Villa · San Pedro de Alcántara, Marbella
Villa Caleta
Four bedrooms, a walled garden and a pool, in the Marbella town where people actually live
Villa Caleta stands on a quiet residential street in San Pedro de Alcántara — ten minutes' walk from the town centre, fifteen from the beach boulevard, and one town over from the glitz of Puerto Banús. San Pedro is where Marbella's locals do their shopping, take their kids to the playground and eat menu del día for €14, and the villa is priced like it. Inside the walls: 320 square metres of house, a private pool, a lawn with a play area, table tennis under the carob tree, and parking for two cars. It sleeps eight without anyone on a sofa.
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The ground floor holds the kitchen, a dining room that seats ten, and a living room with doors onto the covered terrace and pool. The kitchen is the family-holiday kind: induction hob, full oven, a big fridge-freezer, dishwasher, and enough plastic cups and ice-lolly moulds to suggest the owners have children too. One bedroom — twins, with a shower room beside it — is also on this floor, useful for grandparents.
Upstairs are the other three bedrooms: a main with a king bed, en-suite and a small terrace looking at La Concha; a second king room; and a bunk room that sleeps two kids who will fight over the top bunk. Three bathrooms in total means the 8 AM queue never forms. The whole house has air conditioning and, more unusually for Spain, decent heating for winter stays.
The garden is the point. It's fully walled, flat, and big enough for actual football; the pool (8 × 4 metres) is unheated as standard and heatable for €50 a day in the cooler months; there's a play area with a slide and swings, table tennis, and a covered terrace where adults can see all of it from a chair. Two cars fit behind the gate. What you give up versus the Golden Mile is the postcode and the walk-to-beach — the boulevard is fifteen minutes on foot, with playgrounds spaced along it like rest stops.
Stayzia manages this house directly. Our team handles every arrival in person, trusted housekeepers look after it year round, and a guest manager is on WhatsApp throughout your stay.
Room by room
Main bedroom
King (180cm)
En-suite shower, small terrace with La Concha view
Bedroom 2
King (160cm)
Garden views, built-in wardrobes
Bunk room
Bunk beds (2 × 90cm)
Upstairs, blackout blinds, kid-proof finishes
Garden bedroom
Twins (2 × 90cm, joinable)
Ground floor, shower room beside
What the house includes
Living
- Air conditioning throughout
- Central heating for winter stays
- 65" TV with streaming apps
- Fast fibre Wi-Fi (600 Mb)
- Board games and a shelf of paperbacks
- Dedicated workspace
Kitchen
- Induction hob and full oven
- Large fridge-freezer
- Dishwasher
- Nespresso machine and filter coffee
- Full tableware for 12, plus kids' plates and cups
Outside
- Private pool (8 × 4m, heatable €50/day in cooler months)
- Fully walled, flat lawn garden
- Children's play area with slide and swings
- Table tennis
- Covered terrace with dining table for 10
- Gas barbecue
- Gated parking for 2 cars
Practical
- Washing machine and dryer
- Iron and board
- Keyless entry
- Welcome grocery pack
- First-night concierge visit
Bedrooms & Baths
- Hotel-quality linen, changed weekly
- Blackout blinds in all bedrooms
- Hairdryers in every bathroom
- Cot, high chair and stair gate (on request, free)
- In-room safe
Good to know — extra costs
- Pool heating: €50/day (48h notice, recommended October–May)
- Mid-stay extra clean beyond the weekly one: €110
- Airport transfer (Málaga AGP), minibus for up to 8: €95 each way
Where you are
San Pedro de Alcántara is the town next to Puerto Banús where the people who work in Puerto Banús actually live, and that one fact tells you most of what you need to know. It is a proper, functioning Spanish town — school runs, ferreterías, €13 menús del día, a church square where old men argue about football — that happens to sit ten minutes from the glossiest marina in Europe. The transformation of the last decade is the boulevard: when the coast road was buried in a tunnel, San Pedro built a kilometre of gardens on the roof — playgrounds, fountains, a skate park, an amphitheatre, cafés — and it instantly became the town's living room. Below it, a long, broad, unhurried beach runs east toward Puerto Banús with a flat seafront path the whole way. Holiday rentals in San Pedro cost noticeably less than the same space two kilometres east, and you spend the savings on the best-value eating in greater Marbella. Our villa here, Villa Caleta, is in the beachside streets south of the boulevard — flat walking to the sand, the centre and the Thursday market, with Banús twenty-five minutes along the seafront when you want the other Marbella.
Read more about staying in holiday rentals in San Pedro de Alcántara, or browse all Marbella villas.
- San Pedro centre (shops, tapas)10 min walk
- Beach boulevard15 min walk / 4 min drive
- Supermarket (Mercadona)6 min walk
- Puerto Banús5 min drive
- Marbella Old Town15 min drive
- Málaga Airport (AGP)50 min drive
Guests on Caleta, verbatim
★★★★★
“Two families, four kids between four and eleven, and we barely left the garden for the first three days. The play area and table tennis did most of the childcare. San Pedro itself was a pleasant surprise — proper Spanish town, great tapas, half the prices of Puerto Banús ten minutes away.”
★★★★★
“We paid for pool heating in early May and it was worth every euro — the kids swam every day while we sat on the covered terrace. The walk to the boulevard is fifteen minutes as described, with a playground stop halfway that our youngest insisted on both directions.”
★★★★★
“Spacious, spotless and very well organised — the check-in was the smoothest we've had in Spain. One honest note: in late October the pool was too cold for us without the heating, so budget the €50/day if you're set on swimming. The house itself was warm and comfortable.”
★★★★★
“Alquilamos la casa para una reunión familiar de tres generaciones y funcionó perfectamente — el dormitorio de la planta baja fue clave para mis padres. El jardín es aún más grande de lo que parece en las fotos. Volveremos.”
