Mijas Costa Property Market Report July 2009 from Spanish Hot Properties · Costa Del Sol Malaga EU

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2009 has been really interesting year so far for the Spanish property market the Mijas Costa property market has been no different. In an area of huge over building and very low prices certain areas of Mijas Costa offer incredible value with some apartments as low as €130,000 Euros according to Spanish Hot Properties marketing and operations manager Susana Suspenda.

“The first thing you have to understand about the Mijas Costa property market is the area itself. The municipal area of Mijas covers almost 140 square kilometers, extending from the mountains down to the sea surrounding the municipality of Fuengirola. The Urban áreas of Mijas are Mijas Pueblo, Las Lagunas, La Cala de Mijas and Mijas Costa. The pueblo is slightly inland and known as the White Village situated at the foothills of the Cordón Montañoso del Litoral with historic buildings, museums and traditional bars and restaurants. Las Lagunas, La Cala de Mijas and Mijas Costa are the newer parts where most of the services and new housing developments are situated The Fuengirola River flows through the centre of the municipality, where there are large agricultural areas, seven golf courses and luxury housing estates. Since the pueblo village was discovered in the sixties, over fifty nationalities have made it their home and the impact can be appreciated with the international cuisine, cosmopolitan clubs and influence of foreign culture and the arts. Mijas Costa is highly developed for tourism, but retains some its historical attractions with the four centuries-old Vigilance Towers of Calaburras, Torre Vieja, Torre Nueva (built in the 19th century) and the Torre de Calahonda which was built in the 16th century.
If you drive along the old road that unites Mijas with Benalmadena you will pass the large lookout point opening to the sea, hidden amidst pines, ornamental plants and summer houses along the coastline. Besides the numerous international restaurants, there are local eateries which serve traditional Andalucian cuisine, and the diversity of shops in Mijas make it an ideal place to buy all types of articles and local crafts and souvenirs from the Costa del Sol which range from locally produced honeys to intricate silverwork to basket weaving. In reality the majority of property in Mijas Costa is based around four towns Calalhonda, Riviera, El Faro and the jewel in the crown La Cala de Mijas which is about 20% more expensive than the rest of the costal towns in Mijas Costa. This is where some of the best value is in Costa del Sol and you can find excellent quality property starting at €140,000 Euros and even some Villas starting at €325,000. Also for people who come to live here full time the cost of living is much less than close by Marbella.

Anyone wishing to find more about the current state of the Mijas Costa property market or require information about Spanish property should contact Spanish Hot Properties.

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Article Source: Mijas Costa Property Market Report July 2009 from Spanish Hot Properties · Costa Del Sol Malaga EU

Andalucía Property Market report July 2009 from Spanish Hot Properties · Costa Del Sol Malaga EU

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Spanish property in 2009 has been really interesting especially the Andalucía property market which has seen quite a horrendous year as a whole with a few bright spot in certain areas of Costa del Sol but overall things can only really start to get better for the Andalucía property market according to Spanish Hot Properties Managing Director Nick Stuart.

As Nick explains “the first thing about the Andalucía property market is the fact it’s so big and so diverse and in reality you have 6 markets in one. You have the four Costas of Costa de la Luz, Costa del Sol, Costa Tropical and Costa Almeria all very different in their own ways and all with different types of problems. You then have Andalucía Inland and the Andalucía countryside know as El Campo and Finally you have The major Cities of Andalucía such as Sevilla, Granada, Malaga, Cordoba, Jaen and Almeria which is in the main totally Spanish. Then you just have to imagine the actual size of Andalucía where the actual Coastline at Vera in Almeria to Huelva is over 500 Kilometers in distance and going inland from Marbella to Jaen is some 280 Kilometers. Then for people who know the diversity of the Andalucía and why it is one the greatest places on the planet it is easier to understand the huge diversity of the type of property you can buy and more importantly the type of lifestyle you can have in Andalucía. When looking at the Andalucía property market I think the most important fact to bear in mind is whilst property prices may have crashed the cost of construction hasn’t and at best it has stayed level. In reality this means you can buy certain properties for a price you could never build for today and that is what makes the Andalucía property market very interesting. To try and make understanding the market a little easier I have broken it down into 3 main areas.

