---
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- en
pretty_name: Marbella Price Data
tags:
- prices
- tourism
- spain
- marbella
- restaurants
- beach-clubs
- hospitality
- cost-of-living
- tabular
task_categories:
- table-question-answering
size_categories:
- n<1K
source_datasets:
- original
configs:
- config_name: sunbed-index
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: sunbed-index/sunbed-index.csv
- config_name: chiringuitos
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: chiringuitos/chiringuitos.csv
- config_name: beach-clubs
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: beach-clubs/beach-clubs.csv
---

# Marbella price data

Open datasets from [Marbella Wire](https://marbellawire.com), an independent price tracker
for Marbella, Spain. Every figure here is published on marbellawire.com first; this
dataset is the machine-readable copy, regenerated from the same data files that render
the pages. It mirrors the canonical GitHub repository
[shiftdylson1/marbella-price-data](https://github.com/shiftdylson1/marbella-price-data).

| Config | What it is | Rows | Canonical page |
|---|---|---|---|
| `sunbed-index` | High-season price of two sunbeds plus minimum spend at Marbella beach venues, season 2026 | 8 priced + 4 unpublished | https://marbellawire.com/prices/sunbeds/ |
| `chiringuitos` | Census of Marbella chiringuitos (beach restaurants) with menu-sourced prices, season 2026 | 43 venues | https://marbellawire.com/prices/chiringuitos/ |
| `beach-clubs` | Beach club sunbed, bed and minimum-spend prices, season 2026 | 14 clubs | https://marbellawire.com/prices/beach-clubs/ |

All prices are euros; every CSV row carries its unit, source page and licence so a row
quoted on its own stays traceable. **Empty cell = not published by the venue, never zero
and never a guess.**

## Loading

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
beach_clubs = load_dataset("editorwire11/marbella-price-data", "beach-clubs", split="train")
```

