Alicante North or South?

Can certainly recommend Villajoyosa from your list, but the main considerations are what type of property you are looking to buy and the location as a base for the sort of things you like doing.  House or flat?  Urbanisation or independent house?  Walking distance to the beach or town? Or somewhere in the mountains?

We bought in Finestrat old town a couple of years ago and our local UK airport is also Newquay.  Very happy so far and grateful to Mr O'Leary for keeping the Ryanair flights going twice a week.  We have a split life now between Cornwall and Costa Blanca - what could be better?

We live in Vila Joiosa, its very nice but you need to be careful where you choose because the old town is a very close netted community where they all know each other and you must abide by their rules they are very old fashioned and speak more Valencian than Spanish. However the beaches are fantastic, theres 3 trams stops and very regular buses. Lovely big park, if you have kids with you there's also 3 soft plays. Two Mercadonas and the lovely smell from the Valor chocolate factory. I would recommend it

Some very nice flats going up behind Torres beach, between Villajoyosa and La Cala (Finestrat beach), which will leave the beach itself and park behind it undeveloped.

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Hi Gordon

Thanks thats hand to know, we are away for 2 weks now but would like to contact you on our return. Just to be able to pick your brains.

We live in Falmouth where are you in Cornwall ? could we exchange contact numbers or e mails ? whats the best way of posting our details to each other.

Many thanks

William

Have sent you a Private Message.

If you want to be no more than 30 minutes from Alicante going south then you would need to be north of Torrevieja, so the Quesada (inc Dona Pepa), La Marina, El Raso, Benijofar, Rojales, Gran Alicant (very close to airport), Daya Vieja etc.  However you need to be clear about the type of property you would like and your budget as well as similar properties in different areas can vary quite a lot in price.  (Orihuela Costa is fine, still very popular, but over you 20-30 minute travel time from Alicante airport, about 40 minutes so roughly the same time from the airport as Villajoyosa.)

Villa Joiosa is is max 30mins from the airport driving bus and train time differ. 

Its also nice here. Depending on how flexible you are, you might even consider Finestrat because the mountain views are fantastic but you would need your own transport