Elba Estepona Gran Hotel & Thalasso Spa

These rooms are 37-square-metres with a private balcony or terrace overlooking the hotel gardens. Along with a double bed there is a seating area and bathroom with separate shower and bath. Amenities include: complimentary WiFi, coffee and tea maker, minibar, and bathrobe and slippers.

Accommodates: 3 adults.

These rooms are 37-square-metres with a private balcony or terrace overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Along with a double bed there is a seating area and bathroom with separate shower and bath. Amenities include: complimentary WiFi, coffee and tea maker, minibar, and bathrobe and slippers.

Accommodates: 3 adults.

This is a Double Deluxe Sea View room with an additional Prestige Service. This includes: welcome detail, breakfast buffet or breakfast served at the room (book in advance), bathrobe and slippers, daily access to the Elba Thalasso Spa during the stay, complimentary WiFi, daily re-stocked mini bar (water, soft drinks and beer), coffee and tea maker, turndown service and late check-out.

Accommodates: 3 adults.

These rooms have large balconies, a double bed, cot and bathroom with separate shower and bath. There is also a baby bath to use. Amenities include: complimentary WiFi, coffee and tea maker, minibar, and bathrobe and slippers.

With sea views, the 55-square-metre Junior Suite features a bedroom, lounge area with sofa and bathroom with separate shower and hydro-massage bath. Amenities include: complimentary WiFi, coffee and tea maker, minibar, and bathrobe and slippers.

Accommodates: 3 adults or 2 adults and 1 child.

With sea views, the 55-square-metre room features a bedroom, lounge area with sofa and bathroom with separate shower and hydro-massage bath. Guests receive a welcome gift on arrival and there is also a baby bath to use. Amenities include: complimentary WiFi, coffee and tea maker, minibar, and bathrobe and slippers.

Accommodates: 2 adults and 2 children.

With more than 80 square-metres of space, this suite offers a large balcony overlooking the sea. Inside there is a bedroom with seating area, a separate lounge and dining area, and a bathroom with separate shower and hydro-massage bath. Amenities include: complimentary WiFi, coffee and tea maker, minibar, and bathrobe and slippers.

Accommodates: 2 adults and 2 children.

Located on the top floor of the hotel, this lavish suite is 150 square-metres and boasts two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a living room and a large 30-square-metre terrace with sea views. Guests receive one free entry per person to the spa. Amenities include: complimentary WiFi, Nespresso coffee machine and tea facilities, minibar, and bathrobe and slippers.

Accommodates: 4 adults and 2 children.

The Gran Hotel Elba Estepona has a variety of fine restaurants to enjoy delicious regional and international cuisine. The Arena Beach restaurant is the highlight, with a large dining area in front of the sea and menu including typical Andalucian dishes and Asian, Latin and Spanish meals. Don’t forget to ask for the fish of the day. Al-Andalus offers Mediterranean cooking with typical seasonal Andalucian dishes, served in a traditionally-designed restaurant. The restaurant’s bodega contains the best wines, served on the terrace. There is also an Asian restaurant and a French/Italian restaurant to try during your golf holiday.

The hotel’s award-winning Thalasso Spa uses purified Mediterranean Sea water, which maintains its natural healing properties from the sea minerals, algae and mud. There are also three acclimatised pools, Jacuzzis, water chairs, saunas, thermal beds and ice baths, amongst other water facilities. Improve your wellbeing and retreat into a sense of calmness and relaxation with a massage or other luxury treatment at the spa, too.

During high season, the hotel has a children’s club that caters for various age groups and languages. Here they can play and take part in activities – there’s even a fun mascot. Babies are also well catered for, with the Baby Kit by Elba. This contains cots, high chairs, baby baths, bottle warmers and microwaves for heating baby food.

This 18-hole par 72 parkland golf course is immaculate, with high-quality Bermuda grass on the fairways and every hole different to the last. Designed by Cabell Robinson, the greens are well-protected by white marble sand bunkers on this Matchplay host course.

Also an 18-hole par 72 parkland course, Estepona is a popular Costa del Sol golf holiday option because of its Sierra Bermeja Mountains backdrop, as well as stunning sea views. Palms, eucalyptus and wild olive trees beautify the fairways, and there are plenty of risk and reward holes that make for a thrilling round of golf. The layout is undulating with lakes and bunkers.

Suited to all level of golfer, Valle Romano is an 18-hole par 72 course with spacious greens and large bunkers throughout the undulating layout. Designed by Americal golf course architect Cabell Robinson, the parkland course features a lake behind the green on hole 12, but other than that there are few water hazards.

Containing 27 holes comprising three sets of nine, Almenara is an unmissable golf course to play in the Costa del Sol. Los Lagos, Los Pinos and Acornoques are the three courses designed by Dave Thomas, winding their way through the rolling hills of upmarket Sotogrande.