hidraqua 12 drop plan

Never heard of a 12 drop plan, presume its monthly payments, our 3 bed apartment is about €50 quarterly.

Rickys wrote:Never heard of a 12 drop plan, presume its monthly payments, our 3 bed apartment is about €50 quarterly.

Correct, instead of quarterly its monthly.
To the OP, if you have your last 4 quarterly bills add them all up and then divide it by 12, from memory this is how Hydraqua started me off.

Rickys wrote:Never heard of a 12 drop plan, presume its monthly payments, our 3 bed apartment is about €50 quarterly.

Wow, that's much much cheaper than our quarterly bill. We are non residents and even when we are not there the quarterly bill is €70 just for standing charges and taxes with no water used. We recently had a 20 day visit in June which pushed ours up to €76 for the last quarter. The question in my mind is, are there different tariffs? and could I get a cheaper deal?

Aguamed, 2 bed finka, average quarterly bill €40. Just to point out, Aguamed own Hidraqua, they pretty much have a monopoly.

Kingy0 wrote:

Rickys wrote:Never heard of a 12 drop plan, presume its monthly payments, our 3 bed apartment is about €50 quarterly.

Wow, that's much much cheaper than our quarterly bill. We are non residents and even when we are not there the quarterly bill is €70 just for standing charges and taxes with no water used. We recently had a 20 day visit in June which pushed ours up to €76 for the last quarter. The question in my mind is, are there different tariffs? and could I get a cheaper deal?

Seems expensive. Most of the charges are standing charges and, since they took the rubbish collection out of the water bills, we pay €55 a quarter and that's a 3 bed house where we live permanently.
The actual cost of water used is fairly negligible until you use a certain amount.

Not sure there are different tariffs on water like there are on electricity.

marcliff wrote:

Kingy0 wrote:

Rickys wrote:Never heard of a 12 drop plan, presume its monthly payments, our 3 bed apartment is about €50 quarterly.

Wow, that's much much cheaper than our quarterly bill. We are non residents and even when we are not there the quarterly bill is €70 just for standing charges and taxes with no water used. We recently had a 20 day visit in June which pushed ours up to €76 for the last quarter. The question in my mind is, are there different tariffs? and could I get a cheaper deal?

Seems expensive. Most of the charges are standing charges and, since they took the rubbish collection out of the water bills, we pay €55 a quarter and that's a 3 bed house where we live permanently.
The actual cost of water used is fairly negligible until you use a certain amount.

Not sure there are different tariffs on water like there are on electricity.

This is part of our latest bill:-


BASURA (3) 17,40 CUOTA DE SERVICIO 17,40 NS PODAS (4) 4,05 CUOTA DE SERVICIO 4,05 NS SUBTOTAL: 21,45

Does this mean that the rubbish collection is still on our bill? We are now on Orihuela Costa and no longer in Quesada.


AS you say water cost is negligible.

Yes, your Basura of 17.40 is still include whereas we pay a one off annual tax for it.
So if you knock of that 17.40 from your 70 euro quarterly bill it's just over 52 euro.
Ours at 55 euro a quarter but we pay around 70 odd euro a year on top for rubbish tax.