Marbella’s Golden Mile is where most arrivals head: the Marbella Club and Puente Romano on the beach, with Puerto Ban\u00fas ten minutes further west. Sotogrande, an hour and a quarter from M\u00e1laga or twenty-five minutes from Gibraltar, is the quieter alternative, built around Valderrama, the polo fields and the marina. M\u00e1laga itself has become worth a night, with the Gran Hotel Miramar on the seafront and the old town’s restaurants a walk away, and the Alhambra is an hour and a half inland for anyone combining the coast with Granada.<\/p>\n
Golf is the first answer on this coast, with more than fifty courses between M\u00e1laga and Sotogrande and two seasons, spring and autumn, when the greens are at their best. Summer belongs to the beach clubs, the Starlite concerts in Marbella and the Sotogrande polo in August. M\u00e1laga’s Picasso Museum and the Centre Pompidou fill a rainy morning, the white villages of Ronda and Mijas a dry one, and the Sierra Nevada offers skiing from December to April, forty-five minutes above Granada.<\/p>\n
A car meets the aircraft at all three airports, and the coast road, the AP-7, does the rest: Marbella in forty-five minutes from M\u00e1laga, Sotogrande in an hour and a quarter, or twenty-five minutes from Gibraltar once across the border. Helicopter transfers to Marbella’s heliport and to Sotogrande take fifteen minutes from M\u00e1laga and are easy to arrange in summer. In August, allow extra time on the road into Puerto Ban\u00fas in the evening.<\/p>\n
Spain is on central European time, so there is no jet lag from Germany, Switzerland or France, and one hour’s difference from London. The Costa del Sol counts more than three hundred days of sun a year, but the levante wind from the east can close Gibraltar for a day; M\u00e1laga is the reliable choice when the date cannot move. Cards are accepted everywhere, and lunch runs late, from two o’clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
M\u00e1laga ist das Tor zur Costa del Sol und f\u00fcr die meisten Marbella-Reisen der einzige Flughafen, den es braucht: f\u00fcnfzehn Minuten in die Stadt, f\u00fcnfundvierzig nach Puerto Ban\u00fas, mit Gibraltar und Granada als Alternativen f\u00fcr Sotogrande und die Sierra Nevada. Ab Frankfurt oder London sind es zweieinhalb Flugstunden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":58024,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-57996","destination","type-destination","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n