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La Cala and Finestrat: The Two Sides of Benidorm Nobody Tells You About
There’s a version of the Costa Blanca that has nothing to do with karaoke bars and All-Day Breakfasts. It starts about three kilometres south of Levante beach and keeps going until you’re sitting in a 700-year-old mountain village staring at a notch in a mountain that, according to local legend, was cut by a medieval …
Benidorm Bulletin Issue 55 | 12 April 2026
The Benidorm Bulletin — Issue 55 | 12 April 2026 The Benidorm Bulletin Your weekly dose of sun & sangria Issue 55 · 12 April 2026 · Est. 2020 ✉ From the Editor Spring has properly arrived in Benidorm — the sun is genuinely warm, Holy Week came and went (and very nearly sold the …

The Benidorm Bulletin – Issue 54 | Easter Sunday
☀️ The Benidorm Bulletin Your weekly dose of sun, sangria, and what’s on Issue 54 | Sunday 5 April 2026 — Easter Sunday | Est. 2020 ✉️ From the Editor Happy Easter Sunday from the Benidorm Bulletin! If you’re in the resort right now, you’ll know there’s something magical about this morning — the Easter …

BENIDORM BULLETIN — Issue 53
☀️ The Benidorm Bulletin Your weekly dose of sun, sangria, and what’s on Issue 53 | Sunday 29 March 2026 | Est. 2020 ✉️ From the Editor Well, here we are. Holy Week has officially arrived, the clocks went forward last night (so you’ve lost an hour of drinking time — sorry), and Benidorm is …

BENIDORM BULLETIN
☀️ The Benidorm Bulletin Your weekly dose of sun, sangria, and what’s on Issue 52 | Sunday 22 March 2026 | Est. 2020 ✉️ From the Editor Holy Week is nearly upon us, which means Benidorm is about to do something quite remarkable: transform from Europe’s most enthusiastic party resort into a place of solemn …

Santagloria Coffee & Bakery
There’s something wonderfully comforting about returning to a place you’ve enjoyed before and finding it’s every bit as good as you remembered. For us, that place is Santagloria Coffee & Bakery is a café brand I’ve come to love across Spain. Their outlets are dotted throughout the country, but the two tucked away in Benidorm’s …

August–September Trip
Introduction (28 August – 5 September) I never expected to be going back to Benidorm in 2025, but after getting the all-clear from the doctor, we decided to go for it. The only rules were to walk about on the plane every hour and avoid alcohol. The wife was straight on it, comparing packages versus …

Halfway House
I don’t normally go abroad to eat English food, there’s many reasons why not I think the main one is I love trying new things. Number 2 on my list has to be English food needs to be cooked by English people with English produce. That said there are times when I do fancy bit …

NOVA Cocktail Bar
We are not really ‘cocktail people’ I personally don’t mind the odd Mojito but my wife is a total abstainer but our son and his partner had come to Benidorm to meet us for a long weekend, we called him and in was in NOVA so it’s seemed like a good excuse to finally try …