Last Minute Trip to Alicante, Spain!

After searching, and searching for a flight out to Spain for this weekend, I finally came across a good deal on RyanAir.com and I jumped on it! As you probably know, I’m heading off on my Contiki Trip on the 11th of May so during my downtime here in Dublin I figured I’d try to find a quick trip to a country or place that I wouldn’t be seeing on the rest of my tour through Europe and Spain was one of the places that I didn’t have on my itinerary as of yet. Oh and of course I checked the weather and it’s supposed to be 80′s this week. Perrrrrfect!

Off I go to the warm and sunny coastal city of Alicante. It’s about 2 hours to Valencia, and about 40 minutes to Benidorm. I’m going to look into taking a day trip or two to a few places during my stay in Alicante. I’m really looking forward to catching some rays and a good few days exploring some of the southern coast of Spain.

I haven’t booked any accommodations for myself yet, but I’m going to try to sort all of that out tonight. I’m a member of two international exchange websites, Hospitality Club, and Couchsurfing. Both of these websites offer nearly 1,000,000 members from around the world that are mostly travelers that are looking for a means to travel and save money on accommodations by staying on someones couch or in a spare bed here and there along the way. You do not need to offer your couch or spare bed to be a member, you don’t even need to host anyone, you can offer to show someone around your native city, meet for coffee, and more.

I’m sure your next question would be, well how can you be sure that it’s safe? Well, both HC and CS have implemented a verification system for all of its members. If you would like to read more about the security/safety of either Hospitality Club or Couchsurfing click on the links below:

Couchsurfing FAQ

Hospitality Club FAQ