Apartments in Fuengirola

Table of Contents

• At a glance: What should you know about renting an apartment in Fuengirola?
• Apartments in Fuengirola: find your perfect retreat
• Exploring Fuengirola: our top recommendations
• Activities: What are the top things to do and see in Fuengirola?

• Sea-view flats and terraces: Most holiday apartments here are one to three-bedroom flats with balconies or terraces, and many sit within a short walk of the 8 km promenade.
• Best areas to stay: Los Boliches and Fuengirola Centre suit first-time visitors, while Torreblanca and Carvajal are quieter and closer to the beach.
• Guests rate location highly: Reviews of our top-rated apartments repeatedly praise sea views, walkable beachfronts and the local train link to Málaga.
• Dining on the doorstep: Fuengirola's port, Los Boliches beachfront and the old town keep well-rated restaurants and chiringuitos within easy reach.
• Year-round activities: From Sohail Castle and Bioparc to the Tuesday street market, there is plenty to fill a week without a car.

Fuengirola's holiday apartments run from compact one-bedroom flats near the promenade to spacious six-person duplexes with wraparound terraces. Many sit in beachfront blocks with shared pools, lifts and parking, and most come furnished for self-catering. If you would rather have a garden and more privacy, compare the villas in Fuengirola, browse the wider choice of holiday lettings in Fuengirola, or check the last-minute deals in Fuengirola for a short-notice break. Most apartments here come well equipped for longer stays.

• Balcony or furnished terrace, often with sea views
• Air conditioning for the warm Costa del Sol summers
• Shared or communal swimming pool
• Wi-Fi and a fully fitted kitchen with a washing machine
• Private parking or a nearby car park

These features make a self-catering flat an easy base for families and couples alike.

What are the best areas to stay in Fuengirola?

Los Boliches is the most popular base, thanks to its beachfront promenade, train station and dense run of restaurants. The table below details areas for specific interests:

What do our guests say?

Guests booking apartments in Fuengirola consistently highlight the same things: how close the flats are to the sand, how usable the terraces are, and how easy it is to reach Málaga on the local train. Cleanliness and responsive hosts come up often, and several of our best-reviewed flats hold ratings of 9.7+ across the past year. Sea views and a communal pool are the two features guests mention most in their write-ups.

Here are our top-rated apartments in Fuengirola from the past year:

1. 1 Bedroom Apt 85 Mts To Beach - 9.9+: A compact one-bedroom flat by Playa del Castillo, praised for being barely a minute's walk from the sand.
2. Ronda 3 - 9.9+: A three-person flat in Los Boliches with a sea view and a terrace, within easy reach of the promenade.
3. Niza Playa 6 - 9.8+: A six-person apartment near Port Fuengirola with a sea-view terrace and space for a family or group.

Fuengirola sits on the western Costa del Sol in Málaga province, spread along roughly 8 km of beach between Benalmádena and Mijas Costa.

🥗Where to eat in Fuengirola?

According to Google Maps data and reviews, Restaurante Girol is the best rated restaurant in Fuengirola. Below is a table showing the top 5 highly-rated restaurants hand-picked by our travel experts.

⭐Our guests' recommendation: Our guest traveller Emma recommends Chiringuito Los Marinos José in Fuengirola: the grilled sardines and the daily catch are worth the short walk along the Los Boliches seafront.

1. Walk the Paseo Marítimo
2. Climb up to Sohail Castle
3. Meet the animals at Bioparc
4. Shop the Tuesday street market
5. Catch a show at the Salón Varietés
6. Ride the train to Málaga
7. Take a day trip along the coast

1. Walk the Paseo Marítimo

   The promenade runs for around 8 km, one of the longest on the Costa del Sol, linking Carvajal in the east to the river mouth beneath Sohail Castle. It is flat, paved and lit after dark, so it works as a morning run, an evening stroll or the simplest way to move between beaches without a car. Chiringuitos line the route, most of them grilling espeto de sardinas over open boats of coals. Benches, playgrounds and outdoor gyms are spaced along the way.

2. Climb up to Sohail Castle

   The tenth-century Castillo Sohail stands on a low hill where the Fuengirola river meets the sea, and the walk up takes about fifteen minutes from the port. The walls have been rebuilt enough to walk, and the views take in the whole bay and, on clear days, the Sierra de Mijas behind. In summer the inner courtyard becomes an open-air venue for concerts and the Marenostrum festival, and there is a medieval market in the grounds most years.

3. Meet the animals at Bioparc

   Bioparc Fuengirola sits close to the town centre and is easy to reach on foot from most apartments. It is built as a series of immersive habitats rather than cages, with Madagascar, Equatorial Africa and South-East Asia represented across a compact site. Expect lemurs, gorillas, tigers, Komodo dragons and a walk-through aviary. Summer evenings bring later opening hours and live music, which makes it a good option once the heat of the afternoon has passed.

4. Shop the Tuesday street market

   The weekly mercadillo sets up near the Recinto Ferial on Tuesday mornings and is one of the largest on this stretch of coast. Stalls sell fruit and vegetables, olives, leather goods, ceramics, clothing and household bits, and prices are noticeably lower than in the shops on the high street. A smaller Saturday market runs by the port. Go early: by midday in summer the aisles are busy and the best of the produce has gone.

5. Catch a show at the Salón Varietés

   Built in 1925 and now Fuengirola's English-language theatre, the Salón Varietés runs a season of musicals, comedies, pantomime and plays through the year. It seats only a couple of hundred people, so the atmosphere is intimate and tickets are inexpensive by West End standards. The venue sits in the centre, a few streets back from the beach, and there are plenty of restaurants nearby for a meal before curtain-up.

6. Ride the train to Málaga

   The C-1 Cercanías line runs from Fuengirola to Málaga roughly every twenty minutes, stopping at Los Boliches, Torreblanca, Carvajal and Benalmádena on the way. The journey takes about forty-five minutes and costs a couple of pounds, which makes a day in the city genuinely easy: the Picasso Museum, the Alcazaba and the Soho district are all walkable from María Zambrano station. Guests staying in holiday homes in Málaga often make the trip in reverse.

7. Take a day trip along the coast

   Fuengirola sits in the middle of the Costa del Sol, so the rest of the coast is within an hour. Head west for the marina and old town of Marbella Centre, or further to the beaches around Estepona. Eastwards, Benalmádena is two train stops away, while the caves and cliffs near Nerja and the quieter coves of Málaga Este make a longer but rewarding drive along the coastal road.