This is what a hotel should be! Fantastic value for the price with a beautiful authentic Mediterranean style building centered around a nice pool area, with bar and casual restaurant service. Very clean and nice rooms with balconies and comfortable beds. Above all, this smiling and willing to help staff makes this hotel a wonderful place to stay. They all speak English well too. The other guests were from England, France, Germany and Skandinavia. We might have been the only Americans, so that was fun too. The location is in a nice residential neighborhood about 4 blocks in from the beach and several beachside restaurants, and a bit longer walk to the Puerto Banus harbour with it's high end shops and restaurants. We cabbed it to a couple less touristy inland restaurants suggested by the hotel stagg and they were outstanding.