Vale do Lobo Royal - latest comments and reviews

Gavin Powell 2025-10-13
What a course and resort. Fantastic course, tight fairways and stunning scenery really enjoyed.

Ian Black 2025-10-13
anazing

Thomas Holley 2025-10-10
Design of the holes is very nice to play. However you feel more in down town, than on a golf course. At the moment al lot of contruction of even more villas. You even have to walk across public streets with your trolley :-) Maintenance of fairways, greens and bunkers was very good, but for us, the fairway was nearly on first cut hight... 2nd 9 is a bit more quiet..the signature hole 16 is cool, but no more. For us, Vale do Lobo has a big name, but is far behind ohter courses here in Algarve.

Robert Gordon 2025-10-09
Amazing course and staff

Steve Richmond 2025-10-04
As with the Ocean, one of our "go to" courses in the Algarve. Superb clubhouse and facilities, wonderful fair but challenging courses, in excellent condition, set in stunning locations. New members to our party playing these for the first time were equally impressed.

Andrew Bligh 2025-09-29
We had the first tee time at 7:10am but the coffee shop was not open at 7am as expected, slightly frustrating. The course is great and in good condition.

Euan Esslemont 2025-09-27
Course in great condition. Greens good. Service good.

Simon Reece 2025-09-18
Superb. Hard to choose the better between Ocean and Royal course, but perhaps just for the iconic 16th Royal gets my vote. Great day, course was in great condition, if only my game was as good as!

Christine King 2025-09-13
Lovely, well kept course

MR ANTHONY FERGUSON 2025-09-09
What a place! The Royal Golf Course is absolutely stunning – the condition is spot on from tee to green. Fairways like carpets, greens running true, and every hole just feels special. You can tell loads of care and pride goes into keeping it in such amazing shape. And then there’s the clubhouse… wow. Pure class! It’s stylish, welcoming, and the perfect spot to relax after a round. Great food, great service, and a really friendly vibe that makes you want to stay for hours. Honestly, it’s one of those courses that gives you the full package – top-class golf and a clubhouse to match. Can’t wait to come back!

John Mason 2025-09-05
Very enjoyable day. Course / facilities excellent

Richard Johnston 2025-08-20
The Royal Course was in great condition. Very pleased. Enjoyed it

Georges da Violante 2025-08-17
Great as usual

DAVID ROSE 2025-07-28
Great service, great price, fantastic round of golf!

Darren Howlett 2025-07-22
Quality track we love it

Robin Lewis & Connor Lewis 2025-07-07
We both enjoyed the course very much, it was set up just great, staff and facilities are first class, my favourite in Portugal, Only disappointment, was the slow play but in a way I understand as we were a two ball behind four balls, other disappointment, was to see a lady member playing in front, driving her buggy all over the course the very wet fairways, even right up close to the greens, actually driving two wheels on one of them, this gets us visitors a bad name, so its a shame,

Dave Parker 2025-06-29
1st time played but won't be the last. Difficult in places. Love the 16th!

Jeff McMaster 2025-06-26
Superb,very efficient service

Anastasia Paterson 2025-06-26
Easy to select and order golf clubs, helpful staff and the course was in wonderful conditions.

Gavin Tucker 2025-06-16
Challenging but great course

Barney Toms 2025-06-12
Good course, good pace of play and brilliant condition for June.

David Stubbings 2025-06-04
Great course

Martin McDonagh 2025-05-30
Course in great nick. Need to tell players to repair pitch marks on greens particularly 17 and 18. Spa needs a makeover it looked tired according to our wives

Richard Rosendahl 2025-05-29
a lot of noisy construction going on, we missed a Marshall, as one Player delayed all flights because he filmed his play...terrible. the course was in excellent condition...

Dan Carr 2025-05-28
good

Stephanie 2025-05-25
The course was in a prestine condition. Very friendly staff, all and all we had a great round.

