Welcome To Los Rayos Del Sol WiFi Available
Biker Facilities
- Covered Parking
- Bike Wash Facility
- Drying Area
- Group Booking Discount
- Routes available
Bail Bonds
Originally required because driving
offences attracted automatic detention. Now no longer a legal requirement
for Spain and many insurance companies stopped issuing them around 2000.
What documentation to carry
Always carry your driving
licence, vehicle registration document (V5), and certificate of motor
insurance. If the vehicle is not registered in your name, it's a good idea
to carry a letter from the registered owner giving you permission to drive.
Driving licences: minimum age at which UK licence holder may drive
temporarily imported car and/or motorcycle (over 75cc) is 18 years. All
valid UK driving licences should be accepted in Spain. This includes the
older all-green style UK licences; although the Spanish authorities may find
these more difficult to understand so drivers may wish to voluntarily update
them to the new plastic style before travelling abroad. Application form
D750 is available from most post offices to obtain a new style (cleaner?)
license.
Tips
- If level of alcohol in bloodstream (0.25 mg/litre) 0.05 per cent or more severe penalties include fines and withdrawal of visitor's driving licence.
- Lights: the use of full headlights in built-up areas is prohibited; use sidelights or dipped headlights depending on how well lit the roads are. This is for cars basically. See biker comment on same subject below.
- Driving of the right: most foreigners can get caught out when pulling out of a car park or petrol station. Think twice whenever you start off. Once on the road it comes quite naturally, but pull onto an empty road from a lay-by and you are likely to forget. 'on-the-spot' fines are levied. Carry lots of cash and a cash card.
- Children in cars: child under 12 cannot travel as front-seat passenger unless using suitable restraint system.
- Seat belts: compulsory for front. Rear-seat occupants to wear seat belts, if fitted.
- Fuel: unleaded petrol (95 and 98 octane) is available. You may find 95 octane is not up to scratch and 98 is better for your engine. No leaded petrol (replacement petrol available). Carrying petrol in cans permitted. Diesel is available. LPG not available (only supplied to public service vehicles. Payment cards (credit/charge/debit) accepted at most filling stations but no automatic pumps.
- Special features: compulsory for visitors to equip their vehicles with a set of replacement bulbs and a warning triangle (only Spanish registered vehicles must be equipped with two warning triangles). This is for cars basically, but a spare headlight and brake light bulb are always helpful in any country.
- Motorway tolls: credit cards are accepted.
Motorcycles
Use of dipped headlights during the day
compulsory. Wearing of crash helmets compulsory.
Motor insurance
Third-party compulsory. Green cards
no longer required, but advise your motor insurer of your trip. Most
insurance companies provide "European" cover free of charge up to a max of
90 days in a year. However this level of cover is the absolute legal minimum
as required by EU regulations. The small print in your policy normally
states this. If you wish to have full extension of comprehensive cover then
you will normally be asked to pay a charge.
Speed limits
Standard legal limits, which may be
varied by signs, for private vehicles without trailers. In built-up areas
31mph (50kph) outside built-up areas 55mph (90kph) on second-category roads,
62mph (100kph) on first-category roads and 74mph (120kph) on motorways.
Minimum speed on motorways 37mph (60kph). On the spot fines are imposed.
Common sense
Beware leaving luggage or other
valuables when paying for fuel. There have been several instances of north
African immigrants stealing from non Spanish tourist in the south. A friend
organised a 20 car rally in 2002 and three cars got mugged. One was even
held up at a traffic light and luggage and valuables taken, two at gasoline
stations. They are after anything that will convert into cash easily /
quickly.
Travel Insurance
Please note that the EHIC card is
not a substitute for comprehensive travel insurance and will not cover you
for cancellations, lost luggage, personal liability etc. Please take out a
comprehensive travel insurance policy when you book your tour 5-year plastic
(credit card style) health care card is now issued by EHIC. Apply for a
5-year card here. If you fall ill or have an accident most of the costs of
treatment and medication are recoverable when visiting EU member countries,
but in order to qualify you will need to produce your EHIC card.
Los Rayos Del Sol
Carrer Mar de Alborán 10
03530, La Nucia, Alicante
Costa Blanca
España
Telephone: 0034 966 897 486
E-Mail: info@alteabedandbreakfast.com
Skype: losrayosdelsol
We speak English: 697427711
Hablamos Español: 672654561