Staying in Alicante for a week in August. Madness?

[JeremyCorbynsBeard]

Thinking of staying in the centre of Alicante as we can fly from our local airport.

Can anyone give me any pointers as to what this might be like? I've never been to mainland Spain, so my ideas of it are all English breakfasts and cheap lager. DH thinks that staying in Alicante itself won't be as Brit-laden as other areas.

Would love any thoughts/advice. Thanks.

I visit a town near to here (family villa), lots of expats along the whole coast but majority Spanish in Alicante itself

However I would never visit in August. The heat is unbearable and relentless. I say that as someone who likes to visit south Italy in the summer. But I find Spain along with Greece just sweltering in August. You’re talking 40-45 degrees. The Spanish I know live in air con over this period and it’s too hot for many of them!

^ when I say 40+ I’m talking real feel temps, so although it might be 35 feels much hotter- it’s to do with the humidity levels

I've never been to mainland Spain, so my ideas of it are all English breakfasts and cheap lager

Yup, all of it, exactly like that. .

Thankfully, the Spanish have sensibly corralled that sort of thing in a few locations like Benidorm and Magaluf leaving the other 98% of the country with its great architecture, castles, museums, lovely squares, tapas and general Spanishness untainted.

But kittens is right. It will be ridiculously hot, too hot to do much apart from laying in the shade and going out at about 10 pm or later for tapas.

We don't generally go in July or August, but we've been in September and May when there was a heatwave not conducive to city break wandering around and the lasting memories were when we went to a Flamenco festival that had barely even got going at 2 am and it was above 30 degrees then. And the glue in our books melted it was so hot.

Alicante isn't the most attractive of cities. There are some lovely coastal towns that aren't all 'brits abroad' about an hour or so away - Javea, Denia. I think I'd head down that way in August as at least you'd get a sea breeze.