# Luxury Rehab in Spain | What It Means and How to Check > What luxury rehab in Spain actually means, why the top of the market reaches GBP 25,000 a month, and how to check any centre on the public register first. [Home](/) / [Rehab in Spain](/drug-addiction/) / Luxury rehab in Spain Luxury rehab in Spain # Luxury rehab in Spain: how to find the right one All you need to know about the luxury end of the Spanish market: what it actually costs, what the money is buying, which of the therapies on the list have evidence behind them, and how to check any centre on the public health register in two minutes. Luxury rehab in Spain runs from about €4,500 a week for a villa programme to around €47,380 and as much as €100,000 a week at the ultra-private end, in Mallorca, Ibiza and around Marbella, which is €190,000 to €400,000 for a month. Above a certain point that money is not buying more treatment. Both are real things to want, and worth paying for if you want them, so it is worth knowing which of the two you are buying. It is buying privacy, a higher staff-to-client ratio and a better building. The clinical week, which is what actually treats addiction, is often no longer than at a centre costing a tenth as much, and is sometimes shorter, because a programme built for one client at a time has no therapeutic community in it. This page sets out the published prices, shows which therapies have evidence behind them in addiction, and shows you how to check any Spanish centre on a public health register. Sierra Recovery publishes £9,900 for a 28-day residential programme, private room included. Programme 28 days residential Published price £9,900 Group work 3 sessions a day Room Private, as standard Language English throughout Registration N.I.C.A. 67331 ## What the luxury end of the Spanish market actually costs These are published ranges from public listings and from centres’ own sites, not quotations. Every centre sets its own fees, and many at the top of the market quote privately rather than publish a figure. Checked 28 July 2026. Where Published price What that buys Ultra-private, one client at a time, in Mallorca, Ibiza and around Marbella from about €47,380 and up to €100,000 a week Roughly €190,000 to €400,000 a month. The whole property to yourself, a team assembled around one client, live-in staff, a private chef and usually a driver. Therapy is one-to-one throughout. What the fee covers is the property, the privacy and the staff-to-client ratio. The Marbella luxury range €4,500 to €35,000 a week A very wide band, and the contents vary across it. At the upper end: a private villa or a small clinic with a sea view, a pool, spa and massage, personal training, a chef and a broad therapy menu. At the lower end: a villa with a visiting therapist. Ask any centre for the written timetable alongside the facilities list. Villa-based programmes across the Costa del Sol €4,500 to €12,000 a week A rented or owned villa, a small staff and a programme built around one or two clients. Typically includes accommodation, meals, one-to-one therapy and some holistic sessions. Group work depends on how many clients are in residence at the time, so it is worth asking. Villa Paradiso, between Málaga and Marbella about €10,000 a week, bespoke from €15,000 Published on its own site as an individually designed programme in a discreet villa in the hills. The bespoke tier is the same setting with the programme built around the individual. Camino Recovery, Málaga province €28,500 for an initial 30 days Published on its own site as fully inclusive: residential treatment for addiction, trauma and co-occurring conditions, using CBT, EMDR, equine therapy, mindfulness and family work. Detox is not on site and is arranged with a local provider beforehand. Sierra Recovery, Humilladero, Málaga £9,900 for 28 days All rooms are individual, and the price is published up front. Three structured therapy groups a day, five days a week, individual therapy three times a week, and a seventeen-module psychoeducation curriculum. Equine and holistic work on the land. All meals cooked by a Michelin-trained chef. A therapeutic community, with a group of other adults in the house. A full year of aftercare, one session a week, more than 48 in the twelve months after you leave, with a written handover to your GP. Price published in full, with an itemised written quotation before admission. The range is very wide, and it is worth knowing what moves along it. What changes as the figure rises is the property, the privacy and the ratio of staff to clients. Those are real things, they are worth paying for if you want them, and they are a different purchase from the clinical week. Knowing which one you are buying is the useful part. ### Wondering whether this is the right fit? Tell us what is going on and we will talk it through, with no obligation and nothing booked on the call. [Speak to a clinician](#talk)[+44 1202 653136](tel:+441202653136) ## What you are actually buying when the price goes up - Privacy and discretion. Genuinely valuable if you are recognisable, or if your work makes exposure a real risk. This is the most honest reason to pay a large premium. - Staff-to-client ratio. More one-to-one hours. Worth something, up