A few months back I talked about the measures the ministry of environment had taken to contain the jellyfish in this blog well, the hunt is still on and the ministry of the Generalitat y on board and ready to catch these little suckers with huge nets positioned all through the Benidorm bay.This new service will dispose of two boats on the port, that are ready to launch at any moment to catch these intruders, without having to wait for other ships located at other points to come and help. When the alarm goes of the two boats stand side by side with a huge net and catch all these visitors who will not make it to land.

Last week the alarm went off for the first time this season for the warning of jellyfish at high sea near Benidorm

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The Hotels Magic have started their magic courses and we have the first videos of this magical experience, showing the all the fun of these events.

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Benidorm City Hall is thinking about holding nocturnal cultural and sporting events in the Poniente and Levante beaches, with the objective of making these areas a little livelier at night. Part of this initiative will be to install nets and goal posts in the Levante beach.

Also, during the month of August the Poniente beach will project movies on the sand as it did last summer. The beaches will also be hosts to several sporting championship games still to be determined.

During the last few years the use of the Benidorm beaches has been limited to sunbathing with the objective in reaching quality certificates and to maintain an optimum sand state. And this will continue with promises to keep the beaches well maintained every morning.

Photo in Flickr

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The environmental committee of water, urbanism and housing has restricted motor vehicle circulation of the pathway that leads from the Punta del Cavall to the Serra Gelada Natural Park in Benidorm, with the hopes of minimizing the damage in the fauna and the flora.

This measure will benefit not only the environment but the more than 200 persons that visit the park by foot or bicycle. Like you all know this route that starts in Benidorm and ends in the Punta del Cavall, where there is a watch tower from the XVI century that is one of the most beautiful itineraries of the park.

During the summer the match has increased in the marine area of the Serra Gelada to avoid any acts which could cause harm to the environment.

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The activities in Ciudad de la Luz are non stop. The filming that is currently on board these days in the Alicante audiovisual complex is the cinematography trilogy ‘Martes de Carnaval’, which will be televised for television.

These movies pretend to transport spectators to the reality and language of the Valle Inclan Spanish with a recreation of the twenty’s in Spain through its most recognized works such as esperpentos.

The movie is directed by the veteran director José Luis García Sánchez and includes a cast of leading actors such as Juan Luis Galiardo, Magüi Mira, Juan Diego, María Pujalte, Manuel Morón, Pepón Nieto and Carolina Lapausa.

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Terra Natura the nature animal park in Benidorm has implanted identification chips of the latest generation in the animals that are born within their installations, with the hope to follow their evolution and get to know their characteristic at all times.

The vets and biologists of the park have introduced chips to more that 1,500 animals who cohabitate in their installations, according to sources who made an announcement.

This unique ID that identifies the animals represents a useful tool that attain significative traits, such as the ancestors, the weight, the age and the sex of the animal.

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MAGIC COSTABLANCA has one objective: that you have a magical vacation. But frequently there are persons who have not been satisfied with something (we are not perfect, but we try to be everyday) or simply want to hurt us (threats for any reasons such as by a competitor). We maintain a constant dialog with our guests, it is our way to act and from this blog we try to answer any doubts, and expectations generated. We know it is very, very important for you to enjoy your vacations, we know they are days that are very important and which can consume an important budget. That is why we try to resolve any questions or doubts before your start your vacation.

This has been the case of ,she wrote us a comment about her fears because some of the comments she had seen about the Magic Excalibur had been alarming. And that is normal, some of the comments that we can easily say are hurtful (in concrete the ones she is referencing), and the pictures included are not of the actual camping, but of the surroundings, bathrooms that are closed to the public because they are being remodelled. And we also have proof that it is a great place to spend your vacation. J Pilar came back from her vacation delighted and she has been kind enough to share it with our Spanish version of their blog for all you.

Now that you know this is a real testimonial, direct and totally personal about vacations in the Camping medieval Magic Excalibur, this is a real comment about Camping Magic Excalibur, so are the photographs attached, any person visiting Excalibur is able to take the same photographs and we hope that they return as happy as Pilar and her family did.

Regards to all.

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Pilar´s letter:

Hi!

I´m going to write in detail my vacations. We stayed one week in the Excalibur complex. After our research through the internet and having seen the photos that circulate in the same place, I just want to say that they are true. There is nothing more far that the reality in such publications. I have tried to publish all the photos I have taken to prove that what is out there is not really so, but I have not been able to so you will have to take my word on this.

Like I said in an earlier message, the complex is not a hotel, it’s a camping, a first category camping. It has a daily cleaning service of the bungalows (yes, daily in a camping). The personnel is very personable, from the receptionist, to the waiters, animation, cleaning crew, chefs…they were all kind, and very servial and above all educated. The instillations were very clean, the pool as clean as it could be with so many people enjoying it. I never saw a glass inside the water, because the lifeguards as well as being very attentive to the swimmers remove any strange items they see in the water. The problem with any sign of dirtiness is no more than the actual guests, which some don’t know how to keep things clean. I have seen a lot of permissiveness from parents (which I can relate)..Also, about a comment I read about the lack of cleanliness of the pool, I could assure you that is the time we were there, the water was clear, it didn’t look dirty at all, also a little bit of grass, since it is surrounded by it, which makes sense that it would from time to time have some small pieces in the water.

