I enjoy the information you send via e.mail. It is very informative. Could you please let me know if it is possible to travel to Altea by bus from the Airport. I know there is a airport bus to the Alicante’s bus station. Or do we have to first travel to the bus station and get a connection from there to Altea. We are tentatively thinking of going in September. I hope you can either send me this information or put it one of your information sheets. Thank you. – Ann H.
Travelling from Alicante airport to Altea is kind of complicated. I still don’t understand why they have not managed to get a decent direct bus service running. We got a very good DIRECT bus line from Alicante airport to Benidorm, so we all hope to get this expanded one day to other cities north and south of the Costa Blanca.
At the moment your best option is to catch the bus from Alicante airport to downtown Alicante’s central bus station and go on from there to Altea. Check out timetables and fares over at Alsa (spanish bus company site)
Since you mention that you will be travelling in September, I would also wait a bit, until the new summer flight schedules are in place, as bus services are changing there timetables during summer month too. Also very important, we will have a new Alicante airport terminal inaugurated on 23. March 2011 , which could also bring some positive surprises as far as new bus services are concerned (we don’t know , but hope never dies 😉 ).
Hope this helps for the moment. I will keep you and all readers of the newsletter updated if we get any new developments.