Los Monteros Vacation Rental apartment

I stayed at this accommodation in early Nov 2008, to celebrate my 40th birthday as I did not want to spend the actual day in the cold UK! We had arranged with the owners for transfers to and from the airport, which is a brilliant service that can be provided and it was very reasonably priced. The apartment is situated around 30 mins away from Malaga airport. On arrival at the location our driver took our luggage up to the apartment, showed us around and gave us useful information on the apartment, hotel site and nearby Marbella. He also left his number so we could contact him if we had any queries, which again is a useful service. Our accommodation was excellent...clean, well furnished and spacious. The listing description was also accurate. The actual Los Monteros site is beautiful..well maintained properties and gardens and the La Cabane was breathtaking. Although we never ate there we did purchase a couple of alcohlic drinks, which were expensive but the service given by the staff was excellent. The accommodation is ideally situated and as we did not want to hire a car we found getting to and from Marbella (15 mins bus/taxi) and Puerto Banus very easy. The buses were very cheap i.e. a couple of euros return.
We were blessed with fantastic sunny weather for our whole stay (three days and nights in total) and we were lucky because the weather had been poor the previous weekend. We were able to wear short sleeved clothing in the daytime, but the nights did get a little cool, so you had to wear a cardigan or light jacket. I was blessed to wake up on my birthday to glorious weather and drinking champagne to celebrate at 0830 hrs...marvellous!
This was my first time to Marbella and although I had researched the area I was pleasantly surprised that it still maintained it's old charm in the town and was nothing like the 'costa del crime' as has so often been depicted. We found it a tasteful place, with fantastic restaurants and shops and walking around in the town did not feel like we were in one of the 'costas'.
In all, the accommodation and location was excellent, which all contributed in making my 40th memorable. Excellent customer service provided by owners. I would have no hesitation in recommending this property to anyone. The only negative is it did get cold in the apartment at night and although there were portable heaters only two worked and they were not that effective, so I feel in the colder months this would be a problem.