Andalucía Inland property

This is rural Andalucía at its finest where you have quaint typical Spanish white villages known as pueblos blancos and country properties such as Fincas and Cortijos set in large amount of rustic land. Now this type of property has a huge Be Careful sign attached to it a large amount of these properties have been illegally built and have demolition orders on them or could have in the future. However if you have a good Lawyer you shouldn’t need to worry but certainly look to buy this type of property from a reputable agent and not direct from a vendor. If you try and cut corners in the Campo you will normally get badly burnt. As for property prices with the exception of the few desperate International sellers the property market has held it value pretty well due to it being mainly a local Spanish market and if your looking for value for money from an investment point of view you would probably be better buying on the Costas. The buyers in this area tend to want something around the €100,000 Euros mark or are looking a country way of life.

Sevilla and the Andalucía Cities

Prime location is everything and again city centre prices have held up very well indeed especially in Sevilla and Malaga. Again this market is dominated by the local Spanish who don’t need to sell. The real value is the older properties that were built some time ago with the building costs associated of that time. Also when you head out towards the suburbs you tend to get better value with the local distressed sales market.

The 4 Costas

Costa de La Luz and Costa Almeria have probably suffered more than any of the Costas mainly due to the fact that they are the newest markets and a lot of people bought in those Costas because they couldn’t afford to buy in Costa del Sol and we all know that has changed round and they are having a very tough time of it and people who buy there now buy for low price and a different more sedate lifestyle but not for value. However you can buy a nice apartment in these Costas for about €120,000 Euros. Costa Tropical is holding up very well in relative terms with the luxurious Villas in the La Herradura and Marina del Este region holding up very well. The market is made up of Rich International types, a local Market and Granada citizens having second homes. It’s very quiet and peaceful and is one of the unknown Jewels of the Andalucía Coast. Finally we come to where all the action is in Costa del Sol due to the huge oversupply of property now matched with huge discounts and lots of bank repossessions and distressed sales Costa del Sol probably represents the best value in all of Spain where you can buy property for less than you can build it for and is very much where the value and activity is for Spanish Hot Properties customers.

Andalucía is a great place to live and right now it’s a very interesting property market”.

Anyone wishing to find more about the current state of the Andalucía property market or require information about Spanish property should contact Spanish Hot Properties.

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Article Source: Andalucía Property Market report July 2009 from Spanish Hot Properties · Costa Del Sol Malaga EU

International Property Investments in Spain from International Hot Property · Costa Del Sol Malaga EU

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The Spanish property market currently offers excellent opportunities for International property investors looking for strong capital growth in the medium term with lots of properties discounted by as much as 50% according to Simon Jones Simon Jones, market analyst at http://www.internationalhotproperty.co.uk/.

“We have located some of the best property investments in Spain and our investments represent great value with regards to capital growth, in most cases there are up to 90% Mortgages available for the small investor. However the days of 110% mortgages in Spain are now very much s thing of the past and now the Notary has to declare that the mortgage doesn’t exceed 100% of the purchase price” explained Simon.

So what type of investments and what type of investors are you likely to find in the Spanish property market? Firstly Spain has two types of investor and the first type aren’t really your traditional type of investor, they are more people looking for a good deal who can get some use out of there asset but buying at a price they can make a profit on in the medium term. The other is the serious investor who is looking to buy multiple units at the best prices with a view to doubling his money over a 3 to 5 year period and these people are in a great position to do just that. As for investments themselves we have them all over Spain but the best value for money investments at the present time is Costa del Sol in Spain because there is a huge oversupply of 2 bedroom apartments with developers and banks keen to off load at very competitive terms. The average price per unit is about €250,000 but Investment opportunities start as low as €135,000 rising up to single Villas at €1.2M that were €2.7M Simon explained further.

Anyone wanting to know more details about these unique Spanish investments property opportunity should contact International Hot Property by email or phone.

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British Package Tourists Are Staying Away From Spain · Costa Del Sol Malaga EU

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Spain’s 50-year-old bonanza of “sun, sea and sangria” package tourism has gone into what experts warn is irreversible decline, taking with it a great British institution, as hotel rooms go begging up and down the country’s Mediterranean coast this summer.


Hotel-building has ground to a halt in many resorts while older hotels on the Balearic islands, including Majorca, are waiting for permission to be gutted, turned into blocks of flats and sold off.


“If someone tried to give me a hotel now I wouldn’t want it, unless I knew I could sell the thing,” Jaume Moll, a tourism millionaire on Majorca told El País newspaper this week.


