Ostende Beach / Urdiales
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Playa Ostende, located in the municipality of Castro Urdiales, is a beautiful beach offering a unique blend of relaxation and activities. The beach features:
- Clean and well-maintained: Users praise its cleanliness and regular maintenance.
- Great amenities: Facilities include showers, public restrooms, and a nearby promenade lined with bars and restaurants.
- Stunning views: The beach is framed by cliffs, providing scenic vistas of the ocean and surrounding areas.
- Calm waves: The water is generally tranquil, making it suitable for families, although some warn about the depth near the shore.
- Urban beach: It is conveniently located near local amenities, ideal for visitors wishing to explore Castro Urdiales.
However, there are also some drawbacks:
- Many users reported that the sand is not fine but rather consists of small pebbles, which can be uncomfortable.
- Occasional complaints about littering and the behavior of other beachgoers.
- Some visitors noted that the waves can become rough, and the currents may be strong at times.
Overall, Playa Ostende is a lovely urban beach that caters to a variety of activities and relaxation options, perfect for a day out.
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Below you will find 28 reviews on this topic from people who have recently visited Playa Ostende / Urdiales.
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Fantastic experience: Very calm and parking, very important
Positive experience: Beautiful beach right in Castro Urdiales, with summer parking regulated by ORA, so we have to pay. In the background, you can see the buildings of this town, which are its marvel: the castle and the church.
Positive experience: Somewhat small. It's not sand, but rather something like very fine gravel. The water is quite dirty, at least in the area where I was. Lots of plastics and also quite a bit of seaweed. There is a lifeguard, a nearby food area, and a somewhat small blue zone parking for the size of the beach.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach with good access. Dogs are allowed from October to April.
Fantastic experience: Quiet beach, even with people, you could only hear the sea. Good access for reduced mobility. Very clean. The sea has barely any waves, I swim very well.
Below you will find 13 reviews on this topic from people who have recently visited Playa Ostende / Urdiales.
Negative experience: MANY PETS. Rough and dirty artificial sand. The promenade is pathetic with more loose dogs running on the beach and promenade, watch out for children and the elderly. Don't forget to look at the ground... don't look at the horizon or the sea views, because you might step on some poop.
Negative experience: Very pleasant volcanic gray sand to walk on without shoes.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach with good access. Dogs are allowed from October to April.
Positive experience: Los usuarios no son muy limpios. Suelen dejar todo tipo de restos. Otros muchos usuarios han convertido la playa en un gran arenal para las excreciones de los perros. Con el buen tiempo hay multitud de botellones que además de la ingesta de alcohol, en muchas ocasiones por menores, los restos de todo tipo de embases quedan esparcidos a modo de testimonio del paso de la muchedumbre.
Negative experience: No se puede bajar con perros. Figura como playa con mascotas permitido, pero al llegar solo se puede estar sobre un acantilado sin espacio para sentarse. Es una linda playa pero SIN MASCOTA
Below you will find 61 reviews on this topic from people who have recently visited Playa Ostende / Urdiales.
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Fantastic experience: Simple beach in its splendor. There are usually people playing paddle and families enjoying the day. Fine sand.
Positive experience: A stony sand beach
Positive experience: It's not sand, it's pebbles.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach with coarse sand and several rocky coves that create an incredible landscape. The shore is surrounded by a large promenade with places to have a drink.
Fantastic experience: Urban beach of Castro Urdiales, the sand is not fine and the waters are deep very close to the shore.
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Fantastic experience: A beautiful place with a very nice elevated promenade, which offers stunning views of the sea, bars, restaurants, shops, and spectacular views of the cathedral and the stone bridge.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach. Worth visiting. Castro Urdiales is a beach town near Bilbao and it's not bad. Great for walking around and enjoying. Good variety of bars and restaurants.
Fantastic experience: Lovely blue flag beach with lots of restaurants nearby. Lovely rest on the way to Bilbao
Positive experience: Muy buena playa está muy bien para ir con niños hay columpios al lado d la playa también está el paseo para ir al puerto . Sales d la playa y tienes zona d bares y restaurantes hay ambiente
Positive experience: Las calas no son lo único reseñable. Pues hay un entorno con parque para juegos infantiles y restaurantes en la zona, así como un polideportivo. Un buen sitio para un plan de día o fin de semana. Buenas conexiones a través de diferentes líneas de autobuses.
Below you will find 9 reviews on this topic from people who have recently visited Playa Ostende / Urdiales.
Negative experience: The lifeguards were really bad, honestly not very bright.
