Welcome to Almuñecar, premier resort of Granada´s Costa Tropical. Our apartment “El Tesorillo” is situated outside the town just five minutes from the beach in area known as Taramay. The apartment is one hour´s drive from Malaga airport and is easy to find from the main road, although once inside it is quiet and has glorious sea and mountain views.
The apartment has three bedrooms sleeping up to five people (extra bed for sixth person by prior arrangement), two bathrooms, a fitted kitchen with electric cooker, fridge, washing machine and hot water tank, and dining/living room leading onto a large part-shaded terrace where you can eat al fresco and gaze at the view, including hang-gliders drifting down from the hills.
The bedrooms are furnished with fitted wardrobes, bedside tables, reading lights and they comprise one double bed, a twin and a single. There is a multi-channel satellite TV system with all popular British, French, German and Spanish channels, and a DVD if you want to bring your own entertainment with you.
Apart from the beach, which is five minutes walk away (down the hill) and has two pleasant chiringuitos, there is also a large pool for the exclusive use of the complex. The pool is open end June to mid-September.
GUEST REVIEWS
This is a spacious apartment which accommodated me and several friends with ease. Tesorillo beach is very nice, there are two bar-restaurants in the cove and several more either side a short walk away, all of which seem friendly and have a good ambience. The apartment is well equipped and clean, and the directions we were given were very good. The owner was there to greet us anyway and show us how things worked.
The apartment has two bathrooms and everything seemed to be clean and in working order. We didnt notice any disturbance at night as you so often find with apartments near the beach in the middle of summer.
The best feature of the apartment is the terrace. It is part shaded to cope with the heat of the midday sun and in the evening the light on the foothills falling away to the coastline is just magical. Sometimes you can see hang-gliders gently drifting down to land on the beach and this is always a nice thing to watch.
The apartment is only 5 minutes walk to the beach but the climb back is uphill. If you feel lazy you can take the car down to the lower gate and park there, as the urbanisation is controlled by security gates, so there is less competition for parking spaces than along the beach road generally in high summmer.
There are plenty of places to eat and buy things within a short walk of the apartment. Getting in to the centre of Almunecar is either a very pleasant walk along the seafront or else a hopper bus along the same road, or of course by car if you have one. There are plenty of parking spaces nearer to town.
Lindsey September 2009
