Overview

• Nearly 200 guests must use the ground-floor garage entrance after police padlocked the hotel’s main doors.
• Benalmadena Town Hall confirmed the operator is absent from the Junta de Andalucia’s tourism register and lacks legal documentation.
• Hotel manager Alberto Tusquellas attributed the shutdown to a bureaucratic error in a sublease under Vive Resort Management SL.
• Owners led by María Jose García Vargas dispute the operator’s account and have opened civil and criminal cases over unauthorized subletting.
• The sealing follows anti-tourism demonstrations in Mallorca and Ibiza where locals have protested overtourism’s strain on housing and resources.