Group Activities in Alicante: What Actually Works
Fifteen people and a hired catamaran fit through Alicante’s marina gate at the same rate as two, which is the whole logic of planning a group trip here around the water rather than around a single restaurant table.
On the water, as a group
Alicante Catamaran and a handful of other operators run sailing catamarans out of the marina sized for 30 to 60 passengers, chartered whole for corporate retreats, reunions, and stag or hen groups that want the boat rather than the bar crawl. A typical half-day sail heads past Mount Benacantil toward Cabo de las Huertas with a barbecue lunch, drinks, and an anchor stop for swimming. Smaller groups can instead book a double kayak session with snorkel gear , paddling the coves around Cabo de las Huertas at closer range than any boat allows. Club Surf El Moreno runs guided SUP outings along the same stretch for groups booking ahead as a team-building session.
At the market, with a chef
Groups of 8 to 25 can book a paella masterclass that starts at the steps of Mercado Central: split into teams, buy cuttlefish, red shrimp, and dried ñora peppers from the stallholders, then move to a teaching kitchen to build the salmorreta base and cook their own pans, aiming for a crisp socarrat crust at the bottom. A hands-on paella and market class runs about three and a half hours and ends with everyone eating what they made. For a quieter afternoon, minibuses run 30 to 45 minutes inland to Vinalopó wineries such as Bodegas Bocopa in Petrer, where groups tour the barrel rooms and taste through Monastrell reds and the rare aged Fondillón; a Vinalopó wine tasting tour covers several wineries in one outing rather than committing a whole group to one address.
What Alicante does not have
If the plan involved white-water rafting, drop it: the province’s rivers are seasonal streambeds that run dry most of the year, and real rapids mean driving north past Valencia to the Cabriel River, well over two hours away. Groups looking for rowdier nightlife should also know that Alicante’s old town, particularly Calle Castaños and Barrio de Santa Cruz, is a designated acoustically saturated zone with real fines for street costumes, megaphones, and loud outdoor drinking. Escape rooms are a better fit for a competitive evening: Xcapate and The X-Door both run multiple rooms in the city center built for teams of up to 10 or 12.
Book the boat or the cooking class in advance regardless of season. Both fill up on weekends from May through September, and a group of more than eight arriving without a reservation is routinely turned away rather than squeezed in. For a related angle on the same water, see our workshops guide , which covers the same paella tradition in more depth for smaller groups and solo cooks.