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The view above is from the
Europa Club apartments in
La Cala De Finestrat
near Benidorm. The picture should refresh automatically
every 30 seconds. The dilapidated building which used
to obscure part of the view was demolished on April14th
2010. We took some
photos as the building came down.
La Cala de Finestrat is approx 3miles from
Benidorm. It was once a quiet bay with a few shops and
restaurants but the builders moved in and created a mini
city on what was wasteland. Luckily, 99% of the
apartments blocks and all the infrastructure was in place
before the Spanish property market collapse. Apart
from the Amancio building mentioned earlier the only other
major blight on the landscape is the huge Atrium beach hotel
monstrosity which has been abandoned for the past four
years. Whether this will ever be completed or
demolished remains to be seen but this is Spain so we aren't
holding our breath.
Benidorm,
is the most popular holiday resort in mainland Spain and we
have just about finished our new
Benidorm section
which includes most of the hotels and apartments available.
You can
visit the hotel section
here.
Transfers
From Alicante Airport To Benidorm / La Cala Hotel
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After doing a lot of
research into the most reliable and cheapest transfer
options between Alicante airport and hotels/apartments
in Benidorm and La Cala de Finestrat , we opted for
Resorthoppa.
Before deciding
which transfer method to recommend we wanted to try out some
different options. First we used the ALSA airport bus.
This runs every hour between the airport and the new
Benidorm bus station. It also goes to Avenida Europa
in Benidorm town centre. The price was good (9 euros
each when we tried it). It took 45 minutes non stop.
We got off at Benidorm bus station but then had to get a
taxi to La Cala which cost another 9 euros.
You'd have to get a taxi to your hotel in Benidorm unless
you got off at Avenida Europa and walked. So the bus
and a taxi ended up costing 27 euros for two people.
The next option we tried
was a taxi. There are loads of taxi's parked at the
airport so there's no hanging around. There were two
of us and we asked to be dropped off at the roundabout in La
Cala. The taxi was very fast. When we got to the toll
booth I didn't realise the taxi had a built in device which
opened the barrier. It didn't slow down on the
approach to the barrier and I really thought we were going
to hit it. When we were about 15 yards in front
of the barrier it opened automatically. We arrived in
La Cala in 35 minutes which I reckon must be a record.
It cost us a whopping 65 euros, so unless you're traveling
with four people, its probably too expensive.
Our final test was the
Resorthoppa
shuttle service which we
pre booked online.
Resorthoppa
have
the advantage of hotel or
apartment block drop off. Our plane was half an hour early
which was 45 minutes before the
Resorthoppa
coach was due to leave. The girl on the
Resorthoppa
reception desk was
extremely friendly and told us that they would put us in a
taxi to save us hanging around. I asked how much I'd
have to pay and she said it wouldn't cost any extra.
Within 15 minutes we were in the taxi with two other people
and on our way. The total cost for two of was just £17 which
is £10 less than the Alsa bus with taxi. We were very
impressed with this service because they didn't have any
obligation to put us in a taxi and could have made us wait
for the coach. Having spoken to other people who have
been equally impressed with
Resorthoppa's
standard of service and price we decided to recommend
them to our visitors.
You can book the
Resorthoppa now by clicking here
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