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The Melia Marbella Dinamar is located in the city centre of the chic seaside resort of Puerto Banus. This is a comfortable holiday hotel where the pool areas will delight both children and adults.
Melia Marbella Banus - © Carlos Rodrigues / EASYVOYAGE
Melia Marbella Banus - © Carlos Rodrigues / EASYVOYAGE
The Melia Marbella Dinamar is located 2,600 feet away from the chic seaside resort of Puerto Banus and 4 miles away from Marbella's city centre. Malaga airport is located 36 miles away from the hotel. Allow between a 45 and 55 minutes drive to get to the airport.
The hotel offers 221 spacious rooms of 250 square feet including 100 rooms in the new building. They are all identical: white tiled floor, blue paintings, seaborne inspiration pictures (lighthouse, ships...), rattan furniture. All rooms are air-conditioned (indivual A/C) and they are equipped with satellite TV, a telephone with direct line for international calls, a filled mini-bar and a safe. The bathrooms are fully furnished with a bathtub, a washbasin embedded in a marble table, a bidet, a toilet, a hair-dryer, a make-up mirror and well displayed welcome products. The large balconies look out on the gardens or the pool. 24-hour room service.
The hotel is composed of 2 Mediterranean-style buildings of 4 levels, one of them built in 1977 (former Holliday Inn), the other one in 1999. The reception area and the lobby, quite nice, have been renovated in 2004 along with the restaurant. Nearby you will find a TV room with a very large chimney of a Moorish style. Following the recent expansions, the hotel added a new pool of 3,200 square feet with rounded and irregular edges. It is stridden over by two wooden bridges and decorated with false rocks and waterfalls. Floral lawns, fitted out with stone pavings, deckchairs and sunshades (free towels), serve as a solarium. A little away from it, you will find a basin and a park for children as well as a mini-golf round. The oldest pool, of a surface of 2,100 square feet, offers a paved solarium, a basin for children and a bar. The two pools are supervised. The outdoors facilities are nice, but the setting is unfortunatly a little wasted by the nearby residences.
The restaurant of the hotel is open all year round. Breakfast is served buffet-style. There is a menu for lunch in winter and a buffet in summer. In the evening, you can choose between the menu or the buffet served outside, around the pool, by the torch glow. The buffets are quite varied and offer an interesting choice of grills. The menu is also attractive, with a very good selection of vegetarian dishes. The Mediterranean cuisine is rather original. For a full meal, without drinks, you will spend a little more than ?30 (£24) on average. If you want to drink something, you can choose between the three bars of the hotel. All the summer evenings, one of them is animated by a piano player (flamenco shows, tango or songs in the winter patio).
The hotel is equipped with a nice fitness centre with a steam room, a Jacuzzi, a sauna and a small 30m² heated indoor pool. Its large bay windows overlook a beautiful garden planted with amaryllis, papyrus and banana trees.
The closest public beach is located 1,600 feet away from the hotel. This is a large yellow sand beach, located in the centre of Puerto Banus. It is very large and quite far away from the coastal road. The only noises you can hear come from the beach attendants, the sportsmen and sportswomen and the vacationists. The sand is fine on the edge of the water where the flow brings back pebbles. Except for the view of the Sierra, the setting is far from being idyllic. In fact, you will have to put up with the view of the city of Marbella in the distance, the surrounding buildings and a shopping centre. As for the equipments, you can find deckchairs, matresses and sunshades for rent (?5 or £4 per day), showers, three snacks and a water sports club offering windurfing, pedalo, jet-ski... The beach is supervised in high season.
The hotel is equipped with a nice fitness centre with a Turkish bath, a jacuzzi, a sauna and a small indoors pool of 320 square feet. Its large picture windows overlook a beautiful garden planted with trees, amaryllis, papyrus and banana trees.
The hotel welcomes a British, Spanish and French clientele.
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tennis, water skiing, golf, jet ski, sailing, paddle boats, canoe, fitness
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