Arcos Beach
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The Playa de Arcos offers a unique experience as a man-made beach surrounding a tranquil lake, making it a great destination for family outings. Visitors appreciate the beautiful landscape, abundant shade from trees, and a variety of water activities available, including kayaking and pedal boating. Users highlight the clean and warm water, ideal for bathing, as well as the family-friendly atmosphere.
However, some users have noted issues with cleanliness, particularly the presence of cigarette butts on the sand, which detracts from the overall enjoyment. Additionally, the lack of public bath facilities and limited space during peak season can be a downside. The beach can get crowded on holidays and weekends, and while parking is available, it can be a bit challenging in August due to heavy usage. Nevertheless, many agree that the stunning views and recreational opportunities outweigh these minor inconveniences.
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Below you will find 32 reviews on this topic from people who have recently visited Playa de Arcos.
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Fantastic experience: A very pleasant place to have a good time with the family. It's not easy to park, but there are many trees and shade easily accessible to combat the summer heat.
Fantastic experience: White and Clean Sand... highly recommended... New street to park the car... We will return!!!
Positive experience: Good access to the parking areas, good access to the resting area, clean, and there is plenty of space.
Fantastic experience: Artificial beach with warm water, easy parking but the sandy area is quite small, so it's advisable to go early. There are no umbrellas or showers. There is a beach bar and restrooms.
Negative experience: Full of people making noise and they do not allow entry with paddle surf boards (due to ecological regulations)
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Fantastic experience: Sitio a orillas de un lago muy bonito. Zona recreativa. Prohibido los perros y había varios correteando por allí.
Positive experience: Estoy leyendo en comentarios que se aceptan perros y ayer mismo estuve allí y no se aceptan, de hecho vino la policía local y echó a uno que estaba atado a la sombra. Ayer gran parte de la zona de sombra estaba acordonada, la abrieron a las 8 de la tarde cuando ya nadie buscaba la sombrita. Llevo muchos años viniendo con mi familia y creo que como todo, con la masificación de personas llegan las restricciones, es una pena
Positive experience: No le doy todas las estrellas porque la arena no está nada limpia,fue el viernes de vacaciones mi primera vez en Sevilla y no fue de muy agrado por la arena,me hice daño en los pies,el rescatista un poco grosero con la gente que llevaba máscotas sin saber que era prohibido,vamos que con educación se pueden decir las cosas,de resto sí que se está bien,hay sombra y el agua más o menos limpia...
Fantastic experience: Arcos tiene playa! Además la están ampliando, es una playa artificial muy cuidada, con un buen ambiente familiar y aceptan perros como podéis ver en el video. Nosotros tenemos la suerte de vivir a 10 minutos andando. Además hay un bar con terraza al lado donde puedes pedirte algo frío para beber. Una maravilla sin duda
Positive experience: Playa artificial pero muy bonita y práctica para bañarse y descansar bajo la sombra de un árbol. Al lado de la playa hay un chiringuito en el cual podrás tapear, comer o una copita para acabar al borde de la playa. En la zona de la playa no admiten perros pero puedes estar con tu mascota en la zona cercana a la playa.
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Fantastic experience: The scenery is very beautiful, but the beach is very neglected, it is not clean, there were hundreds of cigarette butts in the sand. I understand that it's the users who go there and dirty it (I will include myself), but it's clear that they don't clean it properly.
Fantastic experience: They have expanded the little white sandy beach and the greenery has grown quite a bit, which provides a lot of shade. But it gets crowded with so many people in the middle of August.
Fantastic experience: White and Clean Sand... highly recommended... New street to park the car... We will return!!!
Fantastic experience: Warm water, beach sand, good views while enjoying the bath
Fantastic experience: Artificial beach with warm water, easy parking but the sandy area is quite small, so it's advisable to go early. There are no umbrellas or showers. There is a beach bar and restrooms.
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Fantastic experience: Artificial beach with warm water, easy parking but the sandy area is quite small, so it's advisable to go early. There are no umbrellas or showers. There is a beach bar and restrooms.
Positive experience: It's my first time here, and it's not bad at all, I liked it quite a bit, we ate at the beach bar and it's also quite good, a pleasant day.
