With only limited holidays available, we decided this year to 'sacrifice' our week in May in favour of taking some long weekend type breaks in other places. Last week we set off on Thursday morning to Nerja in Spain returning the following Tuesday.
We went to (Torrox Costa) which is about 15 minutes from Nerja, and spent most of our time telling each other that we had done the WRONG thing by not coming over to Calis. I have not been to Spain for about 10 years for a holiday and I am sure that it will be more than 10 years before I return.
1, The promenade at Torrox Costa is bland, the view is just endless Sea, no lovely islands & mountains like we have in Calis
2, Travelling from the airport, the journey took us about 50 minutes along what is reputed to be some of the most unspoilt Costa's - It was just continuos building sites!
3, Torrox Costa is one massive concrete jungle with rows of badly painted high rise blocks of flats lining the sea front.
4, There was absolutely no community feeling about the place, I think it was just too large.
5, 80% of visitors seemed to be Germans who had there own bars and restaurants which were not visted by other nationalities.
6, It was really expensive, our exchange rate was just 1.17 Euro to the £
7, The flight time (regarded by many as a big attraction) turned out to be around 2 hours and 45 minutes and by the time we had found our transport and made the 50 minute trip to the resort, it was not all that different in terms of the time taken to get to Calis.
8, Even though we booked our flight with Easyjet several months ago, we still paid £275 for the two of us to travel, I am sure those £40 tickets exist but as they wanted about £30 for 'speedy boarding' I just wonder how common cheap travel is if you want to go at a reasonable hour.
9, We visited the Nerja Caves which was good but looking round the tourist information centre we found only a fraction of the things to do compared to what is on offer around Calis.
10, We are now even more depressed when we read this forum, watch the webcams or the latest set of pictures from Yetkin, if you are thinking of giving Calis a break, then think carefully.
Roll on September !!
Rimms