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Pine Cliffs Suites
Albufeira, Portugal · Independent · Accessible Luxury
Pine Cliffs opened its Suites in 2000 on the quietest side of the estate, where two and three-bedroom apartments and penthouses look straight out across the nine holes Martin Hawtree laid through the clifftop pines. Full kitchens and laundry rooms in every unit make them a favourite for long family stays and for golfers who want the first tee at the end of the path. The sixth is the hole they come for: the Devil's Parlour, a par three asking a 197-metre carry over a ravine, the Atlantic some 60 metres below the tee.
- Opened 2000
- Neighborhood: Pinhal do Concelho
About Pine Cliffs Suites
- Nigel Mansell won the Formula One world championship in 1992, the year Pine Cliffs opened, and served as president of the resort's golf club during its early years as one of its first members.
- The course is only 2,450 yards from the back tees and just two of its par fours pass 350 yards, which makes it one of the shortest and most unusual championship nine-hole layouts in Portugal.
- A panoramic lift runs down the cliff face to the beach. Guests who would rather walk take a boardwalk of about sixty steps instead.
- In 2014 the resort offered 26 of these apartments for sale under Portugal's Golden Visa and non-habitual resident regimes, with a guaranteed minimum return for five years and up to 183 days of owner use a year.
History
The Suites are the golf side of Pine Cliffs. United Investments Portugal inaugurated them in 2000, eight years after the resort's first buildings went up, on one of the quietest pockets of the estate with the fairways of the nine-hole course directly below the balconies. The layouts run from two-bedroom apartments to three-bedroom penthouses, with ground-floor units opening onto garden, and every one has a full kitchen and laundry, which is what separates them from a hotel room and keeps families in them for a fortnight at a time.
In June 2014 the resort released 26 of the two and three-bedroom Suites for sale as an investment product, structured for Portugal's Golden Visa and non-habitual resident regimes with a guaranteed minimum return over the first five years and up to 183 days of owner use a year. The same announcement covered the redecoration of nine of the neighbouring Pine Cliffs Terraces townhouses. The Suites are run by the resort rather than by Marriott: within Pine Cliffs, only the Hotel, the Ocean Suites and the Residence carry The Luxury Collection name.
Guests here use the whole estate. The Serenity Spa, the Porto Pirata children's village, the Annabel Croft tennis and padel academies, fifteen restaurants and bars, and the lift down the cliff to Praia da Falésia are all part of the deal.
The setting
The golf course is the neighbourhood. Martin Hawtree routed nine holes through 68 hectares of pine on a plateau roughly 60 metres above the Atlantic, short at 2,450 yards from the back tees and tight enough that the trees matter on nearly every shot. Beyond it the estate runs to more than 70 hectares at Pinhal do Concelho, above the western end of Praia da Falésia, reached by the Estrada das Açoteias rather than the coast road. A panoramic lift and a wooden walkway take you down to six kilometres of sand between cliffs that run red, ochre and white. Walk east along the water and you arrive at Olhos de Água, the old fishing village where freshwater springs push up through the rocks at low tide; five kilometres west along the beach is Vilamoura marina. Faro airport is about thirty minutes by road.
Restaurants and bars
- Piri Piri Steakhouse — Restaurant
- Yakuza by Olivier, Algarve — Restaurant
Experiences
- Golf — Golf offered at the resort.
- Beach & Water Sports — Beach and water sports at the resort.
- Adventure Park — Adventure Park at the resort.
Amenities
- Golf
- Professional Football Center
- Estima Sports Football Academy
- Annabel Croft Tennis Academy
- Annabel Croft Padel Academy
- Beach & Water Sports
- Adventure Park
- Porto Pirata
- Escape Room
- Corporate meetings and incentives
- Weddings
- Coffee-breaks, lunch and dinner catering
- Cocktail receptions
- Brunches
- Team building
- Thematic nights
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