Benidorm City Council are discussing different ways to permit limited access to its beaches

8th June

Benidorm begins to plot its beaches for reopening this summer

The City Council begins to mark the Levante beach with ropes and posts as a measure to guarantee the safety of bathers

It is not yet known when the beaches of Benidorm will be reopened or what they will really be like, but there are some ideas of what measures the City Council will take to guarantee the safety of residents and tourists, this photo shows how the beach could be parceled to keep distance between users.

Benidorm begins to plot its beaches for reopening this summer

Levante beach is the first in which these measurements have been seen. This beach, one of the most crowded in the city in summer, dawned this Monday with ropes and posts in the "dry zone" that mark grids in which it will probably be distributed to users. It remains to be seen how and in what way these capacities will be controlled to comply with all sanitary measures.

For now, the Benidorm City Council has not presented its Beach Plan for the reopening of them this summer, but capacity control and social distancing that should govern the use of the beaches from now on will force to limit the number of bathers to less than 50% of users who used to go to Benidorm's beaches in high season. so numbers of about 15,000 users should not be exceeded at the same time along the more than 6 kilometers of coastline that the city has.  Read the original story at Diarioinfomacion (in Spanish)

News just announced 29th May  

Benidorm will reopen the beaches in mid-June, once all safety parameters are guaranteed

Toni Pérez, has announced today, when asked by the media about the possibility that the sands would reopen coinciding with the start of Phase 2 of the de-escalation. 

Toni Pérez has indicated that this decision is made "from prudence and caution" and "doing an exercise of responsibility. "The mayor announced that morning and afternoon schedules will be established, and that noon will be used to disinfect the elements of common use.

The mayor stressed that since the day the beaches were closed, on March 14, the City Council has been working intensively to plan how to reopen them once the health situation made this possible;

Benidorm will reopen the beaches in mid-June, once all safety parameters are guaranteed

The City Council is expected to present the beach reopening and management plan in the next few days based on the new circumstances generated by Covid-19; in which "technology" will have a fundamental weight. 

Waiting to know the scope and definition of this plan, pending the latest technical adjustments, Toni Pérez has announced that "the beaches will have a morning and afternoon schedule" in order to "be able to double the reception capacity of users" , since the capacity "is going to have to be reduced practically over 50%". In the absence of delimiting the start and end time of each shift, the mayor has confirmed that "at noon there will be an emptying of the beach" to carry out "cleaning and sanitary treatment and disinfection of common elements" provided in the sands. At night the beaches will remain closed.  Likewise, he announced that "there will be a control of gauging" and "flows" of users, and that work is being done to ensure "the distance of 2 meters"   

Finally, the mayor has pointed out that the treatment and management of beaches "in the new reality" generated by the Covid-19 crisis "cannot be the same on the urban beaches of Benidorm" as in the sandy areas and coves of other. municipalities and destinations.

Source Benidorm.org

29th May

Access will be permitted during PHASE 2, which begins on 1st June, BUT no date has been confirmed at this time. Plans are still being discussed by Benidorm town hall

Day at the beach .... make sure you know the new rules .... the fines are very high
Beach standards published in the Boletin Oficial de Estado = B.O.E. (Spanish State Gazette) May 11, 2020
OBLIGATED
- be healthy, otherwise stay at home
- children under 14 should not be alone on the beach
- 2.5 meters distance between umbrellas, towels or people at least six meters from the sea
- maximum 2 umbrellas / family, equal to 5m x2.5m = 12.2m²
- leave waste in rubbish bin (beach) or waste container (street)
- use toilet with compulsory footwear (flip flops, etc)
PROHIBITED: fines depending on autonomous area, but at least 200.00 euros to 750.00 euros
- itinerant trade is prohibited (you may not buy drinks, boules de Berlin, textiles, etc on the beach)
- no rusted beach chairs or umbrellas allowed
- no beach bars allowed
- do not place a parasol by the sea or without being on the beach: fines from 750.00 euros to 3,000.00 euros
- no nude suns
- music that is too loud is prohibited
- do not share balls or toys
- no mattresses or objects for water recreation
- do not build beach castles
- no group sports (volley, football), nor games (tag or beach paddle or beach tennis)
- no beach BBQ, nor nightly gatherings or parties
- forbidden to pee in the sea
- no animals allowed
- some regions also prohibit bicycles on the promenade
- fishing ban for both divers and from a boat in a swimming area
- beach showers without using shampoo
- no smoking on the beach (in many areas especially northern Spain)
- prohibition to walk bare-chested on the street, or to drive a car / motorcycle or to drive a car with flip-flops (fixed foot-enclosed shoe, or gym)
RECOMMENDED
- shower at home before and after a visit to the beach
- observe hygienic regulations
- planning a beach visit
- avoid gathering with others
- do not stay on the beach for more than 4 hours

27th May

Benidorm will divide the beach into plots to limit capacity and control access.

