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Holiday World Resort Affiliated by Meliá

4.0 star property
Holiday World Resort combines oceanfront dining with live entertainment, while poolside bars and waterslides create the perfect balance of relaxation and fun

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At Holiday World Resort, travelers enjoy the perfect blend of ocean views and comfort. The property features four restaurants right by the sea, a spa offering massage and hydrotherapy treatments, and evening concerts performed under starlit skies.

Reviews

8.0 out of 10
Very good

Popular amenities

  • Spa
  • Restaurant
  • Air-conditioning
  • Gym
  • Parking available

Room options

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Minibar, free cots/infant beds, bed sheets

Junior Suite

  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Single Beds

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Minibar, free cots/infant beds, bed sheets

Junior Suite (2+2)

  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Single Beds
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About the area

Located by the sea, Holiday World Resort Affiliated by Meliá is in Benalmádena Costa, a neighbourhood in Benalmádena. While the natural beauty of Carvajal Beach and Los Boliches Beach can be enjoyed by anyone, those looking for an activity can explore Benalmadena Marina. Travelling with kids? Consider Aqualand Torremolinos and Playa Mini Golf Espana. Visit our Benalmádena travel guide
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Avenida del Sol, km 215.6, Benalmádena, Málaga, 29630

What's nearby

  • Carvajal Beach
    Carvajal Beach
    8 min walk - 0.7 km
  • Malaga Province Beaches
    Malaga Province Beaches
    10 min walk - 0.9 km
  • Puerto Marina Benalmádena
    Benalmadena Marina
    16 min drive - 16.1 km
  • Torre del Muelle
    2 min drive - 1.5 km
  • Playa de Arroyo Hondo
    3 min drive - 2.2 km

Getting around

  • Fuengirola Boliches Station
    16 min drive
  • Málaga (AGP)
    34 min drive

Restaurants

  • La higuerita
    5 min drive
  • Kalifato Beach Bar
    13 min walk
  • Mesón Juan Palomo
    3 min drive
  • Caribbean
    4 min drive
  • Malibu Beach Bar
    3 min drive

About this property

Holiday World Resort Affiliated by Meliá

Upscale family-friendly resort near Carvajal Beach
A poolside bar, a corner/local shop and concerts and live shows are just a few of the amenities provided at Holiday World Resort Affiliated by Meliá. Indulge in a massage, hydrotherapy and a facial at the on-site spa. Be sure to enjoy a meal at any of the 4 on-site restaurants. Enjoy the health club, as well as activities such as basketball. In addition to a terrace and shopping on-site, guests can connect to free WiFi in public areas.
Additional perks include:
  • An outdoor pool and a children's pool, along with a waterslide, sunloungers and pool umbrellas
  • Self-parking (surcharge), an electric car charging station and a water park (surcharge)
  • Concierge services, a dock and tour/ticket information
  • A gift shop, luggage storage and a billiards/pool table
Room features
All 400 rooms boast comforts such as furnished balconies and air conditioning, as well as thoughtful touches such as safes and separate dining areas.
Extra amenities include:
  • Bathrooms with baths or showers and free toiletries
  • TVs with satellite channels
  • Separate dining areas, free infant beds and coffee/tea makers

All-inclusive details

All-inclusive room rates at Holiday World Resort Affiliated by Meliá are available. These rates are higher because they include on-site food and beverages in the room rate (some restrictions may apply).

Gratuities and taxes

Gratuities are included and additional gratuities at guests' discretion are accepted.

Food and beverages

Buffet meals and snacks included

Activities and facilities/equipment

All on-site activities and use of facilities and equipment are included.

