Algarrobico Beach

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Playa del Algarrobico is a beautiful and tranquil beach located in the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata-Níjar, known for its stunning natural environment. This beach offers a unique experience with:

  • Clear and clean waters that are perfect for swimming and snorkeling, although it is recommended to wear water shoes due to the rocky areas.
  • Spacious and secluded ambiance, providing an intimate setting, especially in the less crowded months.
  • A rugged charm with its combination of fine and rocky sand, attracting visitors in search of a more 'wild' beach experience.
  • Pleasant surroundings that allow for peaceful strolls while enjoying the picturesque views.

However, some users expressed concerns about:

  • The presence of an abandoned hotel, which many believe detracts from the beach's natural beauty and should be demolished.
  • The lack of facilities, such as restrooms and food vendors, which may be inconvenient for some visitors.
  • Access being a bit challenging, although generally manageable.

Overall, Playa del Algarrobico is a magical place that, when free from the shadow of its unfinished hotel, could regain its stunning natural allure.

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Below you will find 33 reviews on this topic from people who have recently visited Playa del Algarrobico.

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Chris Sheppard 11 months ago

Positive experience: Simple basic beach with nothing special about it. Many stones and not a great deal of sand. Untidy with rubbish in places that must have washed down from the rambla behind. Very popular with fishermen and walkers. The huge unfinished hotel is something to see and wonder why someone decided to build it here. Access would have been restricted by the narrow road and beyond the precipitous coast road from Mojacar making it difficult to get to for the prospective tourists. I think it's worth visiting for a walk but I wouldn't want to spend a day on the beach here.

Sara Marqués Sanchez 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Spectacular discovery. Easy access

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Sara Rodrigues 2 years ago

Positive experience: The beach is not the one with the best access or nearby resources, however it has a spectacular area for overnight stays if you're with a caravan. It's a quiet and very beautiful place at night since you can see the sea, moon, and stars perfectly.

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kieran massey 2 years ago

Positive experience: I really liked this beach, clear water, not too busy, free parking but no toilets. One for the naturists too, so the abandoned hotel and it's cranes won't be the only junk you'll see.

Diogo Franco 6 years ago

Negative experience: No lifeguard, bad access, people from the slums having lunch with the whole fat family... Great place if you like a burlesque and freakshow beach. Not coming back

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uwe Vedder 11 months ago

Positive experience: ideal with dogs

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mario Lapido 2 years ago

Positive experience: Puedes ir con los perros, no es una playa vigilada y además en los carteles no pone que estén prohibidos. Hay muy poca gente y la playa está bastante bien, lo unico malo son las piedras que hay pero por lo demás es buen sitio. Lo recomiendo si te gusta estar en playas con poca gente.

Juan Jose 3 years ago

Positive experience: Es una playa, con poco aparcamiento. No es de arena fina. La gente pasea los perros por la playa. No hay restaurantes, ni tampoco ninguno servicio.

Lala Ahidar 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: We had such a good time here. Not full at all during peak season. Easy parking and dogs allowed.

Patricia Raquel Cabrera Sena 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Una playa donde se puede ir con mascotas un lugar estratégico y privilegiado entre el Mediterráneo y las montañas relajante solo que hay mucha roca en ciertas zonas fuera y dentro del mar ambiente tranquilo y relativamente seguro y apartado ver bullicio turístico.

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Chris Sheppard 11 months ago

Positive experience: Simple basic beach with nothing special about it. Many stones and not a great deal of sand. Untidy with rubbish in places that must have washed down from the rambla behind. Very popular with fishermen and walkers. The huge unfinished hotel is something to see and wonder why someone decided to build it here. Access would have been restricted by the narrow road and beyond the precipitous coast road from Mojacar making it difficult to get to for the prospective tourists. I think it's worth visiting for a walk but I wouldn't want to spend a day on the beach here.

María 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Good beach, fine sand. Few people. A few meters away there is a huge abandoned hotel.

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Á A 1 year ago

Positive experience: Quiet place with fine dark sand. Pleasant.

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Gerlac MiRo 2 years ago

Positive experience: Sandy beach in front of the eyesore of Algarrobo. Easy access to and from the water. Calm and with little fish for snorkeling.

