The Best Hotels Near Finca La Donaira, by the Record
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Three sixteenth-century buildings, one of them formerly a church, arranged around a series of open Andalusian patios on Marbella's prettiest old-town square. The hotel holds its Michelin Key, and the original stone archways and ceiling frescoes have been kept while the nineteen rooms go quietly modern, with wood-beamed ceilings, marble showers, and Marshall speakers as standard. The rooftop bar, summer evenings only, looks out over the old town to the sea.
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Six rooms and a suite, tucked into a 17th-century mansion in Marbella's old town, a quiet rebuke to everything the Costa del Sol is usually doing wrong. Original Moorish tilework and peaked timber ceilings share space with flat-screens and bathroom fixtures that arrived this century, and the rooftop terrace handles both breakfast and evening drinks with minimal fuss. Small, well-considered, and a long way from the tower-block norm down the coast.
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Saltwater pools sit under palms, the breeze carries a faint hint of Gibraltar, and the whole resort is done in the kind of earthy, natural textures that make you feel like you've been offline for a week by afternoon. OKU Andalusia is a coastal resort near Algeciras where rooms look over gardens or the sea, suites add private pools, and the spa has an indoor pool for days when the sun is doing too much. Meals shift from farm-fresh breakfasts to Mediterranean tapas in courtyards and poolside terraces.