Los Monteros Spa & Golf Resort

Los Monteros is good hotel with good value for money. It's well located, and has a great and peaceful beach club La Cabane. The hotel itself is a little outdated, but still has an overall good comfort. The breakfast is very good, the pool area is quiet with a nice pool and a good poolside restaurant. Tennis and padel courses are new and very high standard. Staff is very friendly and helpfull in general. The room (junior suite) is very spacious, with a nice and large bathroom. The spa is of good quality, the massages are very good. Downsides would be the lack of staff (1 person at the reception, often nobody at the pool bar, nobody at the golf desk) which is not OK for a 5* hotel, carpet in the rooms, and some outdated equipment (rust in spa pool beds, ...)

We stayed at Hotel Los Monteros for our Honeymoon at the start of July 2007. It was ideal for a romantic getaway, if you dont care what you spend. The food is great, champange buffet, dinner in the restaurant was perfect each course couldn't have been better, we ate twice in there in four nights. Arrived late first night and the restaurant was still open (to 2330). La Cabane beach club, owned by the hotel is a short stroll away, there is a shuttle bus (hotel is abput 600m from the beach but has a pool). The buffet lunch here is Euro70, but has everything you could want, they will cook any type of steak, seafood to order for you. Entertainment is quiet, despite there being several families (good for us).

First thing to be aware of is the false advertising that is on their website/travel agent/google when searching for this hotel. It will show an incredible pool with cabanas and the sea in the background, when in fact that is a separate beach club 10min drive away that you need to pay for (La Cabane). The pool at the hotel that is for guest use is okay, but can be busy with kids and generally the sun beds are very close together with limited number of parasoles. Felt a bit more like a 3 star than any luxury hotel I have stayed at before. Service is rather poor in the breakfast area and the hotel bar area. The servers don’t seem to care for any of the guests and generally are quite rude. The waiters are so heavy handed, we could not wait to finish breakfast to get away from the noise/clanging. Never a relaxing start to the day The location is about a 10min drive to the centre of Marbella/Old Town (taxi is c. €12 one way). Generally speaking you will need a car/take taxis everywhere as there is nothing walking distance. This hotel is very secluded, not even a supermarket in easy walking distance or a little minimart available on premise. So just be warned you will need to spend extra cash to get to places/do things as there is very little available on site. We stayed in a 2 bed suite, the rooms are ok size however the 2nd bedroom has no windows to outside. It is a room that you go to the toilet in, shower in, and sleep in with a window that opens up to the corridor only