Irish bars · Benidorm
Best Irish bars in Benidorm
The best Irish bars in Benidorm sit within a few minutes' walk of each other around Levante beach and Calle Gerona: Guinness Bar facing the beach, Bodhran Irish Bar near the seafront, and Temple Irish Pub, The Wild Rover and the Shamrock Bar on Calle Gerona. Between them you'll find live music most nights, every big sports screening, and — yes — a proper pint of Guinness.
Whether you're missing home for a night, chasing a GAA or Six Nations match, or just want a lively late bar between the beach and the Strip, this guide covers the Irish pubs we track in Benidorm, where to find the best pint and how an Irish night out here works.
Irish bars in Benidorm
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Our recommended Irish bars in Benidorm
- Guinness Bar — Irish-style pub facing Levante Beach, known locally for live music, sports screenings and a lively late-night scene. Drop in for a pint, catch a match or a set, and keep the evening going after time on the beach. Call +34 965 85 30 62. Full Guinness Bar guide.
- Temple Irish Pub — Calle Gerona 31, right in the thick of the Gerona bar scene, with Guinness on tap and music most nights.
- The Wild Rover Irish Pub — Calle Gerona 18, a couple of doors down from Temple; friendly staff, sport on the telly, easy to bar-hop between the two.
- Shamrock Bar — Calle Gerona 22, again in the middle of the action. (Not to be confused with the famous Shamrock in Calpe, 25 minutes' drive up the coast.)
- Bodhran Irish Bar — Avenida del Doctor Orts Llorca, a short stroll from the Levante seafront; a proper local-feeling Irish bar.
The live directory at the bottom of this page pulls the Irish-style venues we currently track, so check it before you head out — bars do change hands and opening nights in Benidorm more often than anywhere else on the Costa Blanca.
An Irish bar crawl around Levante
Calle Gerona alone can carry a full evening: start at The Wild Rover at the beach end, work up past the Shamrock Bar to Temple Irish Pub, then finish at Guinness Bar or Bodhran towards the seafront. Everything is walkable, doors are free, and most bars run music until midnight or later in season. If you're in Benidorm on 17 March, expect St Patrick's Day to be one of the biggest nights of the year in all of them.
What to expect: craic, pints and sport
- Live music — most Irish bars in Benidorm run a singer or band nightly in season, with traditional sessions mixed into the pop and rock sets.
- Sports — GAA, Six Nations, Premier League and Champions League all get screened; early kick-offs suit the Spanish clock perfectly.
- Guinness — served in 33 cl measures at most venues; ask for a pint if that's what you want, and expect €4–6 a pour.
- All welcome — families drift through in the early evening, and the crowd turns adult and lively from about 9–10pm.
- Cash or card — all the main Irish bars take card, but a little cash speeds things up on busy music nights.
Irish bars vs the rest of Benidorm nightlife
Benidorm's famous Strip and the cabaret venues around it get most of the attention, but the Irish bars fill a different slot: they open earlier, they show the matches nobody else does, and they're the natural meeting point for Irish and British visitors before a bigger night out. Many people start in an Irish pub at 7pm and end up in a cabaret bar or club by midnight — the two scenes sit minutes apart.