Escaping to Marbella? These Are Our Top Picks for Luxury Hotels

If you are looking to escape your fast-paced everyday life and exchange it for an exclusive luxury-resort break, Marbella has the perfect mixture of glitz, down-to-earth friendliness, and lovely surroundings. With plenty of premium hotels on offer, you won’t be short of stunning locales you can use as a base from which to explore the surrounding area. Moreover, should you wish to explore these deluxe hotels more than Marbella itself – well, who can blame you?

After years of driving Malaga airport transfers and helping people get around this area, I have sussed out the best resorts on offer for everyone looking forward to a relaxing, revitalising holiday. In no particular order, I find these to be the ones receiving the highest compliments from our customers:

Finca Cortesín Hotel, Golf & Spa

Situated amongst 23,000 m2 of beautiful, manicured gardens, this hotel is an ideal retreat if you’re looking for some rest and relaxation within a stunning setting. Finca Cortesin Hotel’s enchanting, typical Andalusian architecture pairs wonderfully with its leisurely atmosphere. There is a choice of suites and villas, both offering spectacular levels of comfort and sophistication, as well as three different award-winning gourmet restaurants where you can treat yourself to some delicious traditional Spanish cuisine, a Michelin-starred Japanese meal, or some authentic and innovative Italian fare. The hotel also offers a state-of-the-art spa that hosts an indoor swimming pool, three different thermal areas, a massage zone, and even a snow cave – Spain’s one and only!

Your Malaga airport transfer driver will have you settling into this fabulous resort in no time, as it is barely an hour’s drive away from the airport. You can even enjoy some fabulous views alongside the coastal roads!

Marbella Club Hotel

Commissioned by Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe in 1954 as a private residence, this fabulous destination has been renovated through the decades up to the standards it upholds today. Considered by many regulars the best in Marbella, Marbella Club Hotel is elegant, upscale, and contemporary all at once. With spacious, airy rooms, exquisite service, and striking surroundings, this oasis of peace is located right at the heart of Marbella’s Golden Mile. Its restaurants range from a casual beach buffet to a more upscale grill restaurant and an opulent champagne room, and the spa’s indoor seawater pool will make you never want to leave.

The most convenient way to reach the hotel is to book a Malaga transfer airport service in advance. A short 45-minute drive will give you just enough time to get into holiday-mode before arriving in style.

Sunny Dom Holiday Villa

Luxury doesn’t always come hand-in-hand with huge resorts. If you are looking for a more personal, secluded kind of exclusivity, this boutique hotel offers you exactly that. With only five rooms, you won’t have to worry about queues or crowds. The hotel has a communal lounge with incredibly comfortable armchairs and sofas where you can relax after a day of swimming and sunbathing and chat to fellow visitors. However, if you would rather a more intimate stay, that is most definitely not an issue: you can choose the room that has its own private sauna or the one with a spacious, private terrace overlooking the Mediterranean Sea – it’s up to you! To top it all off, Sunny Dom outdoes itself on the details, from a pillow menu, to personalised customer service and custom-made incense aromas to scent your room.

Ask your Malaga airport transfer driver to bring you to this lovely villa and you will see the look of approval on their face. Plus, it only takes around 35 minutes to get here from Malaga airport.

If you still can’t make up your mind about where to stay during your well-deserved, lavish stay in Marbella, don’t worry. These are only a handful of examples of the high-quality accommodation you can find in this popular Spanish city to which a Malaga airport transfer driver can easily take you.

Lukas Johannes is a driver for Shuttle Direct, the number one provider of shared and private airport transfers all over Europe and northern Africa. If you’re looking for an affordable Malaga airport transfer, Lukas and his colleagues can make sure that you and your luggage get to and from the airport swiftly and safely.

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