In the best of PuertoBanus,Marbella, on the beach.

The accommodation

2 bedroom, 2 bathroom. In the best of Puerto Banús, Marbella, on the beachfront. Privileged climate, 320 days sun/year, according to Marbella Town Hall. Mild winters (about 14-18º C.). Super clean, we attach great importance to cleanliness. We disinfect the apartment, as a precaution, before the arrival of the travelers. Air conditioning and heating. Playa Rocío Residential Complex, luxury.
AVAILABILITY: August already reserved.
PRICES, per MONTHS, in euros: Oct/April, 1,500. May, June and Sept., 2,500. July 4,750. August, 5,000. In May-June and Sept., because the prices stated are basic, for more than two people each person plus add 15 euros/person/night. Long term, 1,500 euros/month if only from 1 Sept. to June 30 (July and August, available); 1,850 euros/month if the 12 months/year are contracted.
Payment of electricity consumption: Oct/April and Long term, on behalf of travelers. From May to Sept., on behalf of the owners.
MINIMUM STAY, according to circumstances: From Oct. 1 to April 30. one/two months; May, June and Sept. , 14 nights/one month. July and August, one month.
Exterior apartment, 85 m/2, terrace with afternoon sun, overlooking our garden of more than 7,000 m/ . Two swimming pools (children and adults), with Lifeguard.
The price includes the use of a fixed parking space and a storage room; both in the basement (well painted and well lit), with elevator.
Free Internet access from the apartment, with fiber cable, 100 Mb.
Two TVs. In the apartment Television stations are received from many countries (Astra satellite), in English/French/German and other languages, at no cost to travelers.
From our garden, direct exit to the beautiful promenade that separates us from the beach and that with its 13 kms. -all in plain, bordering the beaches and the sea- it unites us with Marbella and San Pedro. It is a pedestrian promenade, closed to traffic (bikes allowed), very landscaped.
We provide free of charge a cot, a chair to take the children for a walk, two chairs to take them in the car, a folding bed. Two children's bicycles (2-3 years, without pedals, and 5-6 years) and another for adults, available to customers, free, in the storage room; 150 m., bike rental.
The price/rental ratio is magnificent, because the location is unbeatable.
Excellent lit lounge, five light points. Motorized blind, in the large window that overlooks the garden.
Main room with double bed (1.50 x 1.90 m.). A cot, when needed, at no cost. Master bathroom with tub and shower, glass partition, excellent lighting, quality marble on the walls and floor.
The second bedroom has two single beds, one can be stored under the other (so the room is looser/more espacious). Another folding bed is available, free of charge. The second bathroom with bath and shower, excellent lighting, quality marble floors and walls.
The second room and its bathroom can be isolated from the rest of the apartment, through a door.
Kitchen independent from the living room, fully equipped.
We provide sheets, towels, tablecloths, napkins, etc .; good quality, abundant, almost new.
Cleaning: during the period contracted to care for clients. It is possible to get help, about 10 euros/hour. Upon termination of rental, owners hire and pay cleaning staff.
Reception open 24 hours, some Concierges speak English, one of them also French, they communicate with the apartments by internal telephone. It has a fax, available to residents free of charge.
Four steps to enter the apartment. We do not accept animals, sorry.
Reservation: For the holiday season, it is enough to anticipate 300 euros; for Long term, a monthly payment.
Deposit. Upon entering, customers make a small deposit: 300 euros for a holiday stay; for long term 1.000 euros, in principle. They are returned in full before departure, if there are no major damages due to misuse, improper use.
Residential area, very calm, All the surroundings in flat, without slopes, ideal to walk near the sea, bordering the beaches. The light of Andalusia and the joy of its inhabitants, almost all tourists, all languages, The golfer's paradise. Enjoy life, with nothing to do, without stress.

Setting

The development is in beachfront, a beautiful promenade well landscaped separates, closed to traffic, bicycles allowed. On this walk, which went out from our garden, there is a children's area in front of our Complex.
Residential area, very quiet, with no public buildings nearby, no bars or restaurants. Except for to 100 m. two tracks of paddle, a Residence of luxury for major persons and a 4-star Hotel 800 metres away. 200 meters El Corte Inglés -a chain of Department Stores world-class (fashion, gifts, home, sports, supermarket, etc.), which is to say everything you need. At about 800 meters, its subsidiary SuperCor, open 365 days/year, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Also to 200 m. our apartment there is another Mall, with pharmacy, computer rentals, dry cleaning,a hairdresser ladies/gentlemen, ATM cash dispenser and so on.
In a radius of one km., best known banks, all with their ATMs.
The famous Pleasure Marina is about 150 m. our exit to the beach, at 200 m. from our front door. It has over 900 berths for boats (many luxury, one of the royal family of Saudi Arabia). Many restaurants and cafés with terraces, and plenty of "boutiques" of the best known brands.
Without leaving the harbour, to walk to the lighthouse, to 2,25 kms. of the apartment, which indicates the entry to the port. Everything for flat, broad, good soil, safetely, a delight, very crowed. The pleasure crafts a side and the open sea to other one.
The bus, with stops near, leads to Marbella and San Pedro de Alcantara.
A 4 kms. to the North is Marbella, with 143.400 registered inhabitants in 2019, the population triples in summer. With several beaches, many shops, hotels, and restaurants and taverns all categories and prices. Tour the beautiful and tourist Marbella's old quarter, which was founded by the Romans and has a lot of commercial life. See the Plaza de los Naranjos (Orange´s Plaza), famous, always visited, with many restaurants. There is the Town Hall, in XVI century building, and its Office of Tourism. And it keeps the Wall, from the Muslim era. You can also visit the Church of Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación (Our Lady of the Incarnation), 1712, on the remains of another 1505. In an area called Green River, remains of a Roman villa.
In Marbella there are several hospitals and clinics, well installed and maintained by good professionals.
San Pedro de Alcántara is 5 kms to the south and offers the tourist a complete range of restaurants to suit all budgets. Good beach and nice promenade on it.
About 3 kms., country bus station. To 5 km., the Country Hospital of the Spanish Social Security.
Malaga airport, about 60 kms, with buses to Marbella. By taxi to our apartment around 70/80 euros (November 2010). The high speed train Madrid-Málaga takes about 2.40 hours. From the station, 69 kms. to Marbella, bus or also suburban train to Fuengirola, 30 kms. Puerto Banus. And taxi, of course.
Car not essential. Car Rental, both in the airport or railway-station. AVIS Rent a Car has a delegation about 800 m. our home, where you can return or hire a car. And HERZ.in Marbella.
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Activities and attractions

