Calahonda Beach
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Calahonda Beach is a beautiful spot known for its transparent and clean waters. Visitors describe it as a tranquil and family-friendly environment, perfect for a relaxing day out. Many agree that it is a hidden gem on the Costa Tropical. Facilities include showers and chiringuitos, adding to the overall experience.
However, there are some drawbacks noted by users. The beach is mostly pebbly, which can make it uncomfortable for some visitors, and there is a steep drop in the water, which might not be ideal for families with small children. Additionally, parking can be a challenge during busy seasons.
Overall, Calahonda Beach offers a lovely getaway for those seeking a peaceful day by the sea.
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Below you will find 27 reviews on this topic from people who have recently visited Playa de Calahonda.
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Fantastic experience: A very beautiful, clean beach with easy access. There are different parking options and you can eat wonderfully in any bar in the area. Highly recommended.
Positive experience: It is a vast beach of sand and pebbles, clean and well-kept overall, with easy and clear access from the sidewalk or promenade to the beach, free parking available throughout the area, it has children's areas and various beach bars. The particularity of these beaches in Granada is the step that usually exists in the water, where you can go from having water up to your knees to practically your shoulders after a step. The facilities are good (showers, bins, and restrooms) but are scarce, and there are shaded areas for people with reduced mobility along the beach. Unfortunately, as of September 1st, many of those services such as bins, restrooms, lifeguards, etc. are mostly closed or removed.
Fantastic experience: Very nice pebble beach with clean water. The area has full infrastructure and a beach bar. Unfortunately, we were a bit too close and it smelled of fried fish.. The parking lot was occupied by a funfair, so we had to look for a spot further down the street.
Fantastic experience: Crystal clear water, a lot of depth just a few meters from the shore. Plenty of parking and generally a quiet beach for vacationers.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach with easy parking
Below you will find 3 reviews on this topic from people who have recently visited Playa de Calahonda.
Positive experience: Playa de piedras, incluso dentro del agua, con un gran escalón difícil de subir cuando quieres salir porque se hunden los pies. Enseguida cubre.
Positive experience: Muy buena playa para pasar la tarde. Tiene socorrista, duchas habilitadas pero no tiene baños públicos. A no ser que estés en Torre Doblada. A veces puedes tener la mala suerte d encontrarte medusas, pero en general su agua es muy temperada y refrescante. En resumen, playa limpia, que no acepta perros ni acampar, pero con buenos estacionamientos a la orilla de playa.
Negative experience: Mal cuidada, muchos perros defecando, no se respeta el mínimo de prohibiciones.
Below you will find 46 reviews on this topic from people who have recently visited Playa de Calahonda.
Positive experience: De fácil acceso, el agua super clara y bonita, pero muy muy fría para ser 22/07/25 y muchas piedras, muy llena para ser un martes y muchos bichos que picaban y no dejaban estar a gusto tomando el sol, porque al agua muy gente se metió de lo fría, es bonita pero no para volver
Fantastic experience: It's the beach we usually go to in summer since I live in Granada, that is, for 12 years. I'm not too convinced because it doesn't have sand, you can't walk much in the water because there's a very high step, and lately, there are too many jellyfish, but I like the place and it's nice to be there.
Fantastic experience: Stone beach. Crystal clear water. There is a tremendous step, 2 steps and it covers you.. There is an open area next to the beach where you can park your car.
Positive experience: Playa de piedras, incluso dentro del agua, con un gran escalón difícil de subir cuando quieres salir porque se hunden los pies. Enseguida cubre.
Positive experience: Está limpia con chiringuito y poca gente, pero es artificial y sin arena
Below you will find 32 reviews on this topic from people who have recently visited Playa de Calahonda.
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Fantastic experience: A mainly shingle beach but nice all the same. Quite blustery when we visited and the sea was quite rough! There's a beach bar and amenities.
Positive experience: Although the water was a bit rough today, I took a swim. The small pebbles on the shore are not too uncomfortable for entering the water. There is plenty of space to choose a spot to lay down the towel. And beach bars to enjoy fish and drinks.
