A short wander across the road to a bar and restaurant with fab terrace looking over golf course, coastline and Gibratar beyond. And here there is a 9 hole Casares Golf course, gym and spa with hairdressers and treatments to pamper your inner self.

Not surprising that many of the faces that we met around the Casares del Sol apartments are holiday makers that have been visiting for several years, they love the area and the relaxing, non touristy atmosphere of this area on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain.

There are alot of choices and where you go depends on:

• * How far afield you want to go? Within walking distance, a short drive or further afield.
• * What sort of food you would like to eat?

Within a short walk you have a few choices:

• D'Antonellas restaurant is a 2 minutes walk and has Spanish/ international foods which is good quality and a reasonable price.
• Giovannis is a 3 minutes walk and has 'classy' pasta and pizzas, again very good quality and reasonable price, but being 'classy' means its more than the average pizza house.
• La Choza is slightley further with an 8 minutes walk and spanish foods. Reasonable quality.
• Chiringuito is about 6 minutes walk to the beach, with seafood and fish plus meats on the menu.
• Beach Bar Casares - 200 yards along the beach and only open in summer months. Serving seafoods and fish mostly.

A short drive away into the nearest town of Sabinillas. Eating out in Sabinillas gives you a huge choice of foods and restaurants, from Indian foods to Chinese to Spanish, Indonesian, International. With many seafood and fish restaurants.
Enjoy your time on Costa del Sol at Casares del Sol Holiday Apartment.

Finca Cortesin Golf Resort is the proud host to The Volvo World Match Play Championship and David Brice considers that Finca Cortesin is now worthy of Ryder Cup consideration because Finca Cortesin offers a very serious challenge together with handsome good looks. With stunning design, Finca Cortesin demands the attention of every visitor to the Costa del Sol. With some 100 cunningly placed bunkers, combined with an intriguing abundance of risk-reward possibilities, this is a strategists dream that simply calls out to be played more than once.

As well as a top Golf course, Finca Cortesin has a plush boutique hotel deserves a sixth star for reaching new levels of pure luxury. In a world where five stars has always been the top hotel ranking, this is one that could easily and unapologetically, be awarded a sixth.

Located in Casares in the Costa del Sol, Casares on Costa del Sol golf course is a haven in southern Spain.

Petanque is played on a rectangular area called a piste with boules to throw. Although many people play the game on any area of the beach or grassland. Casares beach has a petanque piste, part way between Casares beach car park and Sabinillas, and any one can play here. And there is another piste at Casares del Sol apartment in PM4 gardens.

Its often thought of as a game in Mediterranean countries, France in particular, but is played all over the world and many UK villages have their own teams.

Right next to Casares del Sol is Don Giovannis Restaurant just inside

We walked up the road to the restaurant from Casares del Sol apartment one evening in August this year, just a 10 minute walk but its a shame there isn't a pavement as its very dark coming home later along the road. We weren't sure what sort of food or what price range it would be or whether we would be sitting alone in the restaurant. We shouldn't have worried on any of these points.

It was a glorious evening and we sat outside in the lovely courtyard with olive trees and fairy lights. There were about 10 tables of which there were about 6 being used so the atmosphere was great. The menu was Italian as you may guess from the name, with some more unusual Italian dishes, as well as classic pizzas and garlic bread.

Service was good and meal lovely, prices fine although portions not over generous. Recommend going to this restuarant and its lovely to be able to walk to eat at night and not worry about having a drink or two!

Check out Casares Beach Video  by clicking here and enjoy the music of Spain!

Casares beach (sometimes called Casares Costa beach) stretches for over 3 miles, a vast area of sandy beach, gentle slopeing sands so safe for bathing and rakes daily during the summer period. 

Most peoples first sighting of the beach is from the car park just off Casares roundabout, easy parking if you want to drive to the beach with all your gear, sunshade, balls, towels etc...... Next to the car park is one of the beach bars, chiringuitos, for drinks, snacks, meals or loungers and parasols. Go in either direction along the beach from here and in 5 minutes you will reach another beach bar.

Along this stretch of beach there are showers during peak times, volleyball and boute (petanque court).