Other Pestana Vila Sol Golf Packages (1)
from€3164 Nights BB & 2 Golf Rounds
from€3164 Nights BB & 2 Golf Rounds
Bed and Breakfast
Prices per person, based 2 people sharing a Double Room
Choose 2 Rounds From:
Alto Golf Course
Vale da Pinta Golf Course
Gramacho Golf Course
Silves Golf Course
Vila Sol Golf Course
7 Nights BB & 4 Golf Rounds
Book Pestana Vila Sol Vilamoura and choose to play golf from five different courses of your choice: Gramacho, Pinta, Silves, Alto & Vila Sol for a great value package. Vilamoura, Algarve.
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Alto Golf Course Portimão, Algarve
Alto was the last course Sir Henry Cotton ever designed, and it shows a different side of him than the wide, forgiving layouts he's known for elsewhere. Opened in 1991 across two valleys near Alvor, this is a tight, technical test built for golfers who can shape the ball both ways, not muscle their way around.
Small, elevated greens and well-placed bunkers punish anything loose, and the fairways rarely give a second chance on a mis-hit. The front nine opens with sea views toward the bay of Lagos before the course tucks into rolling terrain on the back nine, building toward its most famous moment: the par-5 16th, known as Sir Henry's Challenge, reputed to be one of the longest par 5s in Europe at well over 500 metres. It's a genuine three-shot hole for most golfers, and a fitting climax to a round built on precision rather than power. This isn't a course that overwhelms with scale, it wins you over with craft, and regulars keep coming back specifically because it demands more thought than most Algarve rounds.
Facilities include a driving range, a resident academy, and a clubhouse restaurant with views back over both valleys. Alto sits close to Alvor and Portimão, making it an easy, low-key addition to a wider Algarve trip for golfers who want a proper technical test without the crowds of the bigger resort courses. (...)
Vale da Pinta Golf Course Lagoa, Algarve
Vale da Pinta is home to one of the most remarkable living things on any golf course in the Algarve: a single olive tree, still standing among the fairways, believed to be more than 1,200 years old. Ronald Fream built the course around it in 1992, and the layout has since hosted the European Seniors Tour Qualifying final for the best part of a decade running.
This is a course that rewards local knowledge more than most. The par-5 4th sets an early test, a long, uphill tee shot toward a marker post with out-of-bounds down the left and rough closing in from the right, before the hole opens out downhill through ancient olive and carob trees. The par-3 5th follows immediately, played from an elevated tee to a shallow green ringed by water and bunkers, often into the wind. The long, exposed par-5 13th is the hole most golfers remember, especially on a breezy day. First-timers should expect a few blind shots and hidden turns; regulars know exactly where to aim, and that's part of the appeal, this is a course you get better at every time you play it.
Facilities include a full driving range, a resident academy, and a clubhouse restaurant. Vale da Pinta pairs naturally with its sister course, Gramacho, nearby, for golfers spending a few days around Carvoeiro. For anyone who likes a course with genuine history growing right out of the fairway, this is one of the Algarve's quiet standouts. (...)
Gramacho Golf Course Lagoa, Algarve
Gramacho Golf Course has a trick up its sleeve that no other course in the Algarve can quite match: eighteen fairways, but twenty-seven greens. Play it once and you've seen one version of the course. Play it again and the whole character can shift, hole by hole. Designed in 1991 by Ronald Fream working alongside former World No. 1 Nick Price, it has gone on to host European Seniors Tour qualifying and the Ladies Portuguese Open more than once, proper championship pedigree hiding inside a course that's genuinely playable across a wide range of handicaps.
Boulder outcrops, dry-stone walls, and centuries-old carob trees give the round a rooted, unhurried feel, while lakes and bunkers are placed to reward good decisions rather than punish for the sake of it. The greens are the course's calling card: fast, well-contoured, and consistently the part guests remember most. The round builds to a genuinely memorable finish, a par-5 18th played back toward the clubhouse terrace, water guarding the approach, with the whole gallery of the terrace watching your last swing of the day.
Facilities include a full driving range, a resident academy, and a clubhouse restaurant right on the 18th green. Gramacho sits alongside its sister course, Vale da Pinta, making the two an easy pairing for anyone spending a few days in the Carvoeiro area. For golfers who like to return to the same course and never quite play the same round twice, this is exactly that kind of course. (...)
Silves Golf Course Silves, Algarve
Silves doesn't try to dazzle you with scale, it wins you over hole by hole. Opened in 2006 at the foot of the Monchique mountains, the course winds through orange and olive groves and working cork and citrus farms, with palm trees framing views that feel more like the working Algarve than the resort version.
The layout rewards attacking, well-placed golf over raw power. Recent changes have reshuffled the round, and what was once the opening hole now closes it: a genuine test where the tee shot has to thread between water on both sides, played out in full view of the new clubhouse terrace. In between, doglegs on the front nine ask for precise placement, while the back nine tightens up with more elevation change. It's a course low handicappers will find a real challenge to break par on, and one higher handicappers can enjoy without ever feeling overwhelmed, a rare balance, and probably why so many golfers here describe it as a course they keep coming back to.
The clubhouse restaurant, newly renovated, makes for a natural place to watch the last groups finish on the 18th. One honest note: there's no driving range on site, just a small practice green, so anyone wanting a proper warm-up should plan ahead. For golfers looking for an unpretentious, well-loved round away from the bigger-name courses, Silves is exactly that. (...)
Vila Sol Golf Course Vilamoura, Algarve
Vila Sol has genuine championship pedigree. Donald Steel designed the original two loops in 1991, and within two years the course had hosted the Portuguese Open twice, first won by Ronan Rafferty, then David Gilford. A third loop, the Prestige, was added in 2000, and since 2004 the course has hosted the annual Sir Bobby Robson Celebrity Golf Classic, drawing footballing names back to Vilamoura year after year.
The course winds through a genuine pine forest rather than a landscaped approximation of one, and Steel built it without reshaping the land more than it needed. That restraint shows: narrow, tree-lined fairways demand accuracy over power from the very first hole, and the opening stretch is widely considered the toughest test on the course. The par-3 7th on the Prime loop is the hole most golfers remember, a downhill tee shot played back over water to a green that punishes anything over-clubbed. With three distinct nines to mix and match, no two visits play quite the same, and the variety keeps regulars coming back to find a new favourite combination.
Facilities include a full driving range, a resident academy, and a clubhouse restaurant with views over the 18th. Vila Sol sits at the heart of Vilamoura, making it an easy addition to a wider trip. For golfers who want proven championship pedigree without leaving the resort, this is one of the region's genuine originals. (...)
