Hints and tips:
...House, Orihuela, €4.85mn Where On the Costa Blanca in Las Colinas Golf and Country Club, which is a 15-minute drive from the nearest beach, Playa de La Glea....
...It’s roughly 30 minutes to Playa de la Malagueta on foot. Málaga-Costa del Sol airport is a 20-minute drive....
...The Costa del Sol once had the glamour of the French Riviera. Beaches in Malaga were first developed almost 100 years ago....
...Despite its unofficial status as capital of the Costa del Sol, Málaga itself was mostly bypassed by tourists, who headed from the airport directly to the villas and beaches of Marbella and Fuengirola....
...Under phase two, the Sol Antillas and Sol Barbados, two as-yet unreconstructed hotels in awkward proximity to the ME, will receive facelifts and the streets behind the beach will become pedestrianised....
...“Golf is obviously a big draw on the Costa del Sol, and access to Malaga airport is usually quick and easy,” says Fiter, “but the beaches are better on the Costa de la Luz.”...
...For the greater part of a century these state-run establishments have been a guarantee of reliability for the traveller looking not for sol y playa but stone and plazas....
...The Costa del Sol has Costa Natura, a naked village adjoining an official naturist beach that offers a wide range of holiday apartments, starting from about €90,000; El Portus, a resort that is part-campsite...
...“You only need to look at the Costa del Sol to see that they learned the hard way.”...
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