to a point, and past that point more individual therapy is not better therapy. - The building and the location. A sea view, a private pool, a chef. Pleasant. Not treatment. - Privacy from other clients. Valuable if discretion is the priority. It also means there is no therapeutic community, which is a real clinical trade-off. See below. ## The therapy list, and which parts of it have evidence The single most common way to justify a higher price is to make the list longer. Here is what is actually on those lists, and what the evidence says about each in the treatment of addiction specifically. What is offered Evidence in addiction What it is worth Cognitive behavioural therapy, CBT Strong evidence in addiction One of the most studied psychological treatments there is. Should be in any programme you pay for. Motivational interviewing Strong evidence Cheap to deliver, hard to do well, and among the best predictors of whether someone stays. Group therapy and a therapeutic community Strong evidence The least glamorous part of the week and the part that does the most work. It also happens to be the thing a one-client villa structurally cannot give you. Structured relapse prevention and aftercare Strong evidence The part that carries the work home. Ask who delivers it, for how long, and whether it costs extra. EMDR, for trauma Good evidence for PTSD Appropriate where trauma is genuinely part of the picture, delivered by someone trained in it. Not a universal add-on. Family work Good evidence Addiction is rarely contained to one person, and the people at home usually need their own help. Equine-assisted work, art, yoga, mindfulness Supportive, not a treatment Genuinely useful for regulation, routine and getting out of your own head. We offer all of them. They support the clinical work rather than replace it. Massage, spa, personal training, gourmet dining No evidence in addiction treatment Pleasant, and sometimes restorative. They sit alongside treatment rather than count as it. IV vitamin drips, ozone, cryotherapy, "biohacking" panels, hyperbaric chambers No evidence in addiction These appear on some treatment menus. None of them has evidence as a treatment for addiction, and some carry risks of their own, so it is worth asking what a centre claims for them. "Bespoke, one-to-one, fully individualised programme" Depends entirely on what is in it Sometimes it means genuinely tailored care, and sometimes it means the week is arranged as it goes. Either way, ask for the written week. Nothing in the lower half of that table is a criticism. We offer equine work, holistic therapy and good food, and people value them here every day. The point is narrower: they support treatment rather than substitute for it, so it is worth knowing what share of the fee is buying the clinical week. ### Talk it through with a clinician A straight conversation about whether residential treatment is right, and what it would involve. [Speak to a clinician](#talk)[+44 1202 653136](tel:+441202653136) ## What a therapeutic community adds A one-client programme, by its nature, has no therapeutic community in it. That is worth saying plainly, because it is the one part of residential treatment that money cannot assemble for a single person. Most of what changes in residential treatment happens between the sessions. It happens in a group where somebody else has already used the excuse you were about to use, and says so. It happens at a dinner table where you are known, over four weeks, by people with no reason to be impressed by you. It happens in the ordinary hours, practising a normal day without the substance, in front of witnesses. None of that can be bought individually, and no amount of money reproduces it for one person alone in a villa with staff. If discretion is the reason you are looking at a private villa, that is a real and legitimate reason. It is worth knowing what it costs clinically, so you can decide with the trade-off in front of you rather than behind it. ## How to check any Spanish centre is licensed, in two minutes This is the one claim on any rehab website that you can settle for yourself, ours included, and it takes about two minutes. In Andalucía a residence delivering addiction treatment needs its own N.I.C.A. authorisation for care unit U.71, held by that centre at that address. A tourist-let permit, a company number or a visiting clinician’s own registration covers something else. In Spain a residential centre treating addiction is a health centre. It must be authorised by the health department of its autonomous community and entered on a public register, and that authorisation is renewed and inspected. - Ask for the registration number and the register it sits in. In Andalucía that is an N.I.C.A. number, in Madrid a CS- number, in the Comunitat Valenciana an ACD/ number for drug-dependency services. In SICESS, search by tipo de centro and select U.71 Atención sanitaria a drogodependientes, or the search will not return the centre. - Search it yourself. Regionally, or in [REGCESS](https://regcess.mscbs.es/regcessWeb/inicioBuscarCentrosAction.do), the national register kept by the Ministerio de Sanidad. - Do not accept a substitute. A company registration number, a VAT number, a trade