The Almunecar casualty department of the local medical centre was overworked thanks to youngsters being brought in after drinking too much during the macro fiesta in the water park.
The telephones at the Almunecar Guardia Civil Post and the Local Police station didn’t stop ringing either, thanks to a bombardment of complaints from locals who were more than irate over the noise produced by the youths.
On Saturday the 11th of July the SCF (Suncoastalfiesta) kicked off at 11 in the morning and rolled on to 10 in the evening – eleven hours of techno music, supplied by a relay of disc jockeys, together with live music, fireworks and all the normal water-park activity.
It’s the first time that such a daytime event has been held on the Costa Tropical, although such fiestas have been held in the city of Granada and Huetor Tajar, up in the Poniente (Western Granada).
It was well organised, with three ambulances on standby and a gaggle of security guards, but the trouble was that “only” 1,000 people could actually get in, many other revellers decided to do their own party just outside the water park, bringing gallons of alcohol in supermarket trolleys and car boots, providing their own music from coche-discotecas; i.e., cars fitted out with powerful music systems that, once the back door is open, the large speakers pump out a volume that can wake the dead.
It was this ‘spontaneous addition’ that caused most of the irritation amongst local people: when you have a couple of these decibel chariots parked outside your block of flats, you’re in for a furniture rattling time, as was the case for Edificios Carmen & Habaneras.
The Local Police, true to their normal honed efficiency, did nothing about it other than to make a note of number plates for fines to be issued… Oh they did drag a drunken man from the road who was ‘bull fighting’ the passing traffic with a garment as a cape. Some locals complained that it was difficult to drive by because the crowds insisted on clambering on the bonnets of their cars, etc.
So, a fun time for party goers and a living hell for everybody else, but what the heck – it’s summer!
(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)