Relaxed luxury at Marbella Club Hotel
What does this destination have that everyone falls in love with? The epicenter of the exclusivity of the Costa del Sol, marbella , which extends to Estepona and ** Casares **, continues to be synonymous with luxury over the decades... but also with security compared to other markets.
the next three years, new high-end international hotel chains They will land here. So, along with the traditional British, French, Russian and Arab clients, new ones will also set foot in its exclusive beach clubs, its Michelin star restaurants and its exclusive boutiques, and will “park” their yachts in Puerto Banús.
North Americans and Asians are in the spotlight, although there are also more and more Scandinavians. And the upcoming opening of these three new luxury hotels put us on the track of what the new Marbella will be or the refreshed version of Marbella : a Four Season, a W and an Ikos in Estepona , which will be added to the long-awaited reopening of the mythical Don Miguel, will be added to the already impressive offer of luxury hotels in the destination.
The W Marbella will revolutionize the coast
FOUR SEASONS MARBELLA
They say that the brand of exclusivity and North American hospitality had spent years looking for a suitable location in the city until the businessman Ricardo Arranz de Miguel, owner of the legendary hotel Villapadierna Palace Hotel & Resort, offered the land owned by him. The same, located next to Torre Real, in Los Altos de Los Monteros, are one of the few that remained in the destination on the front line, and also, with an extension of 600 meters of beach.
The resort will extend over 400,000 meters, and its investment is around 650 million euros. It will be a five-star hotel and private villas, with 200 rooms, restaurants and a golf course, whose design will be carried out by the architect Richard Meier Pritzker Prize. It will be ready in about three years.
MARBELLA
Almost in parallel, it is considered that by 2021 the next great landing will take place, that of the future W Marbella . Located in the surroundings of the Real Zaragoza beach, in the Marbella urbanization of Las Chapas, it will not go unnoticed thanks to the avant-garde style of its 240 rooms, of which 140 will be residential. In addition, there will be 26 suites, a spa with a beauty salon, a restaurant, swimming pools and several meeting rooms with covered terraces that promise to be spectacular for events.
But perhaps the most anticipated is his sound Beach Club W, which will open before the hotel, although they have not yet given a date. At the moment, the firm that owns the brand - for now -, Platinum Estates has made a commitment to the group Pro Dunes Marbella and the Marbella City Council to delimit, clean and protect the dune environment of the land they have acquired. have already invested €1.4 million, recovering 44,000 square meters of dunes for the city.
IKOS ANDALUSIA
In what was the old Costa del Sol Princess the first complex of the Greek hotel group will land Ikos Resorts in Spain. It will do so in Estepona in 2020, a municipality that seems to be experiencing great hospitality growth, to the point that boutique hotels in the city have begun to sprout like mushrooms: for the next few years there will be up to ten of them under construction in the very center of the city.
The company aspires to be a benchmark in the all inclusive deluxe in our country and has invested 150 million euros to give life to the 411 rooms and suites organized in the seven buildings that will make up the complex, which covers a total of 85,000 square meters.
One of its main dishes will be the seven resort restaurants, designed by a michelin star whose name has not yet transpired, its bars and powerful sports facilities. It will also have a coveted 3,100-square-meter theater, as well as several outdoor pools and eight heated pools, as well as a top-class spa, all on the beachfront.
This will be the Ikos Andalusia
CLUB MED MAGNA MARBELLA
They all talk about it. the emblematic don miguel , located in Sierra Blanca, north of the city, and today owned by the Magna Hotels & Resorts , will reopen its doors as Club Med Magna Marbella . And although it was initially thought that it would be ready for this season, its opening has been delayed a year. Whatever it takes to become the best concept in the family all inclusive of the Costa del Sol, hand in hand with the French group Med, who will manage it after an investment of 73 million euros.
It will have the same number of rooms, 486, but will rise in category, aligning itself with the rest of the exclusive proposals: several swimming pools (one of them heated), a spa, sports courts, a golf course, conference rooms and a special attention to children.
NOBU HOTEL MARBELLA
Last year, in May, Robert de Niro and the Japanese chef Nobuyuki Matsuhisa (between the two they own 32 restaurants and several hotels around the world) opened their establishment hotel-gastro in Marbella, the Nobu Hotel . They did it inside the well-known ** Hotel Puente Romano **, with a concept with which they came to say: "Dinner and, by the way, stay the night".
Its 49 designer rooms are being expanded by the great welcome that he has had Its common spaces are full of pop and nineties details, and the small complex overlooks the Puente Romano resort square, also dotted with some of the three-starred chef's restaurants Danny Garcia . It also has a private pool and a signature spa six senses, which it shares with the resort.
ROMAN BRIDGE BEACH RESORT
Almost as a matter of symbiosis with the previous one, Puente Romano is the next on our list. Still there, at the foot of the canyon offering high level gastronomy halfway between Marbella and Puerto Banús, from which it is separated by three kilometers and where you can get there on foot through its direct access to the Paseo Marítimo.
As we said, its gastronomic offer is unbeatable. And they have bet heavily on this cover letter in recent years. In its square is located the three Michelin stars of the city, the dani garcia restaurant , but also Bibo , the chef's Andalusian brasserie.
Another of his emblems is the tennis -a here, on its courts, has been celebrated on more than one occasion the Davis cup -. But so is the beach club, the renowned The beach bar , who was voted the Best Beach Club of 2018 by Conde Nast Traveler.
