PRIVATE VILLA WITH OWN POOL IN QUIET CUL-DE-SAC CLOSE TO PUERTO BANUS

Booked this villa for a group of 7 ladies (age 40) & it was perfect!! Plenty of space, well equipt kitchen & the pool & outside area were well used!! It was within easy walking distance of 'the' Puerto Banus strip (approx 15mins) and even closer were supermarkets, cafe bars & restaurants. The villa itself was tucked away in a very quiet cul-de-sac (bit of a hill leading from villa up to the shops etc) so never any noise!
The lady who looks after villa is really friendly & nothing too much trouble!! Only a phone call away if you need anything!!
I would definately consider returning...easy to get to from Malaga airport, just hopped on a bus outside to Marbella, then a short taxi ride to villa....enjoy! :-)

Our party consisted of ten 18 year olds. We were all from England and since we had just finished our exams we had the intention of testing the night life of Spain. This review will probably lean towards the more practical nature of the villa and the ability to do things on a tight budget!

There were two good and relatively cheap supermarkets within easy walking distance with enough previsions to keep anyone happy!

The walk to the beaches and nightlife was a little long - about 20 minutes but do-able. The odd time we got taxi's we found them to be reasonably good value. The actual beaches are nice but busy. The amount of fake sunglasses and watches on sale is staggering! We found one street absolutely packed with bars and clubs which kept us amused for our 10 day holiday. We were lucky enough to see Spain beat the Netherlands in the World Cup Final which proved to be an entertaining evening to say the least! So if you are looking for a party, you will find it - not to say that the area isn't family friendly, it is, but not after 3am. The immediate area around the villa though, is very quiet, tame and relaxing.

As 18 year olds go we eat exceedingly well. Although the kitchen is smallish, it catered for our every need. There is a massive fridge which was very useful when it came to storing beer! We had BBQ's for about half the time and the kitchen was able to cope with the industrial size quantities of food we made for ourselves.

The pool is very nice. It is well maintained by a pleasant gardener who we saw once very very early in the morning and it's always kept at a nice temperature.
The bedrooms were clean and very luxurious - snazzy bathrooms, powerful showers, lots of space. There was incredibly effective air conditioning in every room of the house.

The representative for the house was very easy going and kind. If we had the slightest of worries she would be at the door within minutes to sort it out. She was an excellent bonus to a perfect holiday villa. I would recommend this place without hesitation to anyone.

Had an 8 day stay in August 2010, daughter and boy friend bagged the cottage which is really fab and has gorgeous walk in double shower cubicle! The master bedroom upstairs is fabulous with lovely terrace. Special mention too to basement bedroom which is great for kids as has big play house in it and various toys and books. Kitchen well equipped and even this had air con! All bedrooms had aircon which was a real bonus as the nights were so warm! We were a little surprised that there was no high chair as we had assumed this would be there, I telephoned Marylou on Sat afternoon about this and the following day, yes on Sunday, she had found a hire company in Marbella that delivered a lovely high chair for 20 euros for the week. Excellent service! Do ask before you go if you do need one!

The villa was very clean and we got the Brit tv stations on sky (including cbeebies if you have young ones) fine once we mastered the remotes! There were 9 of us with two younger ones aged 2 and 4 years and there were plenty of spaces to spread out! Swimming pool is fab and is cleaned on daily basis first thing in the morning unobtrusively.It is not actually fenced off as appears in the photos as there are 3 ways off the patio but we used furniture to limit the way off the patio to just one for the sake of our 2 year old which worked well.

Another unexpected bonus was the avocado tree in the garden which provided us with many avocados which dropped off the tree at various intervals during the week and were the best tasting avocados we had ever eaten! A slight concern was that if one of the kids had happened to be wandering past when the fruit dropped this may have caused injury as these are big avocados but fortunately never happened.There were quite a lot of wasps on the lawned areas but only a minor pain.

The location of the villa is great and we purposefully did not hire a car and could walk to supermarket in 10 mins but there is a steep hill on way out of cul de sac. The Pasta Cafe is just near the end of the street and is good value, there are other restaurants/bars within easy walking distance and it only costs 5-7 euros to get taxi to centre of puerto banus, taxi phone number is in info pack at villa. Having been to Puerto Banus before we did not go to beach this time but stayed in villa and had marvellously relaxing week! The exception was to have paella at excellent San Pedro beach restarant at end of Viilamarina.Would love to return and recommend highly