Hola everyone here goes...

Flights and airport...

Manchester airport...great no delays lovely flight...and got to go in cockpit and was speaking to the woman co pilot she was very glam...and the pilot was so funny..

Malaga Airport. arrive..

Absolute nightmare...... The longest walk to baggage and not so long wait for our cases, my mum had a wheelchair, and told the assistance after cases were picked up we will not need chair to go to coach transfer....BUT oh dear we did ...again another mile treak through the new terminal building T3....!!!! to the indoor coach pick up point it was complete madness..no one knew where to go, and were moaning about the new set up...nice Terminal but to big and confusing...My mum was so tired bless her.

Arrive Angela hotel....

Quite a few got off coach were staying here..young ones, couples and oldies, reception guy recognised me straight away, and honured our room request, hols he said we have given you 2 of the best rooms with full sea views pool,. and mountains, off we trot to the 8th floor, rooms 820 and 822, WOW, cant believe what view we had its was just stunning, porter brought cases up about 15 mins later, had a look around the room, yes there is some modernisation to be done but only a few tweeks, tv too small and old fashioned a few english channels, but to be honest I was sick of seeing heartbeat every single day, and ofcourse we never really want to sit in our room with so much to do outside..

Staff and Waiting staff... drinks food.

Staff All I can say is what a lovely bunch of hardworking folk,a BIG thank you to Jose..:O great banter, and wicked happy hour till 11.30pm, sometimes free drinks to us...they really do deserve alot of credit...even the maids.

Drinks prices for a hotel are really reasonable, for example, wine glass of red..2.00euro, and thats a large glass, nice sangria also.

Food..

Breakfast, an array of choice nice hash browns, english and great cakes and pastries,, 2 minors though..pate was not so good, and the milk was warm, reason why I never had cereal.but my choice every morning I had brown toast, tomatoes...yummy, and omlettes, mushroom, ham or ask for plain made there in front of you..

Coffee bland and not so good, but there pineapple juice was nice..

Would of liked a better pate to have on my toast though.

Dinner

Everynight the 1st week we loved,but 2nd week same again so ate out 4 nights.

Choice of

Carvery - Pork, lamb (tough) Beef, Then grilled chicken breasts pork steaks, loads of fish, croquettes, paella, chips, roasts mash, other potatoes, risotto, pasta and lasagne, other rice dishes, mushrooms, veg, array of salads, sardines,anchovies, everything, desserts were nice but im not an dessert person,,soups were gorgous
italian night ladies get a carnation..!!!

entertainment....

upstairs bar singers different every night, one girl, had a better voice than any x factor singer goin,,,wasted at the hotel...she was amazing..phoebe is her name.. relaxed atmosphere...

Sunbathing, pool

We bathed on the terraced every other day, and beach every other day, 4.50 euro for bed and umbrella...thank you to angela who owns the beds on the beach lovely spanish lady who remembers us every year, we got her a birthday card and gave her 20 euros, she is gunna be 63 next week,

los boliches,fuengirola and area....

Los boliches where we were is still amazing, alot quieter in the bars, spoke a few people who own them said its been hard with the rain, volcanic cloud, and holiday companies goin bust..

Bars we liked and were frequent were..

Living room...Great new bar lovely exterior and interior owner great and met a lovely polish woman who Im gunna keep in contact with she worked there and was good friends with the owner..
Bar one went one night for sangria..
Kasa Kon Tiki my fave place for fish,chips and mushy peas,. and great prawns pil pil, you buy a meal or 2 or 3, and get the lower price free..very popular and busy
Gordos
Very nice owner and amazing food, big portions, went twice for lunch.

Upper crust

Same as usual ok, but they need to up the menu not much choice apart from,sandwiches, jackets, salads, burgers, dont know why he doesnt sell chicken, with salads, and butties, only egg, ham, cheese..i wanted a chicken salad..strange...cheap though got bored of goin to be honest...no variety.....also didnt do any wraps,and salads not much on them apart from onion cucumber and lettuce..no carrot or anything else.

El patio
Great tapas as usual

Las Jardines

Very cheap tapas place behind mercodona, 1 euro for cana, tapa, very nice

Never went to manilla,, heard its gone down hill..

Walked up to los boliches church, took some pics, wedding goin on, wanted tapas at pepes....and it was CLOSED till september....gutted.

Had a wander in the yaramar hotel, and found a beach with canopes for 30 euros very marbella/puerto banus, you get a posh big bed, wirth towels and a bottle of cava...wanted to do his but my sister said waste of money...they looked great only english using them.
Walked to fuengirola town, to do some clothes / shoe shopping stopped at bar plaza, still amazing packed, and scenic, went for lunch in adrians on fish alley, owner was saying again that its been hard and very quiet, and he has not dropped his prices but to be honest it was still reasonable,

Got the bus back from town to the angela.

Went to marbella

Long bus journey again stopping at 100 stops, packed to the rafters, wish they would put more buses on for this journey 1 every 30 mins is rubbish, it was a dull day till 11ish when arrived it was boiling hot, we wandered down to the prom side, had beers a very nice bar on ther front, then headed back to the centre and found jimmys of marbella, in a lovely little square. had lovely lunch there owner was lovely, lots of americans in on a cruise from gibraltar, we were planning orange sq for tapas, but my mum has a bad leg, and was finding it a little hard.so we headed back after lunch to the bus stop, for another lenghy bus journey back to fuengirola.

Never did mijas this year, malaga (the feria was on was gutted go every year normally) as my mum, and sister both have artheritis so Its was restricting us to go about different places...next year Il be with my boyfriend again so will do all these things...

Weather was great, But have noticed alot of cloud till 11, rain ,and 1 big thunderstorm, which last year we never had, 100 degrees last year, this 80s-90s...still beautiful, but I do like it hot hot...

Currency
Getting around 17.5 - 19.5 in the travel agent near Wam store, trips still reasonable the express to Gib is still 15euros,

I would still reccomend the trains they are great frequent and cheap...

So all in all a great time had by us 3 nice dark tans, and few extra pounds put on.., a few minors, like malaga airport, and days out, due to restrictions cos of my mum,and sister but thats not fuengirolas fault...next year I will be booking in an apartment in centre with my boyfriend...as we do love that area, plus I found supermarkets dirt cheap, and you have more variety to eat what you want..

For anyone going do enjoy, as much I was did...its still amazing...a big place in my heart....:O)

Karen :O)