Hotel Pinomar Playa ***+ is situated almost 10 km from city center of Marbella. But there is a shuttle bus going to city center every day right from the Hotel. Hotel has very nice surounding and is very clean - outside sport grounds, pool, parking/ and inside - rooms, restaurant, reception.. Every day clean towels and there is also posibility borrow hotel beach towels.
Very special thing I would like to mention is food and catering in Hotel. Swedish table fuuuuull of spanish specialities - paella, gaspacho, sea food, fish, sweets, .... meat and fish prepared right behind your eyes by nice lady. All underlined by perfect staff. Not good english speakers, but nice, helpful and friendly except that. (we speak spanish so we hadn't comunication problems).. We have half board, but no hunger during day ;o) It's enough!! We made long and rich breakfast and 7 course dinner at 21.00 .. excellent!! Food was absolutely amazing!

We recomend Pinomar Playa Hotel to family with chidren definitly. All day and nigth animation programs were mostly for children. There are many play grounds and swiming pool with two tobogans, mini club and big children company everywhere..

Sea was wild with big waves most part of our holidays. We like it, so we enjoyed every day on the beach. The sea water is clean, no jellyfish, but very cold or fresh if you like!!! ;) The beach is sandy, clean and not overcrowded. You can borrow sunbed for 3 euro per day.

If you don't mind having some more excitement you can take a bus to Marbella bus station and make nice trip to another part of Spain from Marbella ;) It's much more cheaper than trips offered by travel agents (to Granada, Sevilla, Cordoba, Malaga..) The best way how to sightsee Andalucia is a car hire. But you must make a reservation very soon, because there are no many cars available in Marbella.. it is big PROBLEM!!!

We had wonderfull holiday in Andalucia, in Marbella and Pinomar Playa hotel!!! We recommend you this place for your holiday, mainly when you like excelent spanish food, hot weather, culture and sigthseeing, spanish atmosphere and active holidays!

Enjoy Spain as we did!!! :-)

The hotel had a great breakfast. The lobby is not too interesting and not very welcoming. The hotel staff were great. The hotel manager is a dictator. The rooms are ok, the water pressure is just ok, no elevators in this place so beware. Distance to Marbella downtown is about 5km. There is a bus number 7 and 220 that you can catch a short walk from the hotel for euro 1.20. Taxi from Marbella bus station to hotel costs about 17 euros at night. The walk to the beach is close (2 minute walk) and the beach itself is ok. (not great, but average). Not very central but quiet. Not that far away either to Marbella. Malaga to Marbella takes about 1 hour if your plane is landing in Malaga. The pool is good but looks bigger in the travel websites and there is a mini-slide for kids into the pool. They did not serve any snacks at the pool area although the hotel did say they serve all kinds. If you find this hotel for a good price stay. I would recommend another place because the location is just off the highway.

Booked a weeks all inclusive at the 5* Continental Garden Reef Resort in Sharm el Sheikh through Global Late Deals; unfortunately xcel went into liquidation so we lost our holiday, we were offered the Pinomar Playa in Marbella as an alternative.

We accepted the weeks holiday at the Pinomar Playa as myself and a big group of us what were supposed to be going to Egypt were looking forward to a holiday (as xcel went into liquidation the week before we were due to travel). We were told by the holiday rep that the Pinomar Playa was a 4* clearly it is not as we found out when we arrived as the massive hotel sign has 3*. The hotel was really outdated and just off of reception there were 2 sets of steep stairs to climb (my mother has to walk with the aid of a walking stick due to arthritis) and then another set of stairs to get to your room. The room we were given was tiny and 3 people had to share it, my husband stubbed his toe in our hotel room on the bed leg on the 1st night staying at the Pinomar Playa and he was in agony the rest of the duration of the holiday.

The hotel information on Global Late Deals states 200m to the beach, well I can tell you it was definately more than 200m. On the journey down to the beach the bins were overflowing, dead mice and water leaking onto the broken path. The path beside the beach was littered with broken glass bottles.

The pool bar was small with an outside pool which had plant debris floating in it. The inside pool was empty and had been for some time, the last day of our holiday it was being filled up so was of no use to us. The pool bar ran out of alcoholic drinks, my husband can't drink fizzy drinks so he was at a bit of a loss to what he could drink. The bar menu is also completely written in Spanish and the staff speak no or very little English.

The animation evenings were held in the Griffo Bar and consisted of one Spanish girl talking and entertaining completely in Spanish no English spoken!

The food at the Pinomar Playa in our opinion and the rest of our holiday group we found disgusting as they only cater for Spanish! The only decent thing to eat was in the mornings jam on toast and we had to eat out the rest of the time, and thank god we had a car because there are no restaurants in walking distance apart from: PAPA LUIGI which we found had really EXCELLENT, tasty food and we would really recommend it..

During one of the days while staying at the hotel in rained, this then leaked onto the 2 sets of stairs and also onto the floor. To compensate for the leaking roof orange towels were placed down onto the steps and onto the reception floor.

Our annual holiday was completely ruined by inadequate faclities (entertainment, food, room and alcohol running out etc)

My advice would be DO NOT TO GO TO THE PINOMAR PLAYA!!!

We have just returned from a week at the Pinomar Hotel Marbella. The hotel is quit old but in good conseving condition. The service is simple and perfect. It have a dinner buffet with many many diferent food every days. The beach have a brown sand (not so good). If you want a central Hotel this is not a good idea, becouse this hotel is 6 Km far from Marbella.