Every year hundreds of Brits flock to the beaches of Benidorm to enjoy some much needed sun, but more importantly the cheap booze.
However, despite the tempting nature of an inexpensive, tasty cocktail on the sand, brought to you by a happy-go-lucky bloke who just wants you to have fun, tourists are being warned not to buy them.
Apparently random people are illegally selling 'dirty' drinks that have pieces of fruit that have been cut up on floors, doorways and even on car tyres, the Daily Star reports.
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Those selling them allegedly don't wash their hands or the fruit, which has rotted from being left in the sun, before making the concoctions.
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"God knows what's in them. One guy mixing them was filthy," Brit Val Spencer, 62, told the Daily Star. "He used his hands to grab ice from a bucket and was back on the beach selling the same cocktails.
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"Loads of youngsters were buying them but they're better off going to a beach bar for a drink."
The drinks supposedly put people's lives in danger, and there's a hope that beach bars can sell drinks on the beaches in order to stop the illegal venders.
Police, who have posed as holidaymakers, have allegedly caught some of the sellers, though Benidorm All Year Round reports that they've only issued them a fine and confiscated the drinks.
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Benidorm skyline. Credit: PA
Last month, officials from North Korea were sent to Spain to scour the coast between Barcelona and Alicante, The Telegraph reports, to seek inspiration for Kim Jong-un's own slice of paradise.
Having done extensive research, they found that Benidorm was the perfect place to inspire his own beach resort.
It is not yet confirmed whether or not officials met with the retired Sticky Vicky, or indeed her daughter, Demaria Leyton, but they did say that they were 'amazed by the dimensions' of Benidorm, which sounds as if they got a private show.
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"We wanted to focus on the beaches because that is what we are interested in," an embassy spokesperson said. "They loved the recreation of the various ancient Mediterranean civilisations. It would be very interesting to apply that concept in our theme park, maybe with Asian civilisations."
Hundreds of tourists and umbrellas are pictured on the beach of Benidorm, Spain. Credit: PA
The resort is planned to be in Wonsan, a port city on the country's eastern coast, and will be aimed at both domestic and international markets. Benidorm's theme park Terra Mítica is said to be the foundations of the theme park they plan to build.
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The 20 officials also visited a campsite, which is expected to be the kind of accommodation North Koreans may have to use when the complex is built.
"They asked many detailed questions about the costs of each element in the campsite," Matías Pérez Such, an organiser of the trip, told the online newspaper El Confidencial. "If they want to develop tourism, it's logical that they start from the bottom up with campsites and not 55-floor hotels. But it's positive that they want to stop being the most hermetic country in the world.
"Tourism breaks down barriers."
Reckon he'll be peddling shoddy cocktails?
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