Positive experience: Beautiful artificial beach, ideal place to go with children as the water is at a pleasant temperature and the beach is not very deep. The beach bar is great and the prices are reasonable. The downside is the cigarette butts seen in the sand; since it is a beach with trees, the sand also has pine needles which is somewhat uncomfortable. A walkway to help people with reduced mobility reach the shore would also be nice.
Fantastic experience: Beach in a reservoir. Very well equipped and with a beach bar nearby to have something to drink. Affordable prices. Also, in the summer season, I think you can rent kayaks or other water activities.
Fantastic experience: Excellent place to cool off, clean and well-kept sand of the beaches of Cádiz. There are trees to lie in the shade, a good nap. Parking is right next to it, safe beach for children, the water is warm and clean, in summer a lifeguard is very attentive to everything. There are ducks and fish. The quality of the water is exceptional. Right next door, the yacht club, with tables by the shore, good restaurant, great food and well-stocked with drinks, good coffee, very attentive and friendly staff. Definitely a place to visit often. Arcos is Arcos, a magnificent place. Practice of water sports. Highly recommended, brilliant.
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Fantastic experience: Very nice place to spend a hot day or simply to spend a day... it has toilets and plenty of shade, as well as lifeguard services...
Fantastic experience: Excellent place to cool off, clean and well-kept sand of the beaches of Cádiz. There are trees to lie in the shade, a good nap. Parking is right next to it, safe beach for children, the water is warm and clean, in summer a lifeguard is very attentive to everything. There are ducks and fish. The quality of the water is exceptional. Right next door, the yacht club, with tables by the shore, good restaurant, great food and well-stocked with drinks, good coffee, very attentive and friendly staff. Definitely a place to visit often. Arcos is Arcos, a magnificent place. Practice of water sports. Highly recommended, brilliant.
Positive experience: Echo de menos las mesas y sombrillas que habían y no entiendo el porqué el salvavidas no nos permite flotadores o colchonetas
Positive experience: Se llega bien, se puede aparcar sin muchos problemas y la playa en sí se agradece porque el entorno es impresionante y el concepto es muy bueno. Pero encontrarse colillas y basura en la arena, que no son de ese día, sino de algún/a guarr@ que seguro en su casa lo hace igual, le quita puntos al lugar. Tiene socorrista y duchas, lo cual dice mucho a su favor.
Fantastic experience: Muy bonita la playa es artificial, es pequeña con un gran aparcamiento, socorrista y duchas.
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Fantastic experience: Fun sports and a quiet, clean inland beach!
Fantastic experience: A spectacular place, the only thing it doesn't have as a beach is saltwater... everything else is amazing
Fantastic experience: The scenery is very beautiful, but the beach is very neglected, it is not clean, there were hundreds of cigarette butts in the sand. I understand that it's the users who go there and dirty it (I will include myself), but it's clear that they don't clean it properly.
Fantastic experience: Great place to spend a good day, although, despite the shaded wooded areas, the high temperatures make the water quite warm. Even though it is an inland lake, the surroundings remind one of coastal beaches. There are recreational boats and a nautical club with a dining area.
Fantastic experience: White and Clean Sand... highly recommended... New street to park the car... We will return!!!
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Negative experience: Full of people making noise and they do not allow entry with paddle surf boards (due to ecological regulations)
Positive experience: Very good for where we were. Fine sand mixed with roots, branches, and twigs from trees. There are trees up to the shore that provide shade. The showers weren't working today. Cool water, neither hot nor freezing. The road and sidewalk are under construction at the moment. Calm family atmosphere. There is an area for water activities, such as kayaking or paddle surfing.
Positive experience: Han vuelto los socorristas y eso es bueno. Lo malo: Ahora se dedican básicamente a perseguir a personas con tablas de paddle surf con amenazas de multas de 60k por traer el mejillón cebra en sus "embarcaciones". Mientras los altavoces a tope y los porros pasando de mano en mano.
Fantastic experience: Tiene arena de playa pero es un pantano o embalse...tiene árboles y sombrillas por lo que hay mucha sombríta...a mis niños les encanta ir pq no hay oleaje y el agua está calentita...hay cercq un club en el que puedes alquilar hidropedales, padle surf, etc...al menos una vez se debe ir para ver sobre todo el paisaje...
