Spanish Hotels Enjoy a Great April With Signs Suggesting It Can Only Get Better

Spanish Hotels Enjoy a Great April With Signs Suggesting It Can Only Get Better

Hotels in Spain saw a bumper number of guests in April when compared to last year and it’s only going to improve.

Hotels in Costa del Sol are all full which is a

positive sign moving forward

Even though Easter was in March this year Spanish hotels received quite the windfall from plenty of tourism during April. Occupancy rate records were actually broken thanks to the influx of British holidaymakers.

Data has been released by the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE) that shows the number of people staying in the country overnight in April increased by 1.3% over last year to 23.4 million.

Given how it is usually Easter that sees this bump in tourism these figures came as a real swerve. This rise in tourism would seem to confirm what people have been saying for a while now; 2016 will be a record breaking year for the Spanish tourism industry.

When you only take the data for foreign tourists then there is actually an 11.5% rise in tourists from outside the country compared to April of last year as just under four million people stayed overnight in Spain.

Holidaymakers are also staying in Spain for longer in general. The data showed that the average stay increased 1.2% to 3.1 nights per person. This is in spite of the average cost per night rising 3.3% to €73.50.

The UK remained the biggest source of foreign tourists as roughly 692,000 Brits visited for 3.6 million overnight stays. Next were the 595,000 Germans with their 3.26 million overnight stays, the 570,000 French with 1.85 million overnight stays, and 225,000 Italians for 623,000 overnight stays.

This number of German visitors was up 4.8% compared to last year but the British remained the dominant source with an 18.1% rise in British tourists over the year.

As April can stay a little chilly in some areas of Spain it’s not surprising at all to hear that the Canary Islands, which are warm all year round, where the top destination and accounted for just over 31% of the overnight stays. Andalucía and Catalonia competed to be second place with 18% of the visitors, a percentage that will surely rise as the temperature does.

Visitors to Spain Enjoy Best Value for Food and Drinks in The World!

Travellers to Spain will enjoy some of the lowest food prices in the world, according to a new survey.

Orange Square Marbella old town

The Post Office Travel Money report visited 46 different destinations across the world and rated Spain as the fourth-best value for food when the meal cost €47.30. The shopping basket in question contained a bottle of beer, a can of Coke, a glass of wine, mineral water, suncream, a packet of Marlboro cigarettes and a three-course meal for two including house wine.

A cup of coffee costs on average €1.27 in Costa del Sol, with the local beer costing around €2.13.

The gap in prices between Spain and the actual cheapest destination has risen from €1.32 last year to the far higher figure of over €7.90.

In all, the local cuisine in Spain is of the highest quality and with the prices and cost of living in Spain being so low, no wonder more and more holiday makers and lifestyle buyers are choosing Spain and the Costa del Sol there choice of holiday and home destination.

People just don't realise that living in the Costa del Sol really is so much cheaper than living in northern Europe by nearly one third cheaper which is extraordinary? The life expectancy is higher and with an average temperature of 20C all year around and a family orientated culture with the wonderful Mediterranean lifestyle Spain brings and only a few million inhabitants in the whole region, and central Europe only a short flight away, more and more British and northern Europeans are looking at southern Spain and the Costa del Sol to buy property for either a holiday home or a permanent lifestyle choice.
Buy a Spanish home and move to the Costa del Sol because life really is better in flip flops.