Hot Hotels In Lanzarote

Tue, Jan 6, 2009

Where can tourists find the best hotels in Lanzarote? Playa Blanca is located at the southern most tip of the island and is Lanzarote´s newest resort. Having expanded rapidly from the archetypal small fishing village to the second most popular destination on the Island of Fire in little over a decade. Quadrupling the size of the town’s population in the process.

Thanks to Playa Blanca´s southern situation the resort enjoys the best microclimate on the island – which means that visitors here can generally expect to enjoy higher temperatures and more sunshine than other parts of the island. Factors which are obviously of major importance to holidaymakers when it comes to selecting their preferred destination. Especially during the winter months where there can be a good deal of variation in temperature between the north and south of Lanzarote.

Playa Blanca also boasts some of the best beaches – not just in Lanzarote but in all of the Canary Islands. With the five white sand coves at Papagayo (or Parrot Beach) being the best known. Playa Blanca also boasts a variety of beaches, which the other main resorts cannot really match. Encompassing the attractive beach at Playa Flamingo, the excellent and family friendly sands at Playa Dorada – and the smaller, picturesque little town beach right in the centre of the resort. Little wonder that the resort is called white beach in Spanish.

Playa Blanca is also the gateway to the neighbouring island of Fuerteventura – located just 8km away across the Bocaina Straits. Which provides an atmospheric backdrop – especially at night – when the lights across the water shimmer away like stars.

As a result of these factors Playa Blanca started to attract the attentions of property developers and the major hotel chains back in the 1990´s – as tourism was really taking off on the island. Resulting in the creation of a resort with four and five star hotels at the core of the blueprint. Whilst by comparison there are only two major hotels in Puerto del Carmen, Playa Blanca´s closest competitor –and still Lanzarote´s largest and most popular holiday destination.

Today therefore visitors to the island are able to select from a wide range of good quality hotels. Such as the five star Gran Melia Volcan – which is located slap bang next to the relatively new luxury development of the Marina Rubicon. As well as a number of highly popular four star establishments such as the Princessa Yaiza, the Hesperia Playa Dorada and the Lanzarote Princess – operated by the well known Spanish hotels group H10.

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