Playa de los Cárabos — Attraction in Melilla

Salvo la Hípica, las playas de Melilla no son nada del otro jueves, aunque están cerca de todo, es relativamente fácil aparcar y las sombrillas son gratis. En esta la arena es gruesa, sales con los pies como si hubieses estado mezclando cemento. Por supuesto todo lleno de colillas y, muchas veces, de sedales y anzuelos porque de madrugada pescan ahí. El agua está caliente debido a que no se renueva, los diques de Melilla y Nador casi se tocan y a punto están de formar una laguna artificial. En invierno es un buen sitio para ir a correr, ya que es la mitad del paseo marítimo. Si hay temporal habrá arena en la acera. En verano abren muchos carrillos o quioscos de helados y chucherías, Frigo o Nestlé. No hay más marcas. Es la zona más comercial y hay varios restaurantes y cafeterías, bancos, un chino etc. ENGLISH With La Hípica as an exception, Melilla beaches are not great, in the spite of the fact that they are near of almost everything and parking is easy. The umbrellas are for free. The sand is heavy, after a walk there your feet become dirty as a bricklayer worker mixing concrete. All is plenty of fag-ends, and many times of fishing lines and hooks because of the fishers that spend the nights there. The water is warm, but dirty. In the winter is a good place to go jogging, as it is in the middle of the seafront. With rough weather, the sand spots the sidewalk. In the summer a lot of kiosks (kiosk is a Basque word, it’s like a news-stand which sells ice creams and sweats instead of newspapers), all of the sells ice creams of Nestle or Frigo, no more brands. It’s the most commercial zone of the seafront, with several restaurants, cafés, banks or a “chino”, that is, a shop owned by a Chinese where you can buy all kind of staff, low quality...

One of Melilla's main beaches. A good stretch of sandy beach with facilities in the summer season. Like a lot of things in Melilla it could do with a little bit of updating and more control of the littering. The coffee shops and restaurants behind the beach are very dated with no variation...

A beautiful beach with calm, shallow water. There are free installed parasols for shade and sunbeds that cost €2.50 for the day - take one and pay the man when he comes by. Very calm atmosphere and family friendly, but despite the amount of bins, there is too much litter that...