The mayor, Toni Pérez, warns that the walks along the shore will have to be modified to guarantee social distance and safety.

The City Council will use new technologies to determine mobility flows along its coastline.

Information on Benidorm´s 5 Beaches

Avoiding overcrowding and guaranteeing compliance with social distance is one of the biggest headaches with which the municipalities of all the coastal municipalities of the province will have to deal in the coming days. In this sense, the mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez ( PP ) announced that he plans to divide the beach into plots and control access to the sand to reduce the number of users.

The current regulations, give the municipalities the power to manage the beaches, and in the case of Benidorm they will "control the flow of mobility, the use of furniture, access ... and we will do everything with the use of technology.

The protocol for opening the beaches that the Benidorm City Council is designing will be published in the coming days.

20th May updates

Little by little and as the de-escalation progresses, the coastal municipalities of the province are working on how the beaches can be accessed and enjoyed as of July 1,  providing all goes well with each prior phase. 

Benidorm, Xàbia, Benissa and La Vila have already contacted the company Informática del Este, which is finalizing the launch of an app that will be downloaded free on mobile phones which will provided  information on the chosen beach such as Location, capacity, areas in which to place the towel, enjoyment time, the information for this app will be personalised by each  municipality.

There may be temperature control points on entering large busy beaches these may be at  limited points which could be the lifeguard stations to limit access. 

Bathers will have to reserve a lot of sand to enjoy it on many beaches.

However, the beaches are within the competence of the city councils and they are the ones that have to draw up the plan of enjoyment but complying with the sanitary protocols of the covid-19 and the main one, right now, is social distancing.  There is still nothing official, the municipalities  are inclined towards the solution of dividing up the beaches and establishing time zones for their enjoyment, at least in a certain period of the day. The key standard, the meter or two meters apart.

The Local Police will ensure that there are no crowds in collaboration with the rescuers. Everything, however, is in its infancy as they want to know guidelines from the Generalitat.

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Benidorm City Council is now working on ways in which it will allow access to its beaches when the State of alarm due to the coronavirus allows it. Although they are still considering what measures need to be taken to guarantee the health and safety of all users, they have rejected the idea of the placement of protection and distance screens.

Mayor Antonio Pérez announced this Thursday that he is working on the issues to ask to allow a return to the beaches and to take a swim in the sea in Benidorm. The mayor announced that the city is currently studying what model it could apply to guarantee sanitary security and that the partitions that other municipalities have proposed will not suit Benidorm. "It is a measure that we reject because we have the best urban beaches in the world and they are not aware of the temperature that the sand can reach even this week not to mention the months of July and August. This and the fact that there is very little breeze  means Beach goers would not be able to use the Beach to Social distancing. "

With this discarded measure, what is Benidorm then considering? Well, for now it is "studying all possible models" because "Benidorm will be a reference for the rest of the beaches". So work is already underway on measures such as " capacity control, flow control, direction control in addition to the mandatory physical distance, both in the sand and in the sea,".  This would mean access control that would be linked "to innovation and technology" without infringing on  "the freedom that must underlie when we use a space for enjoyment such as the beach."

Benidorm rules out placing partitions and works on how to order the capacity of its beaches

The first mayor stressed that it will be necessary to implement an " order to use the beaches " in which the "technical, concessionaire and other administrations" teams are already working, since he recalled that the competition on the sandy areas belongs to the General Directorate of Coasts that depends of the central government. Thus he stressed that any measure will be taken in accordance with what is marked in the plans set for de-escalation.

Please note that this article has been translated from Spanish to English so some details may be lost in this translation.  Read the original article at DIARIOINFORMACION

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