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Jose Serrano 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Long beach at the foot of Cabo de Gata Park. Combination of stones and sand, although the former are more abundant, which makes its waters crystal clear. At one point, forming part of the hillside, we can see the monument to the Pelotazo Nacional, which was meant to be an imposing hotel and is now just a concrete mass with three eternal cranes that detract greatly from the area.

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Juan Jose 3 years ago

Positive experience: Es una playa, con poco aparcamiento. No es de arena fina. La gente pasea los perros por la playa. No hay restaurantes, ni tampoco ninguno servicio.

Francisco Javier Gómez Domínguez 3 years ago

Positive experience: Está bien sin más , muy larga y sin ningún servicio ni duchas , ni chiringuito , ni vigilancia ideal para llevar a tu perro

María felicidad Brieba 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Una playa magnífica ... Lástima el esqueleto de macro hotel que ahí sigue destrozando el entorno. No hay chiringuito, ni falta que hace... para eso hay otra playas en la zona.

Juanma 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Playa muy poco concurrida en la que se aparca fácil. Como en toda la zona es de piedras pequeñitas pero bastante llevadero. No hay ningún barco chiringuito.

FRANCISCO JAVIER NAVARRO MOYA 7 years ago

Positive experience: Estupenda playa a 5 minutos en coche de Carboneras. Casi siempre con muy poca gente. Hay sitio para aparcar en la misma playa. Si quieres tomar algo llévatelo de casa porque no hay chiringuito ni bares. Lástima el horrible hotel que pretendieron construir de manera ilegal y que estropea el encanto del lugar.

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Luis Peralta 2 years ago

Positive experience: Typical beach where the people closest to you are a kilometer away. So comfortable. There is no lifeguard. It is a beach where you can find naked people. For swimming, I recommend wearing shoes in the rocky areas, especially when entering or exiting the water because you can hurt yourself on the stones. Typical and beautiful desert landscape of Almería.

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D L.90 2 years ago

Positive experience: Playa grande, alejada de todo y tranquila. Sin servicios. Necesario escarpines para acceder al agua por la cantidad de piedras (incluso para andar por la playa). Por lo demás, playa salvaje, sin socorrista y nudista. No está masificada. Va poca gente y hay posibilidad de aparcar gratis en los accesos. El hotel, pues un mamotreto que ahí no pinta na. Es como el ‘monumento’ de la playa, de lo que pudo ser y no fue.

Diogo Franco 6 years ago

Negative experience: No lifeguard, bad access, people from the slums having lunch with the whole fat family... Great place if you like a burlesque and freakshow beach. Not coming back

Ana Martínez 7 years ago

Positive experience: Playa hermosísima!!! Se practica el naturismo aunque también puedes ir en bañador. Tranquila, no hay socorristas, ni zona de aseos.

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Pedro García 1 year ago

Positive experience: It's a bit far. The water was divine at the small cove, there were just 2 of us, it was great.

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Alessio De Santis 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Long and narrow beach far from towns and therefore with clean waters full of fish. There is only the unfinished eyesore in the background and a few houses. There are parking spaces here and there, I personally prefer the walk from Carboneras (4km) which is on a wide and comfortable dirt road alongside the main road, frequented by runners and athletes. Beach for everyone, small coves for those who want full sun, less crystal-clear waters than others in the area but still clean, we were lucky enough to see dolphins jumping out of the water in the distance.

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Gerlac MiRo 2 years ago

Positive experience: Sandy beach in front of the eyesore of Algarrobo. Easy access to and from the water. Calm and with little fish for snorkeling.

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Francisco Ordoñez Collado 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Virgin beach, very clean and large

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Jose Serrano 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Long beach at the foot of Cabo de Gata Park. Combination of stones and sand, although the former are more abundant, which makes its waters crystal clear. At one point, forming part of the hillside, we can see the monument to the Pelotazo Nacional, which was meant to be an imposing hotel and is now just a concrete mass with three eternal cranes that detract greatly from the area.

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Below you will find 9 reviews on this topic from people who have recently visited Playa del Algarrobico.

Basamu 2 months ago

Positive experience: Playa muy tranquila y especial para hacer snorkel

Ana 2 months ago

Fantastic experience: Playa ideal snorkel, aguas tranquilas, transparente de piedras cantos rodaos. Poca gente. Parking al lado. Al final se une con playa galera. Playa curiosa con esculturas de piedras y notas de visitantes.

