Amanera Resort, the country’s most luxurious boutique hotel, is now open at Playa Grande on the north coast. The hotel includes the fully renovated Playa Grande Golf Course.
As the centerpiece of the new resort, the exclusive 18-hole, par-72 course will make Amanera the first fully integrated Aman resort – with both golf and residences – in the world. Rees Jones, son of late golf course designer Robert Trent Jones Sr. renovated the course. In 1995, it was the last golf course Jones Sr. created outside the US before his passing in 2000.
Play at the golf course is for the time being open to golf club members and guests at Amanera Resort.
The golf course overlooks the crescent-shaped Playa Grande Beach. It is characterized by long vistas, cliff-side fairways and meticulously contoured greens. Ten holes play directly on the ocean, the most on any golf course in the Western Hemisphere.
Amanera, designed by award-winning architect John Heah, covers more than 810 hectares of virtually untouched land and Atlantic coastline, comprising verdant peaks and a lush jungle terrain with centuries-old trees and royal palms.