John Laing 2025-05-21
The ability to where you could take buggy was limited. My Garmin informed me I walked further than I would have than walking my own golf course. It made for a slow round having to park buggy and take a selection of clubs frequently

Ian Holland 2025-05-20
All good - no issues at all

Cliff Morgan 2025-05-18
Great course and some excellent views. Greens ran true and a reasonable pace.

James Page 2025-05-16
Great course, a lot of construction both on and off course stopped me for giving 10 but still a fantastic course

Clive Mabbutt 2025-05-06
Great course

James Curran 2025-04-16
Excellent

Lauermann Andreas 2025-04-11
A very good course with the famous hole 16

Kevin Harrington 2025-04-08
Nice course

Mark Dowden 2025-04-06
Great course and lovely off course facilities.

David Stubbings 2025-04-04
Course in great condition

John Wellsbury 2025-04-03
Very nice course. Cost of buggie is ridiculous. 3 golfers and the cost is by cart (total 2) vs cost per rider.

David Massie 2025-04-02
Easy communication with the team. Arranged golf tee times and transfers for us. Everything went to plan, would highly recommend. Thank you

Ivo Heijster 2025-03-31
Fantastisch uitdagende golfbaan, die werkelijk in een perfecte staat wordt onderhouden, en prachtige uitzichten biedt : kortom we hebben genoten van de eerste tot de laatste hole ????

Trevor Cibich 2025-03-24
The most unique course I have ever played on. Spectacular views, magnificent holes, especially par threes over water and walking the streets to get to some tees. Most unique. Service excellent. Incredible array of golf attire, etc. We played early which helped as it is an extremely busy resort. Would certainly play it again. And finally the lounge/bar area was great.

Søren Rasmussen 2025-03-23
the best

Søren Rasmussen 2025-03-23
The Best

Ken MacDonald 2025-03-22
Great course, 18 good looking holes. Tees and greens in great condition. Sadly some golfers not replacing divots or repairing pitch marks.

Randy Schummer 2025-03-19
Great golf courses. Buggies are a nuisance.

Horst Hubig 2025-03-12
Toilettenanlagen auf dem Platz müssen unbedingt erneuert werden.

Gerald Nuessel 2025-03-07
Perfekter Zustand, großartiger und sehr unterschiedlicher Platz

Peter Jeffery 2025-02-26
Great course in really good condition with be back to play it Again

Joseph 2025-02-24
Course in great condition especially the green ms

David Williams 2025-02-17
Course is in very good condition and the staff helpful

Bryan Dick 2025-02-13
Greens were in excellent condition. 16th hole worth the flight over from Scotland.

Theo van der Werf 2025-02-13
Great course, friendly staff!

Neil Kimberley 2025-02-12
As always a good course in good condition. Quite tight, but a really interesting mix of holes and very good greens. Cliff top par 3 is a stunning classic, don't miss it!

Paul Anderson 2025-02-11
Course in very good condition - tees, fairways and greens. It was playing long as the fairways were very soft due to recent heavy rainfall and presumably routine watering. The staff were very friendly but one major complaint being Val do Lobo allow golfers to choose to play as a 2-ball; including the 2 players we were supposed to play as a 4-ball. Nonsense! This meant being held up on almost every hole on the front nine and then more so on the back nine as we ended up with 3 groups of 2-balls with none of them offering to team up. Urge VdL to review this policy to help ensure a steady pace of play.

Diana Shriver 2025-02-11
Very nice golf course

Jo Maddams 2025-02-08
Car parking was a bit limited. Also we couldn't take the buggies on a number of fairways

Franz Miltner 2025-02-08
Everything OK, no reason to claim

Dorothea Nadler-Rudzinski 2025-02-07
They are building houses along the course. It was noisy and dusty. They destroying nature. Such a shame. We don’t play there anymore

Henk van Tunen 2025-01-28
It is a difficult course, but the weather was good and we had a lovely day!

Clive Mabbutt 2025-01-24
Golf arranged by Teetimes is simple & their service is excellent

Clive Mabbutt 2025-01-24
Teetimes arranged all….great service & no problems! Except for my friends golf!! ????

