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I’m thinking of booking a family room at either La Zabra or La Manga next year for 4 of us next year (2 adults, 2 kids (9 & 2).
I’ve been looking at reviews and they both seem very well reviewed. Has anyone been to both as a family and got any perspective?
It will be over the Easter holidays and I always prefer it if there are local places you can walk to.
ThanksI’m thinking of booking a family room at either La Zabra or La Manga next year for 4 of us next year (2 adults, 2 kids (9 & 2).
I’ve been looking at reviews and they both seem very well reviewed. Has anyone been to both as a family and got any perspective?
It will be over the Easter holidays and I always prefer it if there are local places you can walk to.
ThanksThere are no local places you can walk to from La Manga but plenty which can be reached by car within 15-20 minutes – Cabo de Palos is one of the nicer places by the sea. La Manga itself is totally English as are all the facilities in the resort, nothing remotely Spanish and it’s really very soulless. It does have three golf courses and an excellent tennis/panel club which are the real attractions.
I have no knowledge of La Zabra, however when my children were teenagers we went to La Manga club 4 times. It’s a bit like being in a nice part or Surrey but with good weather. Please bear in mind this information is historic.
We always booked a villa with a private pool and gardens, which means you can have a quite self contained holiday if that is your thing. Getting my son off his playstation when in a luxury villa with large pool on tap was quite a challenge, until we mentioned eating out of an evening, so by default we managed to get him to absorb some Spanish culture.
As it is the oldest and probably the most prestigious of the golf resorts, all the plantings, landscaping, flora and fauna are mature, which makes it a very pleasant green place to be if you want to wander about the actual club itself.
If you wish to go further afield you will need a car, or maybe rely on taxis for a few days out.
If you wish to be in Spain, it’s just around the corner, there is Los Belones, Pabo de Calos, the small but beautiful city of Cartagena approx. 20 mins in a car & you can drive to Murcia in about an hour which we did to visit the Cathedral and the City itself.
There are good restaurants about, La Rusticana which is kind of on the outskirts of the club, as is La Canela, Via Romana in Los Belones and there was a good meat restaurant there whose name I have can’t remember. In Pabo de Cabos there are a few restaurants clustered around the water. El Faro, El Ranchero & the Miramar spring to mind. The club itself has loads of restaurants from fine dining to fast food.
My only reservation is with such young children, is that you might pay through the nose for a lot of facilities you will not use, like the golf and the tennis (all extra), plus it might feel too English for you.
At the time we did this it really suited us as a family and we had great holidays there.
Will probably give La Manga a swerve then. La Zabra looks lovely but the lack of a heated outdoor pool is a bit of a worry for the little ones in easter.
Will probably give La Manga a swerve then. La Zabra looks lovely but the lack of a heated outdoor pool is a bit of a worry for the little ones in easter.
As Misty mentioned, Cartagena is definitely worth an afternoon. We considered staying at La Manga in October half term, but ended up at the Melia Villitaina (with a Melia Gold 20% off voucher). While I had concerns about the proximity to Benidorm, as Melia Gold with a 4 yo we thought it was terrific. There were lots of domestic Spanish tourists, and it had an outdoor heated pool. The Hyatt La Manga is quite isolated.
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