Puerto Marina & Benalmádena Costa is a rental manager’s dream: a walkable, photogenic marina with restaurants, boat charters, a casino and Selwo Marina park all inside 400 metres. Guests rarely rent a car here, and listings near the harbour book out weeks ahead.
Málaga airport is about twenty minutes by road on the A-7. Guests who prefer the train use Benalmádena-Arroyo de la Miel on the C1 Cercanías line, a short taxi up from the harbour. Once here, almost nobody drives: the marina restaurants, Malapesquera and Bil-Bil beaches, the casino and Selwo Marina all sit inside a four-hundred-metre walk, which is why a parking space matters less to a booking in this postcode than it does anywhere else in Benalmádena.
Short stays at full rate from June to September, a three- or four-night minimum through the shoulder months so the calendar does not fragment into unsellable gaps, and monthly winter lets from November for owners who would rather have one booking than eight. Photography carries more weight here than anywhere else in Benalmádena: the harbour sells the listing before the description does, and re-shooting a tired listing usually pays for itself inside a single season.
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Nearly everything rentable in the marina and along Benalmádena Costa sits inside a community of owners, so a new VUT application here runs straight into the three-fifths community vote introduced in April 2025. Licences granted before 3 April 2025 continue under the previous rules. Several harbour blocks also wrote their own letting restrictions into the community statutes years before the national rule arrived, so we read the statutes before we look at the numbers.
General guidance for Benalmádena owners, not legal advice. The full regulatory picture — the VUT application, the three-fifths community vote and where the NRUA now stands — is set out on our VUT licence guide, with the official sources listed at the foot of that page.
Most do not, and the listing should say so plainly. The marina, the beaches and the restaurants are walkable, the C1 train at Arroyo de la Miel reaches Málaga airport in around twenty minutes, and taxis run constantly. If you have a parking space we will list it, but its absence is far less of a booking barrier here than it would be in Torrequebrada.
If you are applying for a new VUT licence and the property is in a community of owners, yes. If the licence was granted before 3 April 2025 it is unaffected. We check the licence date and the community statutes before quoting on any marina property, because a block that has already written a restriction into its statutes is a different proposition from one that has not.
Usually. The marina keeps enough life from November to March that monthly lets to Northern European guests fill most of the quiet months, at a lower nightly rate but with much lower turnover cost. Owners who want the apartment themselves in February simply block it; we build the winter around the owner calendar rather than the other way round.
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