Costa Blanca Spain's Costa Blanca lies on the East side of the country, with mountainous landscapes and fabulous beaches stretching over 200 km along the sea. Benidorm is its most popular destination, offering sparkling waters, fine sands beaches, historical sites, watersports and nightlife. There are many other lovely towns to stay in or visit on the Costa Blanca as well. To get a taste of Medieval Spain, head into the ruggedly beautiful interior and visit some of the Costa Blanca's smaller towns. Alicante is the region's capital, located on a bay overlooking the sea. It has many shops, cafes, historical places of interest, a yacht harbour and the airport for the Costa Blanca region. |
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Holiday Reviews:
8 Albir Resort
Garry
This was our first visit to Albir (10 mins from Benidorm). My wife, two sons and myself all stayed ...read more10 Benidorm something for everyon
Ronnie
What do you want from a holiday? Do you want great beaches,good nightlife,theme parks,a sunny clima...read more9 Great
Gill
Stayed at Camping excalibur, pool was fantastic, just not to many sunbeds. Each morning we had a l...read more
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Latest Spain-Costa-Blanca Holiday Reviews
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Albir, Costa Blanca, Spain Holiday Review - Albir Resort
Submitted by: Garry
Date of travel: 02-May-2009
This was our first visit to Albir (10 mins from Benidorm). My wife, two sons and myself all stayed at the Gardens Hotel. Hotel was clean and comfortable, so no complaints there. Every morning started with a visit to Shevlins bar, about 3-5 mins walk down from the hotel. They do a very nice full english at very reasonable prices, plus I could catch up on the latest skynews whilst eating my breakfast! It does get quite busy there so be early. A stroll down to the beach (pebbles) takes around 15 mins, although the buses are every 15 mins at a cost of 1.20e. Some nice bars and cafes on the seafront, so spoilt for choice. Also tried and failed miserably at the mini golf on the sea front. Try the WOK for a chinese buffet, only 10e for eat all you want, nice surroundings too. With having the two boys, we did not venture into benidorm, but maybe one for the future. Shevlins also has karaoke on the weekend, which again was very popular. I would recommend this resort to families and couples, very rlaxing with plenty to keep you occupied. I rate this as one of my favourite holidays.
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Benidorm, Costa Blanca, Spain Holiday Review - Benidorm something for everyon
Submitted by: Ronnie
Date of travel: 27-March-2009
What do you want from a holiday? Do you want great beaches,good nightlife,theme parks,a sunny climate, Benidorm has it all. It is only 3 hours flying time from the UK. Beni is one of the largest resort cities in Spain, and has approx 1 million vistors each year most of them British.There are four areas in Benidorm,Ricon,Levente,Old Town,and Poniente, each with it's own flavour. They are like four mini towns in one large city.
The Ricon and Lavente districts are catering for the British mass tourism market, the Old Town is were the Spainish live and the Poniente area is mostly Spainish holidaymakers.
The Recon and Lavente have most of the hotels all of which are high rise with up to 20 floors, in the travel brouchers.They have also the largest entertainment area devoted to the British holiday maker, with most bars being run by ex pats from the Uk, from night clubs,cabaret bars, karaoke,themed bars, lap dancing clubs all can be found in this district. For drinks ect it is one of the cheapest in Spain, a pint can still be had for 1 euro in the daytime.
The Old Town district seems to have a large number of ice cream palours empty during the day but packed at night with the Spanish.It is quaint with a large number of good shops and for a real flavour of Spain go to Tapas Alley which is a small area of tapas bars and well worth a visit.The Old Town also has a very large gay scene at night with a fair number of gay bars and clubs. The Poniente area is quiet end of this brash city with Spainish tourists being in the majority.
It has something to suit everyone. The infamous Square, for the clubers, The Old town for the gays,The Calle Gerona, for the families and golden oldies, and blue flag beaches for the sun worshipers.Benidorm is a place you will either love or hate. It is big and brash with very little Spainish culture.If you want a flavour of Spain then it is not for you. If you want 24 hour entertainment, good beaches,British food,then you will love it. Either way try it and see.
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Albir, Costa Blanca, Spain Holiday Review - Great
Submitted by: Gill
Date of travel: 01-September-2008
Stayed at Camping excalibur, pool was fantastic, just not to many sunbeds. Each morning we had a lovely breakfast at shevlins 10 min walk into the the main road into albir, which was a brilliant start to each day n very reasonable prices. Albir beach was really nice just pebbly but didnt bother us. Some nice restaurants to eat in on a nite, saritas indian was lovely not cheap but a lovely meal think was about 60euros for 4 of us. Chineses were cheap but not that great depending on what we had. Spent a few nites in benidorm 10 min taxi ride away, and 2nites in shevlins for karaoke which was very popular. I would definatly return to albir.
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