Amendoeira Golf Resort

Das Apartment war sehr gross und gut ausgestattet. Die Entfernung zur Rezeption und Restaurant. Es gift aber Shuttle Service. Das Restaurant ist nights besonderes, aber auf der Terasse sitzt man sehr schön.

A limpeza deixa muito a desejar. O check in estava marcado para as 16h, no entanto só tinham o apartamento disponível às 19h. Situação que vi repetir-se com outros hóspedes. A limpeza da piscina é fraca, as cadeiras da piscina têm muito mau aspecto, precisam de reforma. O restaurante do hotel é péssimo, a comida é cara e a qualidade é fraca. A limpeza da casa de banho das piscinas é muito fraca.

I booked a 5 night, 5 rounds of golf for my partner and myself at Amendoiera Golf Resort and I have to say that it was a fantastic holiday from start to finish. It was not too busy in early April, however height of season may be different. We hired our clubs through Golf Clubs to Hire and picked them up at Faro airport on arrival. We were then collected by the Golf Holidays Direct rep and transported to Amendoiera in a private cab. The resort kept our cases in a secure room so that we could play golf that afternoon. Service at reception was first class as was our apartment which had everything we could need for our stay. There was a shuttle bus to transport us from the apartment to the Clubhouse which only required a phonecall, and the drivers were friendly and helpful. The food in the Clubhouse was very good and not overpriced, and the buffet breakfast each morning was excellent, with everything you could wish for. The two golf courses on site were great challenges, and they have replaced all their old buggies with new ones which had GPS to assist around the courses. On our leaving day we were picked up on time and transported back to the airport by private car, handed clubs back at airport and flight home to Edinburgh left on time. All in all we could not find one thing to complain about with our holiday through Golf Holidays Direct - Amendoirea is a perfect resort for a golf holiday.

We didn’t stay at the resort so this review is for the golf club only. I have visited Amendoeira several times and always have an enjoyable round of golf on the Faldo course. This was the first visit for my sons, and one that they were looking forward to. The golf was great but the service in the clubhouse this time left a lot to be desired. One member of staff in particular rudely insisted we hadn’t ordered food (we had), and then walked away saying “Well you haven’t paid”. The same member of staff also appeared at our table when we were half-way through our drinks and handed us a bill that we hadn’t requested. We had been planning on ordering another drink but it was clear this person was only focussed on getting our money, so we left feeling very unwelcome and unvalued as guests. Unfortunately this one person succeeded in ruining my sons’ overall impression of the golf resort and has made me seriously consider whether I will return.

Having not long returned from your resort after our 7th visit in 8 years I would like to give some feedback on our most recent experience. Overall, we have no complaints about any of the facilities, both the accommodation and the golf courses were exceptional however the service was the real letdown and left our group of 12 frustrated to say the least. It started with check in where we were delighted to learn that our 3 apartments were ready early and available to access, this had been the case on some previous trips and always makes a great start to the holiday, you can imagine our surprise to be told that in order to access our accommodation early we would need to pay 10 euros per apartment per hour resulting in an invoice of 120 euros. I expressed my surprise at this as we had never experienced such a charge either at Amendoria or any other accommodation for that matter. The manager seemed to agree that it was excessive and suggested it was a change in management that had introduced the charge, after some conversations back and forth we reluctantly agreed to pay 60 euros to access our already paid for accommodation. We then enquired about booking our tee time for our departure day, I did query this via e-mail before our trip but still waiting on an answer to that! You can imagine our frustration to learn that the only available tee time was just 3 hours before our airport transfer pick up time, over the course of our stay we eventually managed to get earlier tee times spread over the 2 courses, not ideal and was a real slog to get it done, to make matters worse we then experienced a 5 and half hour round on the Faldo course, a first for all of us and not something we would like to repeat. Other points to note, it’s now 6.50 euro for bucket of range balls, these used to be included in the package price, we also noted that it now appears they only have one driver and shuttle bus to accommodate the apartments, this resulted in long waits around reception or having to walk back to the accommodation. On the final night of our stay we decided to book the 30 euro per heard BBQ option for dinner, it seemed that this was the only food option that night, quite simply it was a real disappointment patricianly at that price point, some of the meat options were tough to say the least, we did highlight this to manager and the solution was to and get more… We love Amendoria and may be back one day but as a group we have decided to book elsewhere for next year’s trip, really hope they get the service levels to match the facilities.