Klaus Schmidt 2025-01-20
Boring course layout inbetween ugly villas.

Marsha Saptenno 2025-01-14
I played the Royal round, except for the hole 15 with the magnificent view, it wa s not something spectacular. Lot’s of construction work building houses and the toilets were used by the construction workers. (So too dirty to be used by ourselves)

Sam Bellamy 2024-12-28
A shame, such poor conditioned greens. Every one either diseased or riddled (the most ever seen) with pitch marks. We were doing 5 each and not making an impact. It’s pointless spending your money here would argue. Course wise design is fair, not overly long but you must be straight. OOB/Houses in play a lot off the tee, so it’s not for the faint hearted in terms of slice/hook potential!

James Tannett 2024-12-05
Play this course every time but today was the worse. The fairways although dry were very soft and they were hollow /aerating the fairways. Greens not the best either. Always enjoy the last few holes out by the beach but this now could be the last time. Ocean was far superior 3 days ago. For the price though, still worth the round.

Richard Scott 2024-11-20
We enjoyed the Royal but the greens looked like they might have suffered from disease or over use.

Stephan Greve 2024-11-17
Unfortunately game pace very slow, no marshall, no buggy bar

Marc Goumans 2024-11-15
also nice course, some not to nice people behind us. On 18 hole in twilight they alost hit us 2 times, trying to finish. Quite dangerous, I left de fairway. We did not use the restaurant after the bad expeience. Will never go there again.

Franz Schautzer 2024-11-09
All the best!! Much better conditions then in the past!!

Michael Reed 2024-11-07
Nice course greens not at there best

Tony Seaton 2024-11-05
Course condition on some holes not great. Paths need attention.Slow play in front of us, limited marshalling to move people on. 2 groups on one 330 yard hole waiting on 3 4 balls ''taking their time'' in front bit disappointing as not experienced that before on this course.

Tomasz Hamera 2024-11-02
Great course. Challenging holes. Fairways a little bit too damp due to recent rains. Greens ok. And of course famous hole nr 16 to take nice pictures.

Nigel Steers 2024-10-31
Challenging course for 28 handicappers.Very well maintained. Love the buggies with GPS. which helps visual the hole, aids distance from hole A lot of water relative to what we are used to.o Slow play in front of us.

Denis Cadieux 2024-10-28
The greens are not beutiful

Manser Alexandra 2024-10-27
Nice course and layout Greens need a little work

Hermine Datlinger 2024-10-26
An absolutely wonderful course with perfect fairways and greens!

Søren Rasmussen 2024-10-24
Always nice ????????

Lauermann Andreas 2024-10-21
Fantastic course, not only Hole 16

Philip Kucharski 2024-10-19
One of our favourites !

Matt Brown 2024-10-19
Very good. Great facilities and lovely condition. Would benefit from a bigger driving range

Andrew Thorpe 2024-10-17
We had a rain-affected round. Course was in great condition and held up to the weather well.

Westley Macey 2024-10-14
Excellent service beautiful golf holes we have all enjoyed playing here again great track and would pretty much play both courses every time we holiday here

Trevor Turnbull 2024-10-12
Course a little tired, needs work on greens

keith millichap 2024-10-11
THE COURSE WAS VERY BUSY WITH SOME EXTREMELY SLOW PLAYERS

Donald MacLiver 2024-10-08
Good course in nice condition. 16th hole special and a challenge for the average golfer.

Paul Bradley 2024-10-07
Very disappointed with the greens on both Royal and Ocean courses. Apart from that everything else was good.

Philip Halpenny 2024-10-01
Very enjoyable round at Vale do Lobo Royal today. Course in good condition but greens were rough and not up to usual standard.

Bernie Moloney 2024-10-01
Great condition and enjoyed

Johannes Weermeijer 2024-09-24
Great support and highly professional!

