Inside abandoned Benidorm street with desolate nightclub & rotting golf course

BENIDORM is famed for being a boozy Brit hotspot but one abandoned street in the famous town has been left untouched for years.

Once a thriving tourist haven, Lepanto Street is now lined up with desolate attractions from a deserted nightclub to a rotting mini golf course.

On a quiet warm June day, the street stands out next to some of Benidorm’s busiest areas.

While the nearby tourist hotspots are packed with holidaymakers and locals, this one is frozen in time, with no one strolling through.

Overgrown weeds have taken hold of the strip as graffiti and litter swamp the street and reminisce of construction work remains.

What caught our eye was an old nightclub with a fearsome blue tiger plastered on the front – now abandoned and empty, with locals telling us it used to be called “Leon.”

One of the biggest attractions along the dust-laced street was Cafe Benidorm – known as one of the best and most magical nightclubs in Alicante.

The bar is often seen as a must-visit spot in Spain for stag-do revellers, boozy Brits and even locals.

But since welcoming the likes of Bruno Mars through its front doors the club has been abandoned for several years.

It previously closed down in 2020 during the pandemic and after a brief reopening in August 2021, the entrance lights were turned off for good.

Now it sits in the middle of the strip surrounded by bordered-up shops and restaurants.

Outdated banners and rusting tables and chairs still adorn the outside seating area.

The once bright and shiny welcome signs enticing thousands of tourists are now just dark, lifeless and gloomy.

Elsewhere on the disregarded strip sits reminders of the former tourist haven which attracted rowdy Brits almost every year.

Catering to their most common visitor several British restaurants are scattered across the street.

An aptly named “The Famous British Chippy Benidorm” was once brimming with hungry tourists looking for a bite to eat before heading home.

Today, the black and dusty shutters are all that can be seen alongside the fading pictures of food and scuffed signs.

Next door sits a banner advertising the Premier League from a bygone season with Harry Kane still in a Tottenham kit and Mason Mount donning a 2021 Chelsea strip.

For tourists looking to sober up after a big night out in the clubs and pubs a cute mini golf course was available to play on the cheap.

But since the tourists stopped returning the course’s manager decided to follow swiftly.

Depressing pictures show one of the holes covered in overgrown weeds with masses of rubbish scattered along the greens.

Dead trees can also be seen slumped on the ground with the hole’s main obstacle – a small pink house – crumbling away.