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Four weeks here, properly planned.

An editorial guide to coliving and long stays between Dénia and Alicante — what the towns are like to live in out of season, and what the houses are actually like inside. Nothing on this site is for sale.

Start with the townsWhat coliving is

No rankings, no scores

Spaces are listed by geography. Nothing here is rated against anything else, because a four-week decision is about fit, not about a number.

How this works

A guide written for people staying a season, not a weekend.

Most people planning a long stay here have never heard the word coliving. So the site explains the model first, then describes each house honestly — including who it does not suit — and lets you decide.

  • Every space treated the same
  • No paid placements, ever
  • Dated, because nothing here is evergreen
  • Written for four weeks, not four nights
The coast, town by town

Five towns, north to south

Five towns between Dénia and Alicante, and they are less alike than one region's name suggests. Different rainfall, different transport, different amounts of February.

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The marina and the breakwater seen from the castle hill, town roofs below and the sea beyond
North coast
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Dénia

A working harbour town with a castle in the middle of it, a mountain behind it and ferries to the Balearics leaving from the end of the street.

The northern gateway to the Costa Blanca, and a self-sufficient small town — a real port with a real winter, rather than a resort that empties in October. The Montgó massif sits behind the town and the ferry terminal sits in front of it.

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The Arenal bay seen from above — palms in the foreground, the working port on the headland opposite, apartment blocks behind the beach
North coast
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Xàbia

Jávea

Three separate towns wearing one name — an inland old town, a working port, and a beach strip — with coves between them.

South of Dénia around the Cap de la Nau headland, Xàbia is a strongly international town, and a spread-out one. The old town sits inland, the port a kilometre away, the Arenal beach strip further round again; which one you live in decides what your stay is like.

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The blue-tiled dome and bell tower of the church above the whitewashed houses of the old town
Central coast
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Altea

A whitewashed old town stacked up a hill under a blue-tiled dome, with Benidorm's skyline visible along the bay and nothing else in common with it.

A pretty town, and one often described as artistic, which is accurate and also the whole marketing department. Pebble beaches rather than sand, a steep old town, and a quieter register than its neighbours — Benidorm is ten minutes down the tram line and feels like another country.

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One of the two beaches from the Mirador del Castell, the high-rise front running along it and the sierra behind
Central coast
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Benidorm

A high-rise city on two beaches that divides opinion on sight, and which works year-round almost by accident.

The one everybody has an opinion about. Dense, vertical and unapologetic — and because it was built for volume, it has the infrastructure and the transport that the pretty towns along the bay do not. Whether that trade is worth it depends entirely on what you want from four weeks.

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Santa Bárbara castle on its rock above the city roofs, with the port and the sea beyond
South coast
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Alicante

A provincial capital with a castle on a rock above it — a working city that happens to have a beach, and the only place on this coast with a mainline railway and a major airport.

The regional hub, and a straightforward place for a first long stay on the Costa Blanca. A city of a few hundred thousand people with its own economy, a university, an airport with routes across Europe and fast trains to Madrid — so the practical questions that dominate the smaller towns mostly do not arise here.

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Where people stay

Coliving spaces

How big each house is, how social, who it suits and who it plainly does not. Including the ones that have closed.

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Dénia

CO-CO – COliving & COworking Costa Blanca

A five-room villa on the hillside between the Montgó and the sea, run as a small house rather than a hostel.

Five private rooms, all doubles, three converting to twinsFibre over a property-wide mesh, per the operatorA four-metre table facing the sea, plus a separate silent room
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Beyond the desk

Experiences and events

Markets, walks, water and food worth shutting the laptop for — including the ones that are better in February than in August.

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Community

The weekly coworking meetup in Alicante

Example content. A recurring, informal gathering of people who work remotely from the city — the kind of thing that decides whether a month somewhere is sociable or solitary.

Food

Shopping the covered market in Dénia

Coast

Swimming at the Granadella

Food

The grape harvest in the Jalón valley

From the coast

Insights

What a month here is actually like, one stay at a time, and what has been changing on this coast lately.

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Field report

February in Dénia, from a desk

Example content. What a month in the northern Costa Blanca is like out of season — the light, the closed shutters, and the two things that decide whether the month works.

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Regional

The tram line is the argument for Benidorm

Example content. The case for basing a long stay in the town most people rule out on sight — made on transport and infrastructure rather than on taste.

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Advocacy note

Who the coast is being built for

Example content. Long-stay visitors are now part of the housing question on this coast, and a site that recommends places to stay does not get to pretend otherwise.

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Not sure where to start?

Read what coliving actually is, then look at the towns. Between them they answer most of the questions a four-week stay raises.

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