Terra Mitica
Unlike some parks Terra Mitica has a excellent layout so you sort of follow a trail taking you through everything, and the rides aren't just one after another, there will be a ride, a restaurant or show, then some sort of game area.
The Park is set out into 5 sections with rides to each section as follows;
- EGYPT: The Falls of the Nile, The Port of Alexander. Akuatiti, La Piramide de Terror, Infinnito, The battle of the Pyramid.
- GREECE: Tritons Fury, Synkope, The Icaruses, Alucinakis, Arriarrix, The Labyrinth of the Minotaur, Kinetos’s Temple
- ROME: Magnus Colossus, The Flight of the Phoenix, Virtigum, Torbellinus, Tentaculus, Ayquesustus, Serpentinum, Rotundus, Inferno, Most of the small rides and The Main Show Area,
- IBERIA: The Tizona, The Moll, Jabato, Arietes.
- ISLANDS: The islands are the centre of the park and contain: The Rapids of Argos, and various Shows, Nintendo Polis, Mithos, Ulysses Rescue, La Colera de Akiles
The various rides will take your breath away with views across Benidorm to the most thrilling experience of your life. There are various Shows within the Park with some truly amazing sites and can only be described as breath taking.
Prices are as follows per day and well worth the cost:
- Adult: 33 euros
- Junior/Senior: 25 euros
- Disabled: 21 euros
There is a massive Car Park with hundreds of spaces.
For more info go to : www.terramiticapark.com
Torrevieja Aqua Park
If you are looking for a hours of relax stretched out in your hammock, reading your newspaper or favorite book under the sun, but at the same time you wishing for moments of excitement (adrenaline) but wanting to avoid at all costs the hassle of the beach with its salt water air and sand, then this is the place for you.
In the park besides all the rides you also have floats, beach chairs and sun shades, in addition to big grassed areas where you will be able to enjoy the sun and the water all day long.There are lockers and safes also to be used. Food & drink are easily purchased inside the park With all types of slides and activities it a great day out for all the family
Time table 2008
Opens from 6 June - 14 September
- In the months of June, July, August it opens from: 11.00 - 19.00.
- In September it opens from:11.00 - 18.00
Prices:
- Adults (11yrs - 64yrs) 20.95€
- Children (4yrs - 10yrs) 15.95€
- Children younger than 3yrs enter free
- seniors (older then 65 yrs) 15.95€
www.aquopolis.es/torrevieja/index.php
Aqualandia Water Park
Aqualandia in Benidorm offers delightful surroundings and all the fun a multitude of water rides can offer. This is a modern water park, with excellent facilities, including picnic areas and a variety of restaurants. There are lawns and shaded areas for when you need a break from the sun and the many slides and chutes are surrounded by foliage.
Attractions include
- Niagara, with its beach, caves and calm waters, and the enormous Atlantic Surf Pool, Which comes complete with waves and is surrounded by the soft circular current of the Amazonas.
- The Laguna has spring boards, rings and nets
- and the Adventureland is designed especially for young children.
The park is open and priced as follows:
- Open : May - Oct 2008
- Cost :
- 24 euros Adults
- 17 euros 3 - 12 yrs.
- Opening Hours : 10am - 9pm
La Marina Market
Indulge yourself in La Marina's open air market! Its just another of the popular attractions on La Marina which has over 300 stalls selling a wide variety of wonderful bargains.
Enjoy yourself in another of the great exciting Spanish Holiday traditions. On La Marina Open Air market you can buy dozens of the great goods on display. Fashion wear, Leisure wear, leather goods like shoes, belts handbags are really economical. Also on display are watches, jewellery, glasswear, CD’s and tapes and all home products.
For the children there are stalls offering face painting, henna tattoos, and hair braiding too. You can eat and drink at the many stalls offering different mouth watering foods like Spanish churros and hot chocolate, German sausages and English bacon and sausage butties. Usually too there is a genuine Peruvian Indian band and you get the opportunity to buy their haunting pipe music.
The Open air market has been carefully designed in a huge custom built area in the centre of the Urbanisation. Good car parking is available. Also on one of the two entrances there is a ramp access for wheelchairs and buggies. For the more security conscious customers the market days are always patrolled by local police.
Market days are Thursdays and Sundays mornings and start at about 10.00AM and finish at about 1.30 PM
Rio Safari
No trip to the Costa Blanca would be complete without a visit to the famous Rio Safari at Elche. A mix
between a zoo, a safari park and a community farm, it is even more appealing if you have young children with you.
In the summer time don't forget to take your swimming gear (no not to join the crocodiles!), there is a large swimming pool with slides. Refreshments and food are available but it is definitely more fun to take a picnic - don't forget to take some extra carrots and a bag or two of monkey nuts as feeding the animals is allowed here and in fact encouraged - the kids are going to love it!
Your ticket includes free entry into all the animal shows - the sea lion show, the parrot show and the
Elephant show, it also includes a "train" ride around the safari and you can sometimes purchase a video of you visit. The shows are all excellent and the commentary is in English as well as Spanish so you can all understand what is going on. The "train" ride takes you right around the park and in amongst the animals.
It also includes entrance to the swimming pool (summer only) to finish off another great day
There is a wide range of animals to see at the safari including lions, tigers, jaguars, Giraffes, camels, llamas, emus, ostriches, buffalo, deer, antelope, a Hippos, Elephants, donkeys, monkeys, chimps and crocodiles to name but a few. There is also an aquarium with fish and reptiles and a parrot house with some excellent specimens. The park caters for everyone with children’s play area with trampolines and anyone wanting to become the next Lewis Hamilton has an excellent Go-kart track
Daily prices:
Adults: 20€
Children (3yrs - 12yrs):
15€ Special rates for big groups
Opening Hours
Winter: 10.30 - 18.00
Summer: 10.30 - 20.00
7 days a week
www.riosafari.com
Tabarca Island
Just a few kilometres off the Costa Blanca mainland near Santa Pola lies the small and tranquil island of Tabarca used by locals and tourists alike for its recreational facilities & an excellent day out all round for your family.
The surrounding waters of the 2km long island were declared a national marine park in 1986 and are a snorkeller’s paradise, with the abundance of marine life in the clear waters.
Water sports rule the island with pedalo boats along side windsailers and dinghies moored in the harbour next to large private yachts. Everyone is in search of that small secluded bit of paradise and whilst you can see the mainland from Tabarca there is a feeling that an undiscovered treasure has been found, the only problem is that hundreds of other people have also discovered it and with several daily ferries from Santa Pola and Alicante, that long lost private desert island is no longer private or deserted. The traditional Spanish settlement remains largely unspoilt and unaffected by the growing number of visitors during the summer months. The only signs are the two souvenir shops, museum and the large amount of restaurants scattered along the hilltops overlooking the sea and situated down quiet cobbled side streets.
Fish is the dish of the day in most of the restaurants with it being freshly caught, and on admiring the view it is easy to understand why people travel across purely for a special meal overlooking the rocky coastline.
Through another gate to the tip of the island and people battle the slippery rocks and pebbles to scramble across the shallow water to a tiny little island for peaceful picnics and to watch the seagulls nesting by the shoreline. In certain parts the water is clear enough to see the marine life, almost close enough to touch.
There are plenty of ferries across from Santa Pola, Alicante or Torrevieja and depending on where you board the crossing time is from 20 minutes & the prices are from 11 € return
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