Marconfort Flamingo Benidorm - Benidorm

Year of the cheesy Holiday

Booked with - Hotel Direct
Flights - Easy Jet
Duration - 1 week all inclusive

I was having some family issues so my dad paid for me and the children to join my family on a holiday to Benidorm. I had not been to Benidorm since I was 13 when I had fancied a spanish boy called Fernando and I wore Fila trainers at every opportunity which to my embarrassment included around the pool. I was really hoping that I would be able to relive the feelings I got when I went all those years back. We flew with Easy Jet which was painless I do not have one bad word to say about Easy Jet. The Flamingo Benidorm is an old hotel that is split into a hotel and apartments we were booked into the hotel. The rooms were really big a living room, a bedroom a bathroom and a kitchen. The rooms hadn't changed since my dad went to Benidorm before I was born in the 70's they are very dated but they were cleaned regularly.

The lifts were the slowest lifts I have ever experienced by the time we got from the lobby to the apartments my dad had grew a beard. Walking the stairs is not an option when you are on the 18th floor.

The food in this hotel is very good there was never any complaints about the food we only ate out once which is a good sign. The queue of an evening to get drinks was a bug bear and you couldn't even stock up because you was only allowed one drink per person.

The pool was quite small for a hotel of this size but it was warm and the kids loved it.

The entertainment was very Butlins but the whole of Benidorm is just Butlins in the sun so you embrace your inner chav and have fun.

The levante beach is lovely but we only spent a couple of hours there before we went into the old town which if I was truthful I would have preferred to stay but I was paying. The old town is beautiful full of cobbled streets and pretty restaurants. I loved the my day out in the old town even if I was attacked by birds and came back covered in bird poo.

Benidorm has never pretended to be anything other than it is and that's why I love it. The Flamingo was a good hotel and I would stay there again if there wasn't another trillion places I would love to visit.