Gerlac MiRo 2 years ago

Positive experience: Sandy beach in front of the eyesore of Algarrobo. Easy access to and from the water. Calm and with little fish for snorkeling.

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Paula Matías 2 years ago

Positive experience: Lo mejor de todo es que no hay casi nadie en la playa, hay metros de distancia entre unos y otros. Muy fácil acceso con el coche. Se puede hacer snorkel aunque no es de los mejores sitios.

Richard Gomez Gonzalez 4 years ago

Positive experience: De arena, pocos peces para hacer esnorkel

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Jorge Martinez Quiroga 5 years ago

Positive experience: La Playa del Algarrobico, situada en el Parque Natural Cabo de Gata-Níjar, y cercana a la almeriense población de Carboneras, sería una más de las múltiples playas de la provincia de Almería si no fuera porque a tan solo 50 metros del mar se encuentra una inmensa construcción que pretendió ser el hotel El Agarrobico que quería acoger a cientos de turistas en sus 411 habitaciones distribuidas en 21 plantas. Cuando, en el año 2005, se había construido al 95% del proyecto su edificación fue paralizada como consecuencia de la denuncia de grupos ecologistas por levantarse sobre un espacio protegido que invadía la servidumbre de protección del dominio público marítimo-terrestre. En el año 2006 se dicta una medida cautelar contra la construcción del hotel por denuncia de Ecologistas en Acción y Salvemos Mojácar. Tras diversas actuaciones judiciales, en el 2016 el Tribunal Supremo estimó los recursos de Greenpeace y de la Junta de Andalucía, declarando el área como ambientalmente protegida no urbanizable. Pese a ello el edificio aún no ha sido derruido afeando una tranquila playa.

Tomas G.C. 7 years ago

Positive experience: Playa salvaje del litoral almeriense, muy cerca del pueblo de Carboneras. El agua es clara y limpia. La entrada al agua tiene piedras de diversos tamaños por lo que te aconsejo lleves calzado aparente para el baño. La arena es negra y gordita. Lo bueno es que no suele haber mucha gente.

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Algarrobico Beach: Reviews

4.2/5 (285 Reviews)
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Chris Sheppard 11 months ago

Positive experience: Simple basic beach with nothing special about it. Many stones and not a great deal of sand. Untidy with rubbish in places that must have washed down from the rambla behind. Very popular with fishermen and walkers. The huge unfinished hotel is something to see and wonder why someone decided to build it here. Access would have been restricted by the narrow road and beyond the precipitous coast road from Mojacar making it difficult to get to for the prospective tourists. I think it's worth visiting for a walk but I wouldn't want to spend a day on the beach here.

uwe Vedder 11 months ago

Positive experience: ideal with dogs

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Salvatore Belnato 1 year ago

Positive experience: Beautiful beach ideal for NATURISM. Convenient for campers.

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Konrad Steidle 1 year ago

Positive experience: For me, a great beach for swimming and bathing. Very quiet and only a few people. Only difficult to reach by car. No restrooms and no food, just an unfinished hotel on the mountain that was built without permission in the protected area until it was officially closed. Recommended for swimming and bathing.

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Pablo Andrés Gerbolés Sánchez 1 year ago

Positive experience: Not a very big beach that is quite calm and not crowded. It doesn't have services (bar, restrooms, etc.) probably due to the somewhat ghostly presence of the abandoned hotel.

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Sergiss S 1 year ago

Negative experience: They should tear down that hotel because, seriously.

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Hector a. 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Very good

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Pedro García 1 year ago

Positive experience: It's a bit far. The water was divine at the small cove, there were just 2 of us, it was great.

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Ellina 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: It's worth it

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Nikol 1 year ago

Positive experience: There is an abandoned hotel next door.

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D.S 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Wild beach but with charm

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María 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Good beach, fine sand. Few people. A few meters away there is a huge abandoned hotel.

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Paloma Toscano 1 year ago

Negative experience: The beach is fine, the hotel is an eyesore that needs to be torn down already.

