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 Car Hire & Driving in Alicante, SpainWelcome to Alicante Car Hire, Spain; available at Alicante Airport.Alicante Car HireAlicante, one of the gateways for the Costa Blanca, has much to see in your Alicante hire car. In Alicante’s old town, the Town Hall with its two impressive towers is near the 17th century cathedral and ornate Inglesia de Santa Maria. The harbour at Alicante and Explanada de Espana are worth seeing from your Alicante hire car. Alicante or Alacant is a busy port and capital of the Alicante province, which is over looked by a castle, the Castillo de Santa Barbara, also worth seeing in your Alicante hire car. Other sights worth seeing in your Alicante hire car are the baroque city hall, the Museode la Asegurada and a spectacular new Museo Arqueologico de Alicante. Approximately 50km (32 miles) inland in your Alicante hire car from Alicante on the N-340 the landscape changes dramatically. Getting around Alicante provinces mountainous inland region in your Alicante hire car can be slow going, as the main roads stay close to the coast. A short way beyond Gandia you enter the province of Alicante in your Alicante hire car, whose shoreline has become as famous as the Costa Blanca. Alicante is one of the most popular destinations, providing you with so much to see and do in your Alicante hire car. In fact you would be lost in Alicante without an Alicante hire car to tour the scenic countryside of the Alicante region. Alicante Airport Car HireAlicante Airport lies 5 miles (9km) from Alicante in your Alicante hire car. In your Alicante hire car from Alicante take the Autovia Alicante-Murcia and leave at the Alicante Airport junction. Alternatively, take the national road N-340 in your Alicante hire car to Alicante Airport. If travelling in your Alicante hire car from Benidorm to Alicante Airport take the Autopista A-7. Alicante Airport has just one passenger terminal with an annual capacity of over 7million passengers per year. Alicante Airport operates 24 hours a day. Alicante Car Hire desks are locates in Arrivals at Alicante Airport, next to baggage reclaim. An Aena information desk is located at the check-in area at Alicante Airport; another one, in the Departures area, operates when Alicante Airport is busy. Alternatively The Valencia Tourism Agency has an information desk on the lower floor at Alicante Airport. Facilities at Alicante Airport include bureaux de change, ATMs and a post office. There are also bars and restaurants, a fast-food outlet, an ice cream parlour and a cafeteria at Alicante Airport. Eight cafés and four restaurants are located in the Costa Blanca Plaza, Alicante Airport’s shopping and entertainment centre. Shops at Alicante Airport include newsagents, tobacconists, gift and jewellery shops, a music store, cake shop, sports and shoe shops, CD and video store, and three duty-free shops. There are lost property offices on the ground floor at Alicante Airport. Unfortunately there is no left-luggage facility at Alicante Airport. However there is a 24-hour first aid service and a pharmacy available at Alicante Airport. Conference and business facilities are not generally available at Alicante Airport, although there is an Ifach VIP Lounge on Departures level 1, offering phone, fax, photocopying and Internet access for business class passengers at Alicante Airport. The Holiday Inn Alicante-Playa de San Juan, which is 3 miles (5km) in your Alicante hire car from Alicante, can provide conference and business facilities for up to 150 people if these facilities are required while in Alicante. There is a designated area outside the terminal building for dropping off disabled passengers from your Alicante hire car at Alicante Airport. There are also designated disabled parking spaces for your Alicante hire car in the car park at Alicante Airport opposite the terminal building. Alicante Airport has lifts, ramps and disabled toilets; wheelchairs are available on request; passengers requiring wheelchairs and special assistance while at Alicante Airport should inform their airline prior to travel. Spain Car HireSpain. To the ancient Greeks, Spain was the land where Hercules’ golden apples grew; to the Arabs, Spain was the ground floor of heaven; to writers such as George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway, Spain was an area where history skittered between heroic feats and tragedy, and bullfighters flirted with death in work of an afternoon. Few other places so dramatically stimulate the imagination as Spain, as you will be able to discover in your hire car. Despite the steady traffic from Spain’s coastal resorts, Spain has remained in the eyes of outsiders a mysterious, half-mythical country. Spain’s long stretches of isolation from the rest of Europe began with Spain’s peninsular geography and were underscored by history. 