3 outdoor pools, pool umbrellas, sun loungers

Reviews of El Fuerte Marbella

5 out of 5
El Fuerte Marbella
Calle el Fuerte s/n, Marbella, Malaga

Reviews

9.2

Wonderful

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Rating 2 - Terrible. 4 out of 1001 reviews" "

9.4/10

Cleanliness

9.4/10

Staff & service

9.2/10

Amenities

9.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Charlotte Rebecca

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This hotel is the best in Marbella! From the second we arrived to the second we checked out, our experience was second to none. This is a true 5 star hotel and is truly exquisite. The staff make the experience extra special. I’ll definitely be returning and will be recommending to friends and family.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Anthony William

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Xiang, Redmond

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Good location and beach front access
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023
Response from Lorena on Feb 1, 2024
Dear Xiang,Thank you for your comments.Kind regards,Lorena Bertholet

10/10 Excellent

Brian Wai Yan

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The hotel is at a perfect location. The view from Mediterranean Sea is wonderful! The staff is very friendly. A nice place to stay!
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Susan

Traveled with group, Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful hotel recently renovated to a very high standard.
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Top notch hotel
Excellent hotel with very friendly staff
Stayed 5 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Aaron

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Excellent stay!
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Emma

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kate

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Exceptional place. Beautiful surrounding and the facilities are second to not. The staff are always happy to assist with any requests. The food is exceptional. Cannot wait to come again.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Matt

Traveled with partner, Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Hotel is absolutely fantastic. We originally booked 4 nights but extended for an additional 3. The sea view rooms are incredible. Special thanks to Roberto on reception for helping us extend our stay. Food and cocktails are great. The Select lounge has a very good choice of complimentary snacks and alcoholic beverages. We will definitely be coming back. The only thing to note was some of the tiles around the pool were extremely slippery I know they were changing these one during our stay. But the steps leading down to the toilets by the pool when wet these are very slippy and a family member fell down these. From conversations this happened to others also, so that possibly needs to be looked at.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Fantastic hotel, great service
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Thoa

Traveled with group
Liked: Amenities
The room, service and location are perfect!
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

christophe

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The hotel location is perfect. On the sea front and 5 minutes walk to the Marbella Old town. The staff are always happy to help with any requests. could not fault this place. i would definitely go back.
Stayed 6 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Rude

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Nishma

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Outstanding design of this histroic hotel/place. Wonderful hotel with incredible breakfasts and great facilities. The pools were lovely - beach is small and peppley but nice all the same. Front desk staff could be more helpful - especially when managing late check-outs or a room to change in if you have a late flight and in communicating the car park charges! All in all - it was wonderful and I will definitely return!
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Sohail

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great location
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Spiros

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Outstanding!!!!! Location and service
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Valerie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2023

2/10 Terrible

EDMOND, Bujanovac

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

alejandro isaac fragozo

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Rowan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Lorraine

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Made to feel very special with the attention to detail and staff that couldn’t do enough for you. Fabulous refurb beautiful
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Niall

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Marvelous in Marbella
Hotel Fuerte is a fabulous hotel. Some of the highlights during our stay were as follows: (1) Reception staff were exceptionally courteous and helpful - when we arrived (early) and our room wasn't ready they gave us complimentary drinks (2) Feurte's location is one of the best in Marbella - closest hotel to Marbella Old Town while also fronting onto the promenade and seafront - ideal (3) Staff overall were very courteous and professional throughout the hotel - we would like to mention Yvonne particularly who greeted us every day/evening with a smile and a brief chat (4) The hotel is spotless - well done to the cleaning staff (5) The comfort in the hotel was excellent - we slept particularly well on very high quality beds and the room layout was very well designed -would recommend people go for a partial/full sea-view (6) The buffet breakfast is fabulous (7) We'd recommend trying the buffet dinner too, which was very reasonably priced also (8) There was entertainment (live music) 3 of the 6 nights we stayed - which we enjoyed having as an option to stay in the hotel some nights The availability of lighter/smaller snacks though would be welcome in the Pinetree Club Overall the attention to detail was excellent and the staff fantastic - The hotel we were informed is being refurbished for a year between now and 2022 - we will be returning to the El Fuerte again and really looking forward to the changes they will make as they will probably only enhance the hotel even further
Stayed 6 nights in Nov 2021