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Positive experience: Un lugar muy agradable, disfrutar de una playa en un sitio como Arcos es el paraíso, punto negativo, aunque había personal de trabajo allí la arena estaba llena de colillas y cascaras de pipas,
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Positive experience: Artificial beach in a natural environment on the lake of Arcos. You can engage in various fun nautical activities while exploring a calm lake with ducks and geese just a few meters away. A different activity from what we usually do.
Fantastic experience: Muy divertida! Y tranquila para ir con los peques y pasar el día
Below you will find 10 reviews on this topic from people who have recently visited Playa de Arcos.
Fantastic experience: We went to visit Arcos and we loved it. Since it was hot, we saw that they had an artificial beach, which was great for swimming, with shaded areas... a club with a bar and you can rent pedal boats and kayaks. We will definitely repeat!
Positive experience: Very good for where we were. Fine sand mixed with roots, branches, and twigs from trees. There are trees up to the shore that provide shade. The showers weren't working today. Cool water, neither hot nor freezing. The road and sidewalk are under construction at the moment. Calm family atmosphere. There is an area for water activities, such as kayaking or paddle surfing.
Fantastic experience: Beach in a reservoir. Very well equipped and with a beach bar nearby to have something to drink. Affordable prices. Also, in the summer season, I think you can rent kayaks or other water activities.
Fantastic experience: Kayak polo!
Positive experience: Super lac avec une eau très bonne du matin au soir pour ce baigner facile de s'y garer les oie son sur place super calme et magnifique les activités aquatique son ouvert de 10 h a 22h le personnel est au top très simpa avec les prix hyper attractif 5 euro les kayak les Pédalo 9 euro les padle ect facile de ce garer toilette et douche à disposition Si je peut y trouver un point négatif ce son les déchets et cigarette laisser sur le sable cest vraiment dommage car beaucoup d'enfants sur ce lac
Arcos Beach: Reviews
Positive experience: An attempt at an inland beach. Nothing more.
Fantastic experience: A true paradise
Positive experience: Great beach and lake, some trash on the beach.
Fantastic experience: It is beautiful, you can enjoy the views and the good weather. I love it.
Positive experience: Different place, sports rental at the club
Fantastic experience: Fun sports and a quiet, clean inland beach!
Fantastic experience: Incredible, you have to go to believe. A marvel of nature.
Fantastic experience: Great place to spend the day with family or friends
Fantastic experience: A spectacular place, the only thing it doesn't have as a beach is saltwater... everything else is amazing
Fantastic experience: Wonderful paradise place to enjoy
Fantastic experience: The scenery is very beautiful, but the beach is very neglected, it is not clean, there were hundreds of cigarette butts in the sand. I understand that it's the users who go there and dirty it (I will include myself), but it's clear that they don't clean it properly.
Fantastic experience: A very pleasant place to have a good time with the family. It's not easy to park, but there are many trees and shade easily accessible to combat the summer heat.
Fantastic experience: Great place to spend a good day, although, despite the shaded wooded areas, the high temperatures make the water quite warm. Even though it is an inland lake, the surroundings remind one of coastal beaches. There are recreational boats and a nautical club with a dining area.
Fantastic experience: Love this great facilities
Fantastic experience: The sandy beach of the Arcos water reservoir, with many trees that provide shade. We had a good time. It is recommended for children only under strict parental supervision, because the beach water gets very deep very suddenly. Because of this, everyone splashed around in a strip about 10 meters parallel to the shore.
Fantastic experience: They have expanded the little white sandy beach and the greenery has grown quite a bit, which provides a lot of shade. But it gets crowded with so many people in the middle of August.
Fantastic experience: White and Clean Sand... highly recommended... New street to park the car... We will return!!!
Fantastic experience: Nice lake in Arcos de la Frontera, water coming from the Bornos reservoir, where you can swim ♂️ and do water activities like kayaking, etc...
Positive experience: A beach without showers... There used to be some before it was renovated. It lacks a bit of cleanliness in some areas... People should be more civic-minded. Other than that, a great place.
Positive experience: Good access to the parking areas, good access to the resting area, clean, and there is plenty of space.
Fantastic experience: Everything is very good for going with children, we will return.
