Benidorm City Council will enhance its cleaning, lifeguard, and security services on its beaches beginning Sunday, June 1st, to commemorate the start of the summer season. This special operation will run as usual until September 30th. Mónica Gómez, Councillor for Beaches and the Environment, stated that Benidorm’s beaches are among the few on the Spanish coast that provide these services year-round. These services are tailored to the needs and flow of users each season, and during the summer, they result in a large increase in staff.”
According to Gómez, the rescue and lifeguard service will expand its hours, operating from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. in June and 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. in July, August, and September, respectively.
According to the councillor, the squad will consist of 44 individuals per day, divided as follows: nine lifeguards at Levante Beach and nine at Poniente Beach; two lifeguards at Mal Pas Beach; and one lifeguard at Cala del Ti Ximo and another at l’Almadrava Beach. They will be joined by five nurses at first-aid stations, a beach manager and a coordinator to boost land-based surveillance measures, and a lifeboat with a skipper and a rescuer on watch from the sea. There will also be four additional ambulance attendants.
In addition to this workforce, there will be nine lifeguards on duty at the three accessible beaches: three at Levante Beach, three at Parque de Elche, and three more at La Cala. These locations will also extend their hours beginning Sunday, from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., to make bathing more convenient for individuals with mobility challenges. Furthermore, the number of operable first-aid stations has been expanded to five and scattered throughout the entire coastline, as has the number of ambulances, which has climbed from two to four.
Benidorm City Council will also increase its police presence on the beaches and nearby areas during the specified days. To that purpose, the 32 officers who constitute the Local Police Beach Section will be available to patrol on foot on the sand, with the two newly acquired quad bikes, and on scooters in the promenade areas. The Levante and Poniente districts will also see the deployment of patrol cars. Similarly, the Local Police boat, as well as the one owned by the firm that holds the concession for complete beach management, will be operational, and the Local Police Air Unit will undertake coastal surveillance from the air. The National Police Force plans to add troops for the summer campaign.
The Councillor for Beaches has stated that the cleaning service will increase its staff to a minimum of 24 workers. As a result, there will be two manual cleaning shifts at the three beaches: one in the morning from 6:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and another at night from 8:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., with a total of eight and sixteen people, respectively. In addition, mechanical cleaning using tractors and sieves will take place on the shore between 3:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., and on the remaining beaches between 10:30 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.
Similarly, during the busy season, the sand cleaning will be supplemented with sea cleaning by the Pelican boat, which has its skipper.
In terms of beach libraries, the one in Levante will be joined by two in Poniente beginning June 1, all of which will be open Tuesday through Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Furthermore, the blue rope that has been used for several years in the summer to delimit the promenade area along the shore has been erected, ensuring that this strip, which is approximately 6 metres wide, is open for bathers to travel through.
According to Gómez, “the beaches are our main tourist attraction, and that’s why every year we allocate significant municipal resources to provide excellent service to the thousands of people who visit them every day.” “Efforts”, he pointed out, “are recognised in satisfaction surveys and in the various demanding quality certifications that Benidorm’s beaches have earned.”
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