Best Boutique Stays in Benidorm
Boutique stays in Benidorm are a deliberate departure from the resort's tower-block scale, and the two picks here both sit in or near the Casco Antiguo rather than the Levante high-rise strip further along the coast toward Rincón de Loix. Gastrohotel Boutique RH Canfali occupies one of the old town's landmark buildings above Plaza San Jaime, its à la carte restaurant and rooftop terrace built around Mediterranean fusion cooking, while Estrella De Mar keeps to a smaller aparthotel format two minutes from Poniente Beach, each offering a genuinely different scale of stay from the standard Benidorm hotel format found everywhere else in town.
Boutique Hotel · Benidorm in numbers
Small-scale rooms above the old town
Gastrohotel Boutique RH Canfali occupies one of Benidorm's iconic old-town buildings on Plaza San Jaime, with a rooftop terrace looking over both Levante and Poniente beaches at once and an à la carte restaurant, D-vora, serving Mediterranean fusion food with a dedicated wine list rather than a standard hotel buffet repeated night after night for the length of a stay booked for a week or a long weekend either way. The wine list alone sets D-vora apart from the standard house wine poured at most Benidorm hotel restaurants, a small but genuine point of distinction.
The building's position in the town centre near bars, restaurants and nightlife gives it a genuinely old-town character, some rooms with private balconies looking onto Benidorm Bay or the church square rather than a generic sea view shared with dozens of neighbouring towers stacked along the same stretch of promenade further down toward the water and the busier part of town. Guests staying in one of these rooms often mention the church bells as a gentle, characterful backdrop rather than a nuisance, a detail unique to this specific position above Plaza San Jaime and its surrounding old-town streets.
Estrella De Mar takes a quieter boutique approach two minutes from Poniente Beach, its apartment-style rooms with terrace, balcony and soundproofing suited to travellers wanting a smaller-scale, self-catering stay within the same central pocket as Plaza Mayor Square, a useful alternative for anyone who prefers cooking some meals over relying on a restaurant every single evening of an otherwise busy trip through the resort. Its central position also means a short evening walk covers Plaza Mayor Square, the beach and the old town's restaurants without any need for a taxi at all.
Both properties trade the amenity breadth of a large resort hotel, multiple pools, spa centres, entertainment programmes, for a more individual character and a genuinely central, old-town position; travellers wanting a full leisure-facility list should look toward the spa-wellness or family-resort combos instead, since neither boutique pick here runs anything close to that scale of on-site amenity or entertainment programme. What both offer instead, character and a genuinely local address, is exactly what draws repeat guests back to the old town over a newer Levante tower each time they return to Benidorm.
Most of Benidorm's accommodation follows a template set decades ago: high-rise towers, buffet restaurants, pool-first amenities repeated block after block along the seafront on both sides of the old town. The boutique tier pushes against that template from within the Casco Antiguo, the old town's landmark buildings offering a scale and character the newer towers cannot replicate, even as both sit within the same short walk of Levante and Poniente's sand and share the same climate and sea that draw most visitors to Benidorm in the first place, boutique or otherwise.