Apartamentos BENALBEACH

Apologies this will be a long one, but if you are going or thinking of going here, you need to read. We stayed (so this is our informed review) at Benal Beach Aparthotel for 38 days from April to June 2024. Very close to lovely beaches, restaurants, bars, Marina and transport. 15 mins from Malaga Airport… The complex is vast. A mix of small, medium and large apartments. At this time it’s going through some major maintenance, so expect noise. In fact the whole time we were there, the building and gardens were being worked on. Lots of bagging, scraping, drilling, sawing etc. In fact the complex has little to no soundproofing. Banging doors, and screaming kids (& adults) at all hours could be heard constantly. At times the slamming of doors throughout the building were so loud and frequent that we were often woken with a start. The lifts could do with a full overhaul as they shook and rattled and jumped, making us at times think we were taking a chance using them, On a more pleasant note, the swimming pools and gardens are really well looked after, the two groundsmen we saw worked their socks off in 24-27* heat, so kudos to them. My complaint about the pool area was the fact you had to pay for the sunbeds. At a cost of €5 per bed, 1st time I’ve ever heard of this in a hotel and this can be very expensive, especially if you have a family. We purchased 2 reclining deckchairs at a cost of €35 each, which paid for themselves in a week. If we’d paid for the hotels Sunbed’s for 38 days it would have cost us €380! Which I think is ridiculous. The beach sunbeds were €7 each!!! Also for a complex that can host (according to their signs) 825 people around the pools, they only have 1 toilet Block with 2 female cubicles and 2 male cubicles and 3 urinals! These were always in a mess, missing toilet paper, pee all over the seats, and sometimes poo! and puddle wet floor. Then they would just close them so we had to go all the way to our room on the 5th floor on the other side of the hotel to use the bathroom. This sounds review sounds really bad, but we did however have a great time on our vacation (we got a good deal, & you get what you pay for) and we love Benalmadena, but we will be looking for a smaller, quieter location for next time. I ❤️ SPAIN

The slide in the pool nearly killed me today. It is WAY too fast and I literally flew out of it and landed back in, on my face. Would NOT recommend. The accommodation was okay. The whole place could do with an update TBH. All shops but 3 are empty. The bar shut in the evening.