Electro Weekend, from the 29th to the 30th of March in Benidorm

The 29th and 30th of March coming you will be able to enjoy a new festival for the electro music lovers with some of their favorite singers like Zombie Kids or Dubfire, Paul Ritch, Oscar Mulero or Dj Nano in between some others.

Easter week for the youngsters in Benidorm
During the Easter week, on the 29th and 30th of March, any person on holiday in Benidorm can enjoy a great music show with the Electro Weekend 2013.

The Electro Weekend 2013 will take place in four well delimited areas related to the musical preferences in between the different participating makes in the festival like Matinee, Reset, Replay, Privee Group or Revival.

Every area will be located in one of the well known discotheques in Benidorm; the festival will be celebrated as follows:

• The Manssion discotheque will have the techno and tech-house artists show.
• In Penélope discotheque you will enjoy from the Dubstep to the most powerful House music.
• The KM discotheque will be the place for the sound of the Eastern coast of Spain with Revival on Friday and Privee on Saturday.
• You will be able to enjoy the hottest Latino music in Privilege X.

This festival is thought for you to be able to have fun nearly the whole day long. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon you can listen to good music in Penélope Beach and Km Beach in the Levante Beach. All discotheques will open their doors at midnight and the show will continue until 8 o'clock in the morning. You can buy the tickets already. The access pass will allow you to get into any of the participating discotheques during the two days that the festival will last and you will get a free entrance to all the places in the Benidorm Disco Area on Thursday.

Participating artists
The festival organization team is trying hard to convert it in one of the model shows as the prelude for the summer time.

That is why you will be able to enjoy artists as Zombie Kids, Dubfire, Paul Ritch, Oscar Mulero, Reeko, Taito Tikaro, Dj Nano, Nuria Ghia, Anni Frost, Fatima Hajji or Nuke, in between some others during the two days.

Benidorm, the perfect place for the festival
The Benidorm touristic infrastructure makes this city the perfect place to celebrate a wide range of shows. You will be able to find a wide offer of transport, accommodation, restaurants and leisure. And a wide offer of camping in Benidorm and camping bungalows, apartments and hotels of any category.

The leisure options are large as well. You can find a place for every age in Benidorm, for the youngsters too, of course. The well known discotheques area, pubs, beach bars, the old town bars and pubs...

In conclusion, you will get two days to enjoy good music, the beach and the nice Benidorm atmosphere.

Camping Villasol
Camping in Benidorm
http://www.camping-villasol.com

Benidorm the favourite destination in the Madrid underground

More than 1700 TV screens of the Madrid underground network are showing during this week the wide holiday offers that you can find in Benidorm for the Easter days.


The Tourism Foundation has started a campaign to get some Spanish clients for the Easter holidays in Benidorm. The final target is to spread the wide selection of apartments, camping in Benidorm and hotels to enjoy a perfect holiday in Benidorm.

This campaign has been launched mainly in Madrid, although it is present in 10 Spanish cities more from Castilla León, Castilla La Mancha, Asturias, La Rioja, Euskadi, Cantabria and even in the Comunidad Valenciana. The main target is to get the holiday makers that are still on doubt on where to spend their Easter days; it is mainly focus on the possible clients of hotels and camping sites in Benidorm.

Benidorm main subject in the Madrid underground
People say that the sun comes out everyday in the Madrid underground. A video of the Benidorm weather, gastronomy and leisure complexes is being shown on the 1700 TV screens located in some platforms and underground cars.

The target for this advertising effort is an upper middle class urban young tourist not older than 39 years old, who is a potential client for camping sites and apartments.

Benidorm from the M-40 to the Cantabrian Sea
Benidorm image will be a constant up to the summer months through big hoardings in some important roads like the M-40, the A-3 in Madrid or the Valencia accesses in Madrid. You will be able to find publicity from the Costa Blanca in some other cities like Pamplona or Logroño and even in the train stations of Gijón, Santander or Bilbao.

Fashion and Benidorm together
This campaign is also considering the advertising action in some Spanish well known press media like Elle magazine. In the March edition you will be able to find a fashion photographic report with some Benidorm spots and establishments.

And, of course, Benidorm also in Internet
You can find this campaign on the internet in the travel website Muchoviaje.com. There you can find specific offers for the night leisure, sports, culture, etc. for any kind of preferences.


Camping Villasol
Camping in Benidorm
http://www.camping-villasol.com

The Alicante Caravanning exhibition ends successfully.

The Alicante Caravanning exhibition took place in the IFA and it has closed its doors down having a successful result on the amount of public attending everyday.

The XXI edition of the Provincial Camping, Caravanning, Leisure and Free time Exhibition has close with a noticeable success after opening its doors on the 15th of February.

