Self-catering holiday homes: Blanes apartment

Make a holiday rental apartment or villa in Blanes, Spain your home away from home

Blanes is a popular beach resort with Spanish residents, located in the Costa Brava in Catalonia, Spain. Blanes is a wonderfully relaxed resort set on a 4km stretch of golden Costa Brava beach, perfect for couples or young families. Much of the original fishing village ambiance still survives in the centre, although the area around Blanes beach is a well organised tourist haven.

Things to do in Blanes, Spain

Blanes Beach or Cala Blanes, is a wonderful beach on which to enjoy the Spanish summer sun. Over 4 kilometres long, Blanes Beach never becomes crowded, allowing plenty of space to set up and relax in the sun, play beach tennis or go for a swim. There are a great range of water sports to enjoy from Blanes Beach too. Visitors to Blanes accommodation can enjoy everything from water skiing to scuba diving, deep sea fishing to windsurfing and from surfing to sailing. If you would like to see more of the coast than Cala Blanes during your holiday, there are a great range of beaches along the Costa Brava to explore, some of the best of which locally include Cala Sant Francesco, Punta Santa Anna and Cala Cristina.

A self catering Blanes villa is a perfect spot from which to explore the coastline on foot. Local coastal walks are sensational, taking visitors along the cliff tops, affording walkers the best views of the Costa Brava as well as the best way to explore the local flora and fauna. There are also a great range of boat trips along the Costa Brava, which are a perfect way to spend a day exploring the coast. Glass bottomed boats are an exceptional way to explore the deeps of the Mediterranean without getting wet too.

There are a number of golf courses to play from Blanes apartments too. The 9 hole Club Golf l’Angel is argued to be the best in the whole of Catalonia, and there are a great range of 18 hole golf courses to play all along the Costa Brava too, meaning that there is no shortage of golfing opportunities from Blanes Beach accommodation.

Places to visit on holiday in Blanes, Spain

There are too many day trips in the Blanes area to mention them all, but the international city of Barcelona is easily reached from Blanes apartments, located just 60km away. There is a huge amount to see and do in Barcelona, and a day trip is enough to do a little shopping and see the main sights alone. The Dali Museum in Figueres and the Water Park in Lloret de Mar are also of great interest to many taking Blanes accommodation.

Cheap flights to Blanes, Spain

A holiday rental villa or apartment in Blanes is just 60km from Barcelona Airport (BCN), which receives a great range of inbound flights from the UK on a daily basis. The smaller Girona Airport (GRO) is closer though, located within just 20km of a Blanes apartment, villa or beach house. Ryanair, ThomsonFly and Thomas Cook Airlines all provide regular flights to Girona from airports including Birmingham (BHX), Bournemouth (BOH), Liverpool (LPL), London, Manchester (MAN), Cardiff (CWL) and many more.

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