{"id":6611,"date":"2011-03-06T12:36:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T12:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alicante-spain.com\/?p=6611"},"modified":"2018-03-05T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T10:18:07","slug":"costa-blanca-holiday-villas-to-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alicante-spain.com\/costa-blanca-holiday-villas-to-rent.html","title":{"rendered":"Finding Costa Blanca Holiday Villas To Rent"},"content":{"rendered":"
Summary: <\/strong>To find the right villa to rent at the Costa Blanca is key for your next holiday. Looking for cheap holiday homes or a house from a private owner in Benidorm, Alicante, Torrevieja, Denia, Calpe or anywhere around the Costa Blanca can be challenging. Here is where you find the best Costa Blanca villa for your next stay and what you have to look for before you rent.<\/p>\n Question: <\/strong>We are planning our next holiday in Benidorm or Calpe with our family. Since we are a family of six, we would like to find a nice holiday home or villa at the northern Costa Blanca. On our last stay we stayed at a hotel in Denia, but we are looking for something a bit cheaper. Can you recommend any Costa Blanca villa to rent? ( Julie T., Bedworks Warwickshire UK)<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear Julie: <\/strong>Let me first say that I am grateful for your Costa Blanca villa question, since we get it a lot and it gives me an opportunity to answer the request for villas to rent or how to best rent a holiday home around the Costa Blanca.<\/p>\n Before you start thinking about renting any villa for your holiday, you want to make sure you think about your specific needs. In case you have already been on holiday here, you should have a good idea where to go. If not, the Costa Blanca is basically divided into 3 areas. Southern Costa Blanca (from La Manga del Mar Menor\/Costa Calida to Torrevieja and Santa Pola), the Central Costa Blanca area (basically Alicante and some suburbs) and the northern Costa Blanca starting from Villajoyosa, Benidorm, Altea, Calpe up to the very north of Denia).<\/p>\n When you think where you could rent a villa, its best not to go for a specific city or town, but for an area. Most rental villas are located either on the outskirts of a town or in separated areas ( so called Urbanization ). When you think about a holiday home “in” Benidorm, you better look for a house “around” Benidorm. This “around” can sometimes mean several miles (or kilometers).<\/p>\n Since we have been living here for many years now, I know several nice Costa Blanca villas for rent around Alicante. However, to recommend any specific kind of all inclusive holiday villas to rent Several things you should look BEFORE you commit to any Costa Blanca villa rentals. Please look through the following listings carefully and crosscheck several properties, as daily life and habits might be a bit different than in your country \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Before you book anything do not just go for the cheapest villa, check out the exact location of the house on a map. Most Costa Blanca villas to rent are located on the outskirts of a town or city. Transportation is crucial. I would definitely recommend having your own car while you are around here on holiday. Hire a car<\/a> at the airport and you should not only overcome all the local transportation difficulties, but it also give you a chance to explore all the beautiful places around. ( and there are lots of them!). If you are traveling as a family or just a group of friends, make sure the house can accommodate all of you well. Some spanish villas to rent in Costa Blanca\u00a0are built with several different separate apartments inside. Do not just simply by counting how many beds does the villa have, but look at how many different bedrooms are offered. The number of bedrooms as well the bed sizes are important, to avoid any “collisions” before your holidays. Further more it is very important to look at …<\/p>\n >> Read on – click here<\/a> for Part 2 of this article on how to find cheap villa rentals at the Costa Blanca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To find the right villa to rent at the Costa Blanca is key for your next holiday. Looking for cheap holiday homes or a house from a private owner in Benidorm, Alicante, Torrevieja, Denia, Calpe or anywhere around the Costa Blanca can be challenging. Here is where you find the best Costa Blanca villa for your next stay and what you have to look for before you rent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[220,4,234],"tags":[184,183],"yoast_head":"\nDo Not Select Your Villa By a Certain City<\/h2>\n
Where To Find A Cheap Villa To Rent For Your Holiday?<\/h2>\n
here would not be enough to fulfill all the questions we get. ( And so many readers of our newsletter ask about villas in many different places around the Costa Blanca, that we simply can not answer all of those requests individually.). What I recommend doing is searching for the right holiday home on sites like villarenters,\u00a0spain-holiday.com<\/a> and holiday-rentals<\/a> . Both provide an extensive listing of lots of villas to rent for all different areas around the Costa Blanca. We had friends booking a villa around Denia through villarenters and they found a cheap and clean holiday home from a private owner very quickly.<\/p>\nWhat To Look For BEFORE You Rent A Holiday Home?<\/h2>\n
Location<\/h2>\n
What is the exact ..<\/p>\n\n
Transportation – Are You Going To Hire A Car?<\/h2>\n
So, if you can afford it, have a car available to you.
If not, generally speaking I would rate public transport in Spain as good to very good. This depends largely where you plan on staying. Larger cities like Benidorm, Torrevieja, Denia or Calpe have very good bus lines running into the suburbs. I would contact the Costa Blanca holiday rentals owner in advance and ask him how far away the next bus station is located from the house and how often does the bus service run (especially at night). Some holiday homes listings on holiday-rentals<\/a> are providing this important information on the villas details page.<\/p>\nVillas At The Costa Blanca – Room Size and Bed Sizes<\/h2>\n
One word on bed sizes, if I may. In Spain the average “standard” bed lengths is still 1.90 meter only. While we have been seeing some changes over the past years, it still remains the favourable size. If you are tall, like me I am 1.86 and would not even consider myself “tall”, this can be an issue. You might want to clarify the real bed-size with the owner in advance, just to avoid any surprises.
On the other hand a large portion of cheap holiday villas for hire\u00a0in the\u00a0Costa Blanca\u00a0is rented out by foreign owners who usually take provision and have enough foresight for the needs of tall northern European tourists.<\/p>\n