Central Costa Teguise Private Villas 3,4 & 5 Bedroom

Lanzarote the driest of the 5 main Canary islands, directly south 4 hours flight time from the UK. There is no need for long haul when you can enjoy a Lanzarote villa the same day of your arrival. The island operates under the same GMT time, with clocks going forward and back along with the UK.

Why not treat yourself, enjoy a private villa in central Costa Teguise and all year round sunshine, Costa Teguise is a 365 day resort. Lanzarote enjoys on average over 300 days of sunshine every year. The following link will take you to the official Met Office .Gov web site for Lanzarote.

The resorts location is central to the island on the Eastern shore facing the African coast. For the beach lovers the sun rises from left to right across the main beach and sea. In doing so is not shielded by the volcanoes at the rear of the resort offering the best possible sunshine hours throughout the year.

Costa Teguise is a 20 minute drive from Arrecife airport. Boasting 3 beaches the main sandy strip beach Las Cucharas meaning “The Spoon” in Spanish is around 1km around the bay. The smaller beach of Playa Bastian is to the south and the mid size beach of Los Charcos to the north. The beach of Las Cucharas has a world class reef break just off shore, more for the proficient boarder but within the bay board hire with safety boat is a great way to start. The beach of Playa Bastian and Charcos offer great fishing, snorkelling and swimming. The sandy bit on all 3 beaches offer entertainment for the bucket and spade brigade.

Joining up these 3 distinct beaches are quite literally hundreds of the resort amenities, restaurants and bars & shopping including what the locals refer to as the “Friday Market” the town square of Plaza Pueblo Marinero. You could quite easily eat from a different countries cuisine every night. These same areas contain all the normal resort shopping including supermarkets, banks and car hire.
The main building works commenced in Costa Teguise in the early 1960’s from what was salt flats in the north of the resort that now sit under the Malia Salinas Hotel and what was the old Lanzarote Beach Club.

The Malia hotel actually contains in its basement complex the original desalination plant for the resorts drinking water. Since the late nineties and early noughties with the moratorium on building works, development has slowed considerably to the good of the resort in most opinions.
Costa Teguise has now grown over the years to one of the primary destination resorts of the Canary Islands. Distinct from the other 2 resorts on the island of Lanzarote, Puerto Del Carmen with its vibrant Bar-Hotel-Shop-Repeat format along its long beach front strip to the more sublime but spread out ex fishing village of Playa Blanca.