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Tee Times Portugal Holidays: Family-friendly Vilamoura

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Vilamoura Marina

Tee Times Portugal Holidays – Marina – Vilamoura, Algarve – Portugal

Tee Times Portugal Holidays: Family-friendly Vilamoura – Activities, Sightseeing and Sports – Vilamoura, Algarve – Portugal

Vilamoura offers for many, at only 30 minutes from Faro airport, everything that is required for a fulfilling family holiday in Portugal.

There are 2 beaches, Praia de Vilamoura is east of the Marina and Praia da Rocha Baixinha is to the west of the Marina. Both beaches offer facilities for a relaxing time.

Tee Times Portugal Holidays - Vilamoura Beach - Vilamoura, Algarve - Portugal

Tee Times Portugal Holidays – Vilamoura Beach – Vilamoura, Algarve – Portugal

The Fun-Train, regularly following a set route of Vilamoura, is a great way for the whole family to get around and see the area. Amongst other sites, the train stops at the Family Golf Park – Super Mini-Golf. This exciting facility offers 2 fun-packed 18-hole mini golf courses, a café with a children’s menu and a children’s games room. Plus, lockers for private belongings.

If there is the desire to go further afield, the following might be of interest: Aquashow & Park Hotel, Quarteira (near Vilamoura); Slide and Splash – water slide park, Lagoa; Zoo Marine, Albufeira; ‘FollowMe! Tours’ – offering many coach trips, all over the Algarve and beyond. Boat-trips with ‘Algarve Seafaris’ – Grotto tours, Glass-bottom boats, Fishing and Cruises.

Tickets for all the above listed visitor attractions, and many more things to do, can be bought from either of the Tee Times T. O. offices in Vilamoura. For contact details & a map to both of the offices, please see https://www.teetimes.pt.

The choice of golf courses in the area is excellent. These include Oceanico group, Vila Sol, Quinta do Lago and Vale do Lobo.
Other facilities in Vilamoura include: A bike-hire scheme, which is operated by ‘Inframoura’. A lot of hotels offer access to this service, or similar.

The Vilamoura Tennis Club and Academy, offers multiple sports’ facilities for both adults and children, and a restaurant.

Cerro da Vila archaeological site (Roman ruins), near the north-end of the Marina. This open-air site displays remains of several types of Roman buildings. Along with artefacts from over 8 centuries, on display in the visitor centre.

For those wishing to stay in or around Vilamoura, Tee Times T. O. recommends Dom Pedro Marina Hotel, Crowne Plaza and Tivoli Marina Hotel and many more.

By Richard FM Conlon

Tee Times Portugal Holidays: Fun Zone for the World Cup

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Fun Zone for the World Cup 2014, Faro, Algarve - Portugal

Fun Zone for the World Cup 2014, Faro, Algarve – Portugal

Tee Times Portugal Holidays: Fun Zone for the World Cup, The Dockside (Jardim Manuel Bívar), Faro, from 6th June to 20th July 2014.

Throughout the 2014 FIFA World Cup the city of Faro will be offering for all lovers of football big screens to watch all the matches, two stages with various entertainment, a children’s entertainment area, along with food and refreshment stands on the dockside and adjoining gardens’. This will be a great facility for families, groups and individuals to enjoy the 2014 World Cup.

Faro city, quite often overlooked as a place just to fly into and out of when visiting the Algarve, is certainly worth a visit. Whether you fancy some retail therapy, to visit a museum or relaxing on a beach, Faro offers all this and much more. The city is alongside the Ria Formosa lagoon, a nature reserve of over 66 sq. miles.

Faro airport, which serves the Algarve year-round, is less than 3 miles from the city. Football fans might recall that Faro was a host city for the UEFA Euro 2004, held in Portugal. Matches were played in the 30,000-seater Algarve Stadium (Estádio Algarve), just outside Faro.

For golfers, with Quinta da Lago, Vale do Lobo and the Oceanico Vilamoura golf courses just a short drive away, golfing paradise is within easy reach.

Tee Times T. O. is here for all those considering their options of holiday accommodation and golf in Portugal. As the no. 1 Golf Tour Operator in Portugal, Tee Times Golf Tour Operator is a member of both the International Association of Golf Tour Operators and the Association of Portuguese Travel Agencies.

Offering clients the peace of mind of knowing that they are dealing with a well-established company, with the aim of making all holidays an enjoyable and memorable experience.

By Richard FM Conlon

Tee Times Spain Golf: Strokes of Gold of McIlroy (Videos)

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Tee Times Spain Golf: Rory McIlroy Winner

Tee Times Spain Golf: Rory McIlroy Winner of BMW PGA Championship (Wentworth Club, May 25, 2014)

Tee Times Spain Golf: Strokes of Gold of McIlroy (Videos) – This is how he won the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club.

Rory McIlroy was victorious  at Wentworth by only a stroke. These were the last two with Pablo Larrazabal as a witnesse of the exception, taken from a bunker on the 18th and the birdie putt that gave him his sixth win in the Tour, twelfth in his career. Two strokes are worth a treasure.

Bunker shot on 18th hole:

Winning Putt:

Rory McIlroy’s victory in numbers: Accumulated more than 18 million euros in the Tour.

The European Tour each week gives us the numbers for the champion for his victory. This time is Rory McIlroy, former world number one, who has won the BMW PGA Championship, the most important circuit, that has taken place at the Wentworth Club event. These are some of those numbers:

  • It’s his sixth Tour win, in 134 events played, and the twelfth International win;
  • Total of 1,295,825 euros in the Race to Dubai;
  • Collected 1,712,191 points in the Ryder classification;
  • His first victory since he managed the HSBC Golf Championship Abu Dhabi in late 2012;
  • He becomes the first player from Northern Ireland to win the BMW PGA Championship. In 1958 was won by the last Irish, Harry Bradshaw;
  • The seven handicap strokes with which it began the competition are equivalent to the greatest comeback in the history of the League established in 2010 by Simon Khan;
  • His first victory on the European Tour in England and the first on European soil;
  • It’s win #50 of Northern Ireland in the history of the European Tour;
  • With the 791,660 euros obtained it exceeds 18 million in profits in the Tour (total of: 18,083,948 euros).

Source: Opengolf.es

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