Best Golf-Resort Stays in Benidorm
Golf in Benidorm means treating the resort as a beach base for courses spread across the wider Costa Blanca rather than expecting fairways inside the town itself, since Benidorm has no course within its own limits at all. Hotel Colón sits on Poniente Beach with two golf courses within ten minutes' drive, while Aparthotel BCL Levante Club near Levante Beach puts Faula Golf Club just two kilometres away, giving golfing travellers a choice of coastline to wake up on before heading inland or along the coast to play a round each morning or afternoon of the trip.
Benidorm itself has no golf course within its town limits, but Alicante province around it carries one of the Costa Blanca's denser concentrations of courses, built through the same tourism boom decades that raised Benidorm's towers along the seafront and reshaped the coastline entirely. That geography makes Benidorm function as a beach-first, golf-second base: mornings on Levante or Poniente sand, afternoons on a course a short drive inland or along the coast toward Villajoyosa, before returning each evening to the same stretch of promenade and restaurants that drew most travellers here in the first place, golfers included.
Where to stay
Beach base, Costa Blanca fairways inland
Why stay beachfront in Benidorm rather than at a golf resort proper? Because the Costa Blanca's courses sit spread across Alicante province rather than clustered around one resort town, so a Benidorm beach base with a short drive to the nearest course beats relocating for golf alone.
Hotel Colón sits directly on Poniente Beach next to the Benidorm Sailing Club, with two golf courses reachable within ten minutes' drive, making it the more golf-convenient of the two picks here despite its beachfront rather than fairway-adjacent position along the water. The hotel's own restaurant serves traditional Spanish cuisine each evening, a straightforward way to end a day that started on the sand and finished on the back nine somewhere inland from the coast road running south toward Villajoyosa and beyond. Guests can also try watersports at the neighbouring Benidorm Sailing Club on a non-golfing afternoon, keeping the beach side of the trip just as active as the fairway side.
Aparthotel BCL Levante Club places Faula Golf Club just two kilometres away while keeping guests two hundred metres from Levante Beach, useful for golfing travellers who also want children's facilities and a pool circuit for non-playing family members back at the apartment while one or two of the group head out for a round on their own schedule each day of the stay, whether that means an early tee time or a late-afternoon nine holes. The apartment's own kitchen also means golfers can grab an early breakfast before a first tee time without waiting on a hotel dining room to open.
Both properties treat golf as a day trip rather than a doorstep amenity, which fits the wider Costa Blanca pattern: courses cluster around Alicante, Villajoyosa and the inland valleys rather than inside Benidorm's own beach strip itself, so no hotel in town can genuinely claim a course view from its own rooms without stretching the truth about the actual distance involved between the property and the nearest fairway or clubhouse. Both hotels instead lean on Benidorm's own beach and old town to fill the rest of a golfing day, rather than promising fairway views neither can honestly deliver.
The trade-off is worth naming plainly: neither hotel offers a course view or a golf-resort atmosphere in the way an inland Costa Blanca golf hotel would; what they offer instead is a genuine beach stay with golf kept realistically close, not a compromise on the beach side of the equation at all, which is exactly what most golfing travellers visiting Benidorm specifically are looking for when they book a stay here over an inland alternative. The short drive inland or along the coast becomes part of the trip itself, a scenic stretch of the Costa Blanca most beach-only visitors never see at all.
A traveler's perspectiveI stayed at Hotel Colón for a golf trip built around two courses a short drive south, and the beachfront position at Poniente meant mornings on the sand before an afternoon tee time never felt like a detour from the actual holiday, more like two different holidays folded into the same week without either one crowding out the other along the way.
Golf ResortHotel Colón
Mediterranean sea views on Poniente Beach
Why guests love itThe sea view from our balcony room turned out to be the best part of the stay, watching the Poniente promenade fill up each morning while having breakfast without leaving the room. Being next to Elche Park meant an easy walk to the old town most evenings, and the traditional Spanish menu at the hotel restaurant was a solid fallback on the nights we did not feel like going out. The short drive to golf made the trip work for the non-beach half of our group too.
Golf ResortAparthotel BCL Levante Club
Three pools and a play area near Levante
Why guests love itThree pools between two outdoor and one indoor meant the kids never ran out of options even on the one day the weather turned, and the private terrace with a proper kitchen made evenings easier to manage than a standard hotel room would have. Being 200 metres from Levante Beach kept mornings simple, and one member of our group made good use of Faula Golf Club two kilometres away while the rest of us stuck to the pools and play area.
Local tips
- 1Book tee times a day or two ahead during peak season; Costa Blanca courses near Benidorm fill quickly through summer.
- 2Hotel Colón's proximity to two courses within ten minutes makes it the more time-efficient base for a golf-focused stay.
- 3Aparthotel BCL Levante Club suits mixed groups where only some travellers are golfing, since the kids' facilities and pools keep non-golfers occupied.
- 4Confirm club rental availability locally if you are travelling without clubs; not every Costa Blanca course near Benidorm offers full rental sets.
- 5Pair a golf morning with a Poniente or Levante beach afternoon rather than trying to fit both into the same half-day.
- 6Check course opening hours around the hottest midsummer weeks, when some Costa Blanca courses shift tee times earlier to avoid peak heat.