With the Majorcan resort of Calvi à leading the way by tearing down its worst hotels, experts now warn that the only way to stop the package tourism rot will be to cull up to 30% of hotels in some Spanish resorts.


Almost 5% fewer package tourists arrived in Spain in the early part of this season compared with last year, while tourism in most of the world is booming, according to the Spanish lobby group Exceltur.

Competition


“It is a model that is exhausted and in difficulties,” Spain’s tourism minister, José Montilla, admitted recently.


The traditional costa package holiday, immortalised by Carry On films and a generation of stand-up comics, was invented in the 1950s when former warplanes transported ration-weary Britons to what were then small, quaint fishing villages on the Costa Brava.


The package holiday fed a tourism boom that saw the 2 million visitors who discovered virgin Spanish beaches and the dangers of all-over sunburn in 1956 become 17 million within a decade and close to 50 million within 30 years.


As the season hits its highest point this week, however, even four-star hotels in Marbella, the most expensive spot on the Costa del Sol, have been advertising accommodation at €65 (£40) a night, while similar Costa Brava hotels are reportedly asking €45.


At Malaga airport one major hotel chain, Sol Melia, is advertising bed and breakfast for €48 a night.


Competition for the traditional costa package is coming from cheaper, rival resorts elsewhere and from the holiday homes being bought, and then let via the internet or lent to friends, by British and other owners.


Britons are estimated to be buying 100,000 holiday homes a year, while 80,000 more are going to other nationalities.


At Malaga airport earlier this week there were more estate agents greeting morning arrivals, many stepping off self-booked budget flights rather than charter airlines, than tour reps.


“Some people go to the villa, stock up at the supermarket, switch on Sky television and do not leave for the next two weeks,” explained Ann Taylor, a Costa del Sol property saleswoman.


“The housing is spreading all the way along the coast and even up into the hills,” she added.


The change has alarmed Spanish hotel owners, who are demanding action against internet lets or private deals where money and, especially, taxes may never reach Spain.


“It is very important that the authorities take firm measures to make sure there is not illegal accommodation on offer,” said Simón Pedro Barceló, co-chairman of one of Spain’s largest tourism companies, Barcelo.


Up to a third of tourists arriving at some resorts now arrange their own villas or apartments.


Years of familiarity with Spanish airports, car hire companies and roads also mean many travellers no longer need trips laid on by tour companies or travel agencies, said Mr Barceló.


“We’ve been coming here for several years and now I just go on to the internet to look for something. Usually it belongs to someone in England and we might pay them there,” said Tina O’Loughlin, from Wirral, as she and her husband, James, took their daughter Charlotte, aged seven, to a Marbella beach yesterday.


Choked roads, packed beaches and shoddy 1970s hotels have all contributed to the flight of tourists to other places.


A four-mile tailback on the coastal road out of Marbella yesterday was proof that the costas’ infrastructure cannot always handle so many visitors.


Hotel owners blame greedy Spanish restaurant and bar owners, and those with licences to rent out overpriced sun-loungers on the beaches, for driving tourists away.


While the costas struggle to hold on to package tourists, their booming, cheaper and less-crowded rivals in countries such as Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt and Croatia enjoy annual growth rates of up to 50%.


They now jointly attract more than 60 million tourists a year, compared with Spain’s 52 million.


Spain, meanwhile, expects just 1-2% growth in visitor numbers this year but an overall drop in tourism income as prices are forced down and people spend less time and less money in the country.


The number of foreigners occupying hotel beds in the Balearic islands, Andalucia and the Canaries fell by between 6.7% and 10.2% in April and May.


Exceltur predicts that €263m (£175m) of package tourist cash will be lost this year.


In a country which is considered a tourism superpower, and where tourism accounts for 12% of the economy, the crisis is a major worry.


Larger Spanish tourism companies became global players years ago, developing alternative resorts around the world, but Mr Barceló said that Spain itself must now offer quality hotels and more than just beaches, bars and restaurants.


“I don’t think anybody will be getting rid of five-star hotels,” he said.


A newspaper columnist, Enric Llarch, says that hotel owners, whose properties may open only four or five months a year, have had it too easy for too long.


“A large proportion have limited themselves to squeezing the tourist lemon,” he wrote in La Vanguardia newspaper earlier this week.


