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A good class and comfortable hotel, ideally located in Puerto Banus, the most stylishness summer resort in Costa del Sol. It houses the casino of Nueva Andalucia. For high rollers!
H10 Andalucia Plaza - © A.Lorgnier / EASYVOYAGE
H10 Andalucia Plaza - © A.Lorgnier / EASYVOYAGE
The Andalucia Plaza is located on the road that connects Marbella to Cadix, 2,625 ft from downtown Puerto Banus, the posh summer resort in Costa del Sol. The main surrounding cities are easily accessible by bus or by car: Marbella (4 miles), Malaga (40 miles), Sevilla (125 miles). You will spend about 1 hour (37 miles) for transfers from the airport.
The 400 rooms are quite spacious (270 ft²) and comfortable. Half of them offer a view of the pool or parking. From the third to the last floor, there is a view of the sea that you can see, farther away, behind the highway that borders the hotel. Even if the rooms are quite isolated (double glasses), you can still hear the noise of the traffic. If you want more tranquility, ask for one of the rooms located at the level of the hotel entrance (ending in 04 to 20). The rooms are rustically decorated but very groomed: rendering walls, marble or tiled floors, duplication of Spanish paintings of the 20th century, Andalusian chest... The comfort is very satisfactory since the rooms are equipped with individual air-conditioning, an electronic safe (paying), a stocked minibar and a TV. The bathrooms are very bright and tastefully decorated with azulejos. All the bathrooms offer a bathtub, a washbasin, a bidet and toilets. A few good points: hair-dryer, a bathrobe and welcome products (razor, toothbrush, shoes brush, creams, shower gel...) and dial-up Internet connection in all the rooms.
Built in 1972, renovated in 1998, the Andalucia PLaza is made of two large 5-level buildings whose nice old facades are easily noticeable from the highway. It is different from the other "concrete" buildings around... Between the two buildings you will find the reception and the pool. Huge and very nice with its lounge areas, its small-shops and its great fountain, the lobby allows you to get to the Toledo bar with musical ambiance in the evening. The large lagoon pool (5,380 ft²) is surrounded by a solarium with beach chairs, sunshades, showers and since 2004, cabins for massage. The pool bar (closed in winter time) is also nearby. It is presided over by a large promenade surrounded by verdure. Right aside from here, the kids can bath in the pool designated for them only. Also, the hotel offer a small gym centre with indoor pool, fitness centre, sauna and hammam (paying access). The casino in Nueva Andalucia is located inside the hotel and the access is free for its costumers.
With a welcoming capacity of 400 guests, the restaurant is located in a large dining-room where the tables are sufficiently spaced out so that you can have your meal without hearing the conversations of the nearby guests. Here you can have breakfast, lunch and dinner served buffet-style. The buffet occupies an entire side of the dining-room. The high ceilings and the muffled decoration create a ''bourgeois'' atmosphere. When the weather is nice, you can also enjoy the patio of the restaurant overlooking the pool. While the variety of the food is not the best offfer of the hotel (about ten starters, a few hot dishes and a slender choice of desserts), the quality is, in return, very good. You will mainly have Andalousian cuisine with paella fresh fish, local pastries and season fruits. Three times a week, thematic evenings (Italian, oriental and Andalousian) are organised.
A comfortable spa with heated pool, massage rooms, a hot tub, a sauna, a steam room, hydrotherapy, aromatherapy. and a fitness area near the pool opened in 2004.
If you want to go to the public beach of Nueva Andalucia, located 985 ft away, you will enter the tunnel that connects the hotel to the littoral. This beach, located in an urban zone, if though very crowded in summer, and it lays out on one mile. A promenade, bordered by palm trees, slightly isolates the beach from the highway that passes nearby. The beach is covered by brown sand. The water is clear. You will find here not less than four beach-clubs equipped with pools. Here you can practice all kinds of water sports like windsurfing, jet-skiing or pedalo. Several ''Chiriguitos'' (snack bars) will allow you to eat on the beach and rent beach chairs, mattresses and sunshades. There are also available showers and public toilets. The beach is supervised in summer only.
This hotel that is very well equipped attracts golf players between February and April (the '' high season'' for golf). Otherwise, it offers a comfortable and peaceful holiday place. The clientele is mainly British and Spanish. It offers a certain number of facilities: besides the free entrance to the casino of Nueva Andalucia, located inside the hotel, you can also take advantage of 12 tennis courts and 8 golf fields of 1st class, located nearby. Special prices are offered for green-fees.
A comfortable spa with heated pool, massage cabins, jacuzzi, sauna, Turkish baths, hydrotherapy, aromatherapy... and a fitness area near the pool opened in 2004.
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