Staying at Molino is a wonderful holiday experience - we can't keep away and have visited 15 times in 17 years!   It has everything you need - friendly, helpful staff, good food, comfortable rooms and a beautiful setting in the mountains.  The added attractions of the pool and gardens, walks, birds and flowers make it a perfect place to relax.  

I love:

The owners, their girls, the staff, the pool, the food, the bar, the 
rooms,  the weeping willows hanging low over the breakfast tables, 
the bar, Victor, the flower-filled terraces, the pre-dinner drinks 
under the pergola, the Fanta limon, the sunshine, the view of the 
rocky crags as you laze by the pool, the sound of the train on its 
way to nearby Ronda and the brilliant friendships we've made every 
visit. Apart from that, it's rubbish

Arriving at Molino is like stepping into an oasis of calm and
discernment. Not only is the hotel itself charming but the staff are so
friendly, the gardens beautiful and the surrounding countryside breathtaking.
And all within 15 minutes of one of Spain´s most spectacular towns Ronda
with its great shopping and sightseeing. Every year we say, we'll give
Molino a miss next year and go somewhere different but we just can't
bring ourselves to - this will be my seventh visit!

It is hard to think of a place anywhere in the world where one is made
more welcome, is better fed and watered, and which is more relaxing, than the Molino.

Molino is a place to which we have returned many times. The
combination of the beautiful mountain scenery where you can amble
through the olive groves or climb mountain tracks and a comfortable
hotel with its lovely gardens and pool, friendly staff, and good food
is unbeatable. Ronda is a fascinating town not far away, and the local
'white villages' have their own charm. But, best of all, is sitting on
the terrace at Molino with a glass of wine, under the willow tree, with
the sound of the mill stream and the views of the hills. There's no
better place that I know to simply relax and enjoy life.

I remember like yesterday my first visit to Molino. The road that bends past the station. a couple of scruffy dogs lying in the dust. A builder's lorry. some vans parked higgledy-piggledy. A couple of deserted warehouses. I wasn't thinking much of the place till I stepped through the gates that led me into another world. Suddenly I found myself in an oasis, a Shangri-la of the most beautiful flowers and twinkling streams. Birds of all colours in the olive trees and the beautiful blue pool for those that want to do more than contemplate.

Since that time, long ago, I've brought many friends out there with me and they've commented on the beauty of the building and the rooms, the good food, the exquisite service and the wonderfully varied landscape around. All true but I think they overlook the central point: at Molino, the Chapells have created, by design or by accident, a tiny patch of this flawed world that could just resemble a garden in Paradise.