I stayed in a friend's apartment in torrevieja last year, I didn't really like it. It's very built up, all you see for miles is concrete and dust, the place looks quite run down. One thing I did enjoy was an absolutely fabulous vegetaran restaurant down by the strip. None of my group are veggies but we all loved it, we went 3 imes in a week. Apart from there the rest of the restaurants were all burger and chips and english breakfast type places. I was only there for a week but I didn't get a great impression in that time