Good news: you probably don’t need a car in Marbella. Summer traffic, pricey underground garages and the hunt for a space on the Golden Mile are exactly what spoil a relaxed holiday, and most of what visitors want to see…
Breakfast in a jasmine-scented courtyard, a rooftop glass of wine as the sun drops behind La Concha, a short stroll to dinner through lamp-lit lanes: the most romantic boutique hotels in Marbella trade big-resort buzz for small, personal places where…
Picture a morning swim without anyone else in the water, and an afternoon on your own terrace instead of fighting for a sunbed. That is what the best Marbella hotels with private pools offer, though “private pool” can mean anything…
In Marbella, the beach club is a way of life: a long lunch on a daybed that turns into sunset cocktails and a DJ set. But the clubs are very different from each other. Some are lively, music-led venues, some…
Puerto Banús is where Marbella turns the glamour up: superyachts moored in front of designer boutiques, supercars on the quay and beach clubs that stay lively into the evening, all beneath La Concha mountain. Staying here puts you within walking…
Marbella is more than yachts and beach clubs. The same town has a Moorish old quarter with orange-tree squares, a mountain you can hike to the top of, Salvador Dalí sculptures on the seafront and some of the best food…
Marbella has 24 beaches along 27 km of coast, and they could hardly be more different: wild pine-backed dunes, calm coves for toddlers, busy town beaches lined with tapas bars, and beach clubs where a daybed costs more than a…
Give Marbella’s beaches a day off. Within 25 to 90 minutes of town you can stand on a bridge nearly 100 metres above a dramatic gorge, wander a whitewashed mountain village, walk a cliff-hanging boardwalk or cross the border into…
How to get from Malaga to Marbella: direct buses from the airport and city, taxi and transfer prices, toll road costs, why there's no train, and how to get back.
Sleeping inside Marbella’s Old Town means waking up to church bells and orange trees rather than sea views, and it comes with quirks resort hotels don’t have. The boutique hotels in Marbella Old Town are converted mansions, townhouses and family…