We found staff at Alicante Airport extremely helpful. In fact the lady on the Monarch Airlines fast bag drop desk looked very much like Nanci Griffith, and we told her so. We saw her again as we boarded the aircraft, and she was over the moon (a blue moon of course!!) having checked out Nanci Griffith on the internet.

Likewise in the VIP lounge and obligatory (for my wife) duty free area.