Vetas is a very small wine producer located in the town of Arriate, close to Ronda in Malaga, Spain. The visit to the winery is a personal and really good experience. The wines are good, but the best thing is how you can approach the activity of the wine producer being here.

www.turismodevino.com/malaga/ruta_del_vino_malaga_2.php
or in English
www.winetourismspain.com/malaga/wine-route-malaga-2.php

Dirección: Finca El Baco. Camino Nador, s/n. Arriate
Tel: +34 647 177 620 - You need to ask for María Elena Rodríguez

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A place to remember for the wrong reasons! A lesson learned... don't always trust your guide! This is the sole reason I decided to add a profile to the Been there travel site.

Where to start? Imagine, it's the final night of your holiday and you have an early flight the following morning...

What you want is preferably quiet accommodation with easy access to your chosen airport transport (in this case the shuttle bus). Something simple and clean is fine as it's only an overnighter.

We booked on the phone the night before from Cordoba based on the above needs following the review in the usually trustworthy TimeOut guide.
True, as most of these things are indeed facts, but in my mind this place should never have been recommended.

This is what they wrote...
"A friendly hostel with cheap, cheerful rooms. The best is number 15, with windows giving fine views over the port. There's also a communal balcony."

It should read...

"A friendly-ish hostel (on the 4th floor of an office block, with nighttime skinhead bouncer for the night shift who locks everyone in the hotel over night... eek), very cheap, cheerless rooms with paper-thin walls. The worst would be number 15, with windows giving fine views over the noisy/busy road. There's also a communal balcony (and lounge which stinks of fag smoke)."

What you get...
Communal toilets (communal showers if you're on a stupidly tight budget and really can't afford one in your room) - all complete with 80s plastic concertina doors. Super thin walls - chatty neighbours optional. McDonalds - on the corner full of local teens until the early hours with obligatory noisy Vespa.

Don't waste your cash... it should be turned into a museum; it's exactly what I imagine early 90s Malaga was like (which is perhaps when the review was written).

Frustratingly it's probably always fully booked in high season due to the volume of holidaymakers in the city, and therefore will never clean up its act.

Hostal Derby - "Don't forget your ear plugs, nose plugs..."

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David is an experienced walking leader and expert history and wildlife guide with great personality. Offering day walks, tours and holidays from Yunquera, hidden in the unspoilt Sierra de las Nieves, close to Ronda and only an hour from Malaga airport, yet it seems a different world to the Costa del Sol. Fantastic value - David walks and guides for the joy not for profit. Check out the website...

www.walkspain.com
1hr Malaga Airport.

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This is a really well-equipped and comfortable group of apartments to rent, close to the lovely mountain village of Alora, less than an hour from Malaga airport.

Sangria and home grown melon on arrival get you ready for those mountain views. Lovely, really comfortable apartments with shared pool.

The countryside around is stunning. Drive over to Antequera or see the gorge at El Chorro.

www.lafincablanca.com
tel 0844 734 4454
or 00 34 952 496 683

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