Thread: Sunbed Hire/Umberella Hire on Beaches

Hi....
I am hoping someone can help me?
Can anyone point me in the right direction of who is in charge of Sunbed/Hire beaches. I have tried to get in touch with local authorities in Spain, but with no sucess .
Thanks in advance

Phew , you are touching on a very tough area. Yes beaches are owned by the local councils. But the rights to use the beaches for kiosks,sunbeds, pedalos jetskis etc are normally passed through spanish families. It works like this it is a leasehold on the beach, 1 year up to ten years, a family / company puts in a sealed bid to the council for a beach. If they are sucessful they then run that beach in the respect of what activities (approved by town hall ) go on the beach. These people who own the leasehold don't normally run a business on the beach, they just rent the spaces to other business's and go around collecting the rents.
The first step would be to find a business running on whatever beach you are interested in and then try to get to the boss of that company and then ask him who rents the space to him.
Can't tell you more than that really. It's a very mafia (ish) business

Hello michelle123, welcome to the Absolute Spain Forum. I am not on the costas nor near a beach that does hires, they take their own where I go so no help sorry. I would guess the local ayuntamientos would be the place, have you had no replies or cannot get to the right person ?


Ahh well done ELJEFE :-)

Waw thats really interesting....Would that be the same people who maintains the beds and umberellas? Any idea who were I would find any of these people (except for going up to them on the beach!)
Thankyou so much .x

What a lovely friendly forum!

It looks like a trip to the beach then. When you are there don't presume the guy taking the money for the sunbeds is the boss, that's normally not the case. You can ask in the kiosks etc. The cost of a small beach to lease for a year is approx 20,000 euros.