Some places just never quite call to you. Rico Café is one of those, for me. I have walked past it more times than I can count over the years, glanced in, and kept moving. Ask me to say what is wrong with it and I genuinely cannot. The staff seem fine. The location is …
Some places you discover by accident. Others you simply arrive at and feel, immediately, that you have been coming here all your life. La Tapita falls into the second category – and for those of us who have been making the trip to Benidorm for more than twenty years, it quite literally does. La Tapita …
There is a particular cruelty to bad ice cream in hot weather. You have earned it. The walk along the seafront, the sun doing its worst, the long deliberation over which flavour. Then the thing arrives tasting of nothing in particular, half-melted before you reach the nearest bench. It is one of the minor disappointments …
Ask us to name the best hotel in Benidorm and we won’t hesitate: H10 Porto Poniente. We’ve visited this resort more times than is entirely sensible, and nothing in that accumulated experience prepared us for what this hotel actually delivers. First Impressions & Check-In The tone was established before we reached the reception desk. A …
If you’ve spent any time hunting down a decent full English in Benidorm, you’ll know the struggle. Plenty of places promise the goods but deliver something lukewarm, rubbery, and distinctly un-British. So when a little spot in the Old Town starts getting serious word-of-mouth buzz, it’s worth investigating — sausage first. Cafe Leroy sits in the …
It felt like coming home. Ten days in Benidorm across the 16th to the 26th of March, and not a single regret — well, almost. More on that later. The Weather (Yes, We Got Lucky) You might have seen the headlines — Benidorm has had a rough ride with the weather this spring. Flooding, storms, …
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 …
☀️ 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 …
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 …
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 …