Hotel Bid

Santa Pola council is to make contact with major national and international hotel operators in a bid to get at least two new hotels in the area, including Gran Alacant. The municipality has been without a hotel since the three-star JM Marina Palace (pictured) closed six years ago, leaving a building that has been repeatedly vandalised.

Tourism councillor, Mercedes Landa, says that she is speaking to other council departments and officials and they intend to make contact with hotel companies pitching the Santa Pola area as a perfect location to open a hotel, both for tourists and for business visitors.