The local beach was recommended by first choice,the only problem was that sewage effluent was visable to the eye on the shore line.Others along the resort were clean but after the first occasion this put us off the use. Buses outside the resort were not reliable and often late or didn't stop ,we didn't have the same problems with taxi's. These where well priced seeming to be working of the same pay scale.

the resort in itself was really nice and friendly and had a lovely atmosphere but this is more a family resort which id what we liked and people were very relaxed and happy. the entaintment there is a whole mixure so i am sure you will find something for all ages young and old. the beach was excellent and very clean. i would definatly stay at this resort again as i felt very relaxed and at peace and didnt feel concerned about walking around of an everning there which is what you want to feel.

This was our second visit to Fuengirola and we enjoyed it just as much as the first time. Like anywhere a little common sense when walking out in the evenings.
I know it has the name of Costa del Crime but during our stay we seen nothing untoward. Maybe this was because a high police presence. Enjoyed the shopping ans various trips out,including 2 visits to Gibralta

plenty of bars and resturants resort very clean road sweepers out every day and plenty of rubbish bins, beach very clean the only problem is the looky looky men,booked for next year.

Beach in Rhonda not very clean just up the beach was fine. Not alot to do might be better in July August time!!

Didn't really go into the resort as everything was in the hotel. Had a bus ride into Fuengerola and Benelmadena during the day but not the night.

We loved this resort and would definately return. I would say that if you dont have kids or dont like kids then forget it.
Try the trips offered by the reps and if you can bear to drag the kids away from all the activities then get to the neighbouring towns.

Fuengirola is a fine resort with something for everyone

I hire a car and tend to travel to the many traditional villages within a 90 min drive of the resort. Fuengirola itself has something for everyone with numerous bars, retaurants, and clubs. The Los Boliches area is quiter and a bit more spanish in feel once off the seafront.

there’s a large mall next door called the Miramar Centre that has a great supermarket in it called Eroski so if you’re self catering get all your food from there it’s so cheap, I got all my drinks from there.
a six pack ( small tins ) of a lager called Cervez Aurum Special, which I thought was one of the best lagers I’d ever tasted 5.4 vol, equivalent to four pints, was £1.48p, yes that’s 37p a pint, San Miguel 49p pint, and Amstel 58p a pint, a one litre bottle of the best sangria ( Cruz Garcia ) £1.57p. you can also get a cheaper one litre box of sangria which I thought was just as good for 81p. note the difference to what I had to pay at an ordinary supermarket for one Amstel £1.15p.
when we arrived we had sun from morning till dusk the temperature being in the thirty’s for the first four days, then it was all down hill,
we went down to Gibraltar, get your tickets from one of the ticket offices on the front, they all charge the same price £9 and they pick you up and drop you off at your hotel, you get five hours there, it takes just over one hour, when we went, we got there at twenty to eleven and wanted to leave ten minutes later, it was so dark and cold with a gale force wind and beginning to rain, lots of people on the coach had come in tee shirts and shorts, and had to buy warm clothes, and when you do get there all there is a street about half a mile long with shops selling stuff at twice the price you could get back in Fuengirola, the only thing we found cheap was bottles of spirits which cost about half the price of that back in Fuengirola but that didn’t help us as we don’t drink spirits,
and when we got back we had the other two days very dull cold and windy, earlier in the week we took the train a couple of times to go to Torremolinos and to Bendalmadena, I can’t remember the price but it was quite cheap, and they run every half hour, there’s a very large market in Torremolinos, but if you take my advice you’ll give it a miss, you reach it by walking (did I say walking) what I mean is climbing a one and a half mile street and when you do finally get there, we saw a few elderly people give in and go back. all you find is about two hundred stalls selling clothes shoes handbags and cheap jewellery, every stall selling the same as the next one, and the one in Bendalmadena has just the same stalls but there is only about one quarter as many, there’s a very nice big garden in Bendalmadena where you’ll come across chickens rabbits and all other thing running around free, there’s a lot of nice fountains and a cactus garden and it’s free to go in.
we never saw hardly any one on the beach all the time we were there, due to the fact that the sea was so rough, the waves were starting around a quarter of a mile out and by the time they got to the beach, they were around four to five feet high, this was not only in Fuengirola but as we saw it all along the coast from Torremolinos, down to Gibraltar. I don’t know if it will be like this all the time at this time of the year, maybe we were just unlucky.
when you are picked up to go back to the airport you will most likely be the first pick up, we were held up at one hotel for nearly twenty minutes and then the people still didn’t turn up, one last comment, as you may know the coach’s invariably pick you up right outside the hotel door some times with great difficulty because of parked cars, well i take my hat off to these coach drivers, being an H,G,V driver, dragging a 38ton jugganaught around Britain for most of my life up to now, they do a great job, on every street there are cars parked both sides of the usually very narrow streets, and you may also notice that nearly every other one of them are either scratched dinted or damaged in one way or another.
the exchange rate when we went was 1.22€ to the £1, over there it was 1.33€.
would we go back to this hotel, perhaps not, as it is so far from the town centre, but then we never tend to go back to the same resort twice anyway.