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Asier Zendoia 1 year ago

Positive experience: A beautiful place with a creepy illegal work

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Á A 1 year ago

Positive experience: Quiet place with fine dark sand. Pleasant.

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Miranda Rijpkema 1 year ago

Positive experience: Nice to have seen it for a moment. It's scandalous how it has come to this. I'm glad it's being demolished and returned to nature.

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Seb C. 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Magnificent

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Reiner 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Paradise

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José Vigueras 1 year ago

Negative experience: A bit of a neglected beach, very long and famous for the hotel that was halted due to environmentalist protests. And there it continues...

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Travel Senior HR 1 year ago

Positive experience: We stayed here for one night. The beach is very rocky. We slept well here.

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Esteban Luís Sánchez 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Wild nature like the abandoned hotel.

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Alessio De Santis 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Long and narrow beach far from towns and therefore with clean waters full of fish. There is only the unfinished eyesore in the background and a few houses. There are parking spaces here and there, I personally prefer the walk from Carboneras (4km) which is on a wide and comfortable dirt road alongside the main road, frequented by runners and athletes. Beach for everyone, small coves for those who want full sun, less crystal-clear waters than others in the area but still clean, we were lucky enough to see dolphins jumping out of the water in the distance.

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Sara Marqués Sanchez 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Spectacular discovery. Easy access

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Loli Molina 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: An unbeatable full moon hike with the Carboneros hiking club!

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lluis r 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely and very quiet beach

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Loai Z 2 years ago

Positive experience: Very long beach, been in September and there were only a couple of people there… there is an old hotel otherwise calm beach

Gerlac MiRo 2 years ago

Positive experience: Sandy beach in front of the eyesore of Algarrobo. Easy access to and from the water. Calm and with little fish for snorkeling.

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MANUEL ANDRADA 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: A beautiful and one of the largest beaches in the area. Hopefully, one day the unfinished hotel that spoils the area can be demolished, and the beach can recover all its natural beauty.

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Sara Rodrigues 2 years ago

Positive experience: The beach is not the one with the best access or nearby resources, however it has a spectacular area for overnight stays if you're with a caravan. It's a quiet and very beautiful place at night since you can see the sea, moon, and stars perfectly.

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Francisco Ordoñez Collado 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Virgin beach, very clean and large

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Jose Serrano 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Long beach at the foot of Cabo de Gata Park. Combination of stones and sand, although the former are more abundant, which makes its waters crystal clear. At one point, forming part of the hillside, we can see the monument to the Pelotazo Nacional, which was meant to be an imposing hotel and is now just a concrete mass with three eternal cranes that detract greatly from the area.

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Luis Peralta 2 years ago

Positive experience: Typical beach where the people closest to you are a kilometer away. So comfortable. There is no lifeguard. It is a beach where you can find naked people. For swimming, I recommend wearing shoes in the rocky areas, especially when entering or exiting the water because you can hurt yourself on the stones. Typical and beautiful desert landscape of Almería.

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Dani PyR 2 years ago

Positive experience: Large stony beach like almost all the ones in Almería. A short distance from Carboneras. Great for being with your pet.

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jonti1725 2 years ago

Positive experience: Appatrently the location was used to film the Aqaba scene of the movie Lawrence of Arabia

kieran massey 2 years ago

Positive experience: I really liked this beach, clear water, not too busy, free parking but no toilets. One for the naturists too, so the abandoned hotel and it's cranes won't be the only junk you'll see.

miguel cuenca 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: A wonderful beach spoiled by a hotel that should have never been there

Robert Smith 3 years ago

Negative experience: Shame about that hotel. What a blot on the landscape. When is it going to be demolished. Wild flowers delightful.

Upper flat O no 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love it. Love the desert here. California of Europe.

Diogo Franco 6 years ago

Negative experience: No lifeguard, bad access, people from the slums having lunch with the whole fat family... Great place if you like a burlesque and freakshow beach. Not coming back

joker 1 7 years ago

Positive experience: Great beach and views, not much else there.

Chris Marshall 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: We loved this beach. Although there's nothing here, it's quiet and peaceful. Swimming was good and the water beautifully clear. Naturist sunbathing and swimming is also accepted here.

Enri-K 8 years ago

Positive experience: Very nice beach. The ghost of the closed hotel soars over the beach though

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