Ballota Beach

Fantastic experience: A beautiful place! A bit of a bumpy road and not a lot of parking. You then need to go down the steep and somewhat overgrown stairs, but the view is worth it.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach! Only minus is the road to get there, as it is with big holes and quite narrow. Finály, once the parking is reached, there are not many places available. Moreover, parking by the road is prohibited under 200€ fine so not recommended at all. There is also bar where you can take a coffee or drink. Unfortunately, showers are not there (or not found).

Fantastic experience: One of the most beautiful beaches I've ever seen!

Fantastic experience: Ballota beach is one of the best beaches in Asturias and the best within the Llanes council. If you go in the summer, you can park your car down below if you arrive early, but if not, you have to leave the car up and walk down. From above (Borizu viewpoint), you can see Ballota beach and Andrín beach. There you can enjoy the Asturian greenery along with a fine sandy beach and turquoise water.

Fantastic experience: The most beautiful beach

Fantastic experience: Simply a true wonder, a beautiful beach with spectacular views

Fantastic experience: Wonderful beach, a bit dangerous due to access and the water rocks, but an unmatched corner.

Positive experience: The beach is very beautiful, but there is little parking. If you park on the dirt road, there is a €200 fine even if you don't block the way; you can see the revenue collection effort of the town hall. It's better to go to other beaches where there is no place to leave the car.

Positive experience: A beautiful corner among the many on the coast. Charming. Not crowded.

Fantastic experience: For me, the best beach in the area

Fantastic experience: It is a very beautiful beach, although to park the car nearby you have to go through very narrow roads. The lifeguards are very friendly!

Fantastic experience: Beautiful

Fantastic experience: Beautiful rocky beach with very good views. The access is difficult for people with reduced mobility. It has a beach bar where you can eat. Lifeguards. Better to park before going down.

Positive experience: Beautiful beach ranked as the best in Lonely Planet 2023. Public parking that barely fits 12 cars, so you have to get up early or go off-season. To access on foot, there is a long slope that feels longer to climb than to descend. You have to pay close attention to the tides since we had to leave at 3 PM because there was no sand.

Positive experience: Go early, the allowed parking can only hold about 12 cars, then you risk getting a fine if you park on the way down.

Fantastic experience: The most beautiful beach in the council, but it is impossible to go during high season. There is hardly any parking and access by car is complicated, as the road is quite narrow. Ideal to go in June and September.

Positive experience: It is a beach with fine sand and clear water, with some waves. Additionally, it shares a nudist area (towards the end of the beach) where you can undress or simply walk around in a thong freely. It is very close to Llanes and it is impressive to arrive early to find a parking spot.

Fantastic experience: Natural environment with a beach bar included at a distance, so it doesn't harm a beautiful beach. On the left side, there is a nudist area. Highly recommended to visit this spot in Llanes. However, parking is tricky.

Fantastic experience: Beach with spectacular views. When the tide is low, it looks like a southern beach due to the amount of fine white sand, but with the charm of a beach in Asturias.

Fantastic experience: The best beach in Llanes, very quiet, beautiful surroundings. It has a beach bar to have something to drink.

Fantastic experience: one of the most beautiful beaches in the country

Fantastic experience: Very beautiful and quiet beach.

Fantastic experience: Preciosa, naturista

Fantastic experience: Fantastic beach and a nice restaurant/ bar.

Fantastic experience: Una maravilla paradisiaca, agua cristalina, la isla parece sacada de la película avatar. El restaurante es un poco caro pero la hamburguesa está riquísima. 100% recomendado

Fantastic experience: Playa paradisíaca. Al atardecer nada concurrida. A tener en cuenta: El acceso en coche mejorable, es un camino que se ha ido deteriorando con los años al parecer no se mantiene con lo que los baches que hay son tremendos. El acceso a la playa no es accesible, hay unas cuantas escaleras y cuando terminan las escaleras hay un tramo de rocas antes de llegar a la arena.

Fantastic experience: Was here in October 2023. One of the most stunning beaches i've seen.

Positive experience: Spectacular spot. Good beach.

Fantastic experience: Ballota Beach is a beautiful beach located in the municipality of Cué, 4 km east of Llanes. The beach forms a bay about 300 meters long. Nestled between the points 'Punta Ballota' and 'Punta el Pandón', it is generally sheltered from the wind and waves. The sand is golden and very fine. The landscapes are magnificent. On the right side facing the sea, the layers of the cliff seem to have been twisted by a very unhappy giant. When the sun is out, they glow majestically in the late afternoon. In the middle, a rocky spur shaped like a large lying diplodocus descends onto the sand. Opposite, Castro Ballota crowns the spectacle. It is splendid.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful place

Positive experience: Hidden beach tucked away between the cliffs, don't try to swim, many rocks and waves... the Atlantic

Fantastic experience: An unmatched beach, great crystal clear waters

Negative experience: Beware! They fine you for leaving your car on the road. With all the beaches that are available, we will not return to the Beaches of Llanes.

Positive experience: Complicated access,

Negative experience: Another fine from the Llanes Town Hall. It’s unfortunate to receive two fines on the same day. One in Ballota and another in Torimbia. The revenue-raising eagerness of this town hall is unprecedented. I have never received a fine in my 35 years of having a license. At this rate, local people will be the only ones visiting their beaches. It’s unfortunate.

Fantastic experience: A beach that doesn't have an easy access, but it's worth it. It has clear waters and fine sand, and it's usually not very crowded.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach, easily accessible. Photos from late October, a day with high tide.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach that, when it was cloudy and when we went, was not a good time to enjoy it and see it like in photos from other reviews, nor to spend the morning there. In summer and on a sunny day, it must be amazing to see it from the Boriza viewpoint.

