Fifty years after General Francisco Franco's death, Benidorm still clings to the mass tourism model it pioneered under his dictatorship, even as protests against overtourism sweep other Spanish holiday hotspots.
The Spanish coastal resort of Benidorm has spoken out against the explosion of UK holidaymakers on mobility scooters clogging up the streets, drink driving and relying on these small vehicles instead of walking.
Leah Pattem has fond memories of Benidorm after spending family holidays there as a child. Now, years later and living in Madrid, this Newcastle-born blogger revisits the resort and discovers it still retains a certain charm.
An earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Ritcher scale was registered in the early hours of Tuesday morning just inland that could be felt across the Costa Blanca.
Restaurateurs and hoteliers in Benidorm have launched a new promotional scheme in a bid to attract tourists back to the famous Costa Blanca holiday spot.
Five French teenagers accused of gang raping a Norwegian woman in a holiday apartment in the popular Spanish resort of Benidorm have been charged with sexual abuse, authorities said.
The family of a British holidaymaker who could be paralysed for life after breaking his neck at Aqualandia in Benidorm are demanding that Aqualandia launch a full investigation.
Spanish and Finnish police, with the help of European law agencies, have arrested 24 members of a suspected prostitution ring preying on young Nigerian women,, Europol said Thursday.
A young British woman fell to her death from a 10th-floor flat in Spain's Mediterranean holiday resort of Benidorm, police said Saturday, as she reportedly partied with other Britons.
Police posed as hotel staff to capture the fugitive Salvatore Mariano, who had been on the run since March, and was one of the most-wanted members of the Italian mafia.
For more than 30 years she has wowed audiences with her unusual form of entertainment: erotic dancing combined with a conjuring act that involves various items appearing magically from an, ahem, intimate part of her anatomy.
The Benidorm skyscraper was meant to be the jewel in the real estate crown of the Costa Blanca but instead it became a victim of the economic crash and will now be sold off to the highest bidder.
The alarmist overreaction to this week’s fish bite incident in Benidorm has seen Spaniards take to social media to mock those afraid to go back in the water.
Benidorm council insists that it the incident was "definitely not a shark attack" and that bathers can be assured that it is safe to go back in the water.
Poniente beach in the popular Spanish holiday resort of Benidorm was closed on Tuesday after a young boy got a rather nasty bit from an unidentified fish.
It may not rival the Taj Mahal, Stonehenge or the Pyramids but Benidorm, home of the package holiday and the all-day English Breakfast is making a bid for UNESCO World Heritage status.