Negative experience: The bar of the nautical club is horrible
Negative experience: The river beach is good and family-friendly, but the support bar has terrible service. Despite having more than 5 employees, they take a long time and have very little consideration for the customers! Over half an hour to get a drink, and the food is not even worth mentioning! Expensive for the poor quality of food. For example, a small portion of fried squid for €12 without any sides...
Fantastic experience: Warm water, beach sand, good views while enjoying the bath
Positive experience: It's really cool to have a beach by the lake, although from one year to the next the lack of maintenance can be noticeable, but as a destination it is very nice.
Fantastic experience: We went to visit Arcos and we loved it. Since it was hot, we saw that they had an artificial beach, which was great for swimming, with shaded areas... a club with a bar and you can rent pedal boats and kayaks. We will definitely repeat!
Fantastic experience: Artificial beach with warm water, easy parking but the sandy area is quite small, so it's advisable to go early. There are no umbrellas or showers. There is a beach bar and restrooms.
Fantastic experience: Superb place, possibility to walk around the lake among the reeds.
Negative experience: Full of people making noise and they do not allow entry with paddle surf boards (due to ecological regulations)
Fantastic experience: Spectacular
Positive experience: A very pleasant environment, with views of the lake and Arcos de la Fra and some beautiful sunsets. They have recently expanded the little beach, but they have also changed the parking area, removing a lot of parking spaces and making car transit more difficult... I don't know what the reason is, but for me it hasn't been a good decision.
Fantastic experience: Very nice place. Everything very clean.
Fantastic experience: Everything was great! Public bathrooms are missing, even a foot wash would be nice!
Fantastic experience: Very nice place to spend a hot day or simply to spend a day... it has toilets and plenty of shade, as well as lifeguard services...
Positive experience: Speechless, a place to disconnect and enjoy with family
Positive experience: It's my first time here, and it's not bad at all, I liked it quite a bit, we ate at the beach bar and it's also quite good, a pleasant day.
Fantastic experience: Great place to spend a summer day without the crowds of the coastal beaches. You can also enjoy canoes, pedal boats, ...
Positive experience: Beautiful artificial beach, ideal place to go with children as the water is at a pleasant temperature and the beach is not very deep. The beach bar is great and the prices are reasonable. The downside is the cigarette butts seen in the sand; since it is a beach with trees, the sand also has pine needles which is somewhat uncomfortable. A walkway to help people with reduced mobility reach the shore would also be nice.
Fantastic experience: Very good, although it could be improved with some affordable kiosk or bar.
Fantastic experience: Tranquility. Relaxation. Water at a good temperature. Tents in the water. Family atmosphere. Geese eating around you.
Fantastic experience: Very quiet, few people and a very relaxing place
Positive experience: A very pleasant place although we do not know how to value the beauty of nature.
Fantastic experience: Cozy place by Lake Arcos, with many water activities. Almost like being at the beach and with plenty of shade.
Fantastic experience: It's an ideal place to go with children. Right now the road is still a bit under construction, but it's really nice. There are trees that provide shade, there are no waves, and there's a bar right next to it.
Fantastic experience: Very nice place and expanded this year, perfect for families with multiple activities for all ages. Very nice atmosphere
Fantastic experience: I have only been visiting, but I plan to go swimming at any time.
Positive experience: Artificial beach in a natural environment on the lake of Arcos. You can engage in various fun nautical activities while exploring a calm lake with ducks and geese just a few meters away. A different activity from what we usually do.
Fantastic experience: The nautical club is very nice and the instructor who attended us was wonderful.
Positive experience: Great place to spend a pleasant day. Overcrowding on holidays and weekends is common, although with the work being done to improve the beach, parking, and services, it is going to be exceptional.
Fantastic experience: A great beach by a dream lake. Shade under many trees and very clean. Normally, I'm not really a beach person, but I enjoyed 2 nice days here.
Fantastic experience: Very beautiful
Fantastic experience: Beautiful Place!!!
Fantastic experience: Beautiful place, a dam turned into a beach. They are making renovations, the truth is that it doesn't bother much given such high expectations.
