Not as a package, and we take no commission. We will tell you exactly what your session needs — nights, shade, distance from the clinic — so you can book accordingly, and we are happy to sanity-check a booking before you confirm it.
Overview
Recovery is part of the treatment
Where you stay after a session is not a detail. Skin that is healing needs shade, sleep and somewhere quiet to be unphotogenic for a few days, and patients who plan that properly get better results than patients who do not.
Marbella is a practical place for this. Málaga airport is roughly forty-five minutes away by car and connects directly to most European capitals, several of them several times a day. Taxis and pre-booked transfers are straightforward, and the drive is a motorway the whole way.
We do not take commission on accommodation and we do not run a package. What we will do is tell you what the session you are booked for actually requires — how many nights, how much shade, and how far you should be from the clinic — so you can book something that fits.
Getting here
- AirportMálaga–Costa del Sol (AGP)
- TransferAbout 45 minutes by car, motorway the whole way
- By railAVE to Málaga María Zambrano, then road
- EntrySpain is in the Schengen area — check your own requirements
- SunStrong most of the year. This matters more than usual after treatment
How long to stay
Nights needed, by procedure
Injectable and regenerative sessions — same day or one night
Bio-stimulation, polynucleotides and bioremodelling leave little or nothing visible. Flying the same evening is normally fine.
Subcision, TCA CROSS and RF microneedling — one to two nights
Expect swelling and bruising that is obvious for a few days but not raw. Most patients fly home the day after.
Fractional CO2 resurfacing — four to seven nights
The skin is an open wound for the first several days, and cabin air is dry. We will give you the earliest safe flight date at the time of booking, not afterwards.
Combined sessions — planned individually
Where several procedures are combined in one visit, the longest recovery in the combination sets the timing. This is agreed before you book flights.
Choosing where to stay
What actually matters
Shade, and air conditioning that works. Heat drives swelling and, on treated skin, pigmentation. A room you can keep cool and dark for three days is worth more than a sea view.
Close enough for a follow-up. Within about twenty minutes of the clinic is sensible for the first nights after an ablative session, in case anything needs looking at.
Food you can get to easily. Sounds trivial. On day two after a resurfacing session, not having to go out and be seen is the difference between resting properly and not.
Not a beach holiday, at least not yet. The single most common mistake is booking treatment at the start of a sun holiday. If you want both, have the sun first and the treatment on the way home.
Questions
Good to know
If your travel is complicated, say so in the enquiry — the sequence can usually be arranged around it.
International enquiry- Do you arrange hotels or transfers?
- Can I combine treatment with a holiday?
Yes, in that order: holiday first, treatment at the end. Sun exposure on recently treated skin is the fastest route to pigmentation, and it is not reversible in a week.
- When can I fly after treatment?
Same day for most injectable work, the next day after subcision or RF microneedling, and four to seven days after fractional CO2. You will be given the date at booking so flights can be arranged around it.
- Will I be able to go out?
After most sessions, yes, with sun protection. After an ablative resurfacing session you will not want to for the first three or four days, and that is normal rather than a complication.
- Do I need travel insurance?
Sensible in any case, and worth checking whether yours covers a planned medical procedure abroad. Most leisure policies do not.
Consultation
Ready to talk about your skin?
Consultations with Dr. Henningsen are arranged individually. Tell us what you would like to change and we will come back to you with the options, the honest downtime and the realistic result.