Viva Espana

Three days later and I've finally recovered from the trip to Spain...... (Crappy flight times).

We had a really good week in Alicante (Benidorm) we managed to get a last minute break for a week and Daniel stayed at my sisters so it was just Macky & I going away.

Benidorm isn't really my idea of the ideal holiday with about 99.9% of it being English or English geared anyway, I would have preferred something a bit more traditional, or less commercialised at least. Anyway, you cant expect too much choice when you want to go the following week.

For anyone who does like Benidorm, I would recommend this place though

This is the Levante Club Hotel, its a four star place that looks like its just been refurbished but the service was really good, the pool area was immaculate and the pool bar was open very late.

The food was a bit different though.......

One of the places I wouldn't recommend unless you have a long afternoon nap first is the notorious bar strip (Yes Bar Strip not Strip Bar) in the town, full of good humoured fun and conversation and lots of special offers to entice unsuspecting holidaymakers to stay up til the very early hours of the morning.

We couldn't believe that it was so lively at 5am in the morning, we had to go back several times to make sure we hadn't made a mistake :-)

That was the other good thing about the hotel, the maid just came and went in the morning and if you were still in bed she just came back later in the afternoon. God only knows what she saw when she walked into our room at 10am :-)
Another good thing about going on holiday is that I no longer have grey hair!! it's now called "Sun bleached" I think it's time to give Andrew a call for some advice :-)
On the couple of nights that we did make it back to the hotel early they had shows which were followed by late night Bingo. The first night that Macky played she won 2 tickets to the spa which we used on our last day there (Very nice & very relaxing) the next evening she played again, and won again to the utter disgust of the other hotel guests who probably thought it was a fix :-) this time she opted for the bottle of Champagne as it was our last night.
Here she is showing off, the Chikki Chikki Bingo Mama (Too long a story to go into here...)
Anyway, we both enjoyed it thoroughly and it was a great break, I think Daniel probably enjoyed his break from us as well and got away with all sorts out of sight of Mum & Dad although Sue says he was a little Angel, hmmmm....