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Date Published: 17/11/2023

Orihuela Costa beach bars to reopen at Easter

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Orihuela council has finally opened up the tender process for the coast’s chiringuitos

Orihuela Costa beach bars to reopen at Easter

After more than a year, Orihuela City Council has managed to unblock the tender process for the management of Orihuela Costa’s beach bars with the promise that all facilities will be reopened in time for Easter 2024.

Whereas up until now one company looked after all of the coast’s chiringuitos, this time the bars themselves, the water sports services and the sun beds and umbrellas will be broken up into five different lots to encourage competitive prices.

The contracts will last for four years, up to and including 2027. The performance of all of the facilities was closely studied and the council came up with two different criteria.

First, the proximity. "If a successful bidder assumes responsibility for two or more beach bars, we make their life easier if they are close," indicated the head of the Costas, Manuel Mestre.

The other criterion is profitability ."We have put beach bars that we know are profitable with others that are less profitable, to benefit citizens and restaurateurs who have to make profits," he explained.

The tender will be published within 30 days and the contracts will be awarded a few days before Holy Week. Each bidder can apply for a maximum of two lots.

Lots available for new management

The first contract will set its manager back 79,708 euros and will cover the beaches of Punta Prima, Cala Mosca and Cala Estaca, north of the coast.

The second, by far the most expensive and coming in at 239,663 euros, will be for Cala Cerrada, Cala Bosque (La Zenia) and Cala Capitán in Cabo Roig.

The third (105,324 euros) is for La Caleta and Aguamarina.

And the fourth (179,695 euros) covers La Glea, Barranco Rubio and Mil Palmeras.

Lot number five (37,466 euros) consists of the nautical facilities, which will be located, specifically, in Cala Bosque, La Caleta, La Glea and Barranco Rubio.

The new chiringuito lease holders will also be responsible for the toilets, sunbeds and umbrellas on their respective beaches.

The city council recently removed all of the beach bars along the Orihuela Costa, which before now were run exclusively by the company Chiringuitos del Sol. All of the equipment is now owned by the local government and will be passed over to the successful bidders.

As usual, the majority of the beach bars will only open between Easter and the end of the summer season but the busiest – Cala Bosque and La Caleta – will be allowed to serve customers all year round.

In other news: Plans get underway to widen the Costa Blanca N-332

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