Hotel Rio Park

The Medplaya Hotel Rio Park is a 2* hotel in Benidorm, Spain that caters to British package holiday tourists from Thomson Holidays, being its most popular hotel, accounting, as of 2001, for 10% of all Thomson guests, and having catered to over a million visits from British tourists, more than any other hotel in the world.[1]

Medplaya Hotel Rio Park
General information
LocationBenidorm
Opening17 May 1971
ManagementMed Playa Management
Other information
Number of rooms465
Website
http://www.medplaya.com/hotels/hotel-riopark-benidorm.html

The hotel is several streets away from the beach and is not luxurious, although it does offer a swimming pool and evening entertainment, and boasts high occupancy rates year round, something that has been attributed to the hotel's manager since opening, José Miralpeix.[1][2]

In the 1970s there were a number of outbreaks of Legionnaires Disease at the hotel causing several deaths, eventually identified as originating from the hotel's drinking water system.[3] Despite the apparent bad publicity, bookings at the hotel reportedly increased as more potential visitors recognised the name than the cause of its infamy.[4]

References
  1. Cadwalladr, Carole (2001-08-21). "Spain: What's so brilliant about Benidorm?". Telegraph. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  2. Mayhew, Iain (2008-05-03). "Benidorm has the last laugh". Mirror. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  3. Edelstein, Paul H. "Legionnaires Disease: History and Clinical Findings". Open-access-biology.com. Archived from the original on 2010-06-08. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  4. Glover, Gillian (2004-06-19). "Something of the charmer about him". Scotsman. Retrieved 2015-07-31.
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