Inspention Tours on Costa Blanca and Costa Calida

A. Just you, your partner and our property advisor. Unlike many of our competitors, you will not be herded around in a minibus with other couples, nor will you be paired with another couple. You are here for a four-day tour to try and find you the property of your dreams. Your tour will be personalized to your own personal requirements. (E.g. If you are not interested in apartments then you are not going to waste a whole day looking at them.)

A. At Romero Properties, we ask that you pay a contribution of £99 per person towards the cost of your tour. In return, we will:

• search and pay for your flights
• arrange and pay for your Hotel accommodation in a good quality Hotel
• we will pay for all your meals whilst in our company
• We will meet you at the airport and transfer you and your luggage to your hotel
• We will provide you with a personal guide and chauffeur, who will have a good knowledge of the area and who will help you find your dream home.

A. The Inspection Tour is only meant for people who are seriously interested in buying a property in this area. Available property sells very quickly here in Spain, and you should be in a position to pay a deposit should you find a suitable home. We will be seeing many properties and only those people who are seriously interested in buying will gain anything from the tour.

A. The Inspection Tour is not for people who are only vaguely interested in the idea of one day owning a property abroad. It is definitely not a holiday, and people who are not genuinely interested in buying a home should not waste their time (and ours) by coming on a tour.

A. No this is not possible. We shall be visiting places where building is taking place. These are building sites and are definitely not suitable for children.

A. To give away money with gimmicks means cutting corners in order to make that money back. If you come over to look at property with such an agent then:

• don't be surprised if you are part of a group and only spend a small part of the tour actually seeing properties of interest to you.
• don't be surprised if this other agent only shows you properties from developers who pay the highest commissions. In other words they may try to show you the properties they would most like to sell you, rather than the properties that you would most like to buy.
• don't be surprised if there are some hard sell tactics.
• and if you do buy then, don't be surprised if this other agent doesn't want to know you after you have signed the contract even though your new property is many month away from completion.

You are possibly about to make one of the biggest financial investments of your life. Whilst the choice is completely your own, we would advise that you don't cut corners at such an important stage.

Many of the properties that we will show you are simply not available from the big companies with their "free gifts". The commission rates paid to agents varies enormously from one development to another. Properties on the best developments will "sell themselves", and so commission is much less. We specialize in showing customers these best developments. Tour with a "free gimmick" company and you may never know they existed.

A. The actual choice of Hotel will depend upon vailability. However, our first choice is usually the Hotel "Palmeral Beach ".

A. We will do our best to fly you from a local airport. Some of the airlines we use are Go, Ryan Air, Iberia and British Airways .

For your information (and for future reference) Murcia (San Javier) Airport is the closest. It is very small but very efficient. You can fly here with Ryanair from Stanstead and also British Airways from Gatwick, Manchester and Birmingham, tickets available from Barwell Travel.

Alicante Airport is a little further away, but enjoys the benefit of being frequented by most major airlines.

A. TWe will have discussed with you your requirements in advance and so we will have worked out an itinerary, customized to your needs. The itinerary is dynamic. For example, we can make changes very quickly if you decide you would like to see more villas in an area you particularly like. In general, however, this is a typical outline of what happens. Suppose that you fly out on a Monday evening …

We will meet you in the arrivals area of either Alicante or Murcia Airport, and take you and your luggage to your Hotel, where if possible, we shall dine together and discuss the itinerary for the next few days.

We will collect you from the hotel and take you on a tour of the area so that you can get your bearings. Lunch.

Commence property tour.

We have dinner, or alternatively if you wish you can have some time to yourselves.

Meet at your hotel around 9.30am. (Many businesses in Spain don't open until 10am and so this is actually considered quite early!). We will continue looking at property, possibly having made some changes to the itinerary depending upon your likes and dislikes from Tuesday. After lunch we will continue to look at properties. By now you will have seen a good variety of property and will probably have a favourite or two. You may wish to return to take another look at a villa or you may wish to see others of a similar design.

This realistically is the last opportunity to view property.

By now, hopefully, we shall have found the property you've been searching for. The rest of the day will be taken up by the opening of a bank account, signing the sales contract, visiting the solicitor and if necessary the Notary for a Power of Attorney.

There is a lot to do in a short time, but we are used to this and we are able to guide you through the process.

Preparations for your trip back to the UK. We accompany you to the airport.