Saturday, November 24, 2007

Luxury Golf Hotels in Florida

A boutique hotel in Florida offers exclusive golf course privileges, the best water views from every room, and a great golf vacation for the whole family.
Luxury golf vacations are popular throughout the world. In the United States, great golf courses are hardly in short supply - and one of the best golf courses affiliated with a luxury hotel is in Florida. The award-winning Camp Creek Golf Course, 10 minutes away from the WaterColor Inn on Florida's Gulf Coast, is a gorgeous course, beautifully designed by Tom Fazio to provide a challenging game in a lovely setting. The golf course is private, and use is limited to guests of the Inn and WaterSound luxury vacation rentals. Here, a perfect family golf vacation is par for the course.
The WaterColor Inn & Resort

The WaterColor Inn is a boutique inn; a small 60-room luxury hotel. The design is open and airy, with full-on views of the Gulf of Mexico from every room. You read that right; every room has a water view. The patios are open and airy as well. Many guests love the hotel room's showers, because they are all designed to give an additional water view - the luxury of taking a shower with the whole of the Gulf of Mexico in view really is a terrific vacation experience.

In a sense, the best type of luxury golf resort vacation is easily had here; after all, Camp Creek was named Florida's #1 Golf Course of the New Millennium, and the WaterColor Inn was named 7th best hotel in the US by Travel & Leisure magazine, for a reason. This beachfront luxury inn is small, so that guests feel special and pampered on their golf and beach vacation. Yet it is also adjacent to the town of WaterColor, one of Florida's prime planned communities for residents and tourists. You're never too far from a restaurant or shop (if need be), despite the "getting away from it all" ambience of the luxury hotel. As a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, Watercolor Inn offers many non-golf activities such as free bike rentals, kayaking, a full-service day spa, tennis, and Camp WaterColor for children ages 4 to 12.
Camp Creek Golf Course

This Tom Fazio-designed golf course is, likely, the biggest draw of the resort. The fairways are contoured for a challenging game, with views all around. A serious golf course, for serious players, the Camp Creek course is private - use is restricted to WaterColor Inn guests and WaterColor Sounds luxury vacation rental guests - and relatively quiet. Children who play golf, and the family taking luxury golf vacations together, play at the WaterColor Inn & Resort's family golf course, the Origins Course. A few rounds at Camp Creek make for an exclusive, quiet experience.

The dunescape landscaping of the 18-hole. par 72 championship Camp Creek golf course is notable for both its beauty and gentle elevation changes. Tom Fazio has been often recognized by other golf course architects as the "Best Modern Day Golf Course Architect," and Camp Creek exemplifies his creative approach to course design. The slope rating is 145, not easy for beginners or hackers, and the golf course is measures 7,159 yards on a 1,000+ acre property.
Origins Golf Course

A luxury golf family vacation is nothing without tee time for the kids. Sure, children love the Watercolor day camp (who wouldn't love a make-your-own-sundae activity?) but quality family time on the child-friendly Origins Course is relaxing and fun. The only hole that is at all challenging here is the fourth green, which has a small, round, deep sand trap (a pot bunker). Other than that, the fairways are wide and flat, the atmosphere is low-key, and the family vacation memories accrued are more valuable than those gotten from enrolling the kids in Camp WaterColor every day of the trip.

Golfers of all skill levels are accommodated at the WaterColor Inn golf courses. The hotel itself is one of the best in the US for the family that loves luxury golf vacations, and that enjoys the fun of a Florida beach resort. Fun, relaxing quality time with the kids; it's what family vacations are all about.

Source : http://luxuryresorttravel.suite101.com/

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