Las Arenas Balneario Resort

There are 253 guest rooms here, and you can’t go wrong with any of them. Each and every option feels like a luxury suite, beginning with the 301 square foot Classic Room (City View), with its expansive windows, floor to ceiling columns, parquet floors, and sumptuous amenities, including robes and slippers, pillow menus, a bidet, capsule coffee machines, soundproof windows, and toiletries from Bvlgari. If you’re not in Valencia often, go for the Deluxe Room (Terrace with Sea View); it’s equipped with a latticelike headboard and expansive terrace stocked with daybeds, and where you’ll have prime panoramic views of the sea and pool scene.

A ginormous oceanfront resort with all the trimmings, including an iconic spa (open since 1898), four airy restaurants (one in the garden) and a de facto waterpark.

Just for grown-ups. There’s an eye-popping kids pool and Octopus Miniclub (ages 4 to 12) with bilingual staff and bottomless activities they’ll delight in.

The spa is legendary but reborn for today, with bubble beds, an ice fountain, a waterfall-fed jacuzzi, and treatments like gold facials and lomi lomi massages.

It’s a pinch-me perfect summer day. And outdoors in the shade of an umbrella at Brasserie Sorolla, the only thing more delectable than the ocean views are these scallops: served with nougat babaganoush and citrus caviar. Bliss.

Sorolla Brasserie - Traditional cuisine. Breakfast Buffet - An irresistible temptation of flavors conjugated in harmony. Blue Pool & Bar Restaurant - Cool off with creative cocktails, smoothies and natural juices. Lobby Bar and Porchada - Offers a wide range of cocktails made by Ivan Martinez.