FANS of ITV’s Benidorm can stay in the exact hotel this summer with lagoon-style pool and swim-up bar.
The Solana resort from the show is actually the Sol Pelicanos Ocas in Benidorm.
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Unlike most TV shows that are filmed away from their on-screen location, the Sol Pelicanos Ocas is actually in Benidorm.
The ITV series filmed between the months of March and June for over a decade before the show ended in 2018, and now you can book your summer holiday there.
The Sol Pelicanos Ocas has 783 rooms spread across two apartment buildings.
There are two pools, one of which is the lagoon-style swimming pool with a swim-up bar which featured heavily on Benidorm.
Alongside it are three hot tubs, a swim-up bar and plenty of loungers.
The complex has two buffet restaurants where you can grab breakfast, lunch and dinner, and for drinks, there are five bars so you won’t struggle to get a cocktail.
For the kids there’s a playground, watersports in the pool, archery, and table tennis. There’s also an entertainment programme for children and a kids’ club with a ball pit.
Sadly Neptune’s karaoke bar isn’t actually in the hotel – instead it’s over the road and is called Morgan’s Tavern.
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Unlike the series that sees Madge Garvey cause chaos on her mobility scooter, the hotel does not allow them anywhere within the hotel.
The hotel is handily a two minute walk to Levante Beach where you can swim, bodyboard, and jet ski in the water.
We found results for £299pp based on a seven night stay from Bristol to Alicante with breakfast included.
But if you just want to book the stay yourself, Loveholidays has rooms from £64 a night – working out £32 each, although the cheapest summer deal we can find is £120 a night in May or October.
For another £55, you can upgrade to half board. All inclusive at the hotel is an extra £165 which could include all meals, drinks and snacks.
Old Benidorm, which is a whitewashed town, is less than half an hour away by foot. But there are plenty of buses and taxis that will take you there to explore tapas bars, shops and see the San Jaime church.
Lots of guests have booked the hotel purely for the “Benidorm (series) experience”.
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Another was really impressed, they wrote: “Originally Booked as a ‘Tick for the list of things we said we would do’…. This turned out to be a surprise Gem of a stay!”
A third said: “As fans of the TV series there was only one part of the pool we wanted to relax by.”
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