The Penina Hotel & Golf Resort
Penina Golf Resort is a 360 Select Hotel
Penina golf resort was one of the first resort hotels available for golf holidays in Portugal. The Championship course is celebrating its 51st birthday this year. It was the first 18 hole course to be built there for golf in the Algarve. There's a sense of calm ambience with a "club" atmosphere as most guests are repeat visitors.
Our clients always appreciate the service and attention they receive during their visit. The resort is large and self-contained, with 3 courses on-site including the Penina Championship Course, which Sir Henry Cotton designed. The staff here are almost part of the furniture welcoming returning clients year-after-year, with this attention to detail, you can easily see why it's most famous hotels. Highly recommended.
Why Stay at Penina for Your Next Golf Trip:
"Penina is the original home of golf in the Algarve. One of our customers favourites year after year and provides a fantastic choice of golf and entertainment for groups of all sizes."
- Group discount for groups between 8 - 20 Golfers.
- 36 Holes of golf on-site
- Group organizer discounts
- Unlimited golf deals (date specific)
Food & Drink at Penina Resort
There are five good restaurants on the resort, and the wide choice for breakfast really does set you up for the day! For even more choice, you can catch a taxi (around 8 Euros) to the local town of Alvor, where you will find a wide choice of bars and seafood restaurants. Enquire today about great discounts on a Penina golf break applicable for all dates (excludes July & August 2019)
Entertainment
Aside from the Academy golf course, there is a health spa to unwind after 18 holes, however, for the energetic, try the superb floodlit tennis courts or running track to burn off even more calories.
Hotel Information:
- 188 air-conditioned rooms
- WiFi
- Safety deposit box
- Floodlit tennis courts
- The largest private swimming pool in the Algarve
- 18 holes Sir Henry Cotton Championship golf course
- 9 hole academy golf course
- 9 hole resort golf course
- Kids club
- Health spa
- Jogging track.
- 5 restaurants on-site to try, including our favourite the Sir Henry Cotton Club
Room Accommodation
In respect of accommodation, the hotels Classic rooms offer views of the resort and the Monchique mountains. Our choice and recommended rooms are the Executive Studio rooms which offer panoramic views of the pool and golf course. All rooms come equipped with,
- Air conditioning
- Hairdryer
- Bathrobe
- Tea/coffee maker
- Safety deposit box
- Pay-per-view channels
- A flat-screen TV with satellite channels
- Wake-up service
- Tiled terracotta floors
- Direct-dial telephone
The Algarve is a two- to three-hour flight from most European capitals and has drawn many savvy golfers for more than five decades.
Although the first course in the Algarve was a short, primitive plan designed between Portimão and Praia da Rocha in the 1920s. Because of a lack of fresh water, the greens were more often referred to as "browns" and were made of a combination of sand and oil. No wonder, a few hardy addicts played this course for only a short time before leaving to make room for property development.
Sir Henry Cotton was the man who put the Algarve on the golfing map. He built the first proper golf grass court in the mid-1960s.
Penina Championship Golf Course was the first of three designs he produced in the Algarve. A location he fell in love with and called home for more than 30 years.
Penina is still one of my favorite golf courses; every time I play, I see "Pacifico" the donkey strolling the fairways. Sir Henry trained a donkey as a caddie to bear his golf bag and his formidable tire, which became a training practice aid for many PGA coaching professionals in the years that followed.
Why not honour your next golf trip with a round on a course designed by the great man.
Stay at the fabulous Penina Resort and play golf on the Penina Championship Course.
