Carden park or McDonald portal

Played both and would rate Carden above Portal. At Portall the 9 holer was terrible when we played it, like playing in a farmer's field. We didn't play the better course though as we couldn't get on, the course we did play was decent enough, similar to most hotel courses but think Carden edged if for me - 2 decent courses to play on and understand they've improved one or both over the last few years. Like Fish says check for societies as both we society full when we played and it was a good 4-5 hour rounds.