Positive experience: It is a vast beach of sand and pebbles, clean and well-kept overall, with easy and clear access from the sidewalk or promenade to the beach, free parking available throughout the area, it has children's areas and various beach bars. The particularity of these beaches in Granada is the step that usually exists in the water, where you can go from having water up to your knees to practically your shoulders after a step. The facilities are good (showers, bins, and restrooms) but are scarce, and there are shaded areas for people with reduced mobility along the beach. Unfortunately, as of September 1st, many of those services such as bins, restrooms, lifeguards, etc. are mostly closed or removed.
Fantastic experience: Very nice pebble beach with clean water. The area has full infrastructure and a beach bar. Unfortunately, we were a bit too close and it smelled of fried fish.. The parking lot was occupied by a funfair, so we had to look for a spot further down the street.
Positive experience: It's a family beach, with some beach bars. The beach is made of small pebbles but the water looks like a clean and calm swimming pool, it's ideal for swimming. However, the water was a bit chilly.
Below you will find 10 reviews on this topic from people who have recently visited Playa de Calahonda.
Positive experience: It is a vast beach of sand and pebbles, clean and well-kept overall, with easy and clear access from the sidewalk or promenade to the beach, free parking available throughout the area, it has children's areas and various beach bars. The particularity of these beaches in Granada is the step that usually exists in the water, where you can go from having water up to your knees to practically your shoulders after a step. The facilities are good (showers, bins, and restrooms) but are scarce, and there are shaded areas for people with reduced mobility along the beach. Unfortunately, as of September 1st, many of those services such as bins, restrooms, lifeguards, etc. are mostly closed or removed.
Positive experience: Beautiful beach, the water temperature is great. Be careful with the lifeguards; one of them is looking in the opposite direction from where the water is. It seems that what happens on Facebook and TikTok is more important than the swimmers. I seriously doubt this lifeguard could save anyone.
Positive experience: Pocos socorristas
Fantastic experience: Playa perfecta para ir en familia, buen ambiente y mucha seguridad
Positive experience: Buena playa adaptada para personas con movilidad reducida, fácil acceso y puesto de socorristas que ayuda y facilita el baño con muletas y sillas específicas de baño. Horario para baños con silla anfibia de 12 a 14h y de 17 a 20h.
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Fantastic experience: Great beach, clear water, peaceful, and the food is very good
Positive experience: Although the water was a bit rough today, I took a swim. The small pebbles on the shore are not too uncomfortable for entering the water. There is plenty of space to choose a spot to lay down the towel. And beach bars to enjoy fish and drinks.
Fantastic experience: A very beautiful, clean beach with easy access. There are different parking options and you can eat wonderfully in any bar in the area. Highly recommended.
Fantastic experience: The crystal-clear water, definitely one of the best beaches
Fantastic experience: Calahonda beach has a little corner full of magic, its small pier, a beautiful place I like to go when I can. In summer, that little corner gets crowded with tourists and vacationers, but there are other times of the year when it can be visited, for example, September or the spring months and early summer. I recommend it to disconnect and relax, and to take a good swim in the sea. Its waters are clean.
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Fantastic experience: Playa a 12 kilómetros de Motril muy amplia de grava, muy cómoda de acceso y con un pequeño parking que además cuenta con entradas con duchas, alquiler de hamacas y un chiringuito muy amplio y de carácter familiar. Si te gustan los deportes acuáticos cuenta con alquiler de motos acuáticas y planchas de padelsurf. Al final de la playa hay una zona de barquitos y un par de bares bastante agradables. Playa recomendable de aguas frescas y cristalinas.
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Below you will find 7 reviews on this topic from people who have recently visited Playa de Calahonda.
Fantastic experience: Agua cristalinas, flora y fauna. Clubes de buceos. Ideal para snorkel en el peñón. Arena limpia y pequeña de chino. Similitud a la playa de los muertos. Ideal para tomar el sol en Noviembre si no sopla levante. Foto fínales Noviembre 2022
Fantastic experience: Playa preciosa y perfecta para snorkel
Fantastic experience: Playa de chinos y piedras, necesario escarpines. Unas cuantas medusas pero nada del otro mundo se ven desde arriba. Agua cristalina y muy fresquita perfecta para bucear y hacer snorkel. Hay un chiringuito al lado y sitios para aparcar. Creo que también hay baños públicos al lado del puesto de socorrismo. Una playa muy bonita
Fantastic experience: Es una playa amplia, de aguas cristalinas! Hicimos snorkel, ideal se ven muchos peces. No es su playa de arena, pero a mí me encantó!