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Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transport

  • Electric car charging station on site
  • Free offsite parking within 30 metres
  • Covered parking on site (EUR 16.50 per day)
  • Limited on-site self parking
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking available

Food and drink

  • 3 bars/lounges
  • 4 restaurants
  • A coffee shop/cafe
  • A poolside bar
  • Snack bar/deli

Things to do

  • Arcade/game room
  • Basketball
  • Billiards/pool table
  • Children's pool
  • Concerts/live shows
  • Evening entertainment
  • Free children's club
  • Full-service spa
  • Health club
  • Mini golf
  • Outdoor pool
  • Playground
  • Shopping
  • Water park
  • Waterslide

Family friendly

  • Arcade/game room
  • Children's pool
  • Free children's club
  • Grocery/convenience store
  • In-room cot
  • Laundry facilities
  • Lifeguards on site
  • Mini golf
  • Outdoor pool
  • Playground
  • Separate in-room dining area
  • Snack bar/deli
  • Water park (surcharge)
  • Waterslide

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk
  • ATM
  • Gift shop/newsstand
  • Grocery/convenience store
  • Hair salon
  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage
  • Vending machine

Guest services

  • Concierge services
  • Housekeeping (daily)
  • Multilingual staff
  • Tour and ticket assistance
  • Wedding services

Business services

  • Business centre
  • Meeting rooms

Outdoors

  • Dock
  • Outdoor entertainment area
  • Pool loungers
  • Pool umbrellas
  • Terrace

Full-service spa

  • Body scrubs
  • Facials
  • Hot tub
  • Hydrotherapy
  • Manicures/pedicures
  • Massage
  • Sauna
  • Spa open daily
  • Steam room
  • Turkish bath

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Lift
  • Smooth flooring in public areas
  • Well-lit path to entrance
  • Wheelchair accessible (may have limitations)
  • Wheelchair-accessible business centre
  • Wheelchair-accessible gym
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking
  • Wheelchair-accessible path to lift
  • Wheelchair-accessible pool
  • Wheelchair-accessible public bathroom
  • Wheelchair-accessible registration desk
  • Wheelchair-accessible restaurant
  • Wheelchair-accessible spa

More

  • 3 buildings
  • Banquet hall
  • Built in 2004
  • Designated smoking areas
  • Lifeguards
  • Reception hall

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided
  • Free cot

Bathroom

  • Bathtub or shower
  • Free toiletries
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • TV with satellite channels

Food and drink

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Limited room service
  • Minibar
  • Separate dining area

More

  • Air conditioning (climate-controlled)
  • Safe

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; check-in end time: anytime

Minimum check-in age - 18

Check-out

Check-out before noon

Contactless check-out

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property

For any questions, please contact the property using the information on the booking confirmation

Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Check-in for this property is based at the main entrance, where guests will be assigned to one of the 3 hotels on the resort.

This property’s Half Board rates do not include beverages.

Renovations and closures

The following facilities are closed seasonally each year. They will be closed from 1 November to 1 April:
  • Water park

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

2 children, up to the age of 2 years, can stay for free if using existing beds when occupying the parent or guardian's room

Rollaway/extra beds are not available.

Free cots are available on request at the property

Payment types at the property

Important information

Optional extras

  • Covered self-parking fee: EUR 16.50 per day
  • In-room safe fee: EUR 2.85 per day

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted
This property has outdoor spaces, such as balconies, patios and terraces, which may not be suitable for children; if you have any concerns, we recommend contacting the property prior to your arrival to confirm that they can accommodate you in a suitable room
Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property; the policies listed are provided by the property

We should mention

Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 1000, due to national regulations; for further details, please contact the property using the information in the booking confirmation
Reservations are required for massage services; reservations can be made by contacting the property prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation
Children under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision

Frequently asked questions

Does Holiday World Resort Affiliated by Meliá have a pool?

Yes, this property has an outdoor pool and a children's pool.

Is Holiday World Resort Affiliated by Meliá pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much is parking at Holiday World Resort Affiliated by Meliá?

Self-parking is available for EUR 16.50 per day. There is free parking nearby.

What time is check-in at Holiday World Resort Affiliated by Meliá?

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; check-in end time: anytime.

What time is check-out at Holiday World Resort Affiliated by Meliá?

Checkout is at noon.

Are there all-inclusive benefits at Holiday World Resort Affiliated by Meliá?

Some rate plans available at this resort are all-inclusive.

Where is Holiday World Resort Affiliated by Meliá located?

This family-friendly Benalmádena resort is located by the sea, within a 15-minute walk of Malaga Province Beaches and Carvajal Beach. Los Boliches Beach is 2.2 mi (3.5 km) away.