700 years of Moorish occupation, were followed by a powerful empire that colonised the New World, the failure of which led via the Spanish Civil War 1936-9 to the oppressive regime of General Franco, all of which have left their mark of Spain, as you will be able to discover while touring in your hire car. However years of isolations for Spain has made it far from homogeneous. Spain embraces four languages and around seven dialects, and climate ranges go from the Subtropical south, sweet with its mangos ,and hibiscus, to the emerald north, with its gorse and heather and plunging fjords, providing you with so much choice of country side to investigate while touring Spain in your hire car. During your trip to Spain you will find some constants while in your hire car. One is light, the glorious sunshine that northern Europeans flock to bask in; but don’t make a mistake of just lying by the pool while, with so much to see and do, take advantage of the glorious light to tour the sights in your hire car. The other constant is a tremendous vitality, which you can observe in cafes and strolling Sunday evening crowds, in haughty urbanites and exuberant fiesta crowds while touring Spain in your hire car. Spain covers an area of 194,885 square miles (504,880sq km) with its capital, Madrid, situated almost in the centre. The Kingdom of Spain is a constitutional monarchy under King Juan Carlos I of the House of Bourbon, which has been on the Spanish throne since the death of Franco in 1975. Spain is divided into 17 autonomous regions, each with its own legislature. Spain is a member of the European Union, accepting the euro as its currency in 2002; the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Foreign motorists must have either an international driving licence from their country of origin and this also applies when using a hire car, so make sure your driving licence is packed before you leave for Spain. Spain has about 195,850 miles (317,000km) of highway for you to explore in your hire car; however only a few thousand kilometres of them are fast, convenient and relatively safe motorways. There are toll fees payable if using the modern motorways in your hire car while, which have rest areas, bars and service stations, and roadside telephones are also places at convenient intervals, to enable you to call for assistance in the case of emergency or breakdown in your hire car. The speed limits while driving in your hire car are 120kph (75mph) on motorways, 100kph (60mph) on all other roads and 60kph (35mph) when driving through cities and towns. In Spain seatbelts must be worn by the driver and all passengers in your hire car, and your hire car should be quipped with a spare set of head and rear-light bulbs or you could face a penalty fine. To hire ca car you have to be at least 19 years of age with either an international licence or a valid licence from your own country. With so much varied countryside around Spain it’s recommended to have a hire car to really be able to explore Spain’s full potential without having to worry about public transport. A hire car will also enable you to investigate the more remote areas of Spain where public transport may not be readily available. Valencia and Murcia region Car HireTogether, these two regions of Spain are often known as the Levant. Valencia and Murcia between them enjoy more than half of Spain’s eastern coastline, stretching from Catalonia to Almeria, providing you with plenty of scope for exploring in your hire car. The 9,000 square miles (23,300sq km) of the Communidad Valencia is split into three provinces that you can explore in your hire car: Valencia, Castellon and Alicante. This region approximately follows the boundaries of the old Kingdom od Valencia, which was captured from the Muslims in the 13th century by an army of Catalans, who left their language in Valencia in the form of the ‘valenciano’ dialect. Valencia, according to the ‘paso doble’ that has become the Valencia regions unofficial anthem, ‘is the land of flowers, light and love’, and you can see if you agree while touring the Valencia region in your hire car. Thanks to an equable Mediterranean climate, all good things seem in abundance in the Valencia region. Sunshine saturates Valencia’s many attractive beaches that you can visit in your hire car, and warm temperatures make for an active outdoor life day and night, almost all year round, so it does not matter when you visit the Valencia region in your hire car.
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