```python
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("hf://datasets/editorwire11/marbella-price-data/beach-clubs/beach-clubs.csv")
```

Each folder also holds the same data as JSON, a `PROVENANCE.md`, a `COLUMNS.md` data
dictionary, and (for the censuses) a `DATA.md` with one anchored section per venue.

## Columns

### `sunbed-index/sunbed-index.csv`

| column | type | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `venue` | string | Venue name as published on the index |
| `area` | string | Area of Marbella |
| `status` | string | 'priced' or 'unpublished' (listed but deliberately not priced; see note) |
| `price_eur` | number | Two sunbeds plus minimum spend, EUR, high season, weekday. EMPTY for unpublished rows, never zero |
| `price_unit` | string | Restates the unit for the row |
| `yoy_pct` | number | Year-on-year change of price_eur, percent |
| `note` | string | Pricing caveat, or the reason a row is unpublished |
| `season` | number | Season year |
| `measured_on` | date | When the price was read (unpublished rows: when checked) |
| `price_source_url` | url | The venue's own price source |
| `price_source_via` | string | Booking platform name when the source is the venue's booking system |
| `index_average_eur` | number | Index-wide average, repeated on every row so a row travels with its headline |
| `index_average_unit` | string | Unit of the average |
| `index_yoy_pct` | number | Index-wide year-on-year change, percent |
| `source_url` | url | Canonical index page |
| `attribution` | string | Requested credit line |
| `license` | url | CC BY 4.0 |

### `chiringuitos/chiringuitos.csv`

| column | type | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `slug` | string | Stable id; also the venue page path segment |
| `name` | string | Venue name |
| `area` | string | Area of Marbella |
| `beach` | string | Beach the venue sits on, where recorded |
| `business_status` | string | 'operating' at last verification |
| `opened_year` | number | Opening year, where recorded |
| `price_display` | string | Headline price as shown on the page, EUR |
| `price_basis` | string | What the price is read from (e.g. 'menu') |
| `price_kind` | string | What the price buys (e.g. 'espeto', 'mains') |
| `price_note` | string | Caveat on the price |
| `price_level` | string | Relative bracket, € to €€€€ |
| `signature_dish` | string | Signature dish, where one is published |
| `signature_dish_eur` | number | Its menu price, EUR |
| `espeto_eur` | number | Espeto de sardinas menu price, EUR, where published |
| `official_site` | url | Venue's own website |
| `menu_url` | url | Venue's own published menu (menu_is_pdf says if it is a PDF) |
| `menu_is_pdf` | boolean | Whether menu_url is a PDF |
| `address` | string | Street address |
| `phone` | string | Published business phone |
| `google_place_id` | string | Google Place ID, for joining |
| `google_maps_url` | url | Google Maps listing |
| `verified` | date | Last per-venue verification |
| `url` | url | The venue's page on marbellawire.com |
| `currency` | string | All prices are EUR |
| `source_page` | url | Canonical dataset page |
| `attribution` | string | Requested credit line |
| `license` | url | CC BY 4.0 |

### `beach-clubs/beach-clubs.csv`

| column | type | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `slug` | string | Stable id; also the club page path segment |
| `name` | string | Club name |
| `area` | string | Area of Marbella |
| `season_year` | number | Season the prices belong to |
| `sunbed_price` | number | Cheapest sunbed/lounger, EUR, high season, per day |
| `bed_or_vip_price` | number | Top bed or VIP package, EUR, per day, where published |
| `minimum_spend` | string | Minimum-consumption terms, as published |
| `entry_policy` | string | How entry actually works |
| `price_level` | string | Relative bracket |
| `source_url` | url | The club's own rate card or booking page the prices were read from |
| `rates_url` | url | Published rates document (rates_is_pdf says if PDF) |
| `rates_is_pdf` | boolean | Whether rates_url is a PDF |
| `booking_url` | url | Club's booking system |
| `official_site` | url | Club's own website |
| `menu_url` | url | Published menu, where one exists |
| `menu_is_pdf` | boolean | Whether menu_url is a PDF |
| `opened_year` | number | Opening year, where recorded |
| `business_status` | string | 'operating' at last verification |
| `address` | string | Street address |
| `phone` | string | Published business phone |
| `google_place_id` | string | Google Place ID, for joining |
| `google_maps_url` | url | Google Maps listing |
| `verified` | date | Last per-venue verification |
| `notes` | string | Sourcing note |
| `url` | url | The club's page on marbellawire.com |
| `currency` | string | All prices are EUR |
| `source_page` | url | Canonical dataset page |
| `attribution` | string | Requested credit line |
| `license` | url | CC BY 4.0 |

## Provenance and method

Prices come from venues' own published menus, rate cards and booking systems, never
from third-party aggregators; each row links its source. One number in the source is
one number here: nothing is estimated or interpolated. A venue that publishes no rate
anywhere of its own is listed as unpublished, never estimated.

- **Sunbed Index** — 8 priced venues + 4 listed as unpublished, season 2026. Last data
  update 2026-08-11; last per-venue verification 2026-08-11. Prices read from each
  venue's own website, published rate card, or the booking platform the venue itself
  sells through (labelled in `price_source_via`). The files are byte-for-byte copies of
  the live endpoints https://marbellawire.com/data/sunbed-index.csv and
  https://marbellawire.com/data/sunbed-index.json, fetched at export time.
- **Chiringuito census** — 43 published venues (of a 100-venue census) + 5 recorded
  closures, season 2026. Last data update 2026-07-25; last per-venue verification
  2026-08-17. Google listing checked per venue; kept only operating venues with their
  own website publishing a menu. All euro figures are read from each venue's own
  published menu (`menu_url` on every row).
- **Beach club census** — 14 clubs, season 2026. Last data update 2026-07-24; last
  per-venue verification 2026-08-17. Prices read from each club's own published rate
  card or booking system (`source_url` on every row); `sunbed_price` and
  `bed_or_vip_price` are euros, high season, per day.

Exported from the same data files that render the canonical pages; the export script
copies figures only. Editorial text, photographs and Google Places content (ratings,
review counts, coordinates) are deliberately not included: the CC BY 4.0 grant covers
Marbella Wire's figures, not the site's prose, not venue photos, and not Google's data.
Full per-dataset detail is in each folder's `PROVENANCE.md`.

## Updates

Regenerated manually, roughly once a season, from the Marbella Wire data pipeline. The
live pages update first; if a figure here disagrees with marbellawire.com, the site is
current and this mirror is awaiting its seasonal refresh. Corrections:
[open an issue on the GitHub repository](https://github.com/shiftdylson1/marbella-price-data/issues)
with a source URL from the venue itself.

## License and attribution

[CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt
with credit to **Marbella Wire** and a link to the dataset's canonical page:

- Sunbed Index: https://marbellawire.com/prices/sunbeds/
- Chiringuitos: https://marbellawire.com/prices/chiringuitos/
- Beach clubs: https://marbellawire.com/prices/beach-clubs/

The grant covers the figures in this dataset only; the site's editorial text and its
credited photographs are not included here and are not CC-licensed.

## Citation

In prose: "Marbella Wire, https://marbellawire.com/prices/sunbeds/". Or:

```bibtex
@misc{marbellawire2026prices,
  author = {{Marbella Wire}},
  title  = {Marbella price data},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://marbellawire.com/prices/sunbeds/},
  doi    = {10.5281/zenodo.22094846},
  note   = {CC BY 4.0. Mirror of https://github.com/shiftdylson1/marbella-price-data}
}
```

## Links

- Live site: https://marbellawire.com
- Canonical GitHub repository: https://github.com/shiftdylson1/marbella-price-data
- Permanent identifier (all versions): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22094846
- Always-current live endpoint: https://marbellawire.com/data/sunbed-index.csv

Other mirrors of this same deposit:

- Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22094846
- Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/marbellawire/marbella-price-data
- OpenML: https://www.openml.org/d/47281 (sunbeds), /d/47282 (chiringuitos), /d/47283 (beach-clubs)