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An independent luxury golf and spa resort near Casares on the Costa del Sol, with 67 suites, a Solheim Cup championship course, a 2,200sqm spa and a beach club.
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Need To Know
- 67 suites, from 52sqm Junior Suites to private-pool and Cortesín Suites, many with terraces
- A luxury golf and spa resort near Casares, about a mile from the Mediterranean
- An 18-hole Cabell Robinson course, host to the 2023 Solheim Cup, with a Nicklaus Academy
- A 2,200sqm spa with thermal baths and Thai treatments, and a hilltop yoga centre
- A 6,000sqm beach club with a 35m infinity pool, plus several restaurants and tennis and padel
- Western Costa del Sol, beyond Estepona; about 50 minutes from Málaga airport
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The golf — an 18-hole Cabell Robinson championship course rated among the world's best, host to the 2023 Solheim Cup and the Volvo World Match Play, with a Nicklaus Academy on site.
- The spa — more than 2,200 square metres of thermal baths, a salt-water pool and a Thai spa of ten treatment rooms, with a separate hilltop yoga and meditation centre overlooking the sea.
- The suites — 67 of them, large and light at 52 square metres and up, in Andalusian style with high ceilings and private patios; the grandest with their own terrace pools.
- The beach club — a 6,000-square-metre club a short shuttle away, with a 35-metre infinity pool, Balinese beds and Mediterranean cooking served right on the sand.
- The dining — several restaurants across the estate: Spanish cooking by chef Lutz Bösing, the Asian-Mediterranean REI, and authentic Italian by Andrea Tumbarello.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at Finca Cortesin Hotel Golf & Spa
€546.00 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Carretera Casares, km2, 29690 Casares, Málaga, Spain
Travel Info
Finca Cortesín lies inland of Casares at the quieter western end of the Costa del Sol, beyond Estepona and near Sotogrande, about a mile from its beach club on the coast. Málaga airport is roughly 50 minutes by car, Gibraltar around 40; Marbella and Puerto Banús about half an hour east. A car is useful.
Nearby Places
North Front Airport
28800m
Centro Plaza
26100m
Puerto Banus
26500m
Last Updated: 2026-06-13
Expert Review
Origins
Finca Cortesín sits on a rise of Andalusian countryside above Casares, at the western, quieter end of the Costa del Sol — beyond Estepona, near Sotogrande, about a mile inland from its own stretch of Mediterranean coast. It is a modern resort built in the old manner: whitewashed Andalusian architecture arranged around palatial patios and fragrant courtyards, set in manicured gardens with the Sierra Bermeja behind and the sea ahead, on a scale that feels more like a village than a hotel.
What sets it apart is the golf. The estate's eighteen-hole championship course, designed by Cabell B. Robinson, ranks among the best in the world and has hosted the sport's biggest occasions — the 2023 Solheim Cup and the Volvo World Match Play among them — with a Nicklaus Academy on site for those who want to sharpen their game. Around it the resort spreads into a 2,200-square-metre spa of thermal baths and Thai treatments, a hilltop yoga centre, a 6,000-square-metre beach club with a 35-metre infinity pool, tennis and padel courts, and a clutch of restaurants spanning Spanish, Italian and Asian-Mediterranean cooking.
The accommodation matches the setting: sixty-seven suites, none under fifty square metres, in a calm Andalusian style of high ceilings, marble bathrooms and private patios, the grandest with their own terrace pools. It is, frankly, a full-scale luxury resort rather than a small hotel — independently owned, much awarded, and built for golf, wellness and family holidays in equal measure. For those who want space, sport and Mediterranean sun over the intimacy of a town bolthole, there is little on this coast to rival it.
Top Secret
The golf is the headline, but the spa runs it close, and the best-kept corner of it sits apart from the rest. Up on a hill above the resort, with the mountains on one side and the Mediterranean on the other, the ARANI yoga and meditation centre is a quiet pavilion given over to stillness — Hatha, Yin, Vinyasa and Kundalini classes through the day, and views that do half the work of unwinding you before the session even begins. After a treatment in the main spa's thermal baths, the climb up here at dusk is the resort's most restorative half hour.
The Review
Finca Cortesín is among the finest resorts on the Costa del Sol, and it is best understood as exactly that: a large, independent luxury resort built around world-class golf, not a boutique hotel. It occupies a swathe of Andalusian hillside above Casares, at the coast's quieter western end beyond Estepona, in whitewashed buildings set among patios and gardens with the sea a mile off. The scale is considerable — sixty-seven suites, a championship course, a vast spa, a beach club — and the style throughout is relaxed Andalusian elegance.
The golf is the reason many come: a Cabell Robinson course that hosted the 2023 Solheim Cup, with a Nicklaus Academy alongside. But the resort is broad enough to suit those who never lift a club — a 2,200-square-metre spa with thermal baths and a Thai treatment wing, a hilltop yoga centre, a 6,000-square-metre beach club with a 35-metre infinity pool, tennis and padel, and several good restaurants from Spanish to Italian to Asian. The suites are large and serene, many with private terrace pools.
It suits golfers, families and couples who want space, sport and resort comforts over the intimacy or the buzz of a town — this is a destination in its own right, the sort of place guests settle into for days rather than use as a base. Marbella and Puerto Banús are half an hour east when the mood for livelier nights strikes, and the white village of Casares and the wineries of the hills are close at hand. For a luxury golf-and-spa escape on the western Costa del Sol, it stands at the top of the list.
