we stayed at the flatotel, benalmadena for 9 nights
recently, we were rather worried by some previous comments about waiting for buses and hard walking to the main town.

the hotel is right on the sea front and nearly all rooms have a seaview which is very unusual in a budget hotel. the room was cleaned to a high standard every day and new towels were provided, the kitchen in our 1 bedroom flat was basic, kettle, toaster, cooker and large fridge.
It takes about 20 mins to walk to the main part of the town beach area, and we walked every day. The bus service is terrific . the hotel is actually the terminus for the 110. and the 120 from fuengirola also stops there , so you have a bus every 8 or 10 min to the town, it costs 80 cents, and runs till after midnite.
good for getting home when you dont feel like walking

we enjoyed the hotel very much and would stay there again

WONDERFULL

a very spacious flat with 2 bedrooms. wonderfull sea view
everything perfect, clean and very cheap for the quality

recommended

We stayed at the flatotel for Christms and New Year. We had a lovely studio room which was cleaned every day . Because we do not drive we had to rely on the bus service to get us into the centre of benalmadena to eat out as we are smokers and the resteraunt was nonsmoking.It is really quite in that area and because we like some entertainment in the evening we had to travel.I would rate this hotel very highly.

I booked this apartment with Travel Republic.co.uk. We needed 2 bedrooms so my son did'nt have to sleep on a sofa bed, as he had broken his femur in February this year. The apartment was huge, lots of wardrobes 2 lovely bathrooms 2 balconies 1 with a patio set , a kitchen with a washing machine the living room was huge aswell. It had a double sofa bed and 2 single sofa beds, a large dining table and 4 chairs, coffee table and a dresser . Oh and a TV with English channels.
The whole apartment was very bright with lots of windows it also had air conditioning in the 2 bedrooms and living room. We had lovely views of the sea.
The apartment was very clean, the maids were in every day even on a Sunday.
There was a bus stop right outside the hotel which was handy and cheap as we did'nt hire a car. We walked into the main part of the resort, which took about 15-20 mins.
The hotel was on a busy main road but could'nt hear it in the apartment unless you was on the balcony.
There was always enough sunbeds round the pool and the snack bar was reasonable priced.
The taxi from the Airport was 26 Euros.