The La Concha pharmacy on the Torreblanca beachfront in Fuengirola is now permanently open for 12 hours a day, seven days a week. It is open from 09:30 until 22:00 every day.
Following a successful experiment last summer, the Council has obtained the necessary permission from the Junta de Andalucía to make the situation permanent, Fuengirola being classified as a ‘busy tourist area’. It is not only tourists, of course, who will benefit from the new opening hours, although in the summer the vast majority of customers, some 80%, are visitors to the area.
Staffing levels have had to be increased accordingly in order to cover the increase in opening hours and have, in fact, doubled. All the staff are fluent in English and there are even nationals from Italy and Finland.
Although La Concha is the first pharmacy in Fuengirola to open continuously for twelve hours, it will not be the only one as others have also joined the new initiative.