Hi,
Thanks Robi for the address, I eventually found time and went to Alicante yesterday and got my NIE!
A couple of things to add for those going there.
I got there at 6am and was still way back in the queue, many more people arrived after and there were some people trying to push in. Thankfully the police were there to sort this and did stop them doing this.
The doors opened at 9am and the man at the gate pointed me to a much smaller queue which was all British people. One guy got there at 8am and was in front of me! How you might ask? Well, it seems there are two queues, one for EEC citizen’s and one for non-EEC citizens, guess which one I was in!
Anyway, once in the Brit queue, I was out quickly and told to come back at 1pm. When I went back I had my NIE in a few minutes.
Some people had a problem finding the place, I used http://www.multimap.com/map/places.cg to print out a map,made it very easy.
Good luck to anyone else going there, but make sure you get in the right queue!