Explore without limits

Public transport on the Costa Blanca works fine for one thing: getting from the airport to the centre of Alicante or Benidorm. After that, it falls apart.

The TRAM line stops at the bigger coastal towns and runs once or twice an hour. Inter-city buses cover the main routes but rarely the side roads. Anything off the coast — the wineries near Pinoso, the rice fields of El Pego marsh, the village markets in the Vall de Gallinera — is effectively unreachable without your own wheels.

Beyond reach, there is the time cost. A coach from Alicante to Calpe takes ninety minutes and runs every two hours. By car: forty-five minutes, on your own schedule. Multiply that across a week and you have recovered a full day of holiday.

A rental is also cheaper than people think. A small petrol hatch from us starts under €25 a day all-in, and we deliver to your hotel or to the airport. That is less than two return bus tickets to Valencia.

The only real argument against renting is parking in the old town of Alicante in August — and even there, the public car park near El Postiguet is still simpler than the alternative.