What is Torrevieja really like - Page 4

JillPe wrote on Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:51am:

Very exciting for you! Such a shame that Covid is making things, like house hunting, so difficult.

If you look on Google Maps, there’s a road called CV95 that more or less gives you the divide between Torrevieja and Orihuela Costa. Los Altos  is near this divide, so well suited to having the best of both worlds!...

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We live in Lago Jardín 1, which is just across the CV95 (Torre side). It’s a lovely community, with a good mix of full time and holiday residents, and a good mix of nationalities. 

A car is a good idea, to make the most of this lovely part of the world, but there’s a good bus service around the area, so getting into Torrevieja isn’t a problem.

If you don’t mind being inland a little, there are some nice small towns that might be worth investigating.

My Spanish teacher, Lorena, also has her own estate agency, which you can find on Facebook: Casas Wilson. She’s very good at understanding the brief and hunting it down! She’ll also be very honest with you and will be upfront about any potential pitfalls. Definitely worth talking to her. 

If I can be of any help when you are ready to start looking, please feel free to message me. We took early retirement and moved out 2 years ago - best thing we ever did! 

Davebev1 wrote on Thu Oct 29, 2020 7:43pm:

Firstly Los Altos is in Orihuela Costa, not in Torrevieja which is the next town.  May sound a bit nit-picky but you need to know which town you are actually looking at.  Torrevieja is a traditional working Spanish town and resort so full of all the amenities you would expect in a worki...

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...ng town. i always feel safe when walking around there .  Orihuela Costa is a much newer area, only a few small hamlets until the 1970's but there has been 40 years of building since then.  Very international and great beaches.  It is a designated tourist area but not along the lines of Benidorm or Torremolinos!  Low rise properties, good residential population and with plenty of amenities, open all year round.

Los Altos is one part of Orihuela Costa, which is one very large, and still growing, town.  The areas include Los Altos, part of Punta Prima, Playa Flamenca, La Florida, Cabo Roig, La Zenia (which has a fabulous and large shopping mall!), Los Dolses, Villamartin, Campoamor, Lomas de Cabo Roig, and a few other names will also crop up as areas within the wider Villamartin area.

I would suggest you visit, but bare in mind that things are not quite as they normally are!  There are lots of small commercial areas dotted about with lovely cafe/bars and restaurants, shops for just about everything, market on Thursday morning in Cabo Roig by the sea front and another much larger one in Playa Flamenca on Saturdays.  If you are not so bothered about being right by the coast but want an more traditional small town than San Miguel de Salinas, just inland from Orihuela Costa.