Pin it373 rooms, two golf courses, 23 tennis courts, and enough resort infrastructure to anchor a trip without leaving the property.
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$300–$500/night
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The Omni Amelia Island Resort runs as a self-contained destination 55 miles north of Ponte Vedra Beach, with two on-site golf courses, twenty-three tennis courts, eight restaurants, a spa, a nature centre, and the largest pool deck in Northeast Florida. With 373 AAA Four Diamond rooms, it sits between the Sawgrass Marriott's scale and the Ponte Vedra Inn's exclusivity.
The golf access is the strategic advantage. Long Point, a Tom Fazio design through salt marsh and oceanfront dunes, is available to resort guests on a limited basis; otherwise it operates as a private club. Oak Marsh, Pete Dye's 1972 routing freshly renovated by Beau Welling in 2025, is open to guests and the public. Together they cover premium and mid-range options without leaving the gates. The eight restaurants give you genuine dining variety across a multi-night stay, and the nature centre adds a distinctive thread that ties the resort to Amelia Island's barrier island ecology. Trip-fit matters here: TPC Sawgrass is a one-hour drive and World Golf Village runs roughly 45 minutes south. For a base with a planned TPC excursion, that works. For a TPC-focused trip, it does not.
$300 to $500 nightly, competitive with the Sawgrass Marriott once you factor in golf on both Omni courses. Amelia Island offers what the Ponte Vedra corridor does not: uncrowded barrier-island beaches, a Victorian downtown in Fernandina Beach, and a distinctly unhurried pace. Book direct through Omni or check rates via the link on this page.
Golf at Sawgrass and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Florida
Sawgrass and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Florida
Tom Fazio through salt marsh and oceanfront dunes, available to resort guests who know to ask.
Sawgrass and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Florida
Pete Dye's 1972 design, freshly renovated in 2025, with water on 14 holes and a green fee that respects the budget.
Sawgrass and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Florida
The second course at TPC Sawgrass, redesigned in 2014, that earns its tee time on its own terms.
Sawgrass and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Florida
The island green, the stadium mounding, and a Pete Dye design that changed how tournament courses are built.
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