Lanzarote Ideal Self Catering Holiday Rental Property

Lanzarote is the most easterly of the Canary Islands, just 79 miles off the coast of Africa and offers a fantastic destination with great weather all year round!

The volcanic landscape that the island has to offer remains much the same as it would have been hundreds of years ago!

The island of Lanzarote has some amazing natural beauty, with the volcanic actions of the island enabling some real natural wonders of the world.

Lanzarote is home to the world’s largest volcanic tunnel, which is an amazing 7km long!!

The natural wonders of the Caves of Los Verdes is a great opportunity to see the complex system of tunnels and caves created by the underground lava flows, along with some of the world’s most amazing volcanic features in the Jameos del Aqua, a cave complex formed by the lava that has been adapted to a 600 seat concert hall with great acoustics, a subterranean lagoon, a restaurant and a museum!

Thanks to local law many years ago, tourism has not affected Lanzarote in the same way it has the rest of the Canary Islands and mainland Spain, here you will not find any high rise buildings spoiling any of the views, the only building that can be seen way over and above the others in the Grand Hotel in Arrecife.

When you have decided on Lanzarote as your Self Catering holiday destination, you can fly into the islands only airport in Arrecife from the majority of European and International Airports, with various airlines flying there from the high class silver jet all the way to budget airlines such as Ryan Air, Air Lingus and Easy Jet.

On arrival to the island the best way to explore the island and the wonderful remote wilderness that it has to offer is to hire a car, there are many national and local hire car companies when you arrive at the airport, that can be pre-arranged prior to your arrival so the vehicle is ready and waiting to take you to your holiday property rental!

You can travel from the North of the island down to the south in just over 40 minutes by car, and only 25 mins East to West!

Lanzarote like the rest of the Canary Islands enjoys a Duty Free Status, making shopping, in particular for tobacco, perfume and Alcohol much cheaper than the majority of Europe.

There are three main resort areas for Lanzarote, which offer some top class self catering accommodation in the form of Villas and Apartments. These are Puerto del Carmen, Costa Teguise and Playa Blanca.

Puerto del Carmen is the most popular tourist resort that Lanzarote has to offer, with the coastline showing off a succession of wonderful beaches and some rock out croppings. The main beaches in the area are Playa Grande, Los Pocillos, Matagorda, Lima, Pena Grande, Barrilla, Fariones, with all these beaches having calm waters and fine sandy beaches.

Costa Teguise has large hotel and apartment complexes and the area shows a harmony in architechture and natural landscape sharing the same space.

Famara Beach in the Costa Teguise area is great for surfing and expert windsurfers thanks to the strong waves and undertows that this area of water has to offer.

Playa Blanca is named as the largest tourist area in the south of the island despite the fact that it has one of the smallest beaches, just 100m by 8m!

This area has a definite maritime flavour with fine golden sand and calm waters.

Playa Blanca has some wonderful restaurants situated along the beach, with restaurants having terraces to see the fantastic view over the sea!
Lanzarote is great for surfers and windsurfers alike along with Divers, both water sports activities can be enjoyed on the island along with many other activities such as parasailing and canoeing!

You can rent hammocks, water sports equipment and much more and the coastal resorts of Lanzarote with the majority of them offering parking and accessible by bus.

Being a volcanic island you will be able to see some of the natural beauty produced by the lava flow, in particular in the naturally black sandy beach found at El Golfo, which is a natural amphitheatre which is open to the sea, with the water in the lagoon being a bright green colour thanks to the natural algae. The contrast of the black sand and the bright green water really is something you do not want to miss on your trip to Lanzarote, take it all in from one of the many restaurants in this area.

Apart from the natural beauty that Lanzarote has to offer, you can find many more things to do, for instance the local markets are held at the end of every week, either Fridays, Saturday or Sundays, check the day for you local area with the Lanzarote tourism website www.discoverlanzarote.com .

What stay would not be complete without a trip to the water park and/or the theme park, find the water park , Aqua Park in Costa Teguise and the theme park in Puerto del Carmen.