Lanzarote is well established as one of the most popular destinations for British holidaymakers. Attracting over one million visitors from the UK every year. And little wonder as this unique volcanic island offers top quality accommodation as well as some out of this world tourist attractions.
Holiday Accommodation in Lanzarote
Tourists seeking a holiday apartment in Lanzarote are spoilt for choice. As the island boasts over two hundred complexes in all of the main resorts.
Puerto del Carmen offers the highest concentration – as the island most popular resort was specifically developed with apartment holidays at the fore of the blueprint. As a result prices remain reasonably competitive, with a typical weeks stay starting from around £250 for a standard one bedroom or studio apartment. Given the abundance of cheap flights to Lanzarote with operators such as easyJet, Thomas Cook and Monarch that makes a weeks stay in the sun possible all year round from as little as £300 per person.
Playa Blanca is the best resort for those seeking more upmarket accommodation.. As this former fishing village at the southern tip of the island is home to the most modern and well appointed selection of holiday villas in Lanzarote. Prices here reflect that – as standard villas with private pools start from around £500 per week.
Playa Blanca is also home to the best selection of four and five star hotels in Lanzarote. As the resort was the most recently developed on the island, so delivering a wide range of popular, modern establishments such as the Princesa Yaiza and the newly opened Papagayo Arena.
Lanzarote isn´t all just about beaches and sunshine though. And anyone in search of a more cultural twist to their holiday should head for the resort of Costa Teguise in the north of the island. Which makes an ideal base for touring the Lanzarote´s key attractions – most of which were developed under the aegis of the island born artist and architect Cesar Manrique.
Hail Cesar
Manrique is the man responsible for ensuring that his beloved island was saved from over development during the boom years of package tourism in the 1970´s.
“I believe that we are witnessing an historic moment,” Manrique stated, in response to the potential threat of mass-market tourism; “where the huge danger to the environment is so evident that we must conceive a new responsibility with respect to the future”.
At the time, this sort of ecological approach was quite revolutionary – as high-rise holiday apartments, hotels and water parks were being thrown up with abandon along the Costas and on other Canary Islands.
Manrique however illuminated an alterative path for development on the island. By creating a unique set of tourist attractions that worked with nature, rather than against it. And his key works such as the Jameos del Agua and the Mirador del Rio remain the backbone of the islands tourist industry today.
As a result of his efforts Lanzarote was the first island in the world to be declared a UNESCO protected biosphere in 1994.
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