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We are due to complete on an apartment in May. Totally new to the area. Would love for you to share handy hints and tips. Things like broadband providers, home insurance etc. Public transport and nice restaurant recommendations would be great thank you.
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2025 10:56pm
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Try DVBLAB. ES for Internet provider, a English company with many options available, Basic and is 19 a month for on/off service plus 149 installation , but other options are available with TV package without installation fee,
Check out Website click in your postcode and it will tell you if service is available in your area and you will see list of options and Costs
I would Check with your Solicitors as it normal with Property purchase for Solicitors to arrange Home insurance, Solicitors may also arrange Electrical supplies and Water, Electricity should be on when you get keys to your Property
Hope you have many good times in your Property
Posted: Tue Apr 1, 2025 12:03am
Sligogent wrote on Mon Mar 31, 2025 10:56pm:
Try DVBLAB. ES for Internet provider, a English company with many options available, Basic and is 19 a month for on/off service plus 149 inst...
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...allation , but other options are available with TV package without installation fee,
Check out Website click in your postcode and it will tell you if service is available in your area and you will see list of options and Costs
I would Check with your Solicitors as it normal with Property purchase for Solicitors to arrange Home insurance, Solicitors may also arrange Electrical supplies and Water, Electricity should be on when you get keys to your Property
Hope you have many good times in your Property
Thank you so much for all your help. It gives us a start anyway ! Much appreciated!
Posted: Tue Apr 1, 2025 7:36am
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Hi Lynn and welcome to La Florida.
Congratulations on your new home, I hope that you get as much pleasure from it as we have in our 22yrs of ownership, we are on Calle Capricornio.
If you have any questions about the area ( other than above ) then please fire away.
I agree with Sligogent re Dvblab ( as I recommended it to him lol )
Public transport isn't the greatest, there is a small shuttle bus which services the area every 90mins or so, this will take you near to the beach, also to La Zenia Boulevard for shopping and to Torrevieja hospital where you can connect with another bus into Torrevieja.
Personally I use a uk company for my holiday home insurance, probably not the cheapest but easy to deal with, for local insurers have a look in the ads over there >>>>>>>>>>. I certainly wouldn't be asking any Solicitor to arrange it though.
I insure my car with Linda Rowlands who are good, they do house insurance too.
As for restaurants, there are so many within walking distance of La Florida, it would take you a long time to try them all.....but would be great fun. Enjoy.
Ken
Posted: Tue Apr 1, 2025 8:43am
Kenbo wrote on Tue Apr 1, 2025 7:36am:
Hi Lynn and welcome to La Florida.
Congratulations on your new home, I hope that you get as much pleasure from it as we have in our 22yrs of ownership, we are on Calle Capricornio.
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If you have any questions about the area ( other than above ) then please fire away.
I agree with Sligogent re Dvblab ( as I recommended it to him lol )
Public transport isn't the greatest, there is a small shuttle bus which services the area every 90mins or so, this will take you near to the beach, also to La Zenia Boulevard for shopping and to Torrevieja hospital where you can connect with another bus into Torrevieja.
Personally I use a uk company for my holiday home insurance, probably not the cheapest but easy to deal with, for local insurers have a look in the ads over there >>>>>>>>>>. I certainly wouldn't be asking any Solicitor to arrange it though.
I insure my car with Linda Rowlands who are good, they do house insurance too.
As for restaurants, there are so many within walking distance of La Florida, it would take you a long time to try them all.....but would be great fun. Enjoy.
Ken
Hi Ken
Thank you for the info. We are actually in a street right next to you, Mecurio! We are still tied largely to annual leave so not moving full time yet unfortunately. Very much a holiday home for now. We will be hiring a car for now so thankfully not something we need to factor just yet. Regarding the bus, is there such a thing as a timetable by chance, do you know the name of the company so I can have a Google please ? Does home insurance tend to run expensive via the Spanish banks? It’s all so new to us any help is appreciated! Glad you’ve had a lovely experience living there so far. It’s reassuring !