Mark Kemble 2024-09-24
great course all setup via tee times thankyou

Ian Bullock 2024-09-22
excellent course & clubhouse

Robert Ward 2024-09-18
Beyond excellent

Lucy MItchell 2024-09-16
Outstanding course, the best I’ve played on so far!! Loved it.

Scott Walton 2024-09-16
Really enjoyed The Royal course and Ines from Tee Times was very helpful when we had to rearrange our tee time.

Christine Patton 2024-09-15
Good condition.

Monika Franck 2024-09-11
It was a lot of for us to play tus course again after two years The course is in a good condition

Jimmy Connellan 2024-09-03
Very good

Paddy Whitfield 2024-09-02
Course in good condition. Greens recently hollow tined so hard to assess. Played as a two ball at a good pace and round in 3 hours 45 minutes

Paul Antony Chapman 2024-08-14
Very good golfing experience. Great condition. Iconic par 3. Good pace of play. Very welcoming.

Richard Johnston 2024-08-06
Great course, one of our favourites, and this year it is in exceptional condition

François De Witte 2024-07-26
Nice course, but we lost a lot of balls

Ian Hughes 2024-07-09
Excellent course

Andy Edwards 2024-07-09
Good course. Some iconic holes. In decent condition, but I have seen it better. Again there seemed to be too many people booked in. Round took 5 hours to complete.

Nick Dalgarno 2024-07-04
A quality course and clubhouse facility but not including buggy before 12 noon is silly given everywhere else does and distances between some holes (we were relieved we had paid for the buggies). Also greens absolutely covered in pitch marks. Not exclusive to this course but I don’t understand why they don’t give every player a pitch mark repairer - especially considering the number of players who hire clubs out here and won’t have their usual equipment. Also we played early and were told before teeing off that we could get food and drink from vending machines at 9th as cart would be unlikely to be on the course while we were playing. When we got there it contained 3 beers and a can of monster. Not exactly what we wanted

Martin Meyers 2024-06-21
Played here last year and again this year, the course, staff and everything about this golf club is absolutely brilliant. The course is absolutely beautiful, and in excellent condition. Nothing was too much trouble from the reception staff, the starter and the bar and restaurant staff. Brilliant, we will return many times Im sure in the future. We played both courses this year, Ocean and Royal and we all agreed that these are the nicest 2 courses that we have played in Portugal. The Ocean course is brilliant but Wow the Royal course is something else.

Jocelyn Brouwer 2024-06-14
To many slow players, no marshalls, buggies are too expensive for what they offer

Glyn Walker 2024-06-12
Very good apart from fact when we arrived they had us booked on the Ocean course which we had played 4 days ago. Had to argue to get on the Royal which we had booked! Bit frustrating!!!

Gareth Toms 2024-06-11
Superb golf course, some of the pin positions were brutal

Martin Purdy 2024-06-05
Really enjoyed the course and service levels

Toine Rooijmans 2024-06-02
Course was ok, but generally quite repeating. The signature 15 & 16th was very nice. Receptionist at the club house was generally impolite and borderline rude. Not friendly at all. Other staff were fine. Would not come back a 2nd time.

Jackie Robinson 2024-05-28
most enjoyable and not kept waiting or hurried from behind

Paul Turner 2024-05-28
Very good condition

James Betts 2024-05-22
The course was great, lovely course. I was paired up with 3 Scottish guys players. One had his father with him all in Buggies. Really nice group of people. On the back 9 a Marshall came up and asked why we were playing as a 5 ball! We weren't we had four players plus one spectator. The Marshall came back 5 mins later and said the group behind had seen us playing as a 5 ball, and that they were members. I didn't know the Scottish guys but I told the Marshall that this was a blatant lie by the group behind as we only ever had 4 players with one spectator. This incident was unpleasant and affected the last 7 holes of my round on a beautiful course. For the record we completed the round in 3 hours and 48 mins keeping up & waiting for the group in front. Anyone especially members should not lie and get Marshalls to confront players. To be fair the Marshall believed us the second visit but it wasn't good. Kind Regards James

Jonathan Cheele 2024-05-16
Course condition, particularly buggy paths wasn’t as good as you’d expect, but closing holes as always special.

