Cheltenham Festival in Marina
Cheltenham returns from Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 March 2027 at Cheltenham Racecourse in Gloucestershire. Four days everyone in racing already has marked. The build-up, the favourites, the finishes that stay with you long after it’s over.
Cheltenham is already one of those weeks you don’t question. You watch it every year, you follow the races, and you know exactly which days matter. The build-up, the favourites, the finishes that stay with you long after it’s over.
But there is a different way to experience it. One that keeps everything that makes Cheltenham what it is, and removes everything that doesn’t. No early morning cold, no mud, no waiting around. Just the races, exactly as they should feel, in a setting that changes everything around them.
At Marina Resort Benidorm, Cheltenham becomes something you don’t just follow. It becomes something you actually live.
The White Star terrace is where the week takes shape. A space designed so everything revolves around the races without ever feeling fixed or static. You move with it, from one moment to the next, without missing anything that matters.
Every race is shown on a large-format screen built for it, with the kind of clarity and scale you usually only get in professional venues. And just beside it, the Marina District Fest pool shifts the atmosphere in a way that no traditional setting can. You are watching the races, but you are also in the middle of something more open, more social, more alive.
Around it, everything flows. Drinks arrive without interrupting the moment. The space opens up to the pool, to the light, to the afternoon. And somewhere between the first race and the last, you realise this feels very different from watching it anywhere else.
Watching Cheltenham in the UK is part of the tradition. The weather, the crowds, the pace of it all. It’s what people expect.
But when you take that same week and place it here, something shifts. The tension is still there, the reactions are still real, but everything around it changes. The afternoon stretches out, the space breathes, and the experience stops feeling restricted.
You are not rushing between races or trying to hold onto a spot. You are in it the whole time. More comfortable, more open, and in a way, more intense.
