Seeking Malaga Hotel

oxters

Hello

Can anyone please advise of a reasonable Hotel in Malaga city suitable for chilling out/sitting around to read a book etc.

Central preferred or reasonable walking/bus to Central area.

Many thanks

oxters

bump, bump

delwynshd

What are your dates?

Budget?

How many passengers?

Thanks
Del

oxters

End of August for 14 nights. Dunno about budget - for a friend. What can you recommend? 2 persons Can be flexible with dates

Lynsey

oxters wrote: »

End of August for 14 nights. Dunno about budget - for a friend. What can you recommend? 2 persons Can be flexible with dates

14 nights in Malaga City?????
I spent one day there and was bored.
Seriously, do they want to spend 14 days in Malaga City???
Lots of places to chill out and read a book for 14 says/nights, does it have to be Malaga City??

Lynsey

ailuro2

Well, there is a bit more than a day's worth of sightseeing in Malaga - the climb up to the castle and a walk round it will easily take up half a day.

I always use tripadvisor to check on any hotels we like the look of - the higher the rating the better for any particular town.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g187438-Malaga_Costa_del_Sol_Andalusia-Hotels.html

we went to Rincon de la Victoria last Christmas - lovely place, nice long promenade along the beach etc. but only about 5 or 10km from Malaga - on the East side.

Lynsey

ailuro2 wrote: »

Well, there is a bit more than a day's worth of sightseeing in Malaga - the climb up to the castle and a walk round it will easily take up half a day.

Agree, but 14 days!!!!!!!!!
Good point, it has a great train station with great links.

Lynsey

Lynsey

oxters wrote: »

Hello

Can anyone please advise of a reasonable Hotel in Malaga city suitable for chilling out/sitting around to read a book etc.

Central preferred or reasonable walking/bus to Central area.

Many thanks

Back on track.
Hotelopia via Quidco (10%) and also using a discount code (often 10% codes are available) may be an option. They normally are pretty cheap/ish with both discounts.
Another site is http://www.hotelscomparison.com/

Good luck,

Lynsey

Neil_Taylor

Three or four days in Malaga is probably enough, but you can get about on the Train or Bus to spread the time.

Trains will take you anywhere in Spain from the RENFE station
Local train will get you to Fuengirola and Torremolinas, and points in between. These are OK out of season, but not to my taste in Summer.
We do enjoy Benalmadena Costa.

You can walk for miles from Malaga to the East , to Rincon de la Victoria, which is a very Spanish Resort, I guess what Torremolinos and Fuengirola used to be like.

We've stayed here:
http://www.hoteldoncurro.com/pages/home
twice and it's very well positioned and was reasonably priced at New Year

Stayed here several times at Benalmadena:
http://www.hotelalay.com/eng/alay.php
generally outside school holidays (because we can!)
Reasonable price with a super buffet breakfast - though not impressed with the other meals.

Things to do in Malaga:

Picasso museum
Gibralfaro (the castle)
Alcazabar
Shopping

Don't bother with the modern art museum,There was a Tracy Emin exhibition at New Year - PANTS!

Try any Tapas bar, Specialli Gorki and Ajo Blanco.
HTH

oxters

Thanks to you all for these tips. I've clicked on thanks!
I will pass on these recc's and comments. I've personally spent a lovely week in Malaga City and enjoyed it. Busy city which has been much improved in recent years. Beach is ok too and a great fish restaurant on the beach to the north - really busy and reasonable prices too.