Fantastic experience: Very clean beach, with lifeguards patrolling continuously, there are public restrooms and showers for the body and feet, we loved it. Also available to keep bicycles safe from the weather, a very good idea.
Positive experience: Somewhat small. It's not sand, but rather something like very fine gravel. The water is quite dirty, at least in the area where I was. Lots of plastics and also quite a bit of seaweed. There is a lifeguard, a nearby food area, and a somewhat small blue zone parking for the size of the beach.
Fantastic experience: Playa con un pequeño mirador en castro urdiales. Dispone de socorristas, duchas, pequeña zona de pícnic, eso si a pleno sol.
Positive experience: Playa cerca del centro de Castro Urdiales con servicio de socorrista y duchas. Bares cerca. No es de arena natural sino artificial (gravilla) por lo que es un poco polvorienta. Agua transparente. Es una playa más bien pequeña y cerca hay piscinas naturales.
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Fantastic experience: A nice beach. Cleaned daily. Baywatched. Showers available.
Fantastic experience: Quite clean and with services; the only downside is that it covers you as soon as you get in.
Fantastic experience: Very clean beach, with lifeguards patrolling continuously, there are public restrooms and showers for the body and feet, we loved it. Also available to keep bicycles safe from the weather, a very good idea.
Fantastic experience: Urban beach of Castro Urdiales, the sand is not fine and the waters are deep very close to the shore.
Positive experience: Very close to the old town, it's not too big but the color of the water is a wonder.
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Fantastic experience: Bonita playa con piedra pequeña en vez de arena, y un oleaje para los amantes de surf genial¡ 100% recomendable, recomiendo el paseo por la costa hasta el cementerio de ballenas tiene unas vistas preciosas
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Positive experience: Buena opción para un baño agua limpia y cristalina. Lleva gafas de piscina o mejor aún equipo de snorkel, verás muchas variedades de peces, de todos los tamaños,. Buen lugar para tomar el sol , no te la recomiendo para pasear, la arena es gruesa blanda y está inclinada lo que la hace poco recomendable,
Fantastic experience: Playa muy grande y bonita. Se puede hacer snorkel entre las rocas.
Fantastic experience: Playa perfecta para nadar/pádel/kayac. Tiene una línea de boyas que cruzan la playa. También hay unas pequeñas cuevas donde se puede hacer snorkel. Si el agua está clara se pueden ver peces a lo largo de toda la bahía.
Fantastic experience: A me pare la migliore spiaggia di Castro Urdiales per la vista sul ponte romano e le grotte sottostanti che fanno venire voglia di fare snorkeling. Completamente attrezzata eppure libera per tutti
Fantastic experience: Es una playa que no tiene la arena fina, pues es artificial pero tiene otros encantos: nunca está saturada, olas justas ni grandes ni pequeñas, muy buen lugar para hacer esnórquel y una bahía preciosa, siempre voy a esta playa desde hace más de 30 años me encanta.
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Fantastic experience: Playa limpia. Estuvimos un día de olas considerables. Divertida. No es de arena fina, son como piedras pequeñas, pero se está cómodo.
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Ostende Beach / Urdiales: Reviews
Positive experience: Friendly people and good coffee recommended
Fantastic experience: Very pretty
Fantastic experience: The sea is always betting on a winning horse, a delight for the eyes and the senses!
Positive experience: Nice place to take a walk and have a drink at a café.
Fantastic experience: Simple beach in its splendor. There are usually people playing paddle and families enjoying the day. Fine sand.
Fantastic experience: Total relaxation
Positive experience: A stony sand beach
Positive experience: It's not sand, it's pebbles.
Negative experience: The lifeguards were really bad, honestly not very bright.
Positive experience: Beautiful artificial beach. Good waves and space to enjoy the waves.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach with coarse sand and several rocky coves that create an incredible landscape. The shore is surrounded by a large promenade with places to have a drink.
Fantastic experience: A nice beach. Cleaned daily. Baywatched. Showers available.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful walk along the sea.
Fantastic experience: Quite clean and with services; the only downside is that it covers you as soon as you get in.
Fantastic experience: Very clean beach, with lifeguards patrolling continuously, there are public restrooms and showers for the body and feet, we loved it. Also available to keep bicycles safe from the weather, a very good idea.
Fantastic experience: Urban beach of Castro Urdiales, the sand is not fine and the waters are deep very close to the shore.
Positive experience: Free beach for everyone with showers, friendly and nice people.
Positive experience: Very close to the old town, it's not too big but the color of the water is a wonder.