Nick Fry 2024-05-14
Good condition & well marshalled

Danny Connellan 2024-05-13
very good

Per Lokken 2024-05-12
Transfer return to early , finished golf 13.15 and transfer was 13.30 The proshop changed it to 15.00

John Coates 2024-05-10
The course as always was in excellent condition, the greens were in pristine condition. The pace of play became very slow from the 9th to the 13th holes and you were constantly waiting. Finally the course Marshall’s got to grips with it and had a word with the culprits which was a ladies 4 ball. They came and told us that they had spoken with them and the pace did pick up. Overall it was a very enjoyable round.

Ronald Hawkins 2024-05-08
This was our second vist here and it lived up to the everything we expected.

James Page 2024-05-05
Stunning course in immaculate condition. Would have scored it 10 if it wasn’t for the amount of times you have to take the buggy on main roads. That said would definitely play it again.

Richard Ormonde 2024-04-26
Top class

Richard Smith 2024-04-25
We had a wonderful experience at Vale do Lobo. The course was in very good condition

Simon Potts 2024-04-23
Great condition. Lovely course.

Mark Greenwood 2024-04-22
GreaT fairways . Fast greens , well maintained , some signature holes especially 16th & 17th .

Mark Dowden 2024-04-22
Great course on n good condition.

William Vance 2024-04-16
Great golf course in impeccable condition and friendly staff

Sabine Fettu Deschaud 2024-04-05
Our friends loved it

Bernardette Heaney 2024-04-01
Absolutely fantastic

Søren Rasmussen 2024-03-31
The Best

Leopold Haider 2024-03-25
Sehr schöner Platz. -**- A very pleasant place.

Mr Herbert Keil 2024-03-23
Guter Golfplatz in gutem Zustand mit sehr gutem Service. -**- Good golf course in good condition with very good service.

Neil Mcilwraith 2024-03-23
Great condition. Course very busy and slow round. Would recommend though.

Lauermann Andreas 2024-03-22
Always worth to play, not only because of Hole 16. Perfect condition

James Curran 2024-03-20
Excellent golf course and experience

Horst Hubig 2024-03-13
Toiletten iauf den Plätzen in Vale do Lobo gehören renoviert. Ocean course im besseren Zustand,als im Jahr 2023. Greenkeeping in Ordnung. -**- Toilets on the courses in Vale do Lobo should be renovated. Ocean course in better condition than in 2023. Greenkeeping in good order.

Ronny Krogh 2024-03-13
Could you marshal duty on 16th as people skipped in line and snook in to make a que with later teetime

Andrew Finnie 2024-03-11
Fabulous course and facilities, we waited 5 holes and 1 hour 30 min for drinks,not so good.

Dennis Meredith 2024-03-10
Spectacular views and a wonder challenge to all levels of golfer

Stewart Binnie-mckenzie 2024-03-04
Was way too slow , I had to wait on every shot I hit . Tbh I think apart from parque de Flores ya it is the poorest course I have played

Kevin Maguire 2024-03-04
In all the time we have played the Royal this time it was in the best condition from the fairways to the greens. The only fault we could find was the bunkers were recently filled with new sand and the balls were plugging,

Pete Watson 2024-03-03
Well organised, arrangements at VdL were faultless. Course in great condition.

Heuertz Georges 2024-03-02
More open fairways, less tricky

Stuart Hurst 2024-03-01
Fun test of golf.

Gerhard Wittmann 2024-02-28
Der Platz ist in einem sehr guten Pflegezustand. Das Layout gefällt uns sehr gut und ist sehr interessant. -**- The course is in very good condition. We like the layout very much and it is very interesting.

Pauline Hill 2024-02-26
Lovely course in excellent condition with good variety of holes. Quite hilly so if you're not fit then consider taking a buggy or at least an electric trolley.