Positive experience: Very good for where we were. Fine sand mixed with roots, branches, and twigs from trees. There are trees up to the shore that provide shade. The showers weren't working today. Cool water, neither hot nor freezing. The road and sidewalk are under construction at the moment. Calm family atmosphere. There is an area for water activities, such as kayaking or paddle surfing.
Fantastic experience: Excellent place considering that the beach is far from the people in the area, quite a lot of shaded space, very quiet in spring.
Positive experience: Very beautiful place to go with the family
Fantastic experience: Beach in a reservoir. Very well equipped and with a beach bar nearby to have something to drink. Affordable prices. Also, in the summer season, I think you can rent kayaks or other water activities.
Fantastic experience: Magnificent place to relax, if you go by motorhome, it's ideal for spending the night. Recommended.
Fantastic experience: Very nice....a quiet place, off-season. Very friendly people and a well-equipped sports club. I will return soon.
Fantastic experience: Clean beach and water. Large free parking. Nearby restaurant
Fantastic experience: Great place to escape the heat. In the afternoon the breeze is lovely and pleasant. Nice little café next door that offers a lot of tapas and salads.
Fantastic experience: Excellent place to cool off, clean and well-kept sand of the beaches of Cádiz. There are trees to lie in the shade, a good nap. Parking is right next to it, safe beach for children, the water is warm and clean, in summer a lifeguard is very attentive to everything. There are ducks and fish. The quality of the water is exceptional. Right next door, the yacht club, with tables by the shore, good restaurant, great food and well-stocked with drinks, good coffee, very attentive and friendly staff. Definitely a place to visit often. Arcos is Arcos, a magnificent place. Practice of water sports. Highly recommended, brilliant.
Fantastic experience: Ideal for water sports and for children
Fantastic experience: Kayak polo!
Fantastic experience: Chill area and free. It’s worth to hang out there.
Positive experience: Beach that is usually quiet but also, especially in season, you can run into some noisy family or group. In the beach bar, we only had coffee, it seems like a good place to have something. We also rented a pedal boat at the Nautical Club right next door. Good place to spend a day with family.
Fantastic experience: Super nice corner that surprised me. A river beach adapted with fine sand, quite a bit of shade (especially in the morning, that's for sure) and security service during the season. You can rent boats, so it's a great complementary plan to the village.
Fantastic experience: Quiet and clean beach. It's rare to find a freshwater beach, but we liked it a lot.
Fantastic experience: Highly recommended, especially if you travel in a camper van or RV.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful
Fantastic experience: Very nice small beach next to the Arcos lake. The great thing is that there are many trees which gives a shade from a hot sunshine. Many parking spaces next to it.
Positive experience: Quiet and with shade in various places. The water is not the cleanest.
Positive experience: It's not like the beaches of my port, but if you want to swim in a lake, the experience is cool, the seawater makes you float more and you feel lighter, in freshwater I felt heavier, it was slower and I barely floated.
Fantastic experience: Refreshing place with a spectacular view of the swamp.
Fantastic experience: Despite being an artificially made beach, it has everything you need for a day at the beach similar to a natural beach. Great for taking a dip in fresh water without leaving with salt and at a temperature somewhat warmer than a saltwater beach. No waves and no salt. I also think it's the best alternative when there's an east wind in the province of Cádiz.
Fantastic experience: Very clean and pleasant. A very special place, in a natural setting, that is worth it.
Negative experience: Very limited in all kinds of activities, you can't do anything, just swim. If you want to do any activity, you have to pay, even to swim, you need to ask for permission. The only thing recommended is the views and sitting for a while to enjoy nature with arches in the background.
Fantastic experience: Lovely place with excellent views of the town above!!! We had a great afternoon there sitting in the sun, lots of shade available under the trees if you want it. We took a coolbox and had lunch there and just chilled reading a book. A lake with a beach in a quiet location, there is food and drink available and you can hire boats to go on the lake. A lot of locals there having fun.
Fantastic experience: Its good. Dogs allowed and Walter ist clean
Positive experience: The small lake beach, nice for some chill and great for water activities. Definitely good place to go with kids. Quite small.
Positive experience: I very nice inland lake beach with exercise installations and water polo enclosures.
Fantastic experience: Playa de Arcos is a neat and quiet beach. It's a place you can enjoy the pleasure of Nature
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