You have a thousand reasons to visit Benidorm, although this week there is one that particularly stands out: the Electrobeach Festival, an event that brings the very best from the electronic music scene and also gives you the chance to enjoy the fabulous temperatures that caress this city, its beautiful historic quarter and its beaches [...]

If you were at Alicante airport this weekend, you may have been lucky to have bumped into a famous face or two.
In fact, you may have had some well known people on your flight. Why? Because this weekend the cast arrived into Benidorm to start filming the 2010 Xmas special of the ITV comedy show.
The [...]

There are some opportunities that are simply unmissable, especially if we’re talking about summer, Benidorm and the most surprising music festival around. It’s called the Low Cost Festival, taking place on 23rd and 24th July in Benidorm’s L’Aigüera Park, bringing together the crème de la crème from the national and international indie scene.
Following a brilliant [...]

Last May, the city of Benidorm had the highest level of hotel occupancy among residents and foreign tourists of any tourist destination in Spain, with 82.7% occupancy, according to the latest Hotel Tourism Survey published by the National Institute of Statistics. Furthermore, Benidorm was the destination with the highest number of overnight stays among Spanish [...]

Death defying diver David Calvo has just pulled off a Jaws-dropping stunt – solving two Rubik´s cubes sharing a tank with six sharks.
David, 24, completed the puzzles in just 76 seconds as he sat on the bottom of the tank at the Terra Natura Park in Benidorm, Spain.
The former national Rubik cube champ for Spain, [...]

A Benidorm hotel chain has announced it will offer its guests 200 euros each if Spain does not win the World Cup.
Magic Costa Blanca says anyone who books a stay in one of its establishments will be entitled to the pay-out if ´La Roja´ – or ´The Reds´ – fail to take home the coveted [...]

Benidorm star Geoffrey Hutchings, a familiar face from stage, TV and film for four decades, has died, aged 71.
The Rada-trained star saw his career stretch from Shakespearean theatre to a string of popular dramas, and he was most recently seen in ITV1?s Benidorm.
Hutchings’s celebrated TV dramas have also included the acclaimed saga Our Friends In [...]

The Lugano Tower was intended as a symbol of Spain´s frenzied tourism-and-concrete building boom, soaring 148 metres (450ft) above the eastern resort town of Benidorm and offering those who bought apartments a birds-eye view of the Mediterranean.
Two years later, however, angry apartment owners are taking the builders to court, saying Spain´s tallest residential building is [...]