1025 La Bonita Drive, San Marcos, California 92078, US
(760) 744-0120
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About Lakehouse Hotel and Resort

The idyllic shoreline of Lake San Marcos is the draw for the Lakehouse Hotel and Resort outside San Diego. The property is home to a championship and executive golf course, multiple restaurants, a marina with electric and non-motor boat rentals, two saltwater pools and oversized hot tubs. The 1960s-era hotel holds onto its retro charms with hula hoop contests, board games, roasting S'mores and a lobby library. The semiprivate St. Mark Golf Club (6,400 yards) and par-58 executive course will please every level of player. 

Facts

Price Range$$, $$$
Property Class★★★★
Acres250
Year Opened1960
Number of Units100-300

Amenities

RestaurantsCasual, Bar
Room TypesRoom, Suite
Short CourseYes
TennisYes
Fitness CenterYes
Practice FacilityYes
MarinaYes
Golf School/AcademyYes
Banquet SpaceYes
SpaYes

Services

Kids ProgramYes
Room ServiceYes
ConciergeYes

Rules

Is the resort pet friendly?Yes
Is resort stay required for a tee time?No

Golf courses at Lakehouse Hotel and Resort

Reviews

3.8
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Reviews 8
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
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Previously Played
Perfect weather
Walked

Nice course, rough greens

Great day for golf after all the rain. Thursday afternoon play, so no crowds. But man, the green are having some issues, dont know if a fungus or? But most of the green have rough dead spots. Too bad, most putts were bumpy challenges.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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Reviews 4
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

San Marcos Executive

Great course, a few greens need some attention (dead spots) need replacing.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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Reviews 24
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 183
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
First Time Playing
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Played On
Reviews 22
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Reviews 183
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 11
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Walked
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing

Unfair Reviews

This course is not as bad as everyone is saying. The club house is beautiful and cute. The employees are friendly. The pace of play was great. The course cart path could use some work, but it’s really not that big of an inconvenience. It’s been really rainy the last couple of weeks here and I think the course is fine given that.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
1.0
Previously Played

Horrible conditions, slow play

New ownership has seen a decline in the quality of this place. Just played this past weekend and the conditions were laughable. The greens were like putting on a carpet, they clearly haven’t bothered to cut them recently, and yet they demand $100 for a round. The audacity of these new owners is astounding. They put lots of money into trying to get people to spend theirs at the clubhouse, restaurant and silly new stores adjacent to the facilities while completely ignoring the course. I refuse to go back until ownership changes again and will advise everyone I know to avoid this place like the plague!

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Meh!

Ok course for beginners but hardly worth traveling more than 15 mins. I was taken in by 4 star rating... yikes .

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Poor
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great Short Course:

My son and I love this course. You get to hit 3 or 4 long drives and some beautiful short 3’s! Course is kept in great condition and Eric and his staff are very welcoming. Try it and you will return.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Slow play

The last few times we’ve been out the slowness of play has been horrible. It took us 4 1/2 hours for the round yesterday, waited at almost every hole, sometimes for 10 minutes. The foursome we followed spent 5 minutes on every hole driving their carts around looking for their balls and some of the holes are barely 100 yards. You need someone out on the course enforcing the speed of play and the rules of playing the game with consideration.

Conditions Good
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Previously Played

Place could have so much potential

I’ve played here before and we paid $54 to walk on a Friday. Today, I was thinking about walking or riding, asked the gent in the pro shop how much it would be to ride vs walk and he said $12 additional to ride bringing the total to $72., decided to ride since I normally walk. What made our whole group annoyed was the fact that we weren’t told that it was cart path until we got onto the first tee box. For $72 and the patchy greens it was not worth riding for that price. Sucks because we all had our push carts in our cars. By the time we found out it was cart path only was when we had to tee off. Not to mention the last rain was a week and a half ago and the course was pretty dry in a majority of spots. We also had two “local” players on our tail hitting into us all while they got the luxury to drive to their balls because they have their own personal golf cart with no GPS boundaries. TELL PEOPLE ITS CART PATH ONLY BEFORE THEY PAY TO RIDE! Thnx rant over.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
1.0
First Time Playing

If you like golfing in dirt

They absolutely should not be charging more than 20.00 a round. Will never go back!!

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 11
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

The Links

The entire facility is great. There is a large driving range, 2 putting greens, and a bunker practice area.

The greens were in need of repair as there were a lot of bare or thin spots. Same with the tee box area. Many had very little grass. But all in all the course was very playable. I’ll be playing again soon.

I’d like to see a change that allows carts to be taken into the parking lot as I don’t like dropping off my clubs.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 7
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Just moved to area

I played this course over a year ago and enjoyed it. Now I live a mile away and can't wait to take advantage of playing here regularly. Yes it can be a little wet early in the morning but that makes for fun golf. I love that I can get an early tee time even to play 9 so I still have the rest of the day to do things!

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap Don't know
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Cold weather
Walked
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Needs Improvement - disappointing round

Every green was in poor condition and playing was moot as they were so rutty and/or missing grass completely. The course was so wet and muddy.

The driving range was closed on a weekend for some bizarre reason. Round took 5-1/2 hours because there are no marshals to push people for pace of play.

I have played there a lot and it’s slowly gone down hill.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 9
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Fun track

Nice layout, new carts, good value. 3 hour round on a Saturday, seemed to move at a decent pace. Greens were actually pretty quick and in good shape overall. Tee Boxes and bunkers are pretty horrible however. Awesome for beginners or anyone looking to sharpen up their approach game.

Will definitely be back!

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
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