This exhibition is considered one of the main ones from the sector in our country and it is focus on any public interested in the camping world.


On the other hand, this fair could work as a showcase for those camp sites interested in offering some holiday discounts for camping in Benidorm, Alicante, Valencia or Castellón, definitely, any place in the Comunidad Valenciana.


In this edition the fair had a total of 40 stands covering 12.500 m2 in the 'Institución Ferial Alicantina' (IFA) II Pavilion. Although we still are in an economical crisis, the fair is not only increased on the amount of stands and m2, it has beaten its own visitors record, just in the first 2 opening days there was a 55% more visits to the fair than in previous editions.

This exhibition is organised by the IFA and the Alicante Caravans and Camping articles dealers Association. In this occasion, they have shown the main innovations on vehicles. The fair had the highest equipped models for caravans and motor homes in the market. The client's requests force the caravan market to include any necessary characteristics to make a vehicle comfortable to enjoy their holidays: heating, hot water, TV aerial, shower, water tank, etc.

Apart from all these vehicles, you could see an important exhibition of bungalows and mobile homes which are having a boom in the camping sites; you can find them in nearly every camp in the country.

The Alicante caravanning fair is not only defined as a place where you can find the latest novelties on everything related with the camping world, you can get special offers on caravans, trailers, motor caravans and bungalows also.


Villamar
Camping in Benidorm
http://www.campingvillamar.com

34th Popular Festa del Calvari Cross in Benidorm

The festivals committee 'El Calvari' has organized the popular 'Festa del Calvari' Cross for the next 10th of March 2013 at 10h.

As every year, El Calvari festivals committee organizes the 34th Festa del Calvari Cross with the institutional collaboration of the Benidorm Council house and the technical collaboration of 'Grupo Brotons Eventos-Alicante' and the Globalon foundation. Apart from that, they get the collaboration of some other important entities in town, like the Hotel Don Pancho in Benidorm, the Hospital Clínica Benidorm, the sport shop 'Base' and Terra Mítica or Mundomar in between some others.

This cross is a charity race in which every participant must give a new toy or non-perishable food item to get their number. These toys and food will be donated to a Benidorm NGO which will give them to the families in need.

The race starts at 10 o'clock in the morning. There are 3 different running circuits adapted to the different capability level of every category. The first one is the circuit A for the youngest children, boys and girls. The second one is the circuit B in which beginners will run just for 1 lap and the teenagers for 2 laps (men and women). And the last one is the circuit C with 7750m for the rest of categories; the participants must run 2 laps to finish the cross. All the circuits are located in the Levante beach or near it.

If you want to register for the cross visit the web page www.grupobrotons.com. With your registration for the circuit C you will get a participant bag with the cross t-shirt, a headband, water, soft drinks and chocolates.

There will be a trophy and a present for the 3 first places of all the categories and a trophy and a present as well for the local winner of every category (registered in Benidorm). Apart from that, all the children will get a present for their participation in the race.

The runners can also book a hotel room, an apartment or a bungalow in a camping in Benidorm for their stay in the city. A wide range of accommodation is on offer in Benidorm.

To access all the official information click on
http://grupobrotons.com/eventos/2013/34crosscalvari/index.html

Villasol
Camping in Benidorm
http://www.camping-villasol.com

Enjoy traditional food in Benidorm

Benidorm is known for its multiculturalism. Different nationalities share its streets, but it still keeps its traditional gastronomy.


Benidorm is a modern and cosmopolitan town. Considering that it is the tourism capital in the eastern coast of Spain, it is not strange that you can find a wide variety of cultures and nationalities that you can enjoy in your holidays in Benidorm.

Thanks to this city's open-minded relationship with other cultures, we can find nearly all national or international kind of food in any of Benidorm hotel or restaurant. Considering this you can either enjoy an excellent Asturian stew, a nice Japanese sushi or the typical English breakfast with bacon and eggs.

But, what could you eat in Benidorm before it became a touristic town?

Benidorm traditional gastronomy
Benidorm is placed in a privilege area considering both its geographic and its 'geogastronomic' location. The Mediterranean littoral is the cradle for the well known Mediterranean gastronomy.

As you can find in many of the towns and cities bathed by the Mediterranean waters, the traditional gastronomy is a healthy mixture of vegetables and meat or fish from the area. As many other different localities, Benidorm has its 'typical dishes' that were its gastronomic base when this town was only a small fishermen village; and what did they eat at the time?

Benidorm typical dishes
You can find different places to enjoy this town's typical old dishes. In between the most well known dishes we can point out these ones:
Rice with red mullets and pumpkin
Made with rice, fish and vegetables, this is one Benidorm typical dish.
This tasteful stew is made with the fish called red mullet, pumpkin and green beans. As we can find in many different rice dishes from this area, it is prepared with lightly fried garlic and some spices that will give this dish a special touch.

