkey, rabbit, quail and squirrel.

See the Fishing brochure.

Hunting packages include overnight lodging, $60.00 in gift cards good at our own Windows restaurant and Reilly's lounge, and your guided hunt. Hunting packages start at $376.00 for two people.

Our fishing packages include overnight lodging, $60.00 in gift cards good at Windows restaurant and Reilly's lounge, and guided fishing.  Fishing packages start at $346.00 for two people. 

Goosemasters Place

The Rend Lake Resort also offers a hunting package with Goosemasters Place.  They have thousands of decoys strategically placed to attract all these species.  This is the kind of hunt in Southern Illinois to create memories of a lifetime.  Goosemasters Place offers the opportunity to hunt in a heated pit with a professional guide and caller for canadian geese, snow geese, blue geese, mallards, pintails, woodies, teal, black ducks, redheads, bluebills, and many more.

Hunting packages include hunting in a heated pit, professional guide and caller, breakfast, lunch in the pit, dinner and refreshments, overnight lodging for two.  Hunting packages start at $199.00 per person.  Call 618-942-6255 to book Southern Illinois' ultimate waterfowl hunting experience.

See our Goosemasters Brochure.