The bungalows are surrounded by sand, except the ones near the pool which are surrounded by grass.

The paths inside the camping are Wide, green and happy. They have two lunchrooms, one exterior the other interior. The exterior one has a corner where Barb-q´s are done. The personnel is very attentive and aware of any broken glasses, table clean up, silverware replacement, cleanliness of the food area (to which I insist, we don’t know how to take care of things that are not ours): to which any sign of anything dirty is purely our fault, the staff tries to keep up as it can, and there is plenty of staff on site, I guarantee it. The interior restaurant is big and breezy; a little dark for my taste but it’s not bad.

And now what I liked least (but not only here in any place that has a buffet), the food. It was good quality, with variety and chaotic. Way too many children getting their own food, to which French fries were inside the lentils, the fish with the pudding, yogurts full of chocolate syrup. The waiters did everything they could to keep order, except when bus loads would arrive to eat.

After, like in any other place, there are always the people who like to argue with the waiter: “this hotel is shit” (I apologize for the expression, but that is what I heard a guest say in the lunchroom), sir, this is not a bad hotel-I thought to myself- there is no room service. My God! They clean up your room everyday, the food is shit (don’t go there, sir) Gentleman, we need to know where we are. I didn’t go there expecting to get everything a 5 star hotel offers, only in the cleaning ness, comfort, rest and overall the children’s activities. And that I assure there is no lack of, workshops, games, songs, and dances. Also, tickets to , Terra Natura, Aqua Natura, Medieval Dinner and more magic workshops than you can imagine, my son never missed one, he loves all the tricks Sr. Ricardo showed him.

The all included, includes non packaged drinks, such as water, Pepsi, orange..Soft drinks, coffee y more I’m not sure about, we don’t drink alcohol (only beer and that was good)

Also to let you know we went a couple of times to have dinner at the hotel Rock Gardens and it was great, although I love the Excalibur pool (remember, you can go swimming in it).

Not sure what else to say, I’m open for any questions you may want to ask me.

Ohh, if you allow me, visit Altea, the old town and the Calpe lonja, around 17:00 hours, the kids will love it.

I hope you enjoy it as much as we did, and take note of the good things, because we know the bad exists, but you need to look for them.

Greetings and happy summer.

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Here’s something you can do to get away from the heat, I recommend you visit the Gravina museum (MUBAG), where they will have on exhibition until the 23^rd of September a total of fifty works of arts from the Valencian circuit of arts. Among the many paintings will be the works of Joaquin Sorolla and Ignacio Pinazo. The showing also holds sculptures and picturesque creations by Manuel Benedito, Salvador Tuset, Ricardo Boix, Santiago Rusiñol, Nassio Ignacio Bayarri, among others.

This exhibition also holds artistic tendencies which the Valencia culture of art has held from the end of the XIX century until now. In concrete, it will hold twenty-three oils, twenty pencil sketches, bronze sculptures, among others. The theme of this exhibition is sights.

The Valencian Arts Circuit founded more than 110 years ago owns an integral collection of about 193 works of art of quality and importance, including oils, sculptures and paintings from various artists from the institution.

photos in Flickr

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The Alicante based hotel chain Magic Costa Blanca has managed to register more than 221,000 hits in the Google search engine in around 500 blogs, in only two weeks, thanks to the creation of the first positioning Internet contest related the tourist sector. The initiative awards those internautas that achieve the placement of the word Hoteldipity in its diverse web pages and that could obtain one of the number one search results when searching in Google.

Organic placement in search engines is becoming more and more important in the tourist sector and manages the number of visits as well as the possibility to visit determined web pages. This situation has signified that many companies, such as Magic Costa Blanca, has put all its effort to strongly develop its positionament is search engines to be able to achieve an increase presence on the Internet, and specially through the search engines.

The action will award persons or companies who achieve the goals before  the 5^th of September. As soon as the contest started more than 200 webs and is now nearing 300. the word has spread and now some 479 blogs have joined in an Google has received more than 221,000 pages that talk about the new word created by professionals of word placement and aficionados.

The winners of the contest will enjoy a two week vacation in one of the hotels within the Magic Costa Blanca hotels, as well an iPhone. The hotel group wants to impulse new technologies in the internet that can help the tourist sector. You can find out more contest details here..

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Lovers of songs from the heart have a date in Benidorm the following 21^st of July at the hands of Falete. The artist shines in Benidorm, it will be the only concert in the Community at the hand of ‘Mis Quereles’ a tour that includes the promotion of his latest work “Coplas que nos han matao…” an album in which the artist relives old songs on his style through the history of this genre.

On stage at the Julio Iglesias auditorium I the L’Aigüera park in Benidorm, Falete will perform recognized titles such as ‘A tu vera’, ‘Cinco farolas’, ‘Tengo miedo’, ‘Tatuaje’, ‘Romance de la Reina Mercedes’, ‘Amor de hecho’, ‘Nuevo día’, ‘Lo siento mi amor’, ‘Payaso’, ‘La media vuelta’, ‘Mi amante amigo’ and ‘La Salvaora’ among others; just like on of the latest hits ‘Paloma brava’.

Along with this great star, the show will also consist of nine magnificent musicians, a great show not to be missed full of brilliant technical production that will be one of the very best to be seen in our country.

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