The prestigious Crowne Plaza Vilamoura has a prime location; a variety of great golf courses nearby, right on the beachfront, next to the Casino and just a few meters from the renowned Vilamoura Marina.
The top-notch hotel will please all golfers travelling to Algarve with its top class quality, comfortable rooms and public areas combined with a touch of the nature, privileged location and private transfer service to The Old Course, Millennium, Laguna, Pinhal and Victoria golf courses.
All of the hotel rooms spacious and designed for maximum comfort. The rooms with a breathtaking Atlantic Ocean view are a great idea to treat you. They are all equipped with balcony, air conditioning, LCD TV, telephone, internet connection, safety deposit box, iron and ironing board, minibar, Nespresso coffee machine and hairdryer.
The hotel surrounded by two stunning viewed 18-hole golf courses and the complex is ideal for golfing enthusiasts. The Golf Academy and Club House feature golfing equipment rental and also provide individual or group golf lessons.
Cataplana Restaurant is where breakfast, lunch and dinner served in a buffet style; however, ask the waiter for a menu if you fancy a more personal approach to dining The Caravela Bar & Lounge is a great place to get your favourite drinks whilst watching a wide variety of sporting events on TVs, listen to the music being played live from the piano, sit on the patio and catch some rays whilst sipping on a cool sangria or perhaps around the hot fireplace with some freshly prepared cocoa.
The “Almond SPA” is a great venue that has an excellent atmosphere and a great range of therapies and treatments for you to have unforgettable wellbeing experiences. You can also find the indoor swimming pool, sauna and relax area for those moments to enjoy the peace after a mesmerising massage.
Live music played on a wide variety of days. The Crowne Plaza Vilamoura is also next to the Casino and the Marina.
This conventional PAR 72 course opened in the year 2000, although the original back nine was formerly part of the 27-hole Laguna Course.
Refurbishment to the existing nine holes commenced in May 1999 and included the complete rebuilding of the tees, greens and bunkers, particularly for holes 8 and 9, the only ones on this loop with water hazards, with the aim to simplify the strategy of the course to make it more golfer-friendly.
The renovated 9 holes were joined together with the new 9-hole loop to offer a layout of different character, style and playing quality. The work was undertaken by the well-established UK golf Architects Hawtree & Sons which culminated in the creation of the new, exciting 18-hole Dom Pedro Millennium golf course.
The course is particularly open, although some holes (the 3rd to the 7th) wind between pine trees and are similar to the neighbouring fairways of the Dom Pedro Old Course and Dom Pedro Pinhal. In this more wooded area, the fairways are narrower and require greater accuracy - while the rest of the course has a clear landscape enriched by lakes at the 4th, 17th and 18th holes. The arrival of the Dom Pedro Millennium course made Vilamoura one of the main - if not the main - European golf destinations.
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Laid out over low lying coastal terrain, this course, with its many water hazards and few trees, is considerably different from the other ones in Vilamoura and many of its holes convey a links atmosphere.
U.S. golf architect Joseph Lee designed this course which opened in 1990 and many previous visitors will recognise it as part of the former 27 hole Vilamoura III course. It has been subject to continual improvements over the years.
Measuring 6121m from the white tees, the par 72 course includes several lakes which influence play on a total of 11 holes. In addition to acting as hazards and emergency water reservoirs, these lakes serve a useful purpose in attracting a variety of aquatic birds, both resident and migratory, as well as amphibians, otters and terrapins.
Vilamoura's master developers, Lusotur, have also established an environmental nature park not far from the course.
Apart from the lakes and an impressive total of 79 bunkers, another hazard is the wind that frequently blows over this somewhat exposed location.
The Dom Pedro Laguna course shares a large, welcoming clubhouse with the neighbouring Dom Pedro Millennium course.
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This was the second golf course built in Vilamoura and inaugurated in 1976, having originally been designed by Frank Pennink, the architect of the nearby Dom Pedro Old Course.
Several refinements were incorporated over the years, the most significant one by Robert Trent Jones Sr. in 1985. The course is typified by rolling parkland terrain covered with numerous umbrella and Atlantic pines that line many of the fairways and a few even stand out on fairways or near greens.
Ponds and a stream come into play on five holes but are not serious threats to above-average golfers. To keep up with modern technical advances in clubs and balls, several holes have recently been lengthened and the PAR 72 course now measures 6353m off the white tee markers.
The clubhouse was completely renovated and modernised at the turn of the millennium and from the large veranda one can enjoy a panoramic view over the excellent driving range and practice facilities.
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