Nobu Marbella, newcomer
MARBELLA CLUB HOTEL GOLF RESORT & SPA
If there is an emblem of the idyll that high society maintains with the Marbella destination, that is the Marbella Club. The spirit of the father of the Marbella brand as synonymous with luxury, the Prince Alphonse of Hohenlohe , still floating in the environment. Surrounded by gardens, his style simulates a Andalusian people of white houses. They are the masters in relaxed, close and familiar luxury.
His villas continue to retain that rustic charm, decorated with bespoke furniture from local artisans and covered with works of art by Spanish painters. For this spring, in addition, all of them will have a butler for the first time.
The workshops, given by experts in yoga, detox cooking, or conscious breathing, are among the most outstanding in the area. Just like his legendary beach club , open every day of the year, or Kid's Club , which to date is the best that exists for the little ones in the area.
ANANTARA V ** ILLA PADIERNA PALACE **
Anantara could not have chosen a better property to disembark in Spain than this Tuscan mansion located two and a half kilometers from Saladillo beach and 12 from Puerto Banús, since the hotel chosen by Michelle Obama for her stay in Marbella (one of the new rooms will be named after Obama in his honor) remains the most romantic everyone: open spaces, gardens, fountains and up to 2,000 works of art scattered throughout the hotel.
Among its strengths, in addition to its privacy, there is the ** Medical Spa & Wellness ** with 2,000 square meters, or the three 18-hole golf courses that the complex has.
The gastronomic spaces will have the advice of Paco Roncero and his beach club promises to become one of the hot spots on the Costa del Sol this summer.
VILLA PADIERNA THERMAS HOTEL
Also owned by the same owner, the luxurious spa hotel nestled in the mountains of Malaga, in the town of ratchet -60 kilometers from Marbella- is famous for its thermal baths of Roman origin, unique in Europe. The building was ordered to be built by the king Ferdinand VII, and since then, it has distributed health through the treatments with mineral-medicinal waters that it proposes.
Its medical specialists monitor all the programs (they stand out, above all, in dermatology, rheumatology and respiratory tract ) . These treatments are open to the general public, a philosophy that they have also followed this year with the **restaurant**. The chef's kitchen Andrew Ruiz is a discovery for any traveler who wants to enjoy a culinary experience 100% healthy Composed of organic and local products from the province of Malaga.
Villa Padierna, a classic
GRAN MELIA DON PEPE
The the only five-star hotel located in the historic center of Marbella offers the opportunity to go for a walk of only ten minutes to the historic center. In addition, from any of its rooms you can see the sea.
It presumes to offer the best downtown breakfast, and he has also managed to get a lot of talk about his new terrace salazon , a success since its recent opening thanks to its tapas and snacks and a very good cocktail bar open to the public. So is its magnificent restaurant T bone , specializing in grilled meats.
LOS MONTEROS SPA GOLF RESORT
One of the first grand luxury hotels in Marbella has renovated this year its mythical sports facilities: Los Monteros Racket Club . Here the tennis greats of the 70s played and today it has become the epicenter of those seeking exclusivity and sports practice, especially focused on golf and rackets.
close to the best golf courses in the destination (and five kilometers from Marbella) has paddle tennis courts, clay and hard tennis courts, beach tennis courts and _beach volleyball courts -_with natural sand, of course-. It also has a gym and spa.
After exercise, the Sunset Terrace It has become the perfect place to have a cocktail or a glass of champagne overlooking the Mediterranean. But if they boast of something when the season arrives, it is their La Cabane Beach Club , with direct access to the beach, VIP experiences, and its well-known show cooking with first-class local products.
Gran Meliá Don Pepe has just opened Salazonia
KEMPINSKI ESTEPONA BAY
The hotel emblem of luxury in Estepona, With its two decades of life on the beachfront, it continues to make a name for itself on the international scene. Estepona has become the continuation of Marbella and this hotel with 145 rooms (including 17 suites) has been one of the main responsible.
This season reopens its Spiler Beach Club and also returns to the fray with one of the events that has become a benchmark on the coast, the polo tournament on the beach, which brings together, at the beginning of May, the cream of society.
In addition, it continues betting on art and culture through the second edition of Kempinski Arts Series 2019 . By the way, the Imperial Suite is still in first place, breaking all the records in terms of size on the Costa del Sol. We will see if it is unseated by those who come…
GRAN HOTEL ELBA ESTEPONA & THALASSO SPA
Another oasis of luxury in Estepona is the Elba, one of the few Thalasso-Spa that works only with sea water. Its treatment menu is impressive and the beauty rituals, one of its strengths, are renewed every season.
Today it is one of the hotel-ambassadors of products from Malaga and its local cuisine , with the label Taste of Malaga , is the absolute protagonist.
FINCA CORTESIN HOTEL GOLF & SPA
In Casares, between Marbella and Sotogrande, located on a farm of more than 215 hectares, is one of the great favorites of the relaxed luxury in the south of Spain. The space, the details and the contact with the field are its great bastions, in addition to the balance, serenity and beauty from its corners.
The farm, on the first line of golf, is the most desired. But its gastronomic offer is also unbeatable: it has Kabuki Raw (with Michelin star) , don giovanni , one of the best Italian restaurants on the coast, and Lutz's Garden , with more than 600 international wine references. That said, another master.
Country club luxury at Finca Cortesín