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Quiet spot near Malaga?

  • 18-02-2020 11:18am
    #1
    Fiftyplus
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    Looking to go to Malaga in late March for 4 days. Anyone recommend a quietish beach town nearby. Thanks


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  • #2
    killbillvol2
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    Fiftyplus wrote: »
    Looking to go to Malaga in late March for 4 days. Anyone recommend a quietish beach town nearby. Thanks

    Los Boliches is nice and quiet. One stop before Fuengirola on the train but none of the p1ssed up idiots you'd see in Fuengirola. Plenty of nice restaurants.


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    pwurple
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    Nerja is quiet that time of year.


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    Diceicle
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    In the opposite direction to Fuengirola is Torres Del Mar, which is suppoed to be nice. Further on again, about 50 mins drive, is Nerja. Which is lovely.
    On the Fuengirola side of Malaga, you've got Calahonda. Nice quiet spot with a couple of restaurants, not alot going on there and its a few years since I've been, but its supposed to have developed more - nice beach boardwalk apparently now too - maybe look at there.
    Marbella is reachable from there. Maybe 30 minutes on the bus.


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    Poochie05
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    Torre del Mar - about 30 mins from Malaga on the bus.


  • #6
    neris
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    Calahondas decent. Good choice of restaurants & bars and beach is close by with boardwalk, Be quietish in march aswell but you can easily bus it into la cala or fuengirola


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  • #7
    Spanish Eyes
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    Push the boat out and head to Estepona. About an hour or so from Malaga. There is a direct bus from the airport, but car hire is also very reasonable, and the road is good, but quite fast!

    Estepona is not a small town, but what I love about it is the fact that it is a working town full of native Spanish, so not so many yahoos around.

    Beach is manicured and amazing, and the town itself and the port are very nice. Lovely restaurants and so on. The people living there take care of it.

    San Pedro de Alcantara is another pick. Closer to Malaga just outside Marbella but not up itself like Marbella is. Again a working town with a fabulous paved walk from there to Puerto Banus. Of the two, I kind of prefer San Pedro. But Estepona is a close second.


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    un5byh7sqpd2x0
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    San Pedro de Alcantara is my recommendation also. The drug dealers of this world live in Estepona.


  • #9
    neris
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    Brenda Ashy Backpacker wrote: »
    San Pedro de Alcantara is my recommendation also. The drug dealers of this world live in Estepona.

    thought they all fecked off to Dubai


  • #10
    Sir Galahad
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    Brenda Ashy Backpacker wrote: »
    San Pedro de Alcantara is my recommendation also. The drug dealers of this world live in Estepona.

    Another vote for San Pedro. But Estepona is also great. I live half of the year near San Pedro so have 33 years experience of it. Rent a car from www.malagacar.com for pocket money. Having the car will give you so much freedom. Ignore the Drug Dealer comments, every town in Ireland and Spain have drug dealers.


  • #11
    Sir Galahad
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    neris wrote: »
    thought they all fecked off to Dubai

    The son and heir to that family had rented a large villa near my place there. His arrival was followed by non stop checkpoints in the urbanisation which stopped all petty crimes as well. But yes he’s innDubai now.


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  • #12
    neris
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    Sir Galahad wrote: »
    The son and heir to that family had rented a large villa near my place there. His arrival was followed by non stop checkpoints in the urbanisation which stopped all petty crimes as well. But yes he’s innDubai now.

    We,re a bit the other side of marbella and when my parents were buying there in the mid 90s a friend who had a place there said don't tell anyone anything about yourself. You never know who your talking to.


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