Fantastic experience: Magnifica cala para pasar el día y hacer snorkel. El agua turquesa, transparente y un fondo marino muy bonito. Vimos estrellas de mar
Below you will find 7 reviews on this topic from people who have recently visited Playa de Calahonda.
Positive experience: It is a vast beach of sand and pebbles, clean and well-kept overall, with easy and clear access from the sidewalk or promenade to the beach, free parking available throughout the area, it has children's areas and various beach bars. The particularity of these beaches in Granada is the step that usually exists in the water, where you can go from having water up to your knees to practically your shoulders after a step. The facilities are good (showers, bins, and restrooms) but are scarce, and there are shaded areas for people with reduced mobility along the beach. Unfortunately, as of September 1st, many of those services such as bins, restrooms, lifeguards, etc. are mostly closed or removed.
Positive experience: The hotel 'El Ancla' is located in Calahonda (Granada). It is a nearly family-run hotel, which does not contradict that it is comfortable. It has three stars. It is not a very large hotel. It has some rooms with sea views and a large terrace. It is cheap compared to others of its category. You can practice diving on its beach, there are several shops for this and instructors who teach you. The beach is less than 100 meters away, and it consists of pebbles. The hotel has several dining rooms and its menu is quite good and not expensive. Additionally, it has a bar where if you have three beers, you get to eat with the abundant tapas. A highly recommended hotel.
Fantastic experience: Única para bucear. No duden en contratar con Carlos Inchausti de Shark su bautismo de buceo
Fantastic experience: Agua cristalinas, flora y fauna. Clubes de buceos. Ideal para snorkel en el peñón. Arena limpia y pequeña de chino. Similitud a la playa de los muertos. Ideal para tomar el sol en Noviembre si no sopla levante. Foto fínales Noviembre 2022
Fantastic experience: Agua cristalina, cuenta con todos los servicios, incluyendo escuela de buceo y todas las banderas que se pueden otorgar, un auténtico lujo. Personalmente se la recomiendo a todo el mundo
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Calahonda Beach: Reviews
Fantastic experience: Beautiful
Fantastic experience: I wish this place was better known in Korea. The sea is the best. The waters of the Mediterranean and the pebble beach are truly beautiful. Scuba diving and fishing, along with swimming and sunbathing, are fantastic. Aside from the lack of accessibility... it's an amazing beach. More beautiful and better than Nerja. I am determined to go again.
Fantastic experience: Wonderful beach, very calm and with an incredible seabed.
Fantastic experience: Wonderful beach, very peaceful and with an incredible seabed.
Fantastic experience: Great beach, clear water, peaceful, and the food is very good
Fantastic experience: Without a doubt, one of the best beaches in the south!!!
Fantastic experience: A mainly shingle beach but nice all the same. Quite blustery when we visited and the sea was quite rough! There's a beach bar and amenities.
Positive experience: Although the water was a bit rough today, I took a swim. The small pebbles on the shore are not too uncomfortable for entering the water. There is plenty of space to choose a spot to lay down the towel. And beach bars to enjoy fish and drinks.
Fantastic experience: A very beautiful, clean beach with easy access. There are different parking options and you can eat wonderfully in any bar in the area. Highly recommended.
Fantastic experience: The crystal-clear water, definitely one of the best beaches
Fantastic experience: Great beach in addition to tranquility
Fantastic experience: Calahonda beach has a little corner full of magic, its small pier, a beautiful place I like to go when I can. In summer, that little corner gets crowded with tourists and vacationers, but there are other times of the year when it can be visited, for example, September or the spring months and early summer. I recommend it to disconnect and relax, and to take a good swim in the sea. Its waters are clean.
Positive experience: It is a vast beach of sand and pebbles, clean and well-kept overall, with easy and clear access from the sidewalk or promenade to the beach, free parking available throughout the area, it has children's areas and various beach bars. The particularity of these beaches in Granada is the step that usually exists in the water, where you can go from having water up to your knees to practically your shoulders after a step. The facilities are good (showers, bins, and restrooms) but are scarce, and there are shaded areas for people with reduced mobility along the beach. Unfortunately, as of September 1st, many of those services such as bins, restrooms, lifeguards, etc. are mostly closed or removed.
