For golf enthusiasts, the holiday period is a perfect time to play the sport, take care of your health and achieve an absolute state of relaxation. With that in mind, Hotel Almenara Golf Resort – with its golf club and 27 holes designed by Dave Thomas, surrounded by lush pine trees and cork oaks and two lakes, ideal for professionals and amateurs alike, and its prestigious and modern Elysium Spa & Wellness Centre – is an excellent option to enjoy all those three holiday objectives.
The resort is set in the heart of the golf course, in an elevated area overlooking the marina and Mediterranean and conveniently located for those planning to travel to Gibraltar, Ceuta, Tangier, Marbella and even Jerez. Its amenities include quality accommodation, a select range of cuisine, a perfect environment for families, close proximity to the area’s finest golf courses and renowned health and beauty facilities.
Other summer attractions include the resort’s El Cucurucho beach club and restaurant, recognised as one of the most favoured meeting points for local families, with a varied menu including delicious dishes and a la carte options, as well as exquisite tapas and a popular gourmet buffet.
While the El Cucurucho club restaurant is in high demand for lunch – in a more or less formal manner – during summer it is just one of the resort’s prime gastronomic options. This is reflected in NH Hoteles’ special interest in providing a lavish experience for diners, with the hotel chain – in collaboration with its chefs – creating a varied selection of tastes from throughout Spain, based on nutritional values and quality products. To that end, the Almenara culinary experience, overseen by executive chef Christian Baldowski (from Mallorca), attains exceptionally high levels of quality and attention to detail, for breakfast, lunch, dinner and special menus for all kinds of events and celebrations.
Almenara Golf Resort is one of 21 hotels operated by NH Hoteles within its NH resorts division, comprising the most select establishments, in unique areas, offering the best services and aimed at providing superb leisure and relaxation options in the finest locations in Spain, Italy and the Caribbean.
A demonstration of this commitment to excellence is the fact that the hotel has received numerous awards since opening, and continues to do so, the most recent being “best golf destination in the world”, awarded in July as part of the Middle East Tourism Fair in Dubai; and other honours this year including “best resort” in the national category of the Condé Nast Traveler Awards and the Green Star Diamond Award presented by the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences, an institution that honours excellence in the tourism and luxury services sectors.
It is not only the hotel that has received such impressive global recognition: both the chain and the managing director of NH Resorts, Jordi Caralt, have received numerous awards highlighting their managerial quality and excellence. In 2011, Jordi Caralt was named “hotel revelation” by the German magazine SENSES, as part of the WTM international tourism fair held in London.