Donate food for a free pass to Rancho Texas Park
For many years Rancho Texas Park has collaborated with the charity association Calor y Café, who give a helping hand those in need in Lanzarote.The park want to deliver three tonnes of food to Sor Ana...
View ArticleNo Puerto del Carmen Santa Parade For 2014
The annual Santa Parade along the Avenida in Puerto del Carmen is not going ahead this year, unfortunately. The news will come as a disappointment to visitors as well as to the locals (ourselves...
View ArticleLZ-2 Overnight Closure
From tonight until Friday a section of the LZ-2, the main road from Arrecife to Playa Blanca will be closed during the evenings for road works.The closure will be in place from the roundabout at Mácher...
View ArticleBarceló La Galea Renovation
Barceló Hotels & Resort are investing 12 million euros to renovate the Barceló La Galea in Costa Teguise, Lanzarote. The hotel will reopen in June 2015 under the new name of the Barceló Teguise...
View ArticleDraft Regulation To Legalise Tourist Letting In The Canaries
News this week is that draft legislation has been drawn up to legalise private holiday letting in The Canary Islands. Please note that this is still a draft and is subject to change as the regulation...
View ArticleAutumn 2014 Lanzarote Tourism Figures
Christmas and the end of 2014 is fast approaching, it’s been a good year for Lanzarote and the Canary Islands. We are extremely lucky to have very faithful tourists who return to their favourite island...
View ArticleWe Are All Tourism
A new campaign was launched by the Canary Islands Tourism Board entitled “Todos somos turismo” to recognise workers within the tourism sector.The government initiative is to highlight those people who...
View ArticleWoman dies in a traffic accident with a school bus in Lanzarote
A woman has died and another is seriously injured after a traffic accident this morning in Lanzarote.The head on collision between an Amanda Bus and white VW Polo, happened on the LZ-2 at KM16 by...
View ArticleArrivals & Occupancy Figures January 2015
The Canary Islands received over a million foreign visitors from direct international flights through our airports during the month of January, almost 3% more than 2014.The actual figure is 1,034,144...
View ArticleParking Restrictions in Playa Honda
The Ayuntamiento of San Bartolomé have decided to limit the time allowed for parking in certain commercial areas of Playa Honda.Parking regulations came into force on the 10th January limiting the time...
View Article19 Year Old Missing In Lanzarote
Rescue services have been scouring the coastline of La Santa in Lanzarote since Friday afternoon when a 19 year old was swept off the rocks by a wave.The young man was in an area known as Bocachica...
View ArticleLanzarote News In Brief - Week 9
This is a new section of the website for those short snippets of news that don’t warrant a full article. We’ll update it each day as news comes in!Playa Flamingo SunbedsIt isn’t surprising that the...
View ArticleNew Ducati Motorcycle Press Launch in Lanzarote
Ducati launched their last new model to the press here in Lanzarote back in 2010, and they are coming back again from 1st to 9th March to allow the world’s motoring press a first look at their new 1200...
View ArticleThe Lanzarote Information 2015 Survey
We like to do a survey every couple of years to understand more about our readers and what you need from us, and it’s time for a new one!They survey will take you less than two minutes to complete, and...
View ArticlePet Friendly Beach in Tias
Earlier in the month the first pet friendly beach in the municipality of Tías was inaugurated. Several Town Hall representatives, including the mayor of Tías Pancho Hernández, as well as SARA´s staff...
View ArticleStill Living in Lanzarote Now Available For Your Kindle
Still Living In Lanzarote is the follow up to Mike’s best selling book Living in Lanzarote. It has been out in paperback for some time, but is now available for the Amazon Kindle. The book follows the...
View Article30th Anniversary of the Teguise Sunday Market
There will be special activities every Sunday throughout March to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Lanzarote’s Sunday market in La Villa de Teguise.The first market was held on the 12th March 1985...
View ArticleOpinion - More "Surprise and Delight" Please
We stopped and took some photos of the magnificent camel sculpture on the roundabout at the bottom of Femés yesterday and I immediately imagined the surprise and delight on the faces of tourists...
View ArticleLanzarote News In Brief - Week 10
San Bartolomé’s New Tourist GuideSan Bartolomé Ayuntamiento launched a new tourism guide last week. The municipality, not known currently for tourism, is looking to attract more visitors and the...
View ArticleSurvey Results - Who Reads Lanzarote Information?
Many thanks to over 4,200 of you who completed our short survey last week. We run the surveys every couple of years to try to get a better understanding of who our readers are so that we can give you...
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