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Reviews

Holiday World Resort Affiliated by Meliá Reviews

8.0

Very good

8.2

Cleanliness

7.2

Location

8.4

Staff & service

7.8

Property conditions & facilities
Rating 10 - Excellent. 118 out of 294 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 93 out of 294 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 47 out of 294 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 25 out of 294 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 11 out of 294 reviews

Reviews

Verified

8/10 Good

Graham

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Great holiday and location. It would have been nice for the other restaurants and facilities to be open but it was the beginning of the season.
Stayed 7 nights in Feb 2026
Verified

6/10 Okay

Francis

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Nice hotel but starting to show its age. Basic food. Probably excellent for families with young kids; not for older crowd
Stayed 6 nights in Mar 2026
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10/10 Excellent

Fereshteh

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Everything was really good — clean rooms, a beautiful hotel environment, and delicious food.
Stayed 7 nights in Nov 2025
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10/10 Excellent

Diana

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Paradise for family vacation! Fun, great food, great service!
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2025
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10/10 Excellent

faezeh

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
everything was good and staff are friendly and poliet
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2025
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10/10 Excellent

Lorraine

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Reception staff welcoming and also fantastic at check out. Bar and restaurant staff friendly and helpful. Room clean, would benefit from having a washing up sponge and washing up liquid to wash coffee cups, just an idea :-) Every area clean. Loved the waterfall feature in the central lobbies. Food was lovely, everyone is so hard working, well done to all. Thoroughly enjoyed my stay. Really enjoyed
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2025
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10/10 Excellent

Leah

Liked: Amenities
Lovely welcoming hotel loads to do for kids room nice and spacious
Stayed 5 nights in May 2025
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10/10 Excellent

Jed

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Staff were great! Really good hotel
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2025
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10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Best Hotel

It was amazing, we Stayed there for 1 week. Big room, much to do, and perfekt for kids. Big komplex.
Stayed 7 nights in May 2025
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10/10 Excellent

Sam

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very clean hotel, staff went the extra mile, we had a couple of rainy days and the entertainment team made sure the guests were still entertained. Good selection for eating, very fresh and varied each day. Only negative if it even is one, there’s only one table tennis table and you have to go to reception to get bats and ball with an hour slot, tried on a few occasions but was always just missing out! Would make sense with how popular it is with family’s just to install another couple maybe inside? Over very pleased and will be returning.
Stayed 7 nights in Oct 2025
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10/10 Excellent

Anu

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great location and apartemento

The apartemento was great with two balconies to the sea and a bathroom with a tube. The breakfast exceeded expectations.
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great stay, but wished we had stayed longer

We enjoyed the look and feel of the polynesia hotel, it was clean, comfortable and well staffed. The shuttle bus allowed us to get to other hotels in the resort (Village and Riwo) as well as the water park). We made use of the hotel pool most and also visited the local beaches which were only 5-10 min taxi drive away which was also a good change in scenery. The activities and entertainment on offer at the hotela were great for children and adults alike as was the variety of the inclusive buffet food on offer. We only stayed 5 days but wished we had stayed longer.
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2025
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8/10 Good

Marilou

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
5 days wasn’t enough to stay in the hotel. My kids had so much fun. Love the foods and ambience.
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2025
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8/10 Good

kim

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The rooms were spacious beds were good it was clean.the buffet wss not great breakfast was ok
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2024
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8/10 Good

Dinesh

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The restaurant staff, especially Alberto, were very good. They used to make veggie food twice a day for us. The only problem was that there was a very limited choice. T The restaurant opening times are late. You are not allowed free drinks in the sister hotels even though you have gone all inclusive. The reception staff were also very helpful. Evening entertainment also starts very late at 10pm. Due to this, the audiences were limited.
Stayed 7 nights in Sep 2025
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10/10 Excellent

Ruthanne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The resort is perfect for families. The staff are so helpful. I’m vegetarian and asked for an alternative on ‘seafood’ night and within minutes the chef had made me an individual dinner. Highly recommended.
Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2023
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10/10 Excellent

Terence

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I stayed here for a few nights in November and absolutely loved it. The room was large and clean. The hotel is very nice. The food was REALLY good! Staff were kind and helpful. There was an issue with adjusting my stay that Expedia tried to help with but the hotel did not respond to which is a shame. But regardless of that, I will definitely return.
Stayed 7 nights in Nov 2024
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6/10 Okay

