Island Golf Villas, Amarilla Golf And Country Club

We stayed in this villa for a week in July. It was easy to get to, only ten minutes in a taxi from the airport. On arrival the management company were waiting for us with the keys and to show us around. The whole villa was immaculately clean and bright and was very well equipped. All the bedrooms have plenty of storage and comfy beds. There is a lovely modern kitchen with everything you could need. The bathrooms are gorgeous, especially the master en-suite, which is amazing! The living room was lovely and comfy and the kids were delighted with the X-Box360 which they managed to access their X-Box live account from which kept them occupied for hours! The villa has fantastic views over the golf course to the sea from most rooms, the pool area, master bedroom balcony and roof terrace. On the other side there is a great view over the mountains which had fab sunsets. Outside there was plenty of space, lovely big dining table, comfy outdoor sofas, parasols and enough loungers for the 8 of us. The pool was lovely and clean and warm. There were loads of woggles, bodyboards, bats and balls to play with and also a couple of bikes (and helmets) which the children rode up and down the street as it is very quiet and the villa is right at the end of a cul-de-sac. In the local area there were several supermarkets, shops, bars and restaurants scattered around within a 5 minute walk, the closest being an excellent bar/restaurant called the 19th Hole only 200m away. There are also loads of takeaway/delivery restaurants in the area (menus in the villa) The San Miguel Marina and sea front with good choice of restaurants overlooking the sea is around 7 or 8 minutes’ walk and we did this regularly. There are probably 15 restaurants on the seafront and more behind with all different types of food. A 25 minute walk along the sea front is the commercial centre called San Blas with a bigger selection of shops and restaurants with evening entertainment in the square (it’s about EU5 by taxi) There was also a taxi rank a few minutes’ walk from the villa by the Aguamarina Golf Hotel so we found it really easy to get around without a car. We had no trouble finding the large people carrier taxis for 8 people. One day we went to Los Cristianos (15 minutes and EU22), which is a much larger resort and has a lovely sandy beach, the local beach in Amarilla Golf is a rocky one. Most of the time we were quite happy with our pool at the villa but one afternoon we walked to a local bar/restaurant that has a larger swimming pool, called Swing Pool Chiringuito, it was EU3 for each to use the pool all day. The highlight of our holiday was the whale and dolphin watching trip we went on, where we saw several whales and loads of dolphins, which came right up close to the boat. We booked it at the San Miguel Marina. We had private transport to and from the boat, which only took 12 guests, and there was lovely food and drink provided on board. There are all sorts of activities/trips you can do, but there’s only so much we could do in a week. We had a fantastic holiday and would love to go back.