Gran Hotel Miramar in Málaga hosts congresses, seminars, product launches, gala dinners and weddings for up to 700 guests when its three main salons are joined, with more rooms for meetings of 8 to 100 people and 190 bedrooms on site. The hotel occupies a seafront palace on Paseo de Reding, east of the historic center.
Seminars and company events
The largest room, Real, covers 440 square meters and seats 280 theatre style or 170 classroom. Next to it, Victoria takes 200 theatre style, and the small Reservado Victoria adds 30 more. Opened together, the three spaces cover 761 square meters for 510 theatre style, 400 at a banquet or 700 for a cocktail. That combination suits a national sales meeting or a medical congress with a plenary and a lunch on the same level.
Breakout sessions have a wide choice. Athenea seats 100 theatre style, Malagueta 45, Alcazaba and Biznaga 40 each, Gibralfaro 36 and Jacaranda 30. The Marqués de Larios room takes a table of 8 for a confidential meeting. The Galería holds 120 standing for a coffee break, a poster session or a welcome drink. Ceiling heights run from 2.3 to 5.8 meters depending on the room, and most rooms have daylight and garden views, two of them with sea views. Meeting rooms can also be booked online.
Weddings and receptions
The hotel sells weddings, civil ceremonies and family celebrations, using its gardens and interior salons. Real alone takes a banquet of 280, and the combined salons a banquet of 400. The hotel publishes a wedding menu.
Rooms and capacities
Real, 440 m²: theatre 280, banquet 280, cocktail 400. Victoria, 269 m²: theatre 200, banquet 150, cocktail 260. Reservado Victoria, 52 m²: up to 35. Athenea, 132 m²: theatre 100, banquet 70. Malagueta, 78 m²: up to 70 for a cocktail. Alcazaba, 60 m², and Biznaga, 58 m²: up to 50 each. Gibralfaro and Jacaranda: up to 36 and 35. Marqués de Larios: 8 seated. Galería, 146 m²: 120 standing.
Accommodation
The hotel has 190 rooms, so a congress group can sleep, meet and dine under one roof. A spa is part of the hotel, which helps on a two-day program with free time.
Catering
Catering for meetings, banquets and weddings is prepared by the hotel, which runs its own restaurants and bars.
History and setting
The building opened in 1926 as the Hotel Príncipe de Asturias, inaugurated by King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia, facing the Mediterranean. From 1936 it took on community and institutional uses, then administrative ones, and from 1987 to 2007 it housed the Palacio de Justicia, Málaga's courthouse. After nearly ten years empty, Hoteles Santos bought and restored it, and it reopened in 2016 as Gran Hotel Miramar, keeping the architecture of the original palace. The hotel is a member of The Leading Hotels of the World.
Getting there
The address is Paseo de Reding 22-24, between La Malagueta and the old town. Málaga María Zambrano station, served by high-speed trains from Madrid, is about 10 minutes by car, and Málaga airport about 20 minutes.
