Villa 19 Monte Golf QDL

Villa 19 Monte Golf sits within Quinta do Lago itself, on the Monte Golf development, with a golf course view from the terrace. Eight bedrooms and eleven bathrooms make it the largest house in the collection's Algarve group, sleeping sixteen.

There are two pools — one heated outdoors, one indoors — plus a jacuzzi, a gym, a games room and an indoor fireplace. For a golfing group this is close to the ideal arrangement: the course outside, and everything needed for the hours off it inside.

Quinta do Lago is the central Algarve's most established address, and the reasons hold up: three championship courses, the Ria Formosa nature reserve, the beach at Praia do Ancão reached by the wooden bridge, and a concentration of good restaurants at Almancil. The seven-night minimum is standard for the estate.