Is there a link with a map, perchance?

it is located between the toll road and the europa

Is there a link with a map, perchance?

Your wish is my command

Here are some frames off the video that I filmed last April, so the bus station was still under construction.
I was filming from a moving coach and obviously through glass.
What I was actually filming, was the new Torre Kronos which is the skyscraper on the left of this photo with the crane still in situ, and the bus station is in the frame on the far right.





HERE is a link and map to the new Torre Kronos which will then give you an idea of where the bus station is....
Or click this link HERE and pan in, following the Avda Europa north, and one of the little blue symbols is the Torre Kronos (click on it and it will tell you) ...I think the land allocated for the bus station can be seen just passed the Kronos.

In terms of a simpler map, roughly you are looking at the area I have marked with a red box.



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My personal opinion"¦and it is only my opinion.
That whilst a new bus station is a welcomed service for Benidorm, they would have been better building a brand new railway station instead, as the existing railway line runs east/west not far from the new bus station.
A new railway station and upgrading of the tracks, which could have run straight to Alicante city and the airport, would have been far more beneficial....then do as they propose to do now and run shuttle buses into downtown Benidorm.

This is where Malaga airport steals the potential tourists from Benidorm because you can walk out of the airport and for a few euros, board a train nearly every half hour and go down the coast to the various resorts .a rail link from Alicante city could have taken you further into Spain.

Of course the taxi drivers wouldn't like it or anyone else making a living driving to and from the airport, and years ago when this idea was proposed, the taxi drivers were "up -in-arms" over it, but the amount of traffic that it would have taken off the motorway could have made a big impact and enticed more tourists to Benidorm, who may at the moment be "put off" because of the distance of Benidorm from the airport and consequently the cost of transfers to be added onto the price of the holiday, especially when going just for a short break.

The plan for the existing railway has lost me completely, with trams tramtrens and trens.

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We are in Benidorm at the moment and have gone to Ave europe to book a ticket on the bus to the airport for the 31st Oct. One person in the office said we would have to go to the new bus station and the other said we could still catch it on the Ave?. Also on the Ave ticket office it as a notice saying that this office will close for good on the 4th November. So I will go to the Ave on the 31st well before are bus is due just in case we have to go to new station. Weather not to good at the moment. Exhange rate 141.

The new bus station will be open 24 hours a day/365 days a year and it can be accessed easily from the centre of Benidorm through the bus routes 41 and 11, which have a frequency of 30 minutes in the morning and 60 in the afternoon, which is in addition to the taxi service in Benidorm.
here in spanish

Sanji

Many thanks Sanji

Excessively helpful as always

I saw that building not long ago from a distance, it looked incredibly swish, I assumed it was somesort of Government building!

I saw that building not long ago from a distance, it looked incredibly swish, I assumed it was somesort of Government building!

The building also incorporates a hotel, but its opening has been delayed. Problems between council, developers and other hoteliers resulted in delays to the entire project, but there was enormous pressure for the opening of the bus station to go ahead now before the hotel is ready.

David

Hiya David.

Is that the hotel in question on the second photo.?

Sanji x

Sorry, I have no idea Sanji, I haven't seen many photos of the new complex so far. Most of the photos used by the media just showed a bus !!

David

Try this hun
It looks like it to me...what do you think.? maybe a different angle.?
HERE



Sanji x

Yep, that could perhaps be it. That would be an ideal place for a busman's holiday.
David

That would be an ideal place for a busman's holiday

Yeh, I can just picture you David



I'm going to hide...pronto

Sanji x

i hear there is to be no coaches allowed in benidorm anymore, when you are picked up at the airport you are then taken to the new bus station where you are then to make your own way to the hotel can anyone confirm this please

Hi woolley .. the new bus station will serve regional, national and international coach services, including the Benidorm/Alicante Airport scheduled coach service.

Local bus services and and tour operators' airport/resort transfer services are not affected.

David

A word of advice. Don't even THINK about trying to walk to the new bus station. Even if the distance (uphill) doesn't kill you, one of the drivers being sent odd ways by the police to avoid the endless roadworks will. I was told to drive on a pavement to get past a traffic jam!! Other people were going the wrong way round a roundabout, it was absolute chaos!

A word of advice. Don't even THINK about trying to walk to the new bus station

There must be some unfit people on this forum, we walked from the Hotel Regente and back and I bet some of you are half my age.
Seriously, it is a trek and if I had suitcases, then no-way, but if you go up Avda Europa and follow the road, then you are going the long way around.
There is a quicker and easier way that takes you under the tunnel where the existing railway line runs and it's a more pleasant walk, rather than walking by the side of the busy in-route to Benidorm.
I'm not very good with street names, so, I look on a map after lunch to at least give you some idea.

I never realised just how close the existing railway line is to the new bus station, so what they need now is a new railway station next to the bus station, running straight to the airport...oh well, I can dream !

I was going to make a video of the new bus station, yes I did film it for you all, how sad is that.? but I have decided to take some pictures off the footage instead...they won't be camera perfect as they have been extracted from a video.
Anyway, they will give you an idea, plus picture of the cafe inside and some of the places the buses are going to.










Sanji

Thank god for Google Earth ...it shows the little "parks" we passed.
Google have updated their site and the new bus station is now in the picture, instead of a view of the waste land.

I wasn't sure, but now I am.....
We walked down Avda de Belgica, crossed Avda de la Communidad Valencia and then back onto Avda Europa, from there we cut across town via Calle Kennedy and walked by the outdoor market and then up to the hotel Regente via Avda de Zamora.

If you zoom in, on google earth although on my version Avda de Belgica is not highlighted, you will see right at the top of the street the short-cut under the tunnel that I'm talking about.

It's far more pleasant walking up/down than the busy road and although most maps show roads as being dead straight, the road sends you away from the bus station and if on foot, then you have to go to the next roundabout to be able to get off that route and come back on yourself....pictures 1 & 2 were taken from the road and I'm certain I had zoomed in.

If you look at picture 6, where those people are stood, is the way the buses enter and leave the station.
With your back to the station in the same position as the people in the photo, cross the road straight ahead, then walk right , keep on that side of the road and within a few yards is the tunnel under the railway line, that brings you out at the very top of Avda de Belgica.

Hope this helps

PS: Personally, I wouldn't do the short-cut at night.

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Just a little warning about the new bus station.

My SO needed to go to Villajoyosa on Wednesday. He went in plenty of time to queue for his ticket and catch the bus. Well, there was only one window open for business and the were helping someone who obviously didn't know what they wanted. He got there at 10 past the hour, the bus leaves every hour on the half hour. The queue was not moving at all, the staff didn't open up another window, the bus driver refused to take money from the passengers - he insisted on a ticket from the booth. The bus left on time at 14:30 (don't quote me on this bit it might have been later) but it was empty. The driver left 12 people stranded because they couldn't buy a ticket!!!!

The daft thing is that the driver takes money from people who get on at other bus stops, just not the actual station.

Moral of the story

Make sure you get your ticket in plenty of time, specially if you're going to the airport.