{"id":210,"date":"2015-03-02T09:51:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T07:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2015-03-02T09:51:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T07:51:19","slug":"around-and-about-the-golf-courses-villaitana-benidorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/around-and-about-the-golf-courses-villaitana-benidorm\/","title":{"rendered":"Around and about the Golf Courses &#8211; Villaitana (Benidorm)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #002060;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Around and about the Golf Courses \u2013 Villaitana (Benidorm<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #002060;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The golf resort at Villaitana (Benidorm) is of Jack Nicklaus design and when originally opened to the public some 9 years ago was originally called Real de Faula and consists of the Levante par 72 championship course and the Poniente par 62 course.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Levante course is an attractive course with stunning views over both the mountains and Benidorm to the Mediterranean sea and is a good test of golf.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Poniente on first examination appears unattractive to the competitive and serious golfer because it consists of short par 3 and par 4 holes but again the views are stunning and the course is a little gem and well worth a game.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">The management of the course is currently under the control of Blue Green Management until 30<\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">th<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> April 2015 after which the day to day management will revert to <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">M<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">eli\u00e1 Hotels International re-integrating all facilities under one single management company.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Clearly all existing agreements and price strategies will be reviewed by the new management team and perhaps it may be prudent to take the short trip to Benidorm for a game to plays these courses before the changes take place.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around and about the Golf Courses \u2013 Villaitana (Benidorm) The golf resort at Villaitana (Benidorm) is of Jack Nicklaus design and when originally opened to the public some 9 years<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/around-and-about-the-golf-courses-villaitana-benidorm\/\">&#8230;..Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}