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Presenting: coliving-costa-blanca.com

I built an independent guide to coliving and longer stays on the Costa Blanca, from Denia down to Alicante.

Early October 2026

Presenting: coliving-costa-blanca.com
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Sixty years of receiving foreigners, and an entire industry built around not asking them to stay.

The Costa Blanca runs on three well-oiled machines: package weeks, holiday lets and retirement urbanisations. None of them is built for someone arriving for a season with a laptop and no intention of buying a villa. Search for anywhere between Denia and Alicante and you get booking inventory, estate agents, and forum threads where the newest post is a man complaining about his water bill in 2019.

The other problem: “Costa Blanca” is several places wearing one name. The Marina Alta is hills, almond terraces and old towns. Benidorm, half an hour down, is high-rises built for volume. Alicante is a city with a port and a working year. Advice that averages them is useless to everyone.

So I wrote it down myself:

  • Space profiles — who ends up there, what the house is like in week three, and only then the wifi speed.
  • Town pages, each treated as the different proposition it is, including what closes in February.
  • Guides on visas, the NIE, costs and getting along the coast without a car, plus opinion pieces that take a position.
  • Last-verified dates and closure records — a closed space stays up, marked closed.

No rankings, no paid placements. It’s roughly 100km of coast that changes character every twenty, so it will never be finished. Fitting, for a guide to a place people keep refusing to leave.

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From early October 2026