Advantages: Excellent service, attention to detail, impressive value for money
Disadvantages: Not suited for lively people

...La Villa Marbella is located in the beautiful Old Town of Marbella. The hotel is very charming and the friendliness of the service personal is exceptional. The rooms are very nice furnished and well equipped. The room rates are quite expensive though. You pay for at least 4* stars without having a pool, wellness area, etc.. If you are aware of that and can live without those amenities, La Villa Marbella is for sure a beautiful place to stay. We stayed at this property in late April and had a fantastic time. We had read in our travel book on Spain not to expect much from the Marbella area and had it not been for my attraction to this hotel we very well may have passed on the area. I am so glad we did not. Marbella has a beautiful little old city and a pleasant strech of beach, along with superb restaurants. However, our favorite part... Read review

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Advantages: Nice and cheap, simple to use
Disadvantages: Lacks a few features

...The Geemarc Apollo is a small compact telephone which is cheap and available in quite a few colours. I brought it a few months ago because our old telephone (which was very expensive) had a really poor reception and just didn’t work properly. I thought that maybe if I brought a cheaper one for £5 or something it might work better than if I was to buy an expensive one. It did. The phone itself does everything it is supposed to do with no problems, but the phone hardly has any features. So if you are after a phone to make calls and that’s it, this is a perfect choice. FEATURES: -Ringer volume option -Answer phone built in -Tells you who called you if you didn’t answer. -Re-dial function So then, a little bit of info about the phone: EASE OF USE---------------------- 9 out of 10 Its pretty simple to use really, all the features... Read review

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Advantages: Tiny, volume control, good features, light-up star on top
Disadvantages: Wire tangles easy, phone falls of holder easy!

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Advantages: beautiful and very clean.
Disadvantages: i found none during a 2 week break.

...The NH Alanda hotel in Marbella is without doubt one of the best hotels I have stayed in and Marbella itself is a beautiful city. A holiday in Marbella is always going to be a great holiday but you really can add to your time there by using this hotel. Marbella is situated along the Costa del Sol and is Spains answer to st Tropez, this holiday resort is chic and is well known to be favoured by the rich and famous. It's not hard to see why when you visit you will be instantly taken aback by the beauty of your surroundings, which brings me to this fantastic hotel. The NH Alanda hotel with its beautiful pool, four star rating (five in some brochures now I believe) and its 199 rooms looks more like a palace than a hotel. I personally was there in the summer of last year, as we walked in to the outstanding reception area to be greeted... Read review

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Advantages: Perfect location, very clean & comfortable, friendly staff
Disadvantages: Beach

...This hotel is in a perfect location for those looking to go on holiday to Marbella. Backing onto the beach, with sunloungers and parasols provided for free, you can get superb views from your room. We had a side-side view room which gave amazing views looking down the coastline from the balcony. It was larger in size than we were expecting and the bathroom had that wow-factor. No worries about sleeping in the hot nights as the rooms are air conditioned and fully controllable. A nice feature is that when you open the doors onto the balcony, the air con automatically switches off to save energy. The first thing you notice about this hotel is how clean and roomy it is. The room maids did a fantastic job of cleaning the room every day and always gave a friendly smile and "hola!" in the corridors. Security is good, with electronic cards... Read review

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Advantages: Sunny, friendly people and good food.
Disadvantages: Can be expensive and when it rains, it certainly rains!

...Spain conjures up in my mind, lots of high rise concrete buildings, thousands of holiday makers and definitely not the sort of place we usually go for holidays. But as we hadn’t been and this opinion was gleaned from holiday brochures, then we decided to try it for ourselves. First dip into Spain, we flew to Portugal (cowards!) and were taken by coach to just over the border to Cost de la Luz. It was the first time Thomson’s had used this quite new hotel, and we had a lovely quiet holiday enjoying walking along miles of deserted beach and watching the fishing boats coming home at night. Last November we got braver! Marbella was our destination. Whilst in Malta in April we had purchased a Time Share apartment and through Interval International we could have “Getaway” breaks, so we found a great deal and booked up our break, found... Read review

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Advantages: Plenty of room,easy to erect
Disadvantages: Having to put it away and go home

...We bought our first proper tent last year as it was at a knock down price,our thoughts behind it were if we were really skint we could still go of for a weekend with the kids for next to nothing. We purchased the marbella 6 which is made by gelert from our local camping out let and it was reduced from £100 to £79 so as far as we were concerned it was a bargain and snapped it up. The marbella 6 is a six person tent with two bedrooms and a living area in the middle, it is a dome shapped tent which allows you then to be able to stand up in the living area space in it,with a door either side of the living space you can then decide which door to open depending on what you want to be facing, both doors have a window on, it is of a green colour and has them bendy poles to erect it. The bedrooms are plenty big enough, me and the wife and our... Read review

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Advantages: Nice bathrooms and good breakfast
Disadvantages: Too many to mention

...Having just returned from the Andalucia Plaza, I thought I would let you know what I thought of this hotel. I went for the weekend with friends and had been highly recommended that this hotel was one of the best to stay in, in Marbella so was really looking forward to it. We arrived on Friday and had booked to stay until Sunday (3 days) and got to the hotel at 1.30pm. Our rooms weren't ready and we had to wait 2 hours for them - not impressed! When we got to the rooms, the cleaners were still in there. Were very disappointed with the rooms - not what I would call 4 star - very basic and the furnishings were tatty. The telephones didn't work the whole of our stay; the balconies were very small and we had a lovely view overlooking the air-conditioning units! Also, the TV only seemed to like showing us Russian programmes - not much use... Read review

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Advantages: Great complex, excellent facilities, clean, great location
Disadvantages: No shallow end to pool, hilly area and complex

...We have recently returned from a weeks stay at Club Marbella in Calahonda. Calahonda is a town in between Malaga and Marbella, about a 30 minute drive from Malaga airport. I went on this holiday with my boyfriend, Mum and her partner. They stay at this resort as part of a timeshare but you are also able to book to go on holiday here independently. We arrived late afternoon and parked in the large car park over the road. We went over to the small reception area and didn't have to queue to see anyone. We were allowed to choose which room we wanted to stay in, which I thought was good although perhaps wouldn't be an option in peak season. The room we choose was on the 3rd floor and you had to go either down a long slope or steps and then back up three flights of steps to the room, this isn't somewhere I'd recommend for people... Read review

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Advantages: Friendly place for your Holidays
Disadvantages: Mad drivers

...After recently visiting friends in Fuengirola, Costa Del Sol, Spain I felt I should write this review as it thought it was a really love place to go on holiday. Fuengirola has had a lot of bad press recently on TV such as on Costa del Streetcrime where it is said to be one of the roughest parts of spain. I on the other hand had a lovely experience when I recently visited there and loved it. It is situated between Marbella and Portabenus with easy access to both via train liks and busses/taxis. Local attractions **************** Fuengirola Zoo which is quite a nice place to visit with the kids, but it isn’t up to the standards of our British Zoos. Aqua Land, which is the local water park with some great rides. Only suitable for people over 12, although there is a water park approx 20 mins away in Torremolenos which is suitable for all... Read review

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