“OUR MOËT & CHANDON SUITE HAS ITS OWN PUTTING GREEN”
If its walls could speak… during a stellar history dating back over a half a century, Gran Meliá Don Pepe has welcomed monarchs, Nobel Prize winners and the most famous Hollywood actors. Its name has been inextricably linked with Marbella glamour. Located in a strategic frontline beach setting at the start of the famous Golden Mile, this five-star grand deluxe hotel is an intrinsic part of Marbella’s recent history.
Why should a tourist coming to Marbella to play golf choose this hotel?
For our amenities, where you can find everything you need without having to leave the hotel, our attentive service and client care, and our excellent setting in the heart of Marbella city centre, strategically situated for easy access to the area’s main golf courses.
For truly dedicated golf enthusiasts, Don Pepe has a suite with its own putting green. Clearly this is not a normal suite…
This is the first Moët & Chandon suite in the world. It’s an impeccable showcase of luxury and distinction and is located on the top floor of the hotel, from where you can enjoy wonderful views of the Mediterranean Sea and Africa. The suite’s terrace is the most closely guarded secret in Marbella, where guests are welcomed at a spectacular designer bar and can enjoy a glass of Moët & Chandon at the bar, in the hydro-massage or on a Balinese sunbed. In addition, the suite also has an outdoor putting green with views over the coast.
Gran Meliá Don Pepe is famous for having a loyal clientele who regularly return for stays. What is the key to a hotel maintaining a client’s loyalty?
We are fortunate to have a very loyal clientele, returning year after year to enjoy their holidays in Marbella. The Gran Meliá Don Pepe is synonymous with quality and meticulous care when it comes to client service. These values, together with amenities that are worthy of a five-star grand deluxe hotel and an incomparable location in the centre of Marbella with direct access to the promenade, are without a doubt the main reasons why our clients continue to return to the hotel year after year.
Quality gastronomy has a growing importance in tourists’ appetites. What does the hotel offer in this respect?
Our guests can enjoy a great variety of services. These include various restaurants and bars that are also open to members of the public not staying at the hotel and which offer an excellent relationship between quality and price. There is the T-Bone grill, offering traditional Basque grilled cuisine with a modern touch; the Pool Bar in summer, with sea views and cocktails and snacks during the day as well as a la carte lunches featuring international specialities; the Whisky Lounge, a meeting place par excellence with a large selection of spirit drinks and cocktails; the Oyster & Caviar Champagne Bar, where people can savour our selection of caviar, champagne and other delicatessen treats in a chill-out ambience; the Tahini Restaurant & Sushi Bar, with the finest Japanese cuisine; the Gran Café Capuccino, with its incomparable chill-out atmosphere on the promenade; and Darcis, offering a large variety of first-class artisanal confection, including ice-creams, macaroons, waffles and smoothies. I would like to take this opportunity of inviting our Marbella neighbours to come and check out our gastronomic offerings.
Amenities and services provided for body care are also a major attraction when deciding on where to stay. What will clients find at Don Pepe?
We have an exclusive health area and beauty salon. The space has been designed to enhance our clients’ health, for body purification and beauty and a balanced mind, with three different concepts provided in a fully-integrated and simultaneous manner: medical clinic, YHI spa with an extensive array of treatments and massages, and fitness centre open 24 hours a day.
The hotel has become a regular venue for weddings and other major celebrations. What amenities do you provide in this respect?
The hotel can host weddings and special events of all kinds. Gran Meliá Don Pepe is well-known for its wonderful gardens, where civil ceremonies, cocktail receptions and banquets can be held, and there is also a large sound-proofed room with capacity for 250 banquet guests. The hotel offers an exceptional and privileged setting to celebrate an exclusive wedding in Marbella.
In addition to the advantage of being situated next to the Marbella Congress Centre, Gran Meliá Don Pepe is recognised as having extensive and multi-purpose amenities for holding all kinds of meetings, conventions and conferences. What capacity do you have and what services are offered by the business centre?
The hotel offers areas that are specially adapted for all kinds of meetings, conventions and conferences, making it a real quality option for just about any size group.
We have 1,710 square metres of space for people to meet or organise exhibitions, with a total of 12 meeting rooms, eight of them with natural light, including a plenary meeting room with capacity for 250 people. Our amenities are equipped with the latest technology and have a large number of communication and technical support devices and equipment. We make available the space, the service, the personalised options and the décor for any event to be a success. And all of that backed up by a team of top professionals exclusively dedicated to ensuring the event is a complete success.
What is it that Don Pepe guests most appreciate about a tourist destination like Marbella?
Marbella is undoubtedly one of the most important tourist centres in Spain, with a privileged frontline coastal location that provides excellent weather conditions throughout the year, as well as stunning surroundings. Marbella offers exceptional sun and beach tourism, with superb and expansive beaches and natural areas, sports clubs and a great variety of establishments that justify its well-deserved fame.
Marbella is a clean, safe and well-maintained municipality, with beautiful boulevards, parks and gardens. Its attractive, typical Andalucian historical town centre, with narrow alleys festooned with flowers, its lovely fine-sand beaches with traditional chiringuitos (beach bar-restaurants) offering the finest fish dishes and its comprehensive and exclusive leisure amenities make it a paradisiacal destination all year round.
Do you believe Spain will continue the growth rate in number of tourists it has been registering in recent years?
Even though in recent times we have benefited from instability in such competitor countries as Tunisia, Turkey and Egypt, without a doubt we will continue to grow if we are committed to offering quality service and exclusivity, reinforced by the added value of having more than 300 sunny days a year.
