Apartment · Marbella Old Town, Marbella
Apartamento Azahar
Two bedrooms on a pedestrian lane, two minutes from Plaza de los Naranjos
Apartamento Azahar takes the first floor of a 19th-century townhouse on one of the Old Town's car-free lanes, a two-minute walk from Plaza de los Naranjos. The restoration kept the beams and the tiled floors and added what the building never had: proper air conditioning, a kitchen you can cook in, and bathrooms that work. Open the juliet balconies and you hear the lane below — footsteps, café cutlery, someone's radio. The beach is eight minutes downhill on foot. You will not need a car here, and honestly, you couldn't park one anyway.
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The apartment is one flight up — eighteen stone steps, no lift — and runs the full depth of the building, about 95 square metres. The living room faces the lane through two sets of juliet balcony doors; the bedrooms sit at the quieter back. Ceilings are high, close to three and a half metres, with the original chestnut beams exposed, so the rooms stay cool even before the air conditioning comes on.
The kitchen was fitted in 2024: induction hob, oven, dishwasher, Nespresso machine and enough pots and tableware to actually make dinner rather than just reheat it. The dining table seats four by the balcony doors. Up two more flights there is a small roof terrace shared with the building's two other apartments — loungers, a table, and a view across the tiled rooftops to La Concha.
Be clear-eyed about Old Town living before you book. There is no parking at the building; the nearest public car park is a six-minute walk and runs about €20 a day. The lane has restaurants, and on summer evenings you will hear them until around midnight — the bedrooms at the back are noticeably quieter, and we provide earplugs without irony. In exchange you get Marbella's best square, the orange trees, and the sea, all on foot.
Stayzia manages this apartment directly. Our team meets every guest in person at check-in, a trusted housekeeper looks after it year round, and a guest manager is on WhatsApp throughout your stay.
Room by room
Main bedroom
King (160cm)
At the back of the building, shuttered windows, in-room safe
Bedroom 2
Twins (2 × 90cm, joinable)
Quiet rear aspect, built-in wardrobes
What the house includes
Living
- Air conditioning (hot and cold) in every room
- 55" TV with streaming apps
- Fast fibre Wi-Fi (300 Mb)
- Dedicated workspace with desk
- Bluetooth speaker
- Original beamed ceilings, 3.4m high
Kitchen
- Induction hob and oven
- Dishwasher
- Nespresso machine and filter coffee
- Microwave
- Full tableware and cookware for 6
Outside
- Shared roof terrace with loungers and dining table
- Two juliet balconies over the pedestrian lane
- Drying rack and outdoor tap on the terrace
Practical
- Washing machine
- Iron and board
- Keyless entry
- Welcome grocery pack
- Earplugs and eye masks provided
- Beach towels included
Bedrooms & Baths
- Hotel-quality linen, changed weekly
- Blackout shutters in both bedrooms
- Walk-in rainfall shower plus second shower room
- Hairdryers in both bathrooms
- In-room safe
- Cot and high chair (on request, free)
Good to know — extra costs
- Mid-stay extra clean: €80
- Early check-in from 13:00, subject to availability: €40
- Airport transfer (Málaga AGP), up to 4 passengers: €75 each way
Where you are
Marbella's Casco Antiguo is the part of town the brochures forget to mention exists: a knot of whitewashed lanes around the Plaza de los Naranjos, where the town hall has stood since the 1500s, orange trees perfume the squares in spring, and grandmothers still water geraniums above the tapas bars. It is small — you can cross it in ten minutes — but it is real, lived-in, and ten minutes' flat walk from the beach. Staying here is the opposite of resort life. You buy peaches at the Mercado Municipal, take coffee where the price is written for locals, eat dinner at a different bar each night, and stroll the Alameda park and the Dalí bronzes on Avenida del Mar after. Apartments in Marbella Old Town are mostly small and characterful rather than large and glossy; ours, Apartamento Azahar, is a renovated two-bedroom on a quiet lane two minutes from the square — close enough to everything that you will not start the car all week, if you brought one at all. For travellers who want Spain rather than a version of it, this is the Marbella base.
Read more about staying in holiday rentals in Marbella Old Town, or browse all Marbella apartments.
- Plaza de los Naranjos2 min walk
- Beach (Playa de la Venus)8 min walk
- Public car park (Avenida del Mar)6 min walk
- Alameda Park4 min walk
- Málaga Airport (AGP)45 min drive
Guests on Azahar, verbatim
★★★★★
“We came for a long weekend without a car and it was exactly right. Coffee on the roof terrace every morning, dinner a different direction every night without walking more than five minutes. The bed in the back room is genuinely silent.”
★★★★★
“The listing is honest, which I appreciated — yes you hear the lane until late, but with the shutters closed in the back bedrooms we slept fine. The kitchen is better equipped than our one at home. Eight minutes to the beach is accurate, I timed it.”
★★★★★
“A beautiful apartment in the best location in Marbella. One small thing: the stairs are steep with luggage and there is no lift, so pack light. Everything else — the linen, the air conditioning, the check-in — was faultless.”
★★★★★
“November was a lovely time to be in the Old Town — warm afternoons, quiet evenings, oranges on the trees. The apartment is warmer and better lit than most old-building rentals we've tried in Spain. The roof terrace got sun until four.”
