Puerto del Carmen Brand Makeover
Lanzarote’s original tourist resort of Puerto del Carmen have updated their logo to modernise their tourism brand in time for the World Travel Market in London this week. The old logo is pictured on...
View ArticleLanzarote Information At The World Travel Market In London
We’ve been at The World Travel Market at London’s ExCeL Centre this week representing Lanzarote. The show is one of the world’s largest travel industry shows, and of course it is based in Lanzarote’s...
View ArticleEmergency Simulation Tomorrow
The Ayuntamiento of Tías would like to inform residents and tourists of their intention to hold an emergency simulation on Saturday 8th November in Puerto del Carmen.The simulation will take place...
View ArticlePlea To Stop Leaflets
We were contacted today by some of our friends in the Scandinavian community who asked us to publish their concerns about the number of leaflets littering the streets of Puerto del Carmen, showing the...
View ArticleFuel Prices Lowest In More Than Two Years In The Canaries
Fuel prices have dropped again in The Canaries, with the average price of 95 octane petrol down to €1.03 and the average price of a litre of Diesel below €1 for the first time since June 2012.The...
View ArticleOver A Million British Tourists For Lanzarote
It’s official, Brits love Lanzarote! With an average of 108 flights per week from the UK, through seven airlines, it’s not surprising to hear that we are expecting to reach 1.1 million British tourists...
View ArticleMercadona Opens in Lanzarote On Friday!
It’s here, the long awaited opening of the first Mercadona store is this Friday the 14th of November 2014.The first Mercadona will open in the Argana area of Arrecife on Friday, shortly followed by the...
View ArticleAtlantic Odyssey
A fleet of 32 sailing yachts will set sail from Lanzarote on Sunday bound for Martinique.The yachts are part of Atlantic Odyssey and range in size from 8.5m to 21m, including participants from 13...
View ArticleGreenpeace Protest At Oil Drilling Site Turns Nasty
The Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise occupied the planned oil drilling area yesterday in the early hours off the coast of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, prior to the arrival of a Repsol drilling vessel,...
View ArticleSunbeds on Playa Flamingo
It’s taken a year from the announcement that the sunbed & kiosk operator on Playa Flamingo was to be evicted, for the Ayuntamiento of Yaiza to announce a new sunbed tender.The council have...
View ArticleLanzarote's Winter Storm 2014
We wrote about why the island remains the best winter sun destination in Europe recently.But we have had some awful weather over the last ten days! read more »
View ArticleSocialist Party of Tías
The following is a message from the Socialist Party to the English speaking residents of Puerto del Carmen and the municipality of Tías.Dear Neighbours, read more »
View ArticleA Man Died Trying To Cross The LZ-2 In Lanzarote
A young man was killed in Playa Honda last night, on his way home from work. Sadly, the 30 year old tried to walk across the busy LZ-2 dual carriageway, which has a 100 km/h limit and was hit by a car...
View ArticleTricky Landing At Arrecife From Boeing 737 Cockpit
Lanzarote generally enjoys a northerly breeze, which means aircraft land over the sea with a pretty straightforward approach. When the wind blows the “wrong” way, however, incoming aircraft have to...
View ArticlePuerto del Carmen Carnival Theme
The Auntamiento of Tías have opened an internet vote to decide the theme of the carnival in Puerto del Carmen for 2015.Four categories have been suggested for the Puerto del Carmen carnival which takes...
View ArticleTelamon Shipwreck To Be Scrapped
It’s hard to pass the Telamon at the moment, knowing that this iconic landmark is going to disappear from Lanzarote in the near future.She’s been part of our coastline between Arrecife and Costa...
View ArticleWindmill Restoration at the Cactus Garden
The Centres of Art, Culture and Tourism at the Cabildo de Lanzarote have undertaken to restore the Molino at the Jardín de Cactus.Restoration work to repair the wooden structure and gearing of the...
View ArticleInauguration of the Arrecife History Museum
The Museo de Historia in the Castillo de San Gabriel in Arrecife will open to the public on the 10th December at 20:00.The opening ceremony includes an unveiling of a commemorative plaque and a musical...
View ArticlePromotional Posters in Puerto del Carmen
The Tourism Department in Tías have launched a new promotional campaign to publicise the attractions of Lanzarote along the Avenida de las Playas.Lanzarote is due for a record of 2.4 million tourists...
View ArticleLanzarote's Promotional Strategy & Marketing Plan for 2015
We were invited by Turismo Lanzarote to attend the Sociedad de Promoción Exterior de Lanzarote (SPEL) presentation of their promotional strategy and marketing plan for the island in 2015.SPEL promote...
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