Trevor miles

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Did not like the continuous loud music. Lack of information reception and in room Onsite shop next to no food products available, we managed to get one carton of fresh milk in a week. Food very plentiful and great availability. Some not to our palette but understand catering for huge numbers All staff excellent Would be great for kids
Stayed 7 nights in Oct 2024
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6/10 Okay

Ian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The staff were superb from reception to, the cleaning staff, to the activity team at pool side. Cannot fault them, fantastic all round. Hotel itself seemed I little run down. Quite a lot of things in disrepair or damaged. For example, the mini golf course is in desperate need of repair. There were cracked windows and boarded up windows. The kids play area outside the kids club was in bad repair. The biggest surprise for us was the amount of extra charges despite us being all inclusive. Most ice creams, drinks, snacks, towel hire, bowling and even two of the restaurants were not included in the "all" inclusive (staying at the Polynesian hotel). Not sure you can call it all inclusive if it's not all included. Overall we did however have a fantastic stay and a really relaxing holiday. Again the staff were superb and really engaged with us and our son. You should be proud of the staff you have there.
Stayed 10 nights in Aug 2025
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6/10 Okay

Harjindar

Liked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Ok hotel

Spacious room, but with ants everywhere. Including kitchen bench. We stayed at the hotel at the top Riwo (even though we here on hotels.com never choose that one out of the 4 hotels in holiday world resort complex. So be avare of this when you book. The pool was great for our small children. We had only breakfast included so be avare that its only buffet offered for lunch and dinner for 30euro per person. No a la carte option and no other restaurants nearby. Ordered with uber eats, but they got stopped at security point so had to walk for 20min to get it. Also, indoor pool has to be paid for. So be avare of extra cost.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2023
Verified

6/10 Okay

Cathrine

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service
Rooms are spacious abd this good as we hsve young children. However, Food was repetitive and cold most of the time! Food tasteless all the time, even the freshly babequed meat or fish had no flavouring, just bland As all-inc we were allowed to have obe dinner at eaither the italianor American restaurant at the hitel, when we attended for our booking, we were treated as if we were cheap skates! Staff has no sense of humour! Sold us an awful bottle of wine, upon tasting the wone tasted cheap and venegary! When we tild him the wine wasnt good, ge rhen admittedhe knew nothing about wines and said he probably shouldn't have recommended. But of course, we had to pay for it. I then went on to order an additional garlic bread as my 2 year old rrally liked it, I was sloken to in a stern voice that i should be aware anything more than one starter, main amd dessert, i had to pay for any extras! I replied that Iwas aware of this and did ge think after paying £9800 fir a 10 day stay, i couldnt afford a piece of garlic bread? It was after this they returbed with a dessert menu but at that point, I just wanted to leave! He probably noticed their service hadnt been great, and offered for us not to pay for the said garlic bread!🙄. The phone is the room wasnt working from day one and after numerous reports it was then that it was finally fixed, 2 days before we departed.! The room walls are paper thin!. We were disturbed until about 330am daily by next door people who were drunk daily.
Stayed 10 nights in Aug 2024
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10/10 Excellent

REEFQURT OLUWABUKUNOLA

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Walking in was breathtaking. Very clean rooms and staff were really nice. They also did care of their holiday maker by providing shuttle buses from the hotel to the gate which is quite a distance. More entertainment should be provided and not just live music every night. But reat place to be. Will definitely recommend.
As you come into the hotel.
Outside the hotel with nice view
Popular bridge in the hotel. Nice for pictures
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2026
Verified

8/10 Good

Olle

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Nice staff. Cleanliness
Stayed 6 nights in Oct 2025
Verified

8/10 Good

Denise

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We had a lovely stay at the hotel, the food was lovely, cleanliness excellent and staff very helpful. The only few thing that lets it down was the pool area, although there was plenty of sun beds they could not be adjusted and a lot of them are saggy in the middle, the pool area is concreted cracked and in places. The out side of the building needs painting. It just needs a little TLC.
View from the restaurant.
Turtle pool
Stayed 5 nights in May 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Juan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Wonderfull
Stayed 8 nights in Feb 2026