Alicante

Alicante's main gay sauna, with a full spread of facilities: steam room, sauna, jacuzzi with waterfall, dark room, cinema room, and a large cabin area with glory holes.

On the Explanada since 1998, with outdoor tables that face one of Alicante's main promenades and a late licence that runs to half three every night of the week.

A cabaret bar run by performer Claudio, who takes the stage himself alongside a rotating cast of drag queens on weekend nights.

A bear and leather cruise club on Avenida de Ramón y Cajal with dark rooms, sling rooms, and X video areas, pitched squarely at a 30s-to-50s crowd.

A small drag bar in the Old Town that punches above its floor space, with a resident drag hostess and a reputation for generous pours.

One of Alicante's oldest surviving gay bars, running since the 1990s, with a retro cocktail bar interior and a Thursday drag and cabaret night that starts around 1am.

A three-floor bar in the Old Town that runs on Spanish time, opening at 10pm and filling up enough by the small hours to feel genuinely club-like.

A small bar on Plaça de San Cristóbal with a street terrace and a Thursday bingo night hosted by drag performers, Manoli Divay among the regulars, that has built a following of its own.

A small single-floor club that doesn't get going until around 4am, with resident DJ Pablo Horta behind the decks and a dark room on site.