Costa Calida, by which this section of coastline is known, boast the attraction of Europe's largest saltwater lagoon, the Mar Menor, that abound with wildlife particularly at the Northern end of the lagoon which is home of thousands of flamingos during their Autumn migration. The Costs Calida area is also blessed with approximately 3,000 hours of sunshine a year. 
Los Alcazares is a busy Spanish resort on the Mar Menor Lagoon, with a vast array of shops restaurants, cafes and banks. There is a small shopping mall within a 5 minute drive with a small supermarket, a variety of shops, cafes and a cinema. The town also holds a market on both Saturday and Sunday mornings.
A short ride away is the beach area with a tiled, palm-lined promenade running alongside the Mar Menor Lagoon. If you continue along the promenade you will come to a more lively beach area with sun beds and pedalos and further along to Los Alcazeres, a popular resort with a sandy beach, bars, cafes, shops. The whole area is very flat and is ideal for cycling or just promenading.
The area around Los Narejos is full of lively small resorts and historical towns. From Los Alcazares pier you can take boat trips to nearby islands, view the Mar Menor by night,or perhaps take a BBQ trip. Apart from Roda Golf you have Torre-Pacheso which is 12 minutes away by car and La Manga Golf, which is 15 minutes by car plus many other well known golf courses within easy reach.
The resort lies just 25 mins drive from the beautiful cosmopolitan city of Murcia with its many restaurants, tapas bars, designer clothes shops, baroque cathedral and bull fighting ring and the largest shopping mall in Europe.
Torrevieja is within a 20 minute drive and is surrounded by salt lakes which are home to a variety of wildlife including pink flamingos which are protected within the La Mata nature reserve. The town has a large marina, fun fair, promenande which is bustling from early evening with street artists and stalls, a harbour walk and abundant bars, shops and restaurants. Going north Alicante is worth a look as are the many beaches and bays all along the Costa Blanca and of course Benidorm is only an hour away with it's vast selection of attractions including the Terra Mitica theme park, Mundomar sea life attraction and Aqualandia water park Águilas. The last town in Murcia before you enter Almería, noteworthy for its beaches, its historic carnival and its high average annual temperature (25ºC). Lorca. Yes, Lorca is very much an inland city, but a number of fine beaches fall within its territory as a borough, especially those to the south of Cabo Cope (yes, Cape Cope, I'm not making it up). Mazarrón. An attractive little place within the municipal boundaries of which lie most of Murcia's nudist beaches. Cartagena. See Spain and Portugal for Visitors' Murcia page for information on the city of Cartagena, but the borough is much larger than that and includes a great deal of the Murcian Mediterranean as well as the south of the Mar Menor and of La Manga, including the fishing village turned resort at Cabo de Palos, at the southern end of La Manga La Manga, the most important tourist centre in the region, stretches between the Mar Menor and the Mediterranean. It consists of a narrow, sandy spit of land with 22km of double beaches and between 100 and 800m in width. | 