This week’s terrorist attacks on tourist hotels in Turkey were thought likely to encourage last-minute holiday buyers to turn back to Spain.


In any case, said Mr Barceló, the decline of package tourism does not mean the British, and northern European, love affair with Spain is over.


“Tourism is a living, changing phenomenon,” he said. “Our growth opportunities are not so much in sea and sunshine but in the interior, in our cities, and in offering things like culture, health and beauty.”

The holiday budget


Amount by which package holiday market to Spain is thought to have fallen this year:


20%


Spain’s receipts from British visitors in 2003:


£5bn


Percentage of Spain’s 2003 GNP accounted for by tourism: 12% Number of Spaniards working in tourism:


1.5m


Number of second homes being built annually in Spain:


180,000


Percentage of those homes being built for Britons:


40%

Isabelle Chevallot

Article Source: British Package Tourists Are Staying Away From Spain · Costa Del Sol Malaga EU

Costa Almeria Property Crisis Overview from Spanish Hot Properties · Costa Del Sol Malaga EU

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Spanish property in Costa Almeria has probably struggled more in recent times than any other Costa in southern Spain bar Costa de la Luz and right now you can buy property in Costa Almeria for €100.000 and some very good property from €120,000 Euros with very little sign of buyers and considering that Costa Almeria gets more sunshine per year than any other Costa in Spain it is quite hard to understand why the market is in such deep crisis.

So why this case well Nick Stuart managing director of Spanish Hot Properties is explains “First you have to understand the Almeria property market and how it came to be and then the outside factors that have led to the current situation. Costa Almeria as an international property market is relatively young and was put on the map primarily by Desert Springs Golf resort where to use Sir Ian Bonham’s words “When I wanted to buy a place in Spain Desert Springs was the only choice” and other major sports stars love the place but that’s one property development and one golf course and hardly going to sustain a whole property market but at least it put Costa Almeria on the market. However the real driving force for the property market in Costa Almeria was price with major Costa del Sol agents (so major they have now gone bust) opened offices in the region because people just couldn’t afford to live in Costa del Sol and looked either Go inland from Costa del Sol or out towards Costa de la Luz and Costa Almeria and around 2004 Costa Almeria started to be marketed as real alternative for property buyers with lower budgets. The marketing people did a great job so much so by the time we had hit the top of the market there really wasn’t much difference between all the Costas of Andalucía with Marbella obviously having a premium. The other factor is the majority of overseas buyers who bought in Costa Almeria didn’t buy to live but were second holiday home owners with the obvious exception of the Ex-Pats that choice to retire to Costa Almeria. Then bang the property crash comes and the first thing that goes in the holiday home second market which Costa Almeria and Costa de la Luz felt the worse of. However it’s much worse than that because the people who couldn’t afford to live in Costa del Sol can now afford to do so which means price is no longer a factor for Costa Almeria buyers it’s about the more relaxed and chilled out way of life. People at the low end of the market will probably look at properties in Costa Blanca south for €70,000 and people who have €120,000 Euros to spend with probably find something for €140,000 in Costa del Sol. The other problem for Costa Almeria is there is no real work for the ex pats community especially compared to Costa Blanca and Costa del Sol. So if you’re coming over to live and work in Spain Costa Almeria is very much off the list and this in a nutshell is why Costa Almeria is taking it so badly” Nick explained at some length.

It’s a real shame as Costa Almeria has a lot to offer and is very much for those who want a much more quite and relaxed holiday rather than those Costas with busy and energetic nightlife. Costa Almeria has excellent relaxed beaches as well as excellent Golf Course with the only desert golf course in the whole of Spain, Desert Springs. Costa Almeria boasts the most sunshine of all of the Spanish Costas and you can still actually buy a property on the beach for €500,000.

If you would like to find out more about Costa Almeria property or advice about the current state of the market contact Spanish Hot Properties.

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British Package Tourists Are Staying Away From Spain · Costa Del Sol Malaga EU

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Spain’s 50-year-old bonanza of “sun, sea and sangria” package tourism has gone into what experts warn is irreversible decline, taking with it a great British institution, as hotel rooms go begging up and down the country’s Mediterranean coast this summer.


Hotel-building has ground to a halt in many resorts while older hotels on the Balearic islands, including Majorca, are waiting for permission to be gutted, turned into blocks of flats and sold off.


