11 Mar, 2019 @ 13:15
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British tourists face €3,000 fines for drinking in streets of Marbella and Mallorca this summer while happy hours BANNED

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BRITS caught drinking on Marbella’s paseo maritimo or around Mallorca this summer could be fined €3,000 thanks to a new crackdown on boozy tourists.

According to the Daily Star, happy hours have also been banned in popular resorts across Spain following an international summit to battle unruly holidaymakers in Mallorca last month.

The result has been to declare zones of ‘special tourism interest’ where police will work to control drinking and ‘bad behaviour.’

It means from April 1 to September 30, tourists face €3,000 penalties if caught drinking alcohol or eating in the street.

Bars will be fined for offering happy hour deals and displaying alcoholic drinks while cops will be able to carry out checks.

The areas affected include Palma’s city centre, the Paseo Maritimo in Marbella, Calle Joan Miro, Cala Major and Playa de Palma.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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