Alicante Group Trips: Boats, Wine and Paella
Coordinating twelve people around a single dinner reservation in Alicante is harder than booking the whole boat, which is why most group organizers here plan around a shared activity instead of a shared table.
Chartering the whole boat
Sailing catamarans out of the marina come in sizes built for exactly this: 30 to 60 passengers, with a barbecue lunch, drinks, and paddleboards included on a typical half-day charter past Mount Benacantil toward Cabo de las Huertas. A two-hour catamaran cruise works for a smaller group that still wants everyone on the same deck rather than splitting across taxis. For a more active version, Club Surf El Moreno runs guided kayak and paddleboard flotillas along the same coves in smaller convoys, which suits a group that would rather move than sit.
Escape rooms for a competitive evening
Xcapate and The X-Door both operate multiple escape rooms in the city center built specifically for team sizes up to 10 or 12, which makes them a reasonable rainy-day or off-season option when the boats and beaches are not in play. Neither will tell you they run tours, so book directly with the room rather than expecting a travel agent to package it.
Cooking and drinking as a group
A paella masterclass at Mercado Central turns a group into cooking teams: everyone buys cuttlefish, red shrimp and dried ñora peppers from the stallholders, then heads to a teaching kitchen to build the salmorreta base from scratch and cook a shared pan, chasing the crisp socarrat crust at the bottom. Sessions run about three and a half hours for groups of 8 to 25. Groups who would rather sit than cook can instead take a minibus 30 to 45 minutes inland to Bodegas Bocopa and the wider Vinalopó wine region; a Vinalopó vineyard tasting tour covers several wineries producing Monastrell reds and the rare, decades-aged Fondillón in one outing, better suited to a group than trying to get a whole minibus into one small cellar door.
What does not exist here
White-water rafting is not a real Alicante group activity: the province’s rivers run dry most months, and genuine rapids mean a drive north past Valencia of well over two hours. And if the plan is a rowdy stag or hen weekend, know that the old town, particularly Calle Castaños and Barrio de Santa Cruz, is a designated noise-restricted zone with real fines attached to costumes, megaphones and loud street drinking; book a private venue or a boat instead of assuming the street will tolerate it.
Confirm your group size against the operator’s minimum before booking anything on the water: several catamaran charters set a floor of 15 guests, and a smaller group booking direct sometimes pays a per-person premium rather than being turned away outright. For more on the market classes themselves, our workshops guide covers the same paella tradition for pairs and solo travelers.