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The Westin La Quinta Golf Resort and Spa
Marbella, Spain · Westin · Accessible Luxury
Twenty-seven holes in the Golf Valley behind Marbella, laid out in 1989 by Manuel Pinero, the Spaniard who won his Ryder Cup. They come as three nine-hole loops, San Pedro, Ronda and Guadaiza, which shuffle into three completely different eighteens, so a week here never repeats a round. The hotel itself holds 170 rooms between the Sierra Blanca ridge and the sea, with 1,500 square metres of Heavenly Spa for the evening after. Westin's flag came back to the resort on the first of March 2016.
- 170 rooms
- Neighborhood: La Quinta
About The Westin La Quinta Golf Resort and Spa
- The three nine-hole loops, San Pedro, Ronda and Guadaiza, recombine into three entirely different eighteen-hole rounds, which is why regulars book a week here rather than a weekend.
- Manuel Pinero, who drew the course in 1989, played in the Ryder Cup for Europe and is one of the most decorated Spanish golfers of his generation.
- The address is Benahavis rather than Marbella proper: ten minutes inland, in the pocket of hillside the coast calls the Valley of Golf.
- The Heavenly Spa runs to 1,500 square metres of thermal circuits and treatment cabins, with a WestinWORKOUT studio open around the clock.
History
The resort sits on the La Quinta estate on the Benahavis side of the Marbella boundary, above Nueva Andalucia. Golf came first: Manuel Pinero, the Extremaduran professional who played for Europe in the Ryder Cup, laid out La Quinta Golf and Country Club in 1989 as three nine-hole courses rather than a single eighteen, a format that lets the club sell three different rounds off the same ground. Later remodelling work is associated locally with Antonio Garcia Garrido, but the layout is read as a Pinero original.
The hotel beside it has carried the Westin name before. Starwood signed a management agreement with Inversiones Hoteleras La Quinta S.L.U., a subsidiary of the Chilean group Phoenix Enterprises, in August 2015, and the property reopened as The Westin La Quinta Golf Resort and Spa on 1 March 2016, the eighteenth Westin in Europe and the third in Spain. It now runs 170 rooms and suites, two restaurants, three bars, two pools, a kids' club and a 1,500 square metre Heavenly Spa.
The setting
La Quinta occupies the hillside above Nueva Andalucia that the Costa del Sol calls the Valley of Golf, a wedge of land between the Sierra Blanca mountains and the sea where courses run almost shoulder to shoulder. The resort is in the municipality of Benahavis, ten minutes from central Marbella and a similar run down to Puerto Banus, with Malaga airport roughly 66 kilometres away. Los Naranjos, Aloha and Las Brisas are all near neighbours, and the old hill village of Benahavis, known on this coast for its restaurants, is a short drive up the valley.
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