Mexico, Mykonos Now Marbella. Welcome Bonbonniere. 

Olivia Valere, nan historical Golden Mile hotspot that has hosted everyone from Mick Jagger and Prince to Paris Hilton and Sean Connery during its near-30-year reign, has closed its doors and nan Mandala Group is moving in.

The hospitality elephantine has signed a 10-year lease connected nan celebrated venue and will reopen it arsenic Bonbonniere Marbella. Marbella, first up successful Spain and a 2nd task already planned for Madrid. 

The task is successful business pinch British entrepreneur and erstwhile boxer Joe Fournier. Fournier, who built and sold a concatenation of fittingness gyms earlier moving into hospitality and nightlife, is now nan salient look of nan Bonbonniere marque internationally. 

The caller nine will bring header DJs yet to beryllium named, but deliberation Claptone, Hot Since 82, Seth Troxler, Nic Fanciulli and Damian Lazarus, premium array work and a younger world crowd to a abstraction that erstwhile defined old-school Marbella glamour.

The Bonbonniere marque brings an breathtaking caller clip for party-goers

Olivia Valere herself founded nan nine successful 1997, famously inaugurating it pinch Naomi Campbell by her side. Over nan years it became 1 of nan coast’s astir glamorous, but occasionally controversial, nightlife addresses. In 2020, constabulary intervened aft nan venue breached COVID capacity limits during a concert, pinch reports claiming astir 150 other guests had been fto in. The nine later unopen temporarily aft unit tested affirmative for nan virus, and successful January 2021 constabulary closed down an forbidden after-hours statement astatine nan on-site LØV restaurant, wherever complete 100 group were recovered and astir 30 fines issued for curfew and COVID breaches.

The Valere family aren’t stepping distant from nan tract entirely, however. The adjoining edifice and dinner-show concept, LØV, is nether the  Olivia Valere sanction for nan 2026 season. In effect, nan tract is being divided successful two, Mandala Group takes complete nan nightclub, while nan family retains nan edifice and intermezo side.

For caller nine goers nan presence of Bonbonniere is an breathtaking time, but for long-time Marbella regulars, it’s nan extremity of a ‘ValEra’