association logo and a directory listing are all different things, and none of them is an authorisation to run a health centre. - Ask what the licence covers. Being registered is not the same as being licensed for medically supervised detox. Most Spanish residential centres, including this one, are not detox units. Sierra Recovery is a registered health centre authorised by the Junta de Andalucía under N.I.C.A. 67331. Look it up for yourself. Our [regulation and licensing page](/regulation-and-licensing/) sets out exactly what it does and does not cover, and our [guide to licensed centres in Spain](/best-rehab-centres-in-spain/) lists what ten other centres publish about theirs. ## Referral fees, and why to ask about them Many people arrive at a centre through a referrer rather than by finding it themselves. Referral is an established part of the sector, and the referrer is usually paid out of the fee the client pays, at rates commonly reported at twenty to thirty per cent of the treatment cost. It is worth knowing that this is how a lot of the market works. On the figures in the table above, that share is a meaningful part of a fee. It is also worth knowing that a referrer who is paid by some centres and not others is giving you advice with a commercial interest in it, which is rarely presented as advertising. The legal position differs by country. In the United States, paying or receiving anything of value for a patient referral to an addiction treatment provider is a federal crime under the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018, known as EKRA. In Europe there is no equivalent statute, and the practice is legal in Spain and in the United Kingdom. Since it is legal and normal, it is simply something to ask about rather than assume. Put it to any centre, in writing: does anyone receive a payment for referring me, and how much? Ask us first. Sierra pays no referral fees and accepts none, in either direction, so nobody earns a commission for sending you here and every pound of the £9,900 funds treatment. Our founder, Robin Lefever, has been a long-standing voice for that standard in UK addiction treatment. ### Want an itemised quotation before you commit? We publish our price. Hospital detox and medical costs are billed separately and quoted up front. [Speak to a clinician](#talk)[+44 1202 653136](tel:+441202653136) ## Where Sierra Recovery sits, plainly: affordable luxury We are not the most expensive centre in Spain and we are not trying to be. Sierra is a restored cortijo on forty hectares of olive groves, forty five minutes from Málaga airport. There is a pool, a courtyard and horses on the land. It is a working cortijo rather than a five star hotel, restored and deliberately left rustic, and that is what we show you. For a month of real work it turns out to be the better building. What we do mean by luxury is the things that are actually scarce in treatment. There are three in particular, and they are the ones we have kept in: - Your own room. Having a door you can close in the first difficult week is a clinical need, not a hotel extra. It is the difference between being able to fall apart privately and having to hold it together in front of someone else. All rooms here are individual. - One-to-one time. Individual therapy is the most expensive hour a centre delivers, so it is worth asking any centre how much of it you get. Here it is three sessions a week, every week. - Food worth eating. Appetite is one of the first things to come back and one of the first things people notice. Meals here are cooked by Harri Archanco, who trained at the Michelin-starred Galvin at Windows in London. Every day, not as an event. That is what affordable luxury should mean: not marble and a sea view, but the parts of the experience that are genuinely rare, and keeping them in. What is genuinely high specification is the clinical week: three structured therapy groups a day, five days a week, individual therapy three times a week, a seventeen-module psychoeducation curriculum, and the same clinicians treating you from the first day to the last. A private room is included as standard, not as an upgrade, because being able to close a door in the first difficult week is a clinical need. The programme is an adaptation of the methodology of PROMIS Clinics in the United Kingdom, which has treated addiction since 1986. £9,900 for 28 days, published in full, with an itemised written quotation before you commit. A medically supervised detox, where it is clinically needed, is completed in an appropriate medical setting beforehand and billed separately, and that is true wherever you go in Spain. We pay and accept no referral fees in either direction, so nobody earns a commission for sending you here. ## What Sierra Recovery is, and what it is not Sierra is a registered health centre, N.I.C.A. 67331, care unit U.71, authorised by the Junta de Andalucía for supervised residential addiction treatment. It is not a hospital and not a detox unit, which is true of most residential centres in Spain and worth confirming wherever you look. Where a medically supervised withdrawal is clinically needed it is completed in an appropriate medical setting before admission and billed separately. We