KCN Tardeo de Networking at ULab Alicante, 14 October 2026: worth going?

Making friends in a new city is a numbers game, and structured events are how you rig it. On Wednesday 14 October, KCN Tardeo de Networking Alicante lands at ULab, the coworking space in the old town. If you're new here, work for yourself, or spend most days alone with a laptop, it's worth planning your week around.

First, the word "tardeo"

The format matters more than the acronym. A tardeo is Alicante's signature move: going out in the afternoon instead of at night. Out after lunch, social while the sun's still up, home at a civilised hour. Locals will tell you this city invented it. Bolted onto networking, it promises something less stiff than a breakfast seminar and less forced than an evening mixer - closer to after-work drinks that start early. The Eventbrite listing has the exact time and ticket details, so check it rather than assuming.

The venue does half the work

ULab sits at Plaça de San Cristóbal 14, right in the old town, and it's the opposite of the soulless corporate coworking chain. It holds a 4.7 Google rating across 317 reviews, and the crowd it attracts - digital nomads, entrepreneurs, people building things - is exactly who you'd hope to bump into at an event like this. A networking night is only ever as good as the room, and this room self-selects. Worst case, the event is flat and you've still scoped out one of the old town's best-liked workspaces from the inside. That's not a wasted Wednesday.

Before you go

• Don't drive. The old town is narrow streets and nowhere to put a car. Walk, or take the tram into the centre and go on foot from there.
• Expect Spanish as the room's default. The listing is in Spanish, so assume the event leans that way too. ULab's crowd skews international, so you won't be stranded, but two or three rehearsed opening lines in Spanish will pay for themselves.
• Register first. Time and tickets are on the Eventbrite page, and signing up beats turning up on spec.

So, worth going?

Here's the honest version. Networking events carry a fixed cost: the first twenty minutes are awkward anywhere on earth, someone will try to pitch you something, and small talk in a second language is tiring. It's also a Wednesday, which rules it out for anyone treating Alicante as a weekend stop.

But if you actually live here - especially if you arrived recently and your social circle is still your landlord and the woman at the bakery - a tardeo-format event at a good venue is about the lowest-friction fix there is. Settling into Alicante is mostly assembling a routine: somewhere to train (we've covered who Basic-Fit actually suits), somewhere to work, people to talk to. One afternoon at this ticks the last two boxes.

Put Wednesday 14 October in the calendar and grab a spot on the listing. The hardest part is walking in. Do it anyway.