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The people’s paper Issue No. 1892
7 - 13 October 2021
Benissa still waiting AFTER 14 years of delays, Benissa’s N-332 bypass has suffered another setback and will not be finished until next year. Benissa, like Altea and Oliva, is one of the few remaining Alicante Province municipalities where the notoriously busy and dangerous N332 crosses the town centre. Last June the central government, responsible for the country’s main roads, announced that the bypass would be in use by the end of this year. Instead, Benissa mayor Arturo Poquet learnt last week that owing to “a small modification” in the La Pedrera industrial estate section, the date has been put back to the beginning of 2022. Madrid failed to specify exactly when this is likely to be, Poquet revealed.
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Doing their own thing COSTA BLANCA hoteliers and travel agencies are al‐ ready offering winter hol‐ idays for the elderly. They are taking matters into their own hands rather than wait while the central government awards the concessions to organise subsidised Im‐ serso pensioners’ holi‐ days. With all potential Im‐ serso clients now vacci‐ nated against the coron‐ avirus, the holidays should commence soon, although hotel sector sources claim that the first clients cannot arrive before November. Meanwhile the Servi‐ group hotel chain has launched eight‐day, €260 full board packages in four‐star hotels that in‐ clude transport to and from Alicante airport or the city’s AVE railway sta‐ tion. Mundosenior, currently competing for the conces‐ sion to organise Imserso holidays, is advertising
stays of eight, 10 and 15 days, with transport and full‐board included from €260 per person. The Viajes El Corte In‐ gles travel agency has joined the race to attract pensioners and is selling Benidorm holidays from €220 per person per week. All these offers are open to the over‐60s, un‐ like Imserso, which re‐ quires clients to be over 65, Spain’s retirement age, or in receipt of a pension. “This is good news,” de‐ clared Nuria Montes, sec‐ retary general of the Hos‐ bec hoteliers’ association. “But it is only a tempo‐ rary solution.”