Best Family Stays in Alicante

Hotels in Alicante

Port Alicante City & Beach is the clearest resort-style option for families, with outdoor swimming pools, a garden with a playground and a children's pool, alongside a buffet restaurant serving Mediterranean cuisine and paella. It sits eight hundred metres from San Juan Beach with a bus and tram stop four hundred metres away, useful once the pool novelty wears off and the beach calls. Sagra Hotel and Hotel Marina Elche both take a smaller, apartment-style approach, with family rooms, a dining table or kitchenette and daily housekeeping, better suited to a longer stay than a two-night visit.

Charm Beach Retreat adds a genuinely family-friendly restaurant to its family rooms, serving Argentinian food in a setting guests describe as both traditional and modern, useful for parents who would rather not manage a picky eater's dinner alone. Hotel La Milagrosa takes the opposite approach entirely: a simple, practical old-town guesthouse two minutes from Alicante Beach, with no pool or playground, proof that a family stay here can work just as well built around a short walk to the sand as around a resort-style pool.

Alicante runs two beaches worth building a family trip around, Postiguet close to the old town and San Juan further along the Costa Blanca, both level, sandy and shallow enough for young children, with the harbour and the Explanada de Espana providing an easy evening walk when the beach closes for the day. The city rewards families who want a mix of sand and old-town streets over a single resort compound, since both sit within a short taxi or tram ride of most family-oriented stays.