8/10 Good

Michael

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 12 nights in Oct 2021

8/10 Good

michael

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
On beach and nice pool / also within short walk to beautiful plaza
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2021

10/10 Excellent

Jeff

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2021

10/10 Excellent

Charles, Emmaus

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2021

8/10 Good

Mark

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Functional room - professional staff
Nice location and hotel. Staff are very extremely courteous and helpful. Room deco bit dated but clean.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2021

10/10 Excellent

Julie

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2021

10/10 Excellent

Jack, Islamorada

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The staff went above and beyond our entire stay. Will definitely be going back!
Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2021

10/10 Excellent

susan

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fabulous
Hotel and staff outstanding. Layout of pool and beach area excellent. Breakfast fabulous and staff the most helpful and very pleasant.
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent hotel
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2021

10/10 Excellent

Reuben

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Very relaxing and top class service.
The service, food and attention to detail was first class and could not be faulted in anyway whatsoever. The decor of the rooms and hotel however are of a very Classique style and bordering on the point that it could do with being refurbished. However this type would certainly be very appealing to the older generation who are not looking for the modern furniture design finish. The location is very good, it felt very safe around the grounds during the day and also at night. It was a very pleasant and relaxing stay albeit a little bit too frumpy for my choice of hotel.
Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful hotel. All staff we encountered were helpful and very friendly. Our rooms were beautiful. It was nice to have access to private beach. The breakfast buffet was amazing!
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2021

10/10 Excellent

Angela, London

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Well done to the hotel staff for managing covid safety measures so well. Well organised and clean which gave us peace of mind. We had a wonderful holiday, thank you. Life is different now , you have to wear a face mask some of the time, so what we got to enjoy the many great restaurants in the old town and swim everyday. Bliss!
Stayed 10 nights in Jul 2020

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Everything in this hotel was as promised. The staff were very nice and would help in any way they could
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is an old Hotel in a great area of Marbella, the place is well maintained. We are young energetic couple and the problem was that everyone staying at this Hotel is over 65. I really mean everyone. Nothing wrong with that, just not the place for us.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2020

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent hotel, location was first class. will be back.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great staff and amazing hotel, but over priced
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020

8/10 Good

Ron, Texas

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Excellent lobby, bar, outdoor areas, access to beach promenade. Great location. Room was okay - thin walls, could hear neighbors, hard bed, and strong mildew smell in the bathroom. We had to keep the bathroom door shut to keep mildew smell out of the bedroom.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020

8/10 Good

Jane

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 7 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Great location and every member of staff was happy and amazing
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We liked everything about this property. The setting as well as the actual hotel were beautiful and the staff were wonderful! They were always helpful and looking for ways to make your stay more enjoyable. I would have liked more time to pick up a few gifts on our day trip to Granada.
Stayed 20 nights in Jan 2020

10/10 Excellent

Peter

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Tracey

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Anne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Over all the staff were friendly. The hotel was clean. . The indoor pool was attended at all times with a lifeguard..we had a problem while we were there which was resolved. We didn't use the dining facilities at all so we can't comment on those. Drinks in the hotel were expensive and the overall area compared to most was pricey. . €5 for a beer in the hotel and around €3-5 outside the hotel. Food in the area was more expensive..a typical meal for 7 worked out to around €150-210..there aren't any excursions or things to do around the area although it was well patrolled by local , civil and national police..which doesn't stop the " lookie- lookies ...
Stayed 7 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
What a wonderful hotel. The staff were excellent from the moment they met us in the car park on arrival and throughout our stay. Whilst everyone was very friendly and helpful we would like to give a special mention to Lourdes who served us many times in the restaurant. The facilities and food at the hotel were very good but it is the happy staff that really make this hotel stand out. We will be returning.
Stayed 7 nights in Jan 2020

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Bad experience all in all. Place rundown. Things don't work
Stayed 5 nights in Jan 2020
Response from Hotel Fuerte Marbella on Jan 19, 2020
Dear Sir/Madame, Thank you for taking part of your time to give us a feedback. We are sorry that your experience with us was not as you expected. For that reason, we would be delighted if you contact us directly to have more details regarding your stay, as guest feedback is an integral part of measuring the level of experience we are offering and give us the opportunity to improve in the future. We hope you choose to stay with us again during your next visit to Marbella, as we would like an opportunity to regain your trust.