In a destination where image is everything, this wholesome wonderland welcomes back its loyal guests, young and old, each year. Within this tree-sheltered haven, it’s down by the pool that makes for a central meeting hub for families. Where parents and grandparents tell of their day spent cooking with a local Spanish family, and children gush about their time making pizzas and mixing fragrances from the ingredients they tended in their own garden patch.

Unlike its neighbouring beach clubs, this is where the health-conscious can get their brisk reboot treatments or week-long wellness programmes; gliding from aerial yoga and thalassotherapy by day, to sipping coupes of champagne under low lights by night. While new mums in search of some me-time reflect on their deeply healing and nurturing postnatal treatments, a speciality of the hotel. Reach out for a whole host of experiences in the surrounds, whether your bag is history (day trips to the likes of Granada and The Alhambra palace), food (cookery classes and cheese workshops), wildlife (whale and dolphin watching), culture (everything from polo to flamenco) or water sports (sailing school and kitesurfing with a ten times world champion) – to name just a few of the tantalising options.