Fantastic experience: A spectacular beach!! One of the best I have seen. I don't know if it will be overcrowded in high season, although I don't think so, in the second half of September with good weather there were almost no people, highlighting the nudist part, a small natural area divided by rocks on the left side.

Fantastic experience: A paradise

Fantastic experience: The greatest nude beach in Cantabria Asturias border small and beautiful nude beach

Negative experience: A month ago I wrote a good review of this beach but I regret it. We just received a 200 euro fine for parking. It takes away everything good I thought about Asturias and its beautiful beaches. I hope the fundraising was successful and that the NGOs receiving the more than 20,000 euros raised daily by all the tourists are well taken care of. Very poor parking signage, obviously on purpose, and with no other parking options. Don't go, better go to Cantabria. Foreign tourists get a very bad impression of this country.

Fantastic experience: The beach is stunning and its fine sand produces a very special sound when stepped on. One of the most charming beaches in the area. The reddish walls of the cliff that surrounds and protects it are pure poetry.

Positive experience: A very beautiful beach from the viewpoint, there are not many parking spaces to access it, so if you don’t wake up early, you have to go down a good slope which is hard to climb back up... at the beginning of the beach there are stones and then it’s all sand, there is a beach bar but it was closed when we went.

Fantastic experience: Very nice, the sand is quite incredible, clean, soft, the feel is fabulous. To get there, it's a descent with somewhat uncomfortable steps and the entrance to the beach has some big stones that you have to walk over. Little parking. Good for swimming with children, it has no services. We liked it very much, when we went in October there were few people.

Fantastic experience: It has been one of the best beaches I have been to. Incredible, stunning, and spectacular. Quiet and large, although the road to get there is a bit complicated (I was a little scared when the car skidded going up). It is a completely virgin beach, with stones and crystal clear and super clean water. I fell in love with this beach, without a doubt.

Fantastic experience: A corner of paradise, difficult to access

Fantastic experience: Absolutely my favorite beach! Definitely a must-see.

Fantastic experience: Blue water and very beautiful

Positive experience: Photo from the Boriza viewpoint

Positive experience: Little space to park.

Fantastic experience: My favorite beach in Asturias

Fantastic experience: beautiful, there is also a beach bar where you can eat great (high prices)

Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach with easy access, it has a beach bar but it was closed now.

Fantastic experience: A beautiful beach. With a beach bar that works well and a lovely staff.

Fantastic experience: One of the best beaches I have been to... VERY recommended, (keep in mind that getting in and out of the beach by car is difficult) but it is very nice.. I will return ✅✅✅

Fantastic experience: Spectacular beach. Virgin. One of the most beautiful. Turquoise and transparent waters. Cool waves to swim and play with, there were some surfers. Great for bodyboarding.

Positive experience: The place is eye-catching, more for its location and spectacularity than for comfort. Although you can swim, it’s not a typical beach for bathing as there is little sand space; rather, the place where you can put your towel consists of large rocks. Before arriving, you have to walk a long dirt path (where cars also park) and go down some stairs. There is a beach bar at the top of the stairs that offers spectacular views.

Fantastic experience: The twin beaches of Asturias are Ballota Beach and Andrin Beach, which is to the right of it. You can also visit the bufones de Ballota from there, which can be accessed by a simple and narrow path at the back of the beach.

Fantastic experience: Beach of a beauty like few others. It is located near Llanes and has crystal clear waters.

Fantastic experience: One of the most beautiful beaches I have seen, fine sand, crystal clear water, and a landscape of steep cliffs. The path to the beach is all downhill. People park in various areas, some on the road above and on the path that leads to the beach.

Fantastic experience: Spectacular beach with a bit of a complicated access. Few parking spaces. There is a beach bar where you can eat with wonderful views. You go down to the beach by some stairs. Crystal clear water and fine sand. There is a nudist cove at the end.

Fantastic experience: Spectacular beach that is worth visiting even though the access is a bit complicated. You can get there by car as it has parking, but the road is dirt and quite steep, it fills up with cars and they leave them on the sides where they can. Going down by car is quite an adventure, so I recommend leaving the car up or as close as possible and walking down; the views from the top while you descend are worth it. Surrounded by steep cliffs. To access the beach, you have to go down some stairs and then cross over some stones to reach the sand, so I advise wearing sneakers or shoes that support your foot well for this small stretch, and once you reach the sandy area, you can put on flip-flops. There is also a beach bar just before these stairs, where you can have something to drink while enjoying the scenery or eat, as it is also a restaurant. It is a beach with strong waves, so there will be days when you can't swim or should do so with great care. There are no showers to wash off after a swim and remove the sand.

Fantastic experience: Virgin beach accessed by a dirt path where cars park wherever they can on the sides, there is not much parking, something to keep in mind. From where you leave the car, you have to walk down through some areas of dirt, stairs, and stones. It's worth seeing the landscape from above. Along the way, you find a beach bar with good views to have a drink. The beach has little dry sand area due to the tides.. At the back, there is a rocky area where the nudist section is concentrated, coexisting to some extent with the rest of the bathers. The waves are fun, and with caution, you can take a good dip. Some areas with water are created for children to play.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach. Not the easiest to access but totally worthy... the water was crystal clear and with some amazing colours. Dreamy!

Fantastic experience: Truly a natural treasure. You gotta earn this one though. We walked it from up top!

Fantastic experience: Really beautiful beach but take care if you drive down as it's a dirt track that might be difficult if it's wet. Go at low tide if you can.

Fantastic experience: Perfect place to spend a day at the beach

Fantastic experience: Amazing beach. Limited parking that is why I recommend to get there early in the day. Lifeguards present. Also there is a small restaurant present. Nudist area at the end of the beach. No dogs allowed.

Fantastic experience: A little tricky to access but totally worth it, absolutely gorgeous beach and rock formations