SUNBED INDEX 2026: THE FINDINGS

What the figure measures

€131 is the average of 7 paid venues for one unit, and the unit is the whole story: two sunbeds plus minimum spend, weekday, high season. It is not the price of a single lounger, and it should not be compared with one.

Our own beach-club pages quote a different, single-unit number for five of these 7 venues, and both figures are right: those pages carry a field for one sunbed at list price, and this index prices two of it. Playa Padre's own rate card sells a standard bed at €120, part of it a minimum spend rather than a bed charge, so two people pay €240 and both halves double. Amàre Beach sells a day pass from €69.50 a person, so €139 for two, and it is the one venue here whose minimum spend comes back as credit rather than being charged on top. La Sala by the Sea sells a single beach bed at €20 on a weekday, so €40 for two. Ocean Club is the one case where the two figures agree, at €300: its entry policy reads “no plain sunbed: cheapest bed package (up to 3, bottle included) is the entry ticket”, and one package genuinely is the cost of putting two people on a bed there. Every figure below says which case it is.

Five findings

1. Dearest, and no longer a mystery

   Ocean Club, Puerto Banús: €300 a day for two beds and a minimum spend, the highest price in the index. Our beach-club page has quoted this same club at €300 for a while, and as of this season the two figures agree, because Ocean Club sells no plain sunbed at all: the cheapest bed package seats up to three, includes a bottle, and on a weekday carries no extra minimum spend. €300 is the real cost of two sunbeds there.

2. Cheapest paid, off an official menu

   La Sala by the Sea, Puerto Banús: €40 a day for two beds and a minimum spend, the lowest paid price in the index. That is two Chill Out Single Beach Beds at €20 each, the weekday rate straight off the club's own 2026 bed menu.

3. Where the two units still diverge

   Playa Padre, Amàre Beach and La Sala by the Sea each sell a genuine single unit at a real, published price: €120, €69.50 and €20. Our beach-club pages quote those single prices; this index prices two of the same unit, so each pair of figures sits about double one another. Neither number corrects the other; they measure different things on purpose, and Amàre Beach's single figure is a “from” price rather than a flat rate.

4. Where the price lives, and who counts as the venue

   Two venues in the index publish nothing on their own websites and everything in the booking system they sell through: Nikki Beach (via SevenRooms) and Bono Beach (via PremiumGuest). We count that as the venue publishing a price, because it is the venue setting it, and we label it: every figure from a booking platform carries “via” and the platform's name wherever it appears. What we will not do is take a number off a booking affiliate, a reseller the venue does not control. Three prices in this index came from affiliates until 11 August 2026 and were deleted rather than corrected. A further 4 venues publish no rate in either place, so they are named here with no figure at all: Trocadero Arena, La Cabane, Puente Romano, Purobeach. Each was checked on 11 August 2026. Where a number is missing, it is missing on purpose.

5. The free option is still free

   Public beach, All of them: €0, and no minimum spend to clear. Towel not included. It is listed in the index and excluded from the average, which is why the average describes what people pay rather than what a stretch of sand costs.

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The card

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The data

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Method, exclusions and limits

Prices read from each venue's own website, published rate card, or the booking platform the venue itself sells through, which is labelled “via” wherever the price appears; see each venue's source_url and verified date in sunbed.json. Booking affiliates and aggregators are never used, and a venue that publishes no rate anywhere of its own is listed as unpublished, never estimated. Every price was last confirmed 11 August 2026, and the index covers summer 2026.

The average is the 7 paid venues only. The free public beach is listed but kept out of it, and so are weekends and the low season. These are weekday, high-season rates and will not match an August Saturday.

No year-on-year figure is published this season. Every price here was re-sourced fresh on 11 August 2026, and none of these venues has a sourced prior-season figure for the same product to compare it against, so we publish nothing rather than a guess. The index averaged €79 before that day; do not read €131 against it as a rise, because it is a different set of venues measured a different way.

The index is 7 venues wide, which is not a census of the coast. It tracks the clubs people name, so a sunbed priced somewhere it does not list is not evidence the index is wrong, only that the index is narrower than the coast.

No price in this index is an estimate. A price comes from the venue's own site, or from the booking platform the venue itself sells through, in which case it is labelled “via” that platform. Booking affiliates and aggregators are never used: three prices sourced that way were removed on 2026-08-11. A venue that publishes nothing in either place is listed with no figure and a note saying where we looked.

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