Calpe bowls tours

Calpe

“An impressive, spacious and modern hotel, located close to unspoilt Calpe’s attractive beachfront promenade”

Jonathan Plumridge,

Managing Director

Hotel description

Diamante Beach ****

4-star | Calpe

This impressive ultra-modern hotel is the recently constructed flagship property of Calpe’s leading hotel chain. Positioning itself as ‘a cut above’, the hotel was launched with a competition awarding diamonds as prizes. The décor of its bedrooms and bathrooms is delightfully chic and its spa centre offers a wide variety of interesting treatments. Located only a short distance from Calpe’s beautiful beach and its attractive beachfront promenade it also lies within easy reach of shops and a choice of restaurants and bars. Calpe’s old town can also be easily and cheaply visited, either by public bus service or by taxi.

Rooms: 283 elegantly appointed bedrooms with bath, shower and a balcony. All rooms also have telephone, air conditioning/heating, satellite TV, internet connection, mini-bar, hair dryer and safe.

Other Features: Buffet restaurant with show cooking, à la carte fine-dining restaurant, lobby bar, outdoor pool & sun lounging area, health spa (extra charges) and occasional evening entertainment.

Wi-Fi: Free of charge both in the hotel’s public areas and bedrooms.

Calpe

Calpe is a delightfully genteel and spacious resort offering an extremely amiable and low key ambience whilst at the same time presenting a full array of facilities. The resort area of the town is skirted by a beautiful beachfront promenade featuring a wide variety of bars and restaurants whilst the ancient, formerly fortified hilltop area houses a maze of enticing alleyways and small squares. Clearly visible for miles around, Calpe’s huge iconic Gibraltarian rock bisects its beach area, provides shelter for its port and connects directly to its old town, providing Calpe with both its backbone and an emblematic focal point.

The Costa Blanca

The name given to this area of Spain, the 'White Coast', or Costa Blanca, derives from its brilliant sunshine, which reflects as white light from the region's many vast sandy beaches. The Costa Blanca phenomenon, its rapid development and surge in popularity, began during the nineteen-sixties, when it became firmly established in the British popular imagination as 'the' place to escape to during the cold, wet and windy British winters. Many frequent winter visitors eventually stayed on, as a result of which English is widely spoken and a substantial ex-patriot community has formed, many of whom bowl. Consequently, numerous attractive bowling clubs are to be found along the coast, and interest in the sport continues to grow

Optional Excursion Possibilities

Valencia: Valencia is Spain’s third largest city and capital of the region of the same name. Founded in Roman times it became an extremely important city during the Moorish occupation of Spain when it was home to the famous warrior El Cid. In addition to many historical buildings of note it also contains some wonderful ultra-modern architecture conceived by the Valencian internationally renowned architect, Santiago Calatrava.

Guadalest: Enjoy a scenic drive high up into the majestic Aitana Mountains to visit the former Moorish kingdom of Guadalest. Its clifftop castle dates back as far as the 12th century and is dramatically approached by a single gateway cut into the rock of the mountain on which it stands. Within Guadalest a number of interesting museums can be visited, including the ancestral home of the town’s leading family, a miniatures museum, a doll museum, a museum dedicated to the work of sculptor Ribera Girona and a museum of medieval torture.

Altea: Altea lies in a picturesque bay of the same name and enjoys a magnificent mountain backdrop. Originally a Roman settlement it faded from significance over the centuries and was a rather sleepy though nonetheless attractive fishing village when discovered and restored by a group of artists in the 1950s. Since then its enchanting alleys and colourful art galleries have attracted thousands of visitors.