This programme about Benidorm on ITV at the moment.....

[LilMissHissyFit]

Magaluf in Majorca, Playa de las Americas in Tenerife or San Antonio in Ibiza would give Benidorm a very good run for its money as shittiest holiday resort on this planet.

I don't necessarily have a problem with the cheap (and ugly) as fuck accommodation. At the end of the day everybody would like to be able to afford a 5* boutique hotel in a nice area. It's the procession of McDonalds food joints, Red Lion pubs, 'Full English Breakfast Available' boards and 'No Spanish Food Served Here!' signs that make me wish all the above resorts would be carpet bombed by a squadron of B52s.

You can get cheap as chips without having to holiday in some overdeveloped, blackpool in the sun.
One of my best holidays ever was in a little apartment block in a greek village.
I recommended it to some urbanites and they came back over the moon and raving about the place too... just a few tavernas. couple of beaches,a few restaurants and a little harbour
Bliss
However the people who go to benidorm would probably say it was boring with nothing to do, no entertainment, no 'decent' food etc. Its down to what you like at the end of the day i guess

 

[Macabre]

The Spanish call the pissed up British and German tourists Gidi's. I went to Valencia with my spanish mate and when he was drunk and talking to the barman, he called me it as a joke thinking I didn't know what it ment. I booted him in the shin

It's a general discription for someone who's bright red from the sun, wearing crappy beach holiday clothes and sweating like a pig from the heat (while usually boozing).

 

[moomoo]

You can get cheap as chips without having to holiday in some overdeveloped, blackpool in the sun.
One of my best holidays ever was in a little apartment block in a greek village.
I recommended it to some urbanites and they came back over the moon and raving about the place too... just a few tavernas. couple of beaches,a few restaurants and a little harbour
Bliss
However the people who go to benidorm would probably say it was boring with nothing to do, no entertainment, no 'decent' food etc. Its down to what you like at the end of the day i guess

Can you pm me the details please? Sounds lovely!

 

[Melinda]

Can you pm me the details please? Sounds lovely!

ooh me too please!

And you too Jaed! Spread the love by PM. Pleeeeease. I promise not to steal any toilet furniture.

 

[Melinda]

 

[T & P]

I've been to Benidorm several times, in fact I was last there in July this year.
It really isn't as bad as these programs portray.
The local govt/council/whatever has spent millions over the last decade cleaning the place up. The beach is cleaned every night with these massive filtering machines. The promenade is spectacular and full of families, couples etc just out for a stroll. Of course there are loads of 'Red Lion' type pubs but there are also lots of good tapas bars and restaurants - you just have to look - that cater for all the Spanish tourists that go there.
The pissed up brits are catered for in just one small area, well away from the beach and all the decent bars.
You can have whatever kind of holiday you want in Benidorm because you have so many choices.
AND it's fucking cheap (usually costs us about £250 each for a week!).

I actually agree with you there. The whole of Benidorm is not by all accounts horrible and in fact it boasts a pretty equal mix of Spanish and foreign tourism. As a Spaniard I used to holiday not far away from Benidorm and we used to have the odd escapade there every year. There are certainly areas which are blissfully free of English Breakfast Served Here establishments and tacky Irish bars. Some of those areas are not so easy to find or to reach though.

My sister lives in Majorca and many of the locals actually see Magaluf as a god-sent gift. That way the worst excesses of tacky and irresponsible tourism are contained within a small area of an island nobody would want to visit anyway, and the rest of the place is more or less spared the sorry spectacle of pissed twats passed out in their own vomit outside the McDonalds.

 

[Melinda]

...that can get reguarly get milked for euros, use otherwise waste ground, and go to bed nice and early so the local can still have a drink after work...

yeah, I know Brits spend cash and the loacls appreciate the custom, but what must they think of us as a nation?

People often say policemen become cynical and weary because they see people during the worst times of life- these hotel and bar owners see a small segment of British society, over and over behaving in a way that would get them arrested over here. Its embarassing and they must think we are awful.

And we're still waiting for the beach names

 

[Gingerman]

The thing is you don't get Spanish tourists coming over here doing the very same

 

[jæd]

Some of those areas are not so easy to find or to reach though.

One beach was down a steep + winding single track road. My mate could cover the distance in 5 mins by bombing down it. Took me 30 mins of careful driving... Another had the disadvantage of being round a cliff and only walkable a low tide. At higher tide it was either a fairly dangerous wade /swim through rocks or climbing to the top of the cliff via decrepid stairway that been half washed away.

Great fun...!