Parking in Moraira

Moraira is a small, upmarket, deliberately low-rise resort on the Costa Blanca, and its parking is refreshingly easy: unlike a city, most of it is free. A ring of free car parks surrounds the town and the beach — the big Aitana lot right by the sand (with a boardwalk into town), the reliable Avinguda Madrid lot in the centre, and the huge free lot on the Moraira–Calp road — so for a normal car on a normal day you can almost always park for nothing within a short walk of the seafront. There are a few local catches worth knowing. Many of the free beach lots now have height barriers around 2.2m, which means campervans and tall vehicles can’t get in — motorhomes should head instead to the El Portet car park, which is paid but doubles as a proper motorhome area with hook-ups, fresh water and grey-water disposal. Friday is market day, when the big central free lot becomes the weekly market and the town fills up, so park further out and walk in. Some free lots are unpaved (muddy after rain) or a little potholed, and the most central lot, Senillar by the beach, is free much of the year but can ask for a ticket and is firmly enforced. The good news for choosing a base: Moraira’s hotels mostly make parking simple too — the Swiss Moraira and Ritual de Terra have free on-site parking, Hotel Mañet has a secure car park at the door, and central Hotel Buigues sits right beside the free public lots. Below, every car park lists what it really costs and when, with walking times, plus hotels chosen for how easy they make arriving by car.