We know it already. Benidorm’s reputation travels with it. It is among the most popular winter hubs for old people. Benidorm deserves its reputation every inch but that is another story altogether.

What differentiates it then?

It’s not just the resorts or bars or nightlife or beaches. It’s the attitude that the beautiful Alicante city wears on its shoulders. It offers a pleasant and warm embrace. This warmth separates it. Times have changed and so has the age bar of fun. Today, you can run with a juvenile zeal at 80. It is here that Benidorm offers a few points worth taking a glance at.

Compact and easygoing too

Benidorm has a decent coastline but the town itself is concise and solid without many high gradient walks.

Food at a decent price

Holidaymakers love rejoicing. Food and gastronomic delights form a great part of the holiday package. You will find amazing restaurants and cafes serving during the afternoon for as less as eight Euros. You will be ecstatic with a four-course meal lavishly spread with bread, wine, and ethnic food. One that I can remember comprised of gazpacho soup, pork chop in pepper sauce with vegetables, meat and fish paella, suffixed by Crème Caramel. The beverage was great on the tongue and was extremely affordable.

Reasonably priced beverages

Brandy, liquor and coffees are all available at 2.5 Euros.

The fun factor

While you might find great cabaret over the town fabric, Benidorm Palace sizzles with the razzmatazz of this particular dance form. You can watch shows all across the year.

A lot to be done

You can try out a vast repertoire of things. Just go through a ready reckoner or a things-to-do list and you will find various things up your sleeve. Be it excursions, sightseeing, or market trips.

Café

If you are delighted by the old world charm and the pastoral movement of nature, just run through the various café orders in the café society. It will provide you with a pleasant sense of seeing the world silently moving by. Pleasant roar of a cosmopolitan crowd can be felt here. British presence is strong.

Promenades and Esplanades

Promenade along Levante Beach is a superb place to walk on. It is spick and span and offers a great bay view. If you access the place at an opportune time, you will most likely become a part of a huge gathering and festive atmosphere. Sun won’t be a tyrant either.

Its fun working out

You can work on beaches without a penny to fork out. The beach is strewn with old faces gathering their physical shreds and walking along. Of course, once the walk becomes tiring, they can always look back to coffee and brandy.

Papers for free

At Levante each, morning papers can be read without a price. The service is run by a local council and offers free newspapers except the months of February and March.

Beach within reach

Those who have an eye for adventure and love to exercise their swimming and bathing wares, there is plenty of fun at the beach area. Those on wheelchair can have a touch of the azure sea as well. Water-buggies can be a cool aid for them. Those who have some trouble walking but are overall sound on their feet; Benidorm beaches offer a repertoire of sticks and crutches. You will be well stabilized through suction caps.

Health-where to look

Pharmacies are tidily placed and accord a fair amount of emphasis on the well being of tourists. The authorities are more than ready to help in case there is a mishap somewhere. This way, you can wade through the sand and sea with a much-required comfort of mind.
Benidorm is certainly making it better for the “not so young” folks.