Enjoy the Local Area

Our specially adapted minibuses leave after breakfast each morning to local beaches and promenades, shopping centres, town centres, marinas and markets. All these trips are included in the price of your holiday. Please check out some of our desitnations below.

Montana Sol is situated in walking distance to a large hypermarket and a fully wheelchair accessible train service, should you wish to explore more independently.

BENALMADENA MARINA
Visits to the Marina will be on Sunday. Check out the yachts and local shops and bars. If you wish to venture further, you can walk from here to La Carihuela. Promonade, again flat, perfect for wheelchair users. Stop in one of the local cafes and watch the world go by. You can also check out the details for the Benalmaden Cruise tour from here.

PALOMA PARK
The Parque de la Paloma is over 200,000 square meters in size and was opened in the mid 1980’s. The land is laid out round a manmade lake and can be quite hilly in places but there are plenty of seats for resting and taking in the view. The paths are monoblock which makes them easy to walk and operate wheelchairs without fear of tripping on uneven slabs. The main attraction of the park is the wildlife which roam freely. You can buy bread to feed the animals, who are willing to eat from your hands. Every rustle of a bush will bring out another animal into view along with the peacocks which you can find strutting about, giving a display from their tail feathers.

LA CARIHUELA SEA FRONT
One of the most attractive and more authentically Spanish areas is called La Carihuela which is a charming area with many of the original fishermen's cottages still existing and pretty houses with bougainvillea covered patios. The seafront promenade known as the Paseo Maritimo, runs from Playamar along to La Carihuela, continuing as far as Benalmadena Marina making a walk a very pleasant one with lovely sea views and many excellent seafront fish restaurants, cafes and bars and shops, along the way. Perfect for wheelchair users. Most tourists come to the Costa del Sol to enjoy the beaches and the weather and they won't be disappointed by La Carihuela beaches as they are clean and sandy and tend to be wider and longer than many others on the Costa del Sol which has also contributed to its popularity as a resort.

TORREMOLINOS MARKET
There is an outside market once a week by the famous Torremolinos bull-ring, on Thursdays from 9-13:30. This is the main market with hundreds of people visiting. It can get very crowded but you can grab your bargains here. There are also several bars dotted around the place so you can stop and relax in the shade of one of these. Mostly there are clothes, shoes, bags and plenty of bling for sale, but there are also fruit and nut stalls. You can find a bargain here but you have to haggle. The bull-ring is open while the market is on so take the chance and wander around.

PLAYAMAR BEACH
Playamar beach stretches to the east of the Carihuela beaches and Benalmadena and although gets very busy during the peak summer months of July and August, due to the wide promonade, you can still have a lovely stroll from here to La Carihuela, stopping off for coffee or a nosey in the shops. Walking from Playamar to La Carihuela or as far as Benalmadena Marina is ideal as the promonade is flat and ideal for wheelchairs.

SELWO MARINA PARK
Selwo Marina, the park with the most charismatic fauna of South America, situated in Benalmadena and has the only Dolphinarium in Andalucia, which offers you the opportunity to see live dolphins in action. A relaxing stroll through the Las Antillas zone. In this Caribbean landscape we find the Selwo Marina Dolphinarium, the only installation of its type in Andalucia, where you can see at close range what the dolphin family are like and how they live. Incredible marine mammals who have evolved over thousands of years to adapt themselves to the marine environment. Also in this zone is the famous sea lion enclosure. The great complex that is the SELWO MARINA Dolphinarium consists of extensive terraces to ensure comfortable viewing of the dolphin and sea lion exhibitions. There are five pools, two for training, one for reproduction, one for veterinary treatments and the exhibition pool. This last, the biggest of all, is a spectacular circular pool of saltwater, whose front panels are transparent, enabling the visitors to view up close and under the water, barely a few centimetres away, the intelligent dolphins from the Bottlenose species, originating in the warm waters of the Caribbean. Close by is the sea lions enclosure which allows us to meet these playful young specimens, originating in the faraway lands of the Chilean and Argentinean Patagonia areas. The Selwo Marina sea lion family manage to delight everyone in their exhibition. The male adults from this unique family sport a large mane the length of their neck and it is from this that they gain their name and can reach up to 300 kg in weight, while the females may weigh as much as 200kg.