Fantastic experience: A water of a crazy blue and a truly relaxing setting.
Positive experience: Sandy beach with pebble-sized stones. Clean and with polished rocks. Pleasant.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful and long beach with all services. It is integrated right between the cliffs.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful sandy beach just a few minutes' walk from the church and castle. Nice. Clean and spacious sandy beach with a few rocks for extra local color. Showers are available at various places along the beach.
Positive experience: Very nice, not too crowded
Fantastic experience: Very clean and quiet beach
Fantastic experience: Very calm and parking, very important
Fantastic experience: Clean and very pleasant the bathroom.
Positive experience: Very beautiful beach and not crowded.
Positive experience: Beautiful beach right in Castro Urdiales, with summer parking regulated by ORA, so we have to pay. In the background, you can see the buildings of this town, which are its marvel: the castle and the church.
Fantastic experience: Artificial beach, the 'sand' can be somewhat bothersome. There are bars and some shops nearby. There's also a playground and a very nice promenade.
Fantastic experience: It is a spectacular beach. Clean, large, sheltered, with a beautiful promenade and very quiet.
Fantastic experience: A beautiful place with a very nice elevated promenade, which offers stunning views of the sea, bars, restaurants, shops, and spectacular views of the cathedral and the stone bridge.
Fantastic experience: I loved it, it's very quiet, with views of the coves and you can take a walk to them.
Fantastic experience: Ideal for taking a dip
Fantastic experience: Beach and promenade with spectacular water and color
Positive experience: The most well-known beach in Castro Urdiales
Positive experience: Good views but the sand on this artificial beach feels like stepping into a construction site..
Fantastic experience: Very beautiful. The water and the sand are very clean.
Fantastic experience: Very pretty and well kept
Positive experience: It's nice for a walk but very cold; you can't swim even in summer.
Fantastic experience: I love Castro, and the Ostende beach, a bit uncomfortable for walking, but it is in such a spectacular environment that for me it is worth visiting.
Positive experience: Somewhat small. It's not sand, but rather something like very fine gravel. The water is quite dirty, at least in the area where I was. Lots of plastics and also quite a bit of seaweed. There is a lifeguard, a nearby food area, and a somewhat small blue zone parking for the size of the beach.
Fantastic experience: A lovely place, super clean, the service was great
Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach. Worth visiting. Castro Urdiales is a beach town near Bilbao and it's not bad. Great for walking around and enjoying. Good variety of bars and restaurants.
Fantastic experience: Perfect for exercising and walking your pet.
Positive experience: Very pretty, the only thing is the stones. It hurts a lot on the feet if you don't wear flip-flops.
Negative experience: MANY PETS. Rough and dirty artificial sand. The promenade is pathetic with more loose dogs running on the beach and promenade, watch out for children and the elderly. Don't forget to look at the ground... don't look at the horizon or the sea views, because you might step on some poop.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach, beautiful promenade, magnificent view of the ocean.
Negative experience: Very pleasant volcanic gray sand to walk on without shoes.
Fantastic experience: This beach is in Castro Urdiales. Many people come here in the summer and spring; it's very nice. But when the weather is bad, almost no one goes to the beach.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach in summer, cozy atmosphere, ideal if you have any health issues since there is a thermal spa water nearby in Cantabria.
Positive experience: Beautiful beach!
Fantastic experience: Very nice and beautiful
Positive experience: A very pleasant place, a beautiful beach with clean and very clear water.
Positive experience: Much quieter than the other beach, and easier/less busy places to eat. Recommended
Fantastic experience: A turquoise water that instantly makes you want to swim in it. I highly recommend it ✌️
Fantastic experience: Fantastic beach. Sometimes strong currents but lovely sea.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach with good access. Dogs are allowed from October to April.
Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach. There are caves to visit while snorkeling at high tide. And also nice caves to see at low tide. The photos are unfiltered.
Fantastic experience: Quiet beach, even with people, you could only hear the sea. Good access for reduced mobility. Very clean. The sea has barely any waves, I swim very well.
Fantastic experience: Lovely blue flag beach with lots of restaurants nearby. Lovely rest on the way to Bilbao
Fantastic experience: Great beach with plenty of space for kids
Fantastic experience: Great beach, really clean and not crowded.
Positive experience: Beautiful beach, with very clean water. End of September no people.
Positive experience: Large beach not too crowded, with bars and restaurants nearby. Good walking at the west end
Positive experience: Great...but they do not want dogs from May till September.. Strange..because in May with good weather it was empty..
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