Monte Rei North Golf Course - latest comments and reviews

Aubrey Murnaghan 2025-08-30
Excellent staff, experience, condition of course and welcome excellent as always .

André Dill 2025-08-20
Excellent service. We enjoyed playing Monte Rei immensely.

Kev Brownlow 2025-08-17
Excellent facilities, excellent service,100% recommended

Fraser henderson 2025-07-28
Fantastic experience. The golf course is phenomenal and the staff were absolutely fantastic.

Gavin Tucker 2025-06-20
Excellent course, great condition. The facilities are excellent and the staff even better.

Jackie Scollen 2025-06-13
I have been lucky enough to have played this course a few times over the years and love it. I was however disappointed with other things at the club. The buggy seat was ripped, catching our legs as we got in and out of it. No momento was offered to my guests and the ladies changing rooms are now quite shabby.

Larry Simpson 2025-05-05
We are a group of 12 players who travel to a new venue every year and we have sampled many ocurses over the past 27 years. Monte Rei was considered by the Group as rating in the top 10. Long, difficult with hard to read greens. Good service, good buggies. But the pro shop was pretty much non existent.

David Walsh 2025-05-03
We loved Monte Rei North. Wonderful club house and setting, friendly staff, great practice facilities, and the course was a gem. Brilliant design with most holes isolated from the others so you felt as though you were the only ones on the course. Hard to pick a signature hole, there were many we loved, but the short par 4 12th and 13th holes still stick in my memory.

Tom Stettler 2025-05-01
Very nice as aleays!

Mike Moore 2025-04-27
Amazing course. Very challenging Loved it !

Mark Hobson 2025-04-27
In terms of golfing, stunning and brutal in equal measure. The winds were up and the 1st hole would challenge anyone, never mind a group of middle aged guys on their 3rd round in 3 days with broken bodies. After 3 holes I think most people were of the opinion it may be a little too hard for us (handicap range 5 to 20), but after 18 holes we generally all agreed it was one of the best places we have ever played, and is a definite for next year, so look forward with a level of trepidation. In terms of general matters, there were a few small things which we were surprised about, these being that a) the golf carts didn't have any ice in the cooler box, b) the golf cart didn't have tee & ball cleaners and c) that the shop didn't have ball markers in stock which the group wanted as a memento. That said, one of, it not the, best course/venue in terms of the whole experience from arrival to departure ever, and as said will be returning next year.

Lauermann Andreas 2025-04-15
A Must! After difficult Years in good condition.

Mark Foley 2025-04-04
Excellent...very obliging. Great staff. Great condition.

Simon Larner 2025-04-02
Best course I've ever played. Great service from all the staff, will definitely return

Andrew Chambers 2025-03-23
great course and excellent service team there

Ewout Wijkhuizen 2025-02-08
Beautiful but difficult

Max Cornish 2025-02-07
A very nice course which is hard but fair. It was in excellent condition at the beginning of Feb 25 with super fast, smooth greens. Staff and clubhouse very friendly.

Robert Moss 2025-02-01
Fantastic experience from start to finish

Charles Stadnik 2025-01-07
Well looked after from arrival to finish

Jose Fernadez 2025-01-03
Good, great , attractive crew

Sean Verity 2024-12-22
From start to finish well looked after by very pleasant staff. Course was in excellent condition and the pace of play was very good.

Graham Mitton 2024-12-12
Fantastic to see Monte Rei back to being what I should be. The golf course was presented perfectly and top level service too.

Ian Godfrey 2024-11-25
Always enjoy the challenge of Monte Rei and this year was so much better as the course was green and playable compared with the previous year.

Gareth Thompson 2024-10-28
Excellent from start to finish. The level of service received is second to none and although I’d read reports of the course struggling it was in excellent condition. Greens maybe fractionally slow but that is being ultra critical. Overall the best experience I’ve had in Portugal.

Dave Abbott 2024-10-22
I know the course has had some difficult issues with the forest fires and lack of rain, but I personally thought the course was good, the greens were very slow as the grass was longer than normal.

Lauermann Andreas 2024-10-14
Great Place to be

Nick Fry 2024-10-12
Greens were slow. Overall great course

Conal O’Reilly 2024-10-05
Staff and experience was excellent. The course conditions were not to the level expected but understandably so.

Chris Lenzin 2024-09-30
Perfect Day of golf. Best conditions for fairways and fast greens. Just a bit dry in the area surrounding. But No 1 course for the week.

Robert Angell 2024-09-22
The service was excellent people were very friendly and helpful. The condition of the course was not as good as we hoped it would be.