do not admit anyone who needs hospital-level monitoring or nursing, anyone acutely suicidal or in psychiatric crisis, or anyone whose primary condition is a severe eating disorder. If that is the situation, we will say so on the first call and point you somewhere that can help. ## Questions worth asking any luxury centre - What is your registration number, and which register? Then check it. - Can I see the written week? Not the therapy list. The timetable. How many therapeutic hours, delivered by whom, with what qualifications. - How many other clients will be there? And if the answer is none, ask how the group work happens. - Do the same clinicians treat me throughout? Rotation mid-stay costs more than people realise. - Does anyone receive a commission for referring me? Ask in writing. It is a federal crime in the United States and merely legal in Spain, which is exactly why you should ask. - What is included, itemised, in writing, before admission? And what is billed separately. - What happens when I go home? Who delivers aftercare, for how long, and at what cost. ### Not sure how to read what you are being quoted? Nerea, our director and a registered psychologist, will talk you through what to ask any centre you are considering, including the ones that are not us. No obligation, and no referral fee is paid to anyone for sending you here. [Speak to a clinician](/contact/) [+44 1202 653136](tel:+441202653136) ## Questions people ask about luxury rehab in Spain What does luxury rehab in Spain cost? A very wide range. Villa-based programmes on the Costa del Sol start at roughly €4,500 a week, about €18,000 a month. The Marbella luxury band runs from about €4,500 to €35,000 a week, and the ultra-private end in Mallorca, Ibiza and around Marbella, where a centre treats one client at a time, runs from about €47,380 and as high as €100,000 a week, which is €190,000 to €400,000 a month. Sierra Recovery publishes £9,900 for a 28-day residential programme with a private room included. These are published ranges rather than quotations, checked on 28 July 2026. Is a more expensive rehab a better rehab? Not reliably, and the price is not the signal people think it is. Beyond a certain point the money is buying privacy, staff-to-client ratio and the building, not more or better therapy. The things worth asking about are the clinical programme, who delivers it, whether the same people treat you throughout, and what happens after you leave. Those questions all have answers you can ask for in writing, at any price point. Are luxury rehabs in Spain licensed? Some are and some are not, so it is worth checking the public register rather than the website. In Spain a residential centre treating addiction is a health centre and must be authorised by the health department of its autonomous community and entered on a public register. Ask any centre for its registration number and search it yourself in the regional register or in REGCESS, the national one. A company number, a VAT number or an association logo is not the same thing. What is a therapeutic community, and why does it matter? It is the group of people in treatment with you, and the structure around them. It matters because a large part of what changes in residential treatment happens between sessions: being known, being challenged by people in the same position, and practising ordinary life without the substance. A programme with one client cannot provide it, however good the setting is. Do I need a private villa to recover? No. You need a private room, which is a clinical need in the first difficult week, and all rooms here are individual. Beyond that, isolation is usually the opposite of what helps. Most people arrive having already tried to stop alone. Is Sierra Recovery a luxury rehab? Not in the sense the word is usually used. It is a restored farmhouse on forty hectares of olive groves rather than a five star hotel, and that is what we show you. What is genuinely high specification is the clinical side: three structured therapy groups a day five days a week, individual therapy three times a week, a seventeen-module curriculum, and the same clinicians from the first day to the last. ### Talk to a clinician about treatment in Spain You will speak to our admissions team, all of them clinicians. We will tell you honestly whether Sierra fits, whether another centre fits better, or whether a free service closer to home is the right place to start. [See how admission works](/admissions/) [What £9,900 covers](/pricing/) + ## Talk to a clinician today You will speak to our admissions team, English-speaking clinicians who know the programme and the people in it. Callback within 24 hours. Step 1 of 3 Confidential, and no obligation Registered health centre. Authorised by the Junta de Andalucía, N.I.C.A. 67331. ### Related pages [The Regulation Model](/the-regulation-model/)[Assessment & detox](/medical-assessment-and-detox/)[Our programme](/our-programme-at-sierra-recovery/)[Dual diagnosis](/dual-diagnosis-rehab-spain/)[Pricing](/pricing/)[Admissions](/admissions/) --- Source: https://sierrarecoveryspain.com/luxury-rehab-spain/ Retrieved: 2026-08-27 Canonical HTML version of this page: https://sierrarecoveryspain.com/luxury-rehab-spain/