Have Benidorm fiestas been cancelled?

September 11

Dear Sirs,

Can you confirm if the annual November Fiesta in Benidorm has been cancelled this year?

Thanking you.

William Easton

The Town Hall have not ‘ officially cancelled’, however, the penyas ( fiesta associations) are not organising any events according to an official statement from them.

They normally organise all the parades, flower offerings, fireworks etc.

The town hall may organise the odd concert but that will be it - obviously with limited capacity so in effect, yes, it has been cancelled

Email September 13 From a friend who flew back to Liverpool from Alicante yesterday! They have still not got it right! As threatened - the story of flying from Spain to the UK

Alicante looks about half open in terms of flights/ cafes etc. but with about a quarter of the normal number of passengers.

Security, passport control etc. all working well. Markings everywhere for queue distances etc. and that's mostly working.

The UK entry/ quarantine form was not well done - contained duplication, confusing questions and had no verification of the contact phone number.

The end product is a threepage pdf file that will usually need to be shown on a phone and will be really fiddly for a lot of people. Easiest to print it off, if you can - most people won't be able to, given the "within 48 hours" rule.

At the airport, they were using passport desks - so the officer could see you had a form and a passport - not to check the details. I was near the front of a fairly small queue so I was soon out.

They'll struggle ( and probably won't try) to scan forms until they improve the form or do a proper app for it.

Only 61 people on the flight. The stewardesses looked pretty resigned/ depressed when they heard. I suspect we'll hear about another round of consolidations/ cancellations soon.

Good for me though - I had all three seats in my row and no one in front of behind me! Masks on flight, Ryanair keep reminding people over the intercom. Peter Howell