“If someone tried to give me a hotel now I wouldn’t want it, unless I knew I could sell the thing,” Jaume Moll, a tourism millionaire on Majorca told El País newspaper this week.


With the Majorcan resort of Calvi à leading the way by tearing down its worst hotels, experts now warn that the only way to stop the package tourism rot will be to cull up to 30% of hotels in some Spanish resorts.


Almost 5% fewer package tourists arrived in Spain in the early part of this season compared with last year, while tourism in most of the world is booming, according to the Spanish lobby group Exceltur.

Competition


“It is a model that is exhausted and in difficulties,” Spain’s tourism minister, José Montilla, admitted recently.


The traditional costa package holiday, immortalised by Carry On films and a generation of stand-up comics, was invented in the 1950s when former warplanes transported ration-weary Britons to what were then small, quaint fishing villages on the Costa Brava.


The package holiday fed a tourism boom that saw the 2 million visitors who discovered virgin Spanish beaches and the dangers of all-over sunburn in 1956 become 17 million within a decade and close to 50 million within 30 years.


As the season hits its highest point this week, however, even four-star hotels in Marbella, the most expensive spot on the Costa del Sol, have been advertising accommodation at €65 (£40) a night, while similar Costa Brava hotels are reportedly asking €45.


At Malaga airport one major hotel chain, Sol Melia, is advertising bed and breakfast for €48 a night.


Competition for the traditional costa package is coming from cheaper, rival resorts elsewhere and from the holiday homes being bought, and then let via the internet or lent to friends, by British and other owners.


Britons are estimated to be buying 100,000 holiday homes a year, while 80,000 more are going to other nationalities.


At Malaga airport earlier this week there were more estate agents greeting morning arrivals, many stepping off self-booked budget flights rather than charter airlines, than tour reps.


“Some people go to the villa, stock up at the supermarket, switch on Sky television and do not leave for the next two weeks,” explained Ann Taylor, a Costa del Sol property saleswoman.


“The housing is spreading all the way along the coast and even up into the hills,” she added.


The change has alarmed Spanish hotel owners, who are demanding action against internet lets or private deals where money and, especially, taxes may never reach Spain.


“It is very important that the authorities take firm measures to make sure there is not illegal accommodation on offer,” said Simón Pedro Barceló, co-chairman of one of Spain’s largest tourism companies, Barcelo.


Up to a third of tourists arriving at some resorts now arrange their own villas or apartments.


Years of familiarity with Spanish airports, car hire companies and roads also mean many travellers no longer need trips laid on by tour companies or travel agencies, said Mr Barceló.


“We’ve been coming here for several years and now I just go on to the internet to look for something. Usually it belongs to someone in England and we might pay them there,” said Tina O’Loughlin, from Wirral, as she and her husband, James, took their daughter Charlotte, aged seven, to a Marbella beach yesterday.


Choked roads, packed beaches and shoddy 1970s hotels have all contributed to the flight of tourists to other places.


A four-mile tailback on the coastal road out of Marbella yesterday was proof that the costas’ infrastructure cannot always handle so many visitors.


Hotel owners blame greedy Spanish restaurant and bar owners, and those with licences to rent out overpriced sun-loungers on the beaches, for driving tourists away.


While the costas struggle to hold on to package tourists, their booming, cheaper and less-crowded rivals in countries such as Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt and Croatia enjoy annual growth rates of up to 50%.


They now jointly attract more than 60 million tourists a year, compared with Spain’s 52 million.


Spain, meanwhile, expects just 1-2% growth in visitor numbers this year but an overall drop in tourism income as prices are forced down and people spend less time and less money in the country.


The number of foreigners occupying hotel beds in the Balearic islands, Andalucia and the Canaries fell by between 6.7% and 10.2% in April and May.


Exceltur predicts that €263m (£175m) of package tourist cash will be lost this year.


In a country which is considered a tourism superpower, and where tourism accounts for 12% of the economy, the crisis is a major worry.


Larger Spanish tourism companies became global players years ago, developing alternative resorts around the world, but Mr Barceló said that Spain itself must now offer quality hotels and more than just beaches, bars and restaurants.


“I don’t think anybody will be getting rid of five-star hotels,” he said.


A newspaper columnist, Enric Llarch, says that hotel owners, whose properties may open only four or five months a year, have had it too easy for too long.


“A large proportion have limited themselves to squeezing the tourist lemon,” he wrote in La Vanguardia newspaper earlier this week.


