Very well designed course with a lot of memorable holes. The first three all play steeply downhill and if you are not in a buggy, you will be wondering what climbing back will be like. The club has three nines so a number of different combinations are possible. Highly recommended

Our 9th golfing trip to Almenara, so we feel able to write an objective review. The three courses are always challenging and the scenery is beautiful, but -
We encountered several problems this year which will make us carefully consider whether we will return: -
For the 1st time ever, no water is supplied with the buggies(20 cents down the road). As a result of this and no water for sale in the pro shop, you have to queue upstairs in the Clubhouse restaurant where service can be slow.
On our 1st (2pm tee off) day our buggy ran out of power on the 18th hole - no apology from the staff! On subsequent days, teeing off at 8am we played 18 holes and the buggies still had almost half power, so our buggy had obviously been used in the morning and not been re-charged.
Bunkers are very very poor, almost no sand, and what there is is like wet cement.
On our second day as we teed off on the 2nd hole we were called back to the Clubhouse and directed to another course as there was a shotgun start on our 1st course(which we were directed to by the pro shop and the caddy master!) - we have never, ever experienced anything like this - how far in advance did they know about this group booking, but chose to ignore it on the day??????
Playing 1st each morning we were amazed at how many pitch marks on greens had not been repaired by their makers or ground staff.
We have had some great times in the past here, but these problems need fixing!

the Almenara golf courses consists of three different nine holes which all can be played as a combination for a 18 hole round.All the courses were in excellent condition with very fast greens.
The hotel itself consist of numerous self contained rooms well equipped and comfortable.
There are deals to be had but you need to enquire early.

We should have been playing La Reserva (fantastic) but had to move courses due to a European Tour event. We thought that choosing a course on the same estate and so close by would guarantee a decent track. How wrong we were. Putting aside the very poor course design, The state of the course is a disgrace. One of our party is a Head Greenkeeper in UK, in his opinion it will take 12 months to get the fairways into a playable/acceptable condition and I would bet they don't do anything about it. Why? Because there are loads of poor golfers handing them money to play and turning a pleasant afternoon into a 6 hour slog for those of us who can occasionally hit a decent shot! 40 euros for a buggie!! 10 euros for cheese and ham sandwich and small coffee! They are having a laugh!!!!,