Gordon Livingston 2024-02-25
The golf course was in superb condition and for us, with early tee times, moved along nicely

Matthias Schücking 2024-02-25
Superb course. Very good conditions. Perfect organization with the travel agent “Teetimes.pt”

Matthias Schücking 2024-02-25
Superb course. Very good conditions. Perfect organization with the travel agent “Teetimes.pt”

Alexander Whyte 2024-02-22
One of the best in the Algarve, it's best to have a buggy as there are long distances between green and Tees ?????

Peter Mulcock 2024-02-20
Course was in fantastic condition, tees and greens best I have seen for a long time.

Matthias Schücking 2024-02-20
Very nice course in good condition. Fast greens. We booked our stay and play with „teetimes.pt“. The whole communication and organization was perfect. Big thanks to Telma

Jason hall 2024-02-19
I made the mistake of booking the wrong day. Raquel immediately sorted it. Great customer service.

Ken Thomson 2024-02-18
Good course well maintained

Theresa Tsiang 2024-02-16
The course is beautiful and in pristine condition. Staff was very helpful. Why I didn’t rate a 10 was because we were quite disappointed with the driving range not allowing any clubs over a 9 iron and the fact that we had to pay for the practice balls. Maybe it’s not common practice outside of North America.

Roderick Lagendijk 2024-02-12
Great course

Mentre 2024-02-02
Très beau terrain de golf, très bien entretenu Une mention particulière pour la « starter »efficace et très agreable. -**- Beautiful golf course, very well maintained A special mention for the efficient and very pleasant starter.

James Ellis 2024-01-31
Very good

Johannes Halper 2024-01-25
Wer sich gewissenhaft aufwärmen und einspielen will wird hier ein wenig enttäuscht, da die Driving Range nur bis zum Eisen 9 zugelassen ist. ABER der Rest fällt unter Top Golfplatz: Von den Fairways über die Grüns bis zum Clubhaus kann man beim besten Willen nicht viele Kritikpunkte finden. Sehr positiv! -**- Those who want to warm up and play in thoroughly will be a little disappointed here, as the driving range is only authorised up to 9 iron. BUT the rest falls under top golf course: from the fairways to the greens to the clubhouse, you can't find many points of criticism with the best will in the world. Very positive!.

Matthew Coates 2024-01-24
Great course and great service

Mentre 2024-01-20
Golf superbe ,un peu humide aujourd’hui mais parfait. -**- Superb golf course, a little damp today but perfect.

Mentre 2024-01-15
superbe parcours, gentillesse du personnel et entretien du parcour. -**- superb route, friendly staff and maintenance of the route.

Wouter van Kempen 2024-01-06
Difficult because of the many slopes and hills. If your ball comes aside, mostly you cannot find it!

Gordon Nicolson 2024-01-03
Course in great condition for time of year.

Jan Texler 2024-01-02
beautiful course, in good condition, minor problem with the parking space, I will definitely come back to play again

Gordon Nicolson 2023-12-12
Course very good for the time of year. Tee Times Booking first class as always however the round was incredibly slow and decided to turn in at the 10th.

Timo Salomaa 2023-12-06
Excellent service from teetimes

Bolinski 2023-11-29
Wir waren das letzte flight heute und hatten 3 3er flight vor und sodaß wir leider an jedem Loch warten mußten und nur bis Loch 16 gespielt haben. Leider hatten wir die Greenkeeper die ganze Zeit hinter und vor uns, was von der Geräuschkulisse echt unangenehm war, schlimmer als das warten um weiterspielen zu können. Die Jungs vom Cartservice sind super nett, der Platz ist super schön. Werden dort wieder spielen. -**- We were the last flight today and had 3 flights of 3 in front of us, so unfortunately we had to wait at every hole and only played up to hole 16. Unfortunately we had the greenkeepers behind and in front of us the whole time, which was really unpleasant from the background noise, worse than waiting to be able to continue playing. The guys from the cart service are super nice, the course is really beautiful. We will play there again.