From The Benidorm Bulletin
Benidorm on the Cheap
What a week actually costs, and where the money leaks
27 pages · Instant download · 2027 edition
Two car parks. Two airports. Same fortnight, same car.
East Midlands: about £90 to £100
Manchester, off site: about £50
The small airport is the expensive one
and almost nobody checks, because why would you
It is the opposite of what everyone assumes. The big airport has a dozen independent operators scrapping over your custom. The small one does not, so it charges what it likes.
That is one paragraph of this guide. There are twenty‑six more pages of it.
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This isn’t a guidebook
You’ve been to Benidorm. You know where the beach is, you’ve got a bar you always go back to, and you don’t need telling that the Old Town is lovely at sunset.
This is about the big money. Flights, hotels, transfers, airport parking, the parks, getting about. The four-figure decisions, all of them made before you leave the house, and almost all of them made badly by people who are tired and have thirty seconds to think about it.
Every price in it is either a receipt from my own bookings or an operator’s own published table. Nothing is lifted from another guide, and where a figure is likely to move I’ve said so instead of pretending otherwise.
What’s in it
The week that costs 74% more than February
And why it moves every single year
Two airports, five miles apart, £173 of difference
Plus why the headline fare is never the price you pay
Why the airport bus is not the cheapest transfer
A full comparison table for one to seven people
What half board actually costs per meal
Worked out properly, and the trap nobody warns you about
£91.99 against £49.50 for the same nine nights of parking
And the four car parks you can’t just turn up at
The best value ticket in Benidorm
A second theme park for four euros
Buses, trams and taxis, priced properly
Including the tourist pass that’s a con and the one card that halves your fares
A one-page checklist
Photograph it, work through it, done
What it won’t tell you
Where to eat and drink. That’s the next edition, out in October after I’ve been back with a camera and checked every price myself rather than repeating what I wrote two years ago.
It also won’t tell you Benidorm is half price in winter, because it isn’t. A winter week works out roughly ten to fifteen per cent cheaper than a summer one on the hotel, not half price, and the guide explains exactly why. If you want a book that agrees with what everyone says in the comments, this is the wrong one.
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Who’s behind it
The Benidorm Bulletin has been going since 2020. It’s a free newsletter that lands every Sunday, read by people who go to Benidorm several times a year and are tired of being sold to.
No sponsored recommendations, no tourist board copy, and no commission on anything in this guide. I pay for my own trips, which is why the receipts in it are mine.
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Prices checked August 2026 · £1 = €1.167 · PDF, works on any phone, tablet or computer