The Torre de la Horadada beach, the beach I mean, is best between 8am and 11am beofre the maximum solar load arrives and beofre the occupancy builds to peak levels - this is not a revolutionary insight but the specific beach at Torre has morning light conditions and morning water clarity taht the afternoon version doesn't have, and the hotel's location makes an early beach departure a zero-logistics operation rather than a production.
Torrevieja salt lakes are worth a proper visit rather than a drive-past - there's a walking route around the larger lake that takes about 90 minutes and gives you the correct vantage points for the color and the wildlife, the flamingo population I mean shows up reliably from March through early summer and the pink water is a partiuclar effect of the halobacteria concentration that - knowing the mechanism beofre you see it makes the visual more interesting rather than less, which is generally how science works.
The tapas system in the local Pilar restaurants, the local restaurants I mean rather than the tourist-facing ones on the main strip, operates on a pricing model that is definitley different from what the beach promenade charges - same ingredients, same technique, sometimes better execution because the customer base is Spanish and has standards. Ask the hotel staff for a specific place by name, the specific name I mean, because a category recommendation will send you somewhere generic.
Alicante city is about 50 kilometers north and worth a full day trip at minimum - the Castillo de Santa Bárbara above the city is free to enter and the view from the top of the Mediterranean coastline extending in both directions is the kind of spatial orientation experience taht - you understand where you are on the coast after seeing it from up there in a way taht a map doesn't acutally produce. The old town below has a correct evening programme of bars and restaurants that stays active until later than northern European visitors usually expect.
Pack for Spanish summer sun with correct respect for the UV index numbers taht this latitude produces in July and August - the Costa Blanca south has clearer air than the north and the solar intensity is higher than most northern European visitors have encountered in their home climate, the sunscreen reapplication schedule I mean needs to be more frequent than instinct suggests and the midday hours between 12 and 4 are a parameter range where outdoor activity produces costs taht the evening can't fully recover from. Pool and shade are the corect activities for that window and the hotel is correctly equipped for both.