Paul Unwin 2024-06-29
As one of Europe's leading golf courses, I had been looking forward to playing Monte Rei for a long time. The greeting on arrival is impressive, and the helpful staff put your clubs on buggies, and park the car. You are then taken to the driving range and chipping/putting area, which is very good. The build up to playing the course definitely gives the impression you are getting the 'Monte Rei experience'. So to the course - the layout is excellent, but the condition was poor. That included fairways and greens. We played Quinta de Cima the following day, and it was in far better condition. So the general feeling in my group was of disappointment. 220 euro's is a lot of money, so we expected a course in pristine condition. Unfortunately that was not the case, and I will only return when reviews indicate a course in better condition. 220 euro's is not value for money.

Keith Golesworthy 2024-06-07
First Class, in every eay

Michael Webber 2024-06-04
The best course, but not in the best condition. Still played well, great service and facilities. Probably another year for it to get back to it's best

Toine Rooijmans 2024-06-02
Staff were super friendly and very professional. All facilities were excellent. Driving range super nice and they even clean your clubs after the round. A top tier experience.

Ronan Lewis 2024-05-27
Outstanding. Course, staff, everything perfect.

Norman Bennett 2024-05-20
Fabulous golf course but in disappointing condition. Should not be charging full rate.

Alistair Becq 2024-05-12
Poor course maintenance, very slow play!

Thor Hellenaes 2024-05-10
Fantastic resort, a course with a great layout. Fast greens, dry and yellow fairways. Extremly deep bunkers, but great type of sand in them. Second best course in Portugal after Dunas at Terras Da Comporta.

Jonathan Ashley Pickles 2024-05-08
Fantastic Experience, Golf Course constructed through valleys, and therefore you hardly see anyone else playing the course. But you need your A game, or lots of sleeves of balls! The staff were fantastic and tapas was wonderful!

Garry Hebert 2024-05-06
The staff were very friendly, efficient and helpful. Monte Rei is a beautiful course but due to the drought conditions the fairways were almost unplayable. Considering the condition of the fairways I did not feel that it was worth the cost.

Richard Turner 2024-04-23
Beautiful course and clubhouse and excellent service. Fairways were very bare in places probably due to the water situation and greens not as good as normal but OK. Lovely place to play golf.

Frans Pastoor 2024-04-23
Best golfcourse I ever played

Philip Ward 2024-04-04
Amazing service and incredible course. Condition was a bit patchy in places.

James Sutherland 2024-04-01
Lovely course and again the staff were excellent. Fairways were poor compare to the twice I’ve played there before.

Lauermann Andreas 2024-03-21
Normally a great course, but fairways and greens are not very good

Kirk Baert 2024-03-20
Great course

Dominic Novais 2024-03-03
The course is a championship course by experience (obstacles everywhere demanding a good shot, precision and strategy). Loved the layout. Only negative was that the course looked dry and not lush. Otherwise a privileged experience.

Roderick Lagendijk 2024-02-12
Conditions of the fairway and green was very poor

Nick Fry 2024-02-09
It rained for 24 hours before we played & up to 30 mins before we played & we were amazed how good the course conditions were

Karl Stark 2024-01-26
Fun course, lots of good holes. Service is great. Pace of play great due to not many people on the course. Greens pretty slow but ok. Fairways in terrible condition. No acknowledgement of this, no discount or compensation. Which is simply not acceptable when charging 200e when the fairways would have been bad on a 30e course.

Chris Bax 2024-01-20
Welcome is first class. Bag drop, valet parking, escorted to excellent range, 1st tee etc. Continues after the round… clubs cleaned, put in car - you get the idea. Course is varied and challenging - lots of bunkers, water and at this time of year the rough is punishing (hard to find balls). Greens immaculate and roll great. Fairways a bit scruffy in places (still recovering from summer drought?) Expensive but you have to do it once ????

Conor McCloskey 2024-01-15
Disappointed in the condition of the course. ! Monte Rei needs to get this course back to its former glory!

stefan kunz 2023-12-31
Everything perfect

Rogier Snoo 2023-12-12
Monte Rei is one of the best courses in Europe if you ask me. It has it all... full service (car gets parked and clubs/bags are placed on your buggies), nice shop, friendly people. Drivingrange is perfect, hit from grass with quality balls and try your skills from the bunker and the practice green. Once it is time the starter comes to pick you up to guide you to the first tee, explains some stuff, offers some fruit and off you go. The course is great. Every hole is on itself. The bunkers and water look impressive. The back 9 of the course is even more impressive than the front 9. Due to a very hot summer that damaged the grass the fairways weren't in that perfect condition as it used to be but still a thrill playing here. Once you finish your round you get a complimentary bag tag, your clubs get cleaned and bag are placed in your car again. It comes with a price, but when I go to the Algarve I can't skip playing this gem!