Rice with beans and turnips
Known as well as 'Arròs amb fesols i naps'. This succulent rice is made with soggy rice, meat broth and vegetables and it is perfect for a cold winter day. In this case the rice is prepared with pork pieces (ossobuco, feet and backbone) and 'blanquets', a typical sausage from the area. We mix everything up with white beans, turnips and cardoons.

Rice with white anchovies and spinaches
It is a typical kind of rice, not only from Benidorm; you can find it in nearly all of La Marina regions. The rice with white anchovies and spinaches is dry rice, as the one in paella. Its main ingredients are spinaches, white anchovies and delicious lightly fried ñora peppers, garlic and parsley.

Filled 'coca' and 'coca a la calda'
They are typical Roman recipes. Salty 'cocas' are one of the delicious traditional dishes you can taste in Benidorm. Their dough is similar to the one you prepare for bread, with round shape if they are for one person or with square shape if it is a family one. You can fill this salty dough with different food and that will create the different types of cocas, for example: tomatoes, roasted pepper, tuna and eggs filling or sausages and black puddings filling are the more typical ones in Benidorm.

Saint Blas bun
They are perfect for the sweet-tooth. This Saint Blas bun is one of the typical sweets form the Benidorm gastronomy. These buns have Arabic origin and they are prepared with almonds and cinnamon. They are traditionally made during the winter months, mainly in Saint Blas festivity.

There are loads of restaurants in hotels or campings in Benidorm where you can try these typical dishes. Once you know their names, you just have to look for them and enjoy!

What about you? Have you tried any of these delicious dishes during your holidays in Benidorm?

Tips to choose a campsite for the Easter holidays

One of the favourite options for the Easter holidays is to spend some days camping, but, what guideline should we follow to choose the right campsite?

Easter holidays are one of the periods of the year that camping lovers prefer for camping. The weather around this time is normally quite nice, the days last longer and the previous holidays finished long time ago. It is the perfect time to get your tent or caravan out and spend some pleasant days with your family or friends in any place of our country.


Tips to choose a campsite
Type of campsite
The first thing you have to think of is what kind of holidays you wish to have.

If you want to find a campsite to enjoy the nature relaxation, the best place to go will be a camp in the mountains. There are loads of them in the main geographic areas like nature parks or reserves, etc. We can find an example of this kind of campsite in the High Pyrenees area where you can enjoy nature in its purest splendor.

If you wish to enjoy the mountain but also have an adrenaline injection then the best thing to do is to find a campsite with a large selection of adventure sports, even better if they offer ground and aquatic sports. We can find some examples of this type of campsite in the Picos de Europa Mountains.

On the other hand, if you prefer beach tourism, then the best option is to look for a campsite close to the coast. To be farsighted, just in case the weather is not as good as we expected, the best thing to do is to find a campsite that is as close to the beach as it is to a town. So, if the weather changes we can always plan some activities in town. You can find a perfect example of this kind of campsite in the wide offer that you have in camping in Benidorm.

Campsite location
Logically we will be looking for a camp that is close to what we are interest in.

Apart from that, as long as it is possible and it does not interfere in our holiday plans, it is convenient that the campsite is placed near a town.

It is even more important if it is a holiday with children. Being close to a town insures that we have access to some services that may be necessary in this case, such as medical emergencies, chemists, etc. and to some leisure activities such as cinemas, shopping centers, etc.

Another important characteristic is to make sure that the camping place has a good transport communication. It is better if it has a close access to a motorway or a main road and some good roads around so we will be able to visit all those interesting points that we have chosen in the area.

Types of accommodation
Nowadays, nearly all the campsites have a wide kind of accommodation. Although that we can classified them in plots, bungalows and mobile homes you can always choose into a big variety in any of them.

If we refer to plots, normally we classified them for their size and the kind of accommodation you can put in them: tents, caravans, motor homes, etc. Bungalows and mobile homes are classified by the model which depends on the material they are made of and the amount of people they can sleep in.


Quality and quantity on the basic facilities
Another important point to choose a campsite, apart from the kind of accommodation available, is its basic facilities. We have to consider the quantity but more importantly the quality.

It is advisable to view the camping plan so we can evaluate if it has enough communal facilities to give a good service in the case of being fully occupied. Check that there are enough toilet blocks, sinks, etc. and the size of them as well as if there is a laundry service. It is not only important to check on the amount of these facilities, we have to consider the state on them, check if they are well looked after, if they are clean daily and if they are fully equipped or they just have the basic.

In conclusion, to choose a good campsite to spend our Easter holidays is not difficult, but we have to consider some basic tips so we can assure we get the holidays we dream off.

Villasol
Camping Benidorm
http://www.camping-villasol.com