Our Complex is on the beach front, for those who like to enjoy the sun and sea bathing.
In the garden there is very big swimming pool.
Very appropiate zone to walk, run or bike (they are rented nearby) along the promenade, of 13 kilometers, linking Marbella-Puerto Banus and San Pedro de Alcántara; all for flat, no hills, many flowers, plants and trees, very landscaped one, bordering the beachs, without traffic, bikes allowed.
In the apartment it is enjoyed of ADSL (free) 24 hours/day.
To 100 m., two fields of “paddle”; to approximately two kms., several tennis courts.
To 500 metres rent of jet-skys (nautical motorcycles), to cross the wide and nice bay of Marbella.
The zone is a Paradise for the golfers. There is a golf club 3 kms away and a further 8 to 10 clubs within short distance (7-8 kms.) in the surrounding area. Others 30/35 in no more 25 kms. It is possible to enter to the cafeterias (snack-bars and dining-room) of the Clubs without being a partner and seeing the playgrounds, etc. To approximately 30 kms. it is Valderrama's field, where in 1997 a championship of the Ryder Cup (competition between USA and Europe) was celebrated.
Cinema with several rooms, about 700 meters, often classical music concerts/operas/ballets are offered from the most important theaters in the world; around there other three-four cinemas. Casino, at 1,500 meters.
On Saturday morning open-air-market -next to the Plaza de Toros (Bull-ring) de P. Banús-, large-lot and very well laid-installed, many traders are foreigners (Europeans), a large variety of items, good quality and reasonable prices. This market enjoys good reputation in the populations of the region, where many people travel to visit, mostly tourists. There are other open-air-market in Marbella and San Pedro de Alcantara, on other days of the week.
Board a public ferry for the wide and beautiful bay of Marbella, set sail from the Marina and into the north of Marbella, 4-5 miles.
In Marbella and Estepona it is possible to hire a boat with his captain, to go fishing or dolphin watching.
Top drive to Sierra Blanca, where the Juanar Refuge is a small hotel, in which General Charles de Gaulle wrote part of his memoirs. It is about 15-20 minutes from the apartment.
It is not essential to use the car, Puerto Banus is usually always very lively. Numerous walks, in plain, along the Marina, beaches and other areas highly landscaped, well maintained, in general.
Memorable excursions Malaga, very touristy, and a dozen heavily visited towns in the area: Ronda, Tarifa (well known to practitioners of windsurfing and kite surfing, kite-), Sotogrande, Estepona, Guadalmina, Fuengirola, Benalmádena, Torremolinos, Nerja, Antequera, The Axarquia, etc.
Travel to Cadiz and also interesting to Bolonia (Cadiz), to approximately 80 kms. of the apartment. With important archaeological remains of a "garum" roman factory and the existing population at that time (Temple dedicated to the gods, forum, amphitheater, termes, housing, market, cemetery). Interpretation Centre. It looks / guesses the coast of Africa to approximately 30 kms., separated by the Strait (Pass) of Gibraltar, opposite Tangier. Good beach, you can combine this tour.
Very tourist trips (that justify the tour) to Granada -and Sierra Nevada and Las Alpujarras, if desired- Cordoba, Seville (a wonder, in our opinion), Jerez (Xerry), the Route of the White Villages (i.,e, Arcos de la Frontera and others), and so on. The Muslims were in Spain between 711 and 1492, and these populations -very tourist- preserve his fingerprint.
And not far away, Gibraltar (The Rock). With English and Spanish Language, sterling and other currency, the "bobby", driving on the left, shops "duty-free".
If it is time and is wanted, before or after being in Port Banús-Marbella can realize a cruise for the Mediterranean; it embarks in Malaga, to 65 kms. .
Morocco and North Africa can be visited relatively easily.
Try the rich Andalusian cuisine, specifically that of Malaga. There are restaurants of many nationalities.
Enjoying a privileged microclimate of Marbella. And watch the tourists without stress, smiling, of vacations, with nothing to do. And to have the unfolded antennas, to catch the differences of another culture, other customs.
Above all, leave behind the problems and routine, and enjoy life quietly, with a good climate.