Positive experience: Crystal clear waters and tourism mostly national.
Positive experience: Beautiful beach as always..but the streets of the village are noticeably well-kept and maintained, unlike another nearby village with more inhabitants.
Fantastic experience: The best
Positive experience: Great beach.
Fantastic experience: Divine place The beach I like the most
Fantastic experience: The beach is clean and there is water in the showers.
Positive experience: Nice beach. Excellent for going with children.
Fantastic experience: My little corner of peace. Beach with crystal clear, clean, fresh waters. Calm and family-friendly atmosphere. A must-visit every summer for 35 years.
Fantastic experience: Very nice pebble beach with clean water. The area has full infrastructure and a beach bar. Unfortunately, we were a bit too close and it smelled of fried fish.. The parking lot was occupied by a funfair, so we had to look for a spot further down the street.
Fantastic experience: Wonderful
Positive experience: Crystal clear water, clean and well maintained.
Positive experience: Excellent beach with pebbles or fine gravel and not as crowded as others.
Fantastic experience: Crystal clear water. No people or beach umbrellas on the shore. Family-friendly atmosphere. The best beach on the Costa de Granada.
Fantastic experience: Discovered in 2002, I returned there every year until 2018. This means I enjoyed it and I left quite a few friends there. It's one of the most beautiful spots on the Costa Tropical.
Fantastic experience: It's a very beautiful place. You won't regret it.
Positive experience: It's not a comfortable beach since it has stones, which makes it difficult to use, but it is very quiet. The water is very cold but very clean. The beach facilities are adjusted to the number of visitors, which is not much.
Positive experience: It's a family beach, with some beach bars. The beach is made of small pebbles but the water looks like a clean and calm swimming pool, it's ideal for swimming. However, the water was a bit chilly.
Fantastic experience: Very quiet beach and the water very clear and not cold
Fantastic experience: There is no beach more beautiful than this
Fantastic experience: It's the beach we usually go to in summer since I live in Granada, that is, for 12 years. I'm not too convinced because it doesn't have sand, you can't walk much in the water because there's a very high step, and lately, there are too many jellyfish, but I like the place and it's nice to be there.
Fantastic experience: Quiet and clean beach
Fantastic experience: Very nicely located beach equipped with showers.
Fantastic experience: Good food.
Fantastic experience: Very nice beach, I would like to go back.
Positive experience: The hotel 'El Ancla' is located in Calahonda (Granada). It is a nearly family-run hotel, which does not contradict that it is comfortable. It has three stars. It is not a very large hotel. It has some rooms with sea views and a large terrace. It is cheap compared to others of its category. You can practice diving on its beach, there are several shops for this and instructors who teach you. The beach is less than 100 meters away, and it consists of pebbles. The hotel has several dining rooms and its menu is quite good and not expensive. Additionally, it has a bar where if you have three beers, you get to eat with the abundant tapas. A highly recommended hotel.
Fantastic experience: A place to fall in love
Fantastic experience: Crystal clear water, a lot of depth just a few meters from the shore. Plenty of parking and generally a quiet beach for vacationers.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach with easy parking
Fantastic experience: Clean
Fantastic experience: Crystal clear and magical water
Fantastic experience: Beautiful!
Positive experience: Very good
Fantastic experience: Very clean and beautiful
Fantastic experience: I'm amazed! It's like a natural swimming pool
Fantastic experience: Beautiful pebble beach, coves, cliffs, and the best... its people
Fantastic experience: One of the best beaches in Granada that I have been to. Very peaceful and comfortable.
Fantastic experience: A beautiful corner, a good place to eat and rest and swim in these beaches.
Positive experience: Beautiful beach, the water temperature is great. Be careful with the lifeguards; one of them is looking in the opposite direction from where the water is. It seems that what happens on Facebook and TikTok is more important than the swimmers. I seriously doubt this lifeguard could save anyone.
Fantastic experience: Stone beach. Crystal clear water. There is a tremendous step, 2 steps and it covers you.. There is an open area next to the beach where you can park your car.
Positive experience: Pocos chiringuitos!!
Fantastic experience: Good place to relax on the beach
Fantastic experience: Can be good if the sun is not too high
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