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Fandi, Jose Maria Manzanares and Cayetano will perform in Benidorm
Posted by syameses on 14 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: entertainment, benidorm, Events
Bullfighting fans living near Benidorm will enjoy the beautiful with the commissioning of the new long season. It has prepared a luxury list of events to inaugurate the taurino year.
In this regard, Francisco Romero´s firm, who leads the exploitation of the bullring in Benidorm, has completed the list of events for the new season. The celebration will take place on Friday, March 21st, taking advantage of the thousands of tourists who spend Easter in the capital of tourism on the Costa Blanca.
David Fandila the Fandi, Jose Maria Manzanares and Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez will be the stars of this great event. The bulls will be provided by Brothers Garcia Jimenez.
source Las Provincias
Benidorm has tripled luxury hotel rooms in 8 years
Posted by syameses on 11 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: entertainment, beaches, travel, benidorm, terra mitica, tourism
The evolution of tourism in Benidorm has been spectacular. In fact, the luxury hotel rooms in the tourist capital of the Costa Blanca have tripled over the past 8 years. In this sense, the supply of hotels of four and five stars is already at about 35% of the total.
Data confirms that, in 2000, Benidorm had 33,143 hotel rooms, of which 4,472 were four stars, thats to say, 13.49% of the offer. For the next season, it will have climbed 22 percentage points to reach 34.7%, or 13,023 persons within a supply of 37,500 beds.
Thus, Benidorm has gone from not having any five-star establishments in 2000 to having three, and from having 12 four-star hotels eight years ago to having 25 facilities in the present.
The city is enhancing its image in order for Benidorm not be associated only with the sun and sand. In fact, it has been demonstrating in recent years that the town has great leisure offers including golf courses, theme parks and entertainment such ast he Count of Alfaz Castle , Terra Mitica or Terra Natura.
source El País
Lou Reed will give a concert in Benidorm on July 26th
Posted by syameses on 01 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: entertainment, benidorm, concerts, Events, music
The legendary singer of the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, will perform this summer, on July 26th, in the bullring in Benidorm. It will be a great opportunity for the City Council to clean up a little its image since making the announcement of cancellation of the Prince concert last year.
Lou Reed will only give three concerts in Spain, so it will be a great opportunity to watch the veteran, legendary rock singer and composer that revolutionized the genre in the 70´s.
Lou Reed’s concert will be the grand performance of this summer that Benidorm will offer along with 17 other concerts that will take place in the city over the next six months. Three concerts will be classical music, and will be offered for the first time from February 24 to March 1, in the XX International Course of Music. Six other concerts will be integrated into the Week of Sacred Music, from the 10th to the 15th of March, which will beheld between the church of Sant Jaume and the Lecture Hall of City Hall.
source Diario Información
Magic Costa Blanca hires Poty to direct their dance academy
Posted by syameses on 28 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: entertainment, travel, curiosities, benidorm, sports, hotels, hotels in benidorm
We told you a couple of weeks ago that the hotel group Magic Costa Blanca has incorporated dance classes to its entertainment offers. Well, the hotel chain has pur all its effort in this initiative and they have hired Poty to direct the dance academy.
Magic Costa Blanca has designed a fantastic world centered in magic. In which the clients who visit their establisments can learn magic in their School of Magical Arts in teh Alfaz Castel and in the the Residential houses ordered by magic to be found in hotels of the group.
But this world of fantasy focused towards kids, needed to be completed with an initiative for adults. The answer is dance and the best at this specialty is Poty. A person who will take the Magic Costa Blanca brand this year and the dance academy. Poty assures that we are all going to dance.
The Magic Costa Blanca clients will learn two choreographies in two different style each week and they will get to enjoy the great dance show-contest in each hotel where they will compete realizing the choreographyes designed by Poty: the teachers, the students and the employees of the hotel.
Source jgarciacuenca
Enjoy an evening with first class acrobats in Benidorm
Posted by syameses on 21 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: entertainment, travel, benidorm
The entertaining offers in Benidorm are without a doubt one of the most varied in the nation. One of these awasome entertainment offers for the entire family is the show by The Peres Brothers, a pair of spectacular acrobats that offer shows in the Benidorm Palace weekend evenings.
Ivan and Adan, princess estefania of Monico´s ex, represent the fifth generation of this famous family of artist from the Portuguese circus. They have recently worked in the famous Moulin Rouge in Paris.
This type of show has offers great entertainment for Benidorm families, without a doubt one of the principle objectives of the hotel chain Magic Costa Blanca. Nights full of magic and shows. Are you curious? Spend a weekend at their hotels and discover why.
I love Benidorm
Posted by syameses on 18 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: entertainment, travel, benidorm, hotels, tourism, hotels in benidorm
I love Benidorm, a very simple slogan but at the same time a strong message, will be the words that represent the tourist capital of the Costa Blanca, in the next edition of the International Tourism Fair in Madrid (FITUR 2008), which will be celebrated between January 30th and February 3rd.Benidorm´s City Hall will invest an estimated 400,000 euros in the exposition that will represent the event and which will have as its tittle I Love Benidorm. The campaign pretends to re claim the touristic mark of the town and the pride of having visited such a city.
