"Alicante airport" in Benidorm!

Well today is the last day of filming as next week the cast and crew are all off on a well deserved one week break - which coincides with the UK Bank Holiday Monday. The weather has certainly been against us here in Benidorm - last week and even up until Wednesday of this week, it had been exceptionally unseasonal - torrential rain, gale force winds and even sleet on the outskirts of Benidorm!

But as of Wednesday the sun came back and it has been shining since... I hope that I haven´t just jinxed that! Obviously the weather has had a massive impact on the filming schedule and more has had to be done inside. The "Pink House" is used as the reception area of the Solana resort and they also build sets in the downstairs garage area - but the set seems to have expanded to the empty building next door too!

This morning it had been transformed into Alicante airport.... no not the runway with a jumbo waiting to depart, just incase you are wondering. It was clearly passport control, and very realistic looking too... wonder which character is arriving - or perhaps departing! There were lots of extras on set today.... and most had suitcases in tow too.

The garage underneath the Pink House was also part of the airport set - with a sign on the wall showing the way for the exit and the Guardia Civil office the opposite way - wonder which way the camera will go?

Me standing in the "office set"

In the last series an operating theatre had been built in the garage but for this series an office has appeared.

It looked very strange in the middle of the vast garage but once inside you would really believe that you were there - it is all wood panelled and the desk and all the furniture had to be sourced specially. Even the desk had authentic props such as a pot plant, old fashioned telephone and pen on it!
The prop team even built the fireplace from a drawing sketched by the set designer out of bits of spare wood and stained it to make it look real - and a good job they did too.
So the question is.... whose office is it?

If you are over next week you are unlikely to see any action I´m afraid, as most of them will be back in the UK - but only for a week then they are back all the way through until the end of June.

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