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Hot and busy – these are the best 2 words to describe the Costa del Sol at the moment. If the Brits are staying at home this year, then the Spaniards are certainly opting to do the same!
I spent Saturday in Benalmadena, the popular tourist resort just 15 minutes from Malaga airport. The area is normally dominated by British tourists enjoying the sun, but this time I would estimate that the population was 70% Spanish.
When I drove back towards Marbella on Saturday evening, the roads were clogged up, full of tourists heading back to their holiday apartments from the beaches, or heading into the popular haunts of Marbella and Puerto Banus for the evening.
I stopped off at Opencor supermarket in Elviria on the way home for a bottle of vodka – trust me, I needed it! – and the place looked like a bombsite – imagine Primark at 5pm on a Saturday, and you get the idea! The place was full of Spanish tourists – I was amazed, as Elviria is generally quite ´English´ at this time of the year.
So, it seems that the Spanish are having a ´staycation´ summer, pushing hotel occupancy rates in the key areas close to 100%. With easy access into an expanding Malaga airport, and now a simple 2 1/2 hour high-speed rail journey from the centre of Madrid, it seems that the Costa del Sol is hot for more reasons than just the weather.
Who needs the Brits?!
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