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La Manga Club Spain

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willali · 15/05/2008 12:56

Any tips / ideas to help our half term break at La Manga Club (Las Lomas Village) go swimmingly? Particularly interested in any good places to visit outside the complex, but any advice on good restaurants, activities, things to avoid etc would be gratefully received!

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NoNickname · 20/05/2008 07:29

For restaurants, there are plenty on the complex, but they are quite pricey, especially if you are having a couple of courses and wine. The Spanish seem to eat lunch about two and dinner about nine. But on the complex, the restaurants are open earlier than that, so you don't have to fit in with the Spanish way if you don't want to.

Luigi's is a great restaurant. Great, efficient staff, lovely pizza and pasta, and even better meat and fish dishes. The complex offers a free shuttle bus service to and from anywhere on the resort if you are staying in the hotel or in the Las Lomas Village. Because of that, and if you like a drink with dinner, it makes it a hard choice to decide to eat off-site, as you will have to drive or get a cab back. But it's such a huge place that you don't necessarily feel like you are on site.

May come back and tell you more later in the week - I am sitting on my terrace in La Manga, enjoying the sun and typing this right now (8.30 am)!!

heididrink · 28/05/2008 21:05

I have just spotted this I am going to La Manga in July
Could you recommend any trips which 3 reluctant teenagers might enjoy

NoNickname · 29/05/2008 17:50

Hmmm. A hard one seeing as we went with a 4 year old!

But there's go-karting fairly nearby - can't remember exactly where, but we passed it on the motorway one day.

We liked the look of Murcia. But we didn't do very much there apart from eat a traditional tapas type lunch. I think we got there a bit late and most places had closed ready for lunch. Had we got there at 9 or 10, I'm sure the shops would have been nice to have a look around.

We drove through the Valle de Ricote one day - through Archena, Ulea, Ojos, Ricote, Blanca, Cieza and others. We didn't find anything specific to get out and "do", and besides ds was enjoying a catch-up sleep, but the scenery was stunning.

A couple of the guide books and info on the web said it was a nice thing to get a boat from Santiago de la Ribera over to the Isla Perdiguera in the Mar Menor. But when we got there, we couldn't find anything, and a local bar owner said all the bars and restaurants on the island had been pulled down a year before and that the ferries didn't go any more - so you can count that one out!

We quite enjoyed walking up to the lighthouse at Cabo de Palos. We couldn't find the pedestrian entrance at first though. You can't go into the lighthouse, but it was a good viewpoint from its base, and there's a beautiful cove on one side with such crystal clear water, where there were people snorkelling. There are also some lovely seafood restaurants on the front at Cabo de Palos.

heididrink · 30/05/2008 10:29

thanks very much for the info - its really helpful particularly about the place thats shut!!
Did you enjoy your holiday?

NoNickname · 30/05/2008 10:43

Loved it. It was fantastic. We have never revisited a place before (always think the world is too small a place), but I would go back there again any time.

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