This week’s terrorist attacks on tourist hotels in Turkey were thought likely to encourage last-minute holiday buyers to turn back to Spain.


In any case, said Mr Barceló, the decline of package tourism does not mean the British, and northern European, love affair with Spain is over.


“Tourism is a living, changing phenomenon,” he said. “Our growth opportunities are not so much in sea and sunshine but in the interior, in our cities, and in offering things like culture, health and beauty.”

The holiday budget


Amount by which package holiday market to Spain is thought to have fallen this year:


20%


Spain’s receipts from British visitors in 2003:


£5bn


Percentage of Spain’s 2003 GNP accounted for by tourism: 12% Number of Spaniards working in tourism:


1.5m


Number of second homes being built annually in Spain:


180,000


Percentage of those homes being built for Britons:


40%

Isabelle Chevallot

Article Source: British Package Tourists Are Staying Away From Spain · Costa Del Sol Malaga EU

Discovering Costa Del Sol Beaches & Culture From The Perla Marina Hotel · Costa Del Sol Malaga EU

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Those planning a trip to Spain’s picturesque Costa Del Sol are spoilt for choice when it comes to choosing a place to stay in from the region’s many idyllic towns, cities and resorts. Travellers wanting to explore the easterly part of this stunning coastal area however, should definitely consider staying at the Perla Marina Hotel which can be found in the resort of Nerja.

An ideal holiday home for business and leisure travellers alike, the Perla Marina Hotel enjoys a relatively quiet seaside location where sun seekers can spend their days just lazing about by the shore and working on that perfect holiday tan. The property is also situated within easy reach of the Nerja town centre which means that accessing local restaurants, bars and shops is not a problem. Those wanting to fully experience Nerja’s coastline can visit such local beaches as Torrecilla, Calahonda, Salon Carabeo and Burriana. Even though they are not typical postcard type beaches, they nevertheless give one a chance to enjoy a relaxed coastal atmosphere.

The region also boasts of a rich cultural and natural heritage which will be evident for travellers who take time to explore Nerja. Guests of the Perla Marina Hotel Costa Del Sol wanting to experience this rich history should make time to visit such Nerja attractions as the Balcon de Europa with its breathtaking views, the El Salvador Church (16th – 17th century), the ancient Nerja Cave (Cueva de Nerja) which is home to a fascinating collection of stalactite and stalagmite formations, the 18th century Las Angustias Hermitage and the 19th century El Aguila Aqueduct.

In order to truly experience some local culture however, one needs to plan a visit to coincide with one of the local festivals. Many of these festivals have a religious significance especially in connection with local saints and take place in the different towns in the region. Those staying at the Perla Marina Hotel in Costa Del Sol should try and witness some of Nerja’s festivals which include the Virgen del Carmen Festival (16th July), the Holy Week processions and the Festivals for Virgen de las Angustias and San Miguel Arcangel (8th to 12th October).

Since the Costa Del Sol covers such a vast stretch of coastline, there is plenty to see and do for those who love the great outdoors. The hotel makes a great base from which to visit such main cities as Malaga which is only about 45 kilometres from Nerja. Guests can also make excursions to such places of interest as Seville, Granada, Cordoba and Ronda.

Of course finding the right kind of accommodation is essential to the success of any holiday experience. Made up of two buildings, Hotel Perla Marina Costa Del Sol has its own swimming pool which is a great place to cool off in after a long day of sightseeing. Business travellers can make use of onsite meeting / banquet facilities and wireless
Internet access which is a definite plus point for those who cannot live without going online! Meals can be taken at the snack-bar cafeteria, while the hotel also has a bar, a car park (additional cost) and facilities for differently-abled guests.

The rooms at the hotel come with all important air conditioning and give one a chance to get some much needed rest. Equipped with cable / satellite television which is quite useful for those wanting to stay indoors at night, these simple living spaces also have a private bathroom, a mini fridge and a safe box (optional) which is available on request.

Travellers need to take their time in order to experience the rich history and natural wonders of Spain’s Costa Del Sol. While visitors will probably not be able to take in all that the region has to offer in one visit, the Perla Marina Hotel in Nerja is a great place to start from. The sunny beaches, historical monuments, colourful festivals and natural attractions in the area are just a small sample of what one can expect when undertaking an adventure along the Costa Del Sol.

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