NEW! family holiday in luxury villa countryside only 15min from Costa del Sol

Here you stay in a green and pleasant valley of real countryside, where you’ll find horses and butterflies as well as very good rural restaurants. It’s a far cry from the urbanized coast and yet sandy beaches and top golf are just 15 minutes down the road. Security gates open to a completely private estate of mature gardens, which spread out to lily ponds by a grove of trees and sitting areas The surrounding of green hills makes the setting feel especially intimate and hidden away. This property looks and feels like a proper holiday villa. The kind of place you can shake off your cares and simply enjoy yourselves. You’ll find oceans of space, an inviting swimming pool and a terrace that wraps round the whole house before opening to the gardens. Here you can play at volleyball or badminton, or sit out in the shade of trees over by the lily pond. Almost the entire many-windowed upper ground floor (the level you enter to from parking) is given over to a high-ceilinged main room with a central fireplace. It’s big enough to scatter eight sofas around and still have plenty of room for a dining area. The dining area (there's an antique table to seat everyone comfortably) continues round to a long, fully equipped kitchen and this opens very practically to a barbecue area and bench seating for eight. There are two bedrooms and a bathroom that make up the fourth side of the same floor. Windows on all sides open wide to let through fresh, clean air and give you views over the gardens. Experience has shown that thanks to the design (windows allowing ventilation) very often the air con isn’t necessary, and neither is pool heating from late spring to autumn. We think separating out the electricity charge is a fair means of keeping the accommodation price down, as this way you only pay for the electricity you use. Internal stairs go down to a hallway on the lower floor and four more bedrooms. All four bedrooms have french windows out to the terrace that circles the villa. Out here on the terrace is one of the property's highlights: the outdoor jacuzzi hot tub. If you can bring yourself to climb out, there's a furnished drinks area with bar and fridge: but maybe someone will be good enough to bring you a cold drink to the tub? A small mezzanine TV room (the tower you can see in the photos) has a double sofa bed that can be made up for two children if required. The sofa bed's good quality and there are blackout curtains up here, so they'll sleep well. Just below the villa, a few steps down, is the swimming pool. The irregular shape pool is heatable outside summer months. There are steps leading down into the water. The poolside is skirted by a line-up of fruit trees arranged like cheerleaders and beyond them lie lawns and gardens that spread out over twelve acres. They are healthy, lush gardens with mature trees and the lawns are massive. A walkway past the lily pond brings you to a spot for those totally quiet moments when you just want to sit and do nothing. You’re on a very extensive estate here, to which the secure entrance is shared by just two other and completely separate residences. One belongs to the owners, that is closed most of the year and most of the holiday season. Their house, facing the other way onto their own gardens, can just be made out through the trees. The 2 bedroom ensuite apartment, fully furnished and equiped to a very high standard it's located only a few steps away from the main villa and in the same building as the caretakers home. THIS APARTMENT IS ONLY RENTED OUT AS AN ADDITION TO THE MAIN VILLA, TO GUARANTEE TOTAL PRIVACY. The other resident is the English-speaking caretaker for the property, very friendly, very discretely apart, and simply on hand if you need him.