Conserjio is by invitation only. We write here occasionally — about the work, the coast, and the way our members spend their time.
August is the month members ask about most often, and the month we plan earliest for. By mid-April, the diary for August is already busier than the diary for any week in October. What follows is what we tell members who write asking what to expect.
The diary fills before the month begins
Restaurant tables in Puerto Banús and on the Golden Mile go in early. By mid-July, a last-minute reservation at the marina restaurants for a Saturday in August is roughly a weekend's worth of phone calls. We hold relationships at most of the rooms our members ask for, but the honest position is: tell us your dates in June, not the morning of.
Drivers and the road
The AP-7 between Málaga airport and Marbella, which usually runs forty-five minutes door-to-door, can stretch to ninety on August Saturdays — particularly between 11am and 3pm, when arrivals stack and the road into Banús crawls. Our drivers route around this where the schedule allows, and for late-Friday arrivals we still hold the road as the quickest option.
Doctors are busier — but not slower
The most common reason members write us in August is a doctor at home — a feverish child, a stomach bug after a long lunch, a recurring back complaint after a beach day. Our network is sized for the August surge: an English-speaking GP still reaches Marbella addresses inside the hour, day or night.
The villas, and the people who run them
The villas we hold quietly — most often in Sierra Blanca, on the Golden Mile, and inside La Zagaleta — are taken in long stretches across August. The housekeepers and gardeners who look after the houses year-round stay on through the stay. So does the chef in many cases. The villa rental page sets out how this works.
What stays the same
The coast is still the coast. The mornings are quiet, the sea is warmer than it has any right to be, and by the second week of August most of the families we look after have stopped checking their phones at lunch. That is what August in Marbella is for.
For arrivals, the airport transfers page covers AGP and GIB. For everything else: the Marbella page is the place to start.