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Posted: Tue Apr 1, 2025 9:21am
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lynntaylor2007 wrote on Tue Apr 1, 2025 8:43am:
Hi Ken
Thank you for the info. We are actually in a street right next to you, Mecurio! We are still tied largely to annual leave so not moving full time yet unfortunately. Very much a holiday home for now. We will be hiring a car for now so thankfully not something we need to factor just yet. Regarding ...
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...the bus, is there such a thing as a timetable by chance, do you know the name of the company so I can have a Google please ? Does home insurance tend to run expensive via the Spanish banks? It’s all so new to us any help is appreciated! Glad you’ve had a lovely experience living there so far. It’s reassuring !
Hi Lynn, not far away at all.
Yes, banks would be quite an expensive option for holiday home insurance, in fact you need to have as little as possible to do with the Spanish banks, they make things very awkward for us non res folk, if you have a Spanish bank account...the estate agents love to open you one, kick back for them, then I would ditch it asap as many of us on this forum have already done.
If you use the search at the top of the page and use words like holiday home insurance, this should pull up other previous posts with more info.
For car hire I would recommend Lara cars or Magnum, these are both off airport Companies who meet you at the airport with your car, no nasty add ons and what they quote is what you will pay, other operators will transfer you to their premises to collect the car but then you pay a transfer fee too,, noooooo. Before I bought my car I tried to avoid the on airport sharks.
As for the bus timetable, there is one but I will have to dig around a little and come back to you, the company is Costa Azul, they run 2 circular routes in our area, a red line and blue line, they meet up in the middle at La Zenia Boulevard where you can switch routes.
Ours is a holiday home too.
Ken
Posted: Tue Apr 1, 2025 1:03pm
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Posted: Tue Apr 1, 2025 2:40pm
Jennifer67 wrote on Tue Apr 1, 2025 1:03pm:
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Posted: Tue Apr 1, 2025 5:37pm
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Kenbo wrote on Tue Apr 1, 2025 7:36am:
Hi Lynn and welcome to La Florida.
Congratulations on your new home, I hope that you get as much pleasure from it as we have in our 22yrs of ownership, we are on Calle Capricornio.
Read more...
If you have any questions about the area ( other than above ) then please fire away.
I agree with Sligogent re Dvblab ( as I recommended it to him lol )
Public transport isn't the greatest, there is a small shuttle bus which services the area every 90mins or so, this will take you near to the beach, also to La Zenia Boulevard for shopping and to Torrevieja hospital where you can connect with another bus into Torrevieja.
Personally I use a uk company for my holiday home insurance, probably not the cheapest but easy to deal with, for local insurers have a look in the ads over there >>>>>>>>>>. I certainly wouldn't be asking any Solicitor to arrange it though.
I insure my car with Linda Rowlands who are good, they do house insurance too.
As for restaurants, there are so many within walking distance of La Florida, it would take you a long time to try them all.....but would be great fun. Enjoy.
Ken
I done a bit of shopping around for House insurance as said to myself Solicitors maybe charging for his time no problem with that, but some quotes I got were slightly more expensive than Insurance Solicitors were arranging, as I informed Solicitors that I was going to try for Cheaper quotes, some were lower but 1 quotes lower did not have cover to pay some of expenses of removing Squatters, as it is something the original poster should enquire about
Posted: Tue Apr 1, 2025 5:45pm
Sligogent wrote on Tue Apr 1, 2025 5:37pm:
I done a bit of shopping around for House insurance as said to myself Solicitors maybe charging for his time no problem with that, but some quotes I got were&n...
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...bsp; slightly more expensive than Insurance Solicitors were arranging, as I informed Solicitors that I was going to try for Cheaper quotes, some were lower but 1 quotes lower did not have cover to pay some of expenses of removing Squatters, as it is something the original poster should enquire about
Yes the squatter laws are somewhat interesting so definitely want cover for that ! Thank you, this is helpful
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