Family Beachfront luxury holidays at an affordable price

Playa Principe Beachside family holiday apartment with stunning sea views, The apartment is 12.5 kilometres down the La Manga peninsular overlooking both the 'Mar Menor' and 'Mediterranean Sea'. La Manga due to its unusual geography is a 22 kilometre strip of land 300 metres wide at its narrowest and 1.5 kilometres at its widest. La Manga on the Costa Calida (warm coast) averages 320 days sunshine a year and encloses the largest natural sea water lagoon (Mar Menor) in Europe.

Urbanization Playa Principe are excellent front line beach holiday rental properties in a prime position on the La Manga stripabout 1km from the Tomas Maestre marina (largest on the Mar Menor).

There is a commercial centre along the entrance to the marina with shops, supermarket, banks and the marina itself is very beautiful and offers an excellent range of bars and restaurants offering many types of cuisinefrom French, Greek, and Mexican and of course Spanish restaurants have contributed to the areas cosmopolitan reputation.From the marina there is ferry service operating across the Mar Menor from to Santiago de Ribera with its permanent street market on Wednesdays, The ferry operates approximately a two hourly service and takes 20 minutes. Bicycles are permitted on board for a small extra charge, during the summer, the beaches offer a variety of water sports, sailing, powerboat trips and scuba diving. 20 minutes from La Manga Golf Club

Accommodation and facilities

Air Conditioning-Hot & Cold

Bedrooms - 1 Double with en-suite and 2 twin bedrooms and a family Bathroom with shower & bidet toilet and a separate w/c with wash basin and toilet

Reception: living/dining room , With patio doors leading to the balcony

Kitchen - Hob, Freezer, Iron and board, Full Oven, Fridge, Toaster, Washing Machine, Microwave,

Leisure - English Satellite TV Channels,Books, Radio, CD player, DVD player. General - House linen,

Outdoors - Balcony with patio furniture,

La Manga Del Mar Menor Costa Calida/Murcia

Costa Calida means 'WARM COAST' and is situated to the south of the Costa Blanca, on the east Mediterranean coast, starting with the Province of Murcia and runs south towards Almeria. Costa Calida has breathtaking mountains, fertile agricultural land and miles of beautiful Blue Flag beaches making this a very typically un spoilt part of Spain. The weather on the Costa Calida is the best in Spain .

Winters are warmer and drier than any other part of Spain making the climate not only enjoyable but also beneficial from a health point of view. The average year round temperature is 20°C and there are approximately 320 days of sunshine per year, low humidity and very low rainfall making it a near perfect climate. The Costa Calida offers you the very best of Spain - without the expensive price tag.

The Mar Menor

The Mar Menor (or 'small sea') located on the Costa Calida, is the largest natural saltwater lagoon in Europe and waters sustain temperatures of approximately 17 degrees centigrade average per year. It is a unique spot offering clean water with peaceful, tide- free bathing on pleasant shores, whatever the time of year. The Mar Menor was created a little over 1000 years ago. Originally a safe little bay, offering shelter for even large ships, it became a natural lagoon when sediments from the sea built up on a small underwater mountain range and closed off the inlet with a sandbar. On its Western side is mainland Spain , and on its Eastern side is La Manga de Mar Menor, a strip of land,

The La Manga Strip or Sleeve

The descriptive name of La Manga ("the sleeve") refers to an interesting geographical layout which has become one of the symbols that best identifies the coast of Murcia as a tourist resort: a chain that stretches along approximately 24 km from Cabo de Palos to the Punta del Mojón, and is the natural limit of the salt water lake known as the Mar Menor. Originally, what is now known as La Manga del Mar Menor was a bay open to the Mediterranean; at either end, volcanic reefs gradually held back the sand and sediment that was dragged along by the sea currents to form a sandy column of dunes and rock vegetation and long beaches in contact with two seas: the Mediterranean and the Menor.

La Manga is a narrow piece of land with a width that varies between 30 m and 500m. It is cut off by natural channels that keep the two seas in contact with each other; the so-called golas allow water from the Mediterranean into the lake. As such, the space was untouched until the 60s, when La Manga was discovered as a tourist resort and underwent a transformation which included the urbanisation of the area and the construction of tourist infrastructures.