The cousil will take advantage of the revival to recuperate in FITUR the aesthetics and the marketing that was fashionable in the eighties with the distribution thousands of white shirts with the slogan I love Benidorm.
Benidorm wants to reaffirm its the highest level in global tourism as well as aline the city with global tourism icons.
The campaign will focus its theme on touristic photographs printed in T-shirts with the slogan I love Benidorm taken next to some of these icons such as the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben in London, the Statue of Liberty in New York or the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Source Diario Informacion
The new Benidorm Falleras are Yolanda Alarcón and Alicia Alcántara
Posted by syameses on 16 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: entertainment, benidorm
The Benidorm Fallas already have their 2008 representatives. They are Yolanda Alarcón and Alicia Alcántara, who were selected last weekend by the Local Fallera commitee.Last Friday the Fester House welcomed Yolanda and Alicia, as the falleras to represent their fiestas in the city during the acts that will be celebrated in 2008.
The parties will take place next March. Fire, gunpowder, color and a great atmosphere are the protagonists of these festivities.
Source Diario Informacion
Photo Flickr from ElTioRob
Benidorm will be well represented in the next edition of FITUR 2008
Posted by syameses on 15 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: entertainment, beaches, travel, benidorm, hotels
The international Tourism Fair of Madrid (FITUR2008) is closer each day. In this important event there will be the presence of many municipalities of the Costa Blanca, among them Benidorm could not miss the event. Alongside all of them the hotels Magic Costa Blanca will be highly represented, that will introduce many novelties.
On the eve of this event the FITUR’2008, Alicante presented the stand of the Valencian Community yesterday which will gather the entertainment offer of the of 96 municipalities of the three provinces, with special mention to some big events, such as the urban circuit of Formula One, the World Athletics and the Volvo Ocean Race .
The pavilion 5 of the IFEMA Exhibition Centre, with 10,500 square meters, will offer the four Valencian destinations, with 96 municipalities and 3 commonwealths, during the days of the fair, which is being held from January 30th to February 2nd.
Furthermore, the Valencia Street Circuit (Circuit Formula 1), the Volvo Ocean Race, World Athletics, the America’s Cup, la luz de las imagenes, the Palau de les Art Reina Sofia, Ciudad de la Luz and the Castellon Airport will have their own booth.
The four communities that will participate will be: Castelló-Costa Azahar, Valencia Terra i Mar, Benidorm and Costa Blanca.
In addition to the destinations and major events mentioned above, there will be space for large projects, associations and federations, offering cultural, sporting and interior, such as the Archaeological Museum of Alicante (MARQ), the Palm, the Mystery d ‘Elx and the Year Miguel Hernandez.
See you all there.
Source Actualidad Terra
Magic Costa Blanca incorporates dance clases to its entertainment offers
Posted by syameses on 14 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: entertainment, travel, curiosities, benidorm
The Hotel group Magic Costa Blanca has incorporated a type of entertainment for its hotel guests. This new offer is dance classes for its clients. The hotel chain and the Friends of dance Association of Valencia have joined forces to create the “Magic Dance Academy”, a dance school that allows clients of the hotel group to learn different dance disciplines.This academy gives different variety of dance classes such as, ballroom dance, latin dance, or line dancing. This lessons are given in all the hotel chains one day a week at the hands of professionals.
As something new thanks to an agreement between Magic Costa Blanca has realized with teh association we could start to see tango dancing everywhere, the hotel will also leave its doors open to welcome all the dance lovers of Benidorm to join in the fun with he dance professionals of the Valencian community.
The friends dance association of Valencia will be present the Hotel Cristal Park in Benidorm during the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of February realizing exhibition and classes for the clients of the Magic group and all those interested in the dance world.
Source Levante EMV
Photo flickr from kamoriaha
The XXXIV Christmas Nautical CN Benidorm trophy open 2008 competition
Posted by syameses on 11 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: entertainment, benidorm, sports, sailing
Sailing Lovers have something to smile about this weekend because the Yacht Club will host the XXXIV Benidorm Christmas infant Water Sailing Trophy , something not to be missed Valencian Community and the rankings Roga Cuca 2007-2008.
It will also be the first test for the 2008 infant sailing , they are eager to hoist the sails. The A, B Optimist class Laser 4.7 , will meet to demonstrate their nautical skills.
During this weekend, more than 150 sailors will arrive with their bay sails from Benidorm, which will again become a veritable sailing feast for the small ones.
Activities will begin in the early hours of Saturday, with the arrival of the teams and the presentation of the latest requirements. Subsequently, small boats will arrive, the Committee will get off to the and join in the race and if weather conditions are suitable, the competition will begin.
Sunday the regatas will beging at mid morning. Once the tests are completed there will be a trophey ceremony.
Source masmar
Photo from Flickr from Louis Le Bourgeois
