How Benidorm is split with Spanish avoiding Brits like the plague

Locals in Benidorm have revealed how Spanish tourists avoid Brits in the town at all costs and branded them 'rude and disrespectful'.

For many Brits, Benidorm is the neon lights of late night bars, cheap pints in the sun, raucous stag parties and football on big screens.

But for Spanish holidaymakers flocking to the Costa Blanca for a relaxing getaway visitors from the UK are the very symbol of the scurge of over-tourism.

The battle lines in Benidorm are drawn between the traditional quaint streets of the 'Old Town' where native visitors go to unwind and the buzzing pub-packed strips of 'the New Town' where Brit drinkers party the night away.

Stephen Critzov, who has lived and worked in Benidorm for three years, told MailOnline: 'The British stay in one area and the Spanish stay in one area.'