Rent a room in Álora

Stay

About the accommodation
Located on the 1st floor, this bright 18m2 double room comes with a private ensuite bathroom (shower) and a large wardrobe for you to leave your things.
Rest in your comfy queen size bed. The small desk and bench are adequate for getting some work done on your laptop.
The best part? The beautiful mountain view from your bedroom window.
Up to 2 people

Property
This lovely bed & breakfast located in the sunny country of Malaga, between the rural village of Alora and the dramatic gorge at El Chorro, offers guests a stress-free workation with the best climate one can wish for.
SHARED SPACES
The guesthouse offers appealing shared areas, both indoors and outdoors.
The upstairs lounge is perfect for relaxing, with tea, coffee and fridge with cold drinks at your disposal. Other shared rooms include the reception, a large comfy lounge and a shared dining room with library. Prepare your meals in the spacious shared kitchen.
Outside, the beauty continues. There’s a majestic pool and a lovely garden with a lemon grove with citrus trees. Enjoy a nice sunbath in one of the terraces. The stay also has an organic vegetable patch and the meals cooked there use home grown organic vegetables according to the season.

COMMUNITY & ACTIVITIES
The communal activities are mostly related to nature, such as participating in garden work and picking lemons from the numerous trees. The stay has four horses that you can ride and also several bikes available to rent.
In the area there’s also a gym and a public indoor swimming pool.
VISION
This stay is all about authenticity, peacefulness and drive. It’s made for remote workers and digital nomads who aspire to have a more laid back workation, while still remaining focused. The owners do their best to take care of the property in an eco-friendly way, using solar power and sustainable techniques to manage the eight acres of orchards and river bank.
GOOD TO KNOW
Important:
- 6 rooms
- The stay offers breakfast/lunch/dinner on request, for an additional fee
- 2 km from Alora village

Work features
- Great WiFi (25-100 Mbps down)
- Both shared and private workspaces
- Printer / Scanner / Copy-machine

Home features
- Shared kitchen
- A/C
- Washing machine
- Swimming pool
- Vegetarian friendly
- Vegan friendly
- Children friendly
- Pet friendly

Activities available onsite
- Horses to ride
- Bikes to rent

Area

Activities in the area
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Gym
- Public indoor swimming pool

Flora and fauna
The coast of Malaga is home to the greatest biodiversity in the Mediterranean and in the European seas. Due to the varied landscape consisting of beaches, cliffs, estuaries, swamps and dunes, as well as some important ecosystems such as corals in the rocky terrain, there are many different plants and animals of all kinds: land, sea, sedentary and migrant.
FLORA
Around 60 different plant communities have been distinguished. They consist of varied emblematic, unique, protected or endangered species (around 80).
The Montes de Malaga are considered the lungs of the surrounding area and were reforested with pine trees to avoid floods, as these floods occurred pretty often since they chopped down the large forests during the middle ages after the Castilian conquest, as they wanted to increase the area of cultivation. There are holm oaks, cork oaks and gall oaks, the three species of trees that were there originally.
FAUNA
The typical animals that you can find in Malaga include owls, foxes, squirrels and badgers. Being a port city in the south of Spain on the Costa del Sol, you can also experience seeing, and often touching, the dolphins - residents of the Mediterranean Sea.
The Laguna de Fuente de Piedra Natural Reserve, Málaga, is the largest lagoon in Andalucia. It houses the largest colony of flamingos in the Iberian Peninsula and the second largest in Europe, which can be admired during the nesting period along with many other species, such as the tern, the laughing and slender-billed gulls, the Kentish plover, the avocet or the stilt.

Social ecosystem
EXPERIENCE THE LOCAL LIFE
Inland Andalucia is an experience rich in Spanish culture with fiestas, tapas, white villages, fantastic nature and walking trails of unimaginable beauty. The stay itself is located in the small town of Alora. From a distance, it is a typical pueblo blanco, a whitewashed village nestled between three rocky spurs topped by the ruins of a magnificent castle which has an interesting history. A visit to the village, which consists of a series of very steep slopes and attractive cobbled streets, is well worthwhile. The whitewashed streets are lined with lemon trees and converge on a square on the lowest level, overlooked by the impressive seventeenth century Church of La Encarnación which was built during the Catholic era of rule on the site of a former mosque.
From the square, climb to the castle on foot, or go by car, to the cemetery from where you can enjoy the splendid panorama of the Guadalhorce river basin. Among the tombs there is a small Gothic chapel. Monday is market day when the village becomes a lively mass of stallholders and shoppers. Alora's economy is based on agriculture, in particular the cultivation of tropical fruits, olives and grape vines.
The cuisine of Alora uses the traditional Mediterranean ingredients of olives, almonds and citrus fruits. There are some delicious local dishes, including sopa porota, based on a garlic broth with croutons and a revuelta of scrambled eggs with spring onions and vegetables.
Alora's main fiesta is the flamenco festival which is held annually in June. Another popular traditional event is the Romería de la Virgen de las Flores which takes place in the middle of September and is one of the best places to enjoy, first-hand, the traditional verdiales.
DIVE INTO THE DIGITAL NOMAD SCENE
The property is located in a more rural and remote region, so your best option to really endeavour in the digital nomad scene is to take advantage of the stay itself. Get to know the other guests and organize group activities and trips - it’s up to you to make real connections!

Practical

How to get there
Closest airport: Malaga (AGP)
How to get to the accommodation from the airport:
- By public transport: take the bus to Malaga for 20 minutes (€2-4) and then transfer to the C2 train from Malaga-Maria Zambrano to Alora, for 27 minutes (€7-9). From there hop on another bus to Los Llanos for 23 minutes and then it’s just a 20 minute walk to the stay.
For 50€, the owners can arrange a pick up service from Malaga airport.

Property guidelines
1. Check-in time: 14:00
2. Check-out time: 11:00