Dutch modular accommodation specialist Flexotels will build a fully operational temporary village beside Bernardus Golf in Cromvoirt, plugging the most acute capacity gap of the 2026 women’s golf flagship and delivering a meaningful new layer of inventory for the travel trade.
When the Solheim Cup arrives at Bernardus Golf from September 7 to 13, 2026, it will bring with it the familiar logistical headache of every major sporting event staged in a rural setting: where do you put tens of thousands of visitors when the local hotel inventory has been fully booked for months
Flexotels, the Netherlands-based specialist in modular and temporary accommodation, has just supplied the answer at scale. The company has confirmed it will create a complete pop-up hospitality village within easy reach of the course, offering 185 units across three different stay formats, exclusively for the duration of the tournament.
It will be, in fact, a brand-new on-site hotel cluster, designed, built, operated and dismantled around a single sporting event. And for the international travel trade still scrambling to source rooms in the wider’s-Hertogenbosch region, it is welcome news.
A three-tier accommodation mix
The Solheim Cup Village by Flexotels will combine three of the company’s signature product lines: 85 Room45 units, the brand’s compact and efficient stay format aimed at value-conscious visitors; 50 Flexotels, the premium hotel-style modular rooms with full hotel-grade fittings; and 50 comfort tents for guests looking for a more atmospheric, festival-style experience.
The mix is built to accommodate everyone from corporate hospitality clients and golf trade buyers to international spectators looking for an affordable proximity option to the course. It is also a deliberate hedge against demand uncertainty: with the Netherlands hosting the event for the first time, organizers and accommodation providers alike are working with limited historical data on the precise visitor profile.
Distribution via Booking.com, service kept in-house
In a commercial model that will interest other event hospitality operators, Flexotels has chosen Booking.com as its public-facing distribution channel for the village, while keeping the entire reservation back-end and on-site guest services strictly in-house.
The approach combines the visibility and conversion power of a global OTA with the operational control of direct property management. Flexotels says it allows the company to guarantee a consistent, branded guest experience from the booking confirmation right through to check-out, while still tapping into Booking.com’s traffic of inbound international leisure and corporate visitors.
For travel trade partners, the practical takeaway is simple: rooms are bookable now via Booking.com, but group inquiries, corporate buy-outs and packageable inventory are best handled directly through Flexotels.
Why Cromvoirt, why now?
The 2026 Solheim Cup is the 20th edition of the biennial match-play competition between the leading women professional golfers of Europe and the United States.
It is the first ever to be staged on Dutch soil. Bernardus Golf, the Kyle Phillips-designed heathland course that opened in 2018 and has already hosted three editions of the KLM Open between 2021 and 2023, will welcome a global audience and broadcast footprint.
By way of reference, the 2024 edition at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia drew 115,000 spectators on site and was broadcast to 190 countries, making the Solheim Cup the largest women’s golf event in the world. The 2026 edition is also the first European Solheim Cup delivered by IMG, which has secured the rights through to 2038, putting commercial expectations firmly above any previous European staging.
Bernardus Golf sits 90 minutes south of Amsterdam Schiphol and roughly 30 kilometers from Eindhoven Airport.
Yet the surrounding villages of Cromvoirt and ‘s-Hertogenbosch offer only limited hotel inventory: the on-site eight-room Bernardus Lodge sold out long ago, and most four- and five-star properties within a 30-minute drive have been block-booked for tournament week. The Royal Dutch Golf Federation has been openly recommending that visitors look as far afield as Tilburg, Breda, Utrecht and Eindhoven for accommodation.
That capacity gap is precisely the brief Flexotels was built for. The company already operates across festivals, sports events, corporate gatherings, seasonal hospitality and crisis shelter, from its bases in Best (Netherlands) and Issum (Germany), and has supplied units for some of Europe’s largest music festivals.
What it means for the travel trade
For tour operators, sports hospitality packagers, MICE buyers and corporate travel managers still trying to secure rooms for clients heading to Bernardus in September, the Flexotels village is a meaningful new layer of inventory in the middle of an otherwise saturated market.
With 185 units coming online on a single secured site close to the course, the operation eases pressure on the wider Den Bosch, Tilburg, Breda and Eindhoven hotel markets, and gives groups a logical alternative for keeping delegations together. The on-site nature of the village also reduces transfer logistics, which has historically been one of the trickier components of any major golf event.
With ticket sales already underway and the global golf travel market focused firmly on the Netherlands for September 2026, expect this inventory to move quickly.
