Anyone been there, just booked for Feb and wondered if anyone can give me some ideas for places to see etc.

 

Been twice. Not much to see - coastal, mainly sand dunes, inland mainly goats and hills

It's the least populated/developed of the Canaries, large chunks of it are a nature reserve and protected from development.

Correlejo in the north is where a lot of the accomodation is, and Jandia in the south.

If you want to get away from it all and have some peace and quiet, it's one of the better places to go, but there is some nightlife if you want it.

 

I've been there twice, and the Island is simply fantastic. Whereabouts are you staying?

The south of the island has a place called Jandia, which is normally a few degrees warmer than the north, and has glorious long sandy beaches.

However, I've stayed in Corralejo twice now which is in the north of the island, and is situated next to the best sand dunes I think you'll ever come across. You can also jump on a ferry to Lanzarote here, and make a day of it over there as well.

Caleta de Fuesta is a man made town full of hotels, apartments, etc.. and has a fair few British bars, etc.. but doesn't really have any nice scenery.

For all round bars/restaurants Corralejo is the best

The best thing to do is simply hire a car and drive around the island. It only takes 2 hours (and that's in a Citreon Saxo! ) to travel from the top of the island to the south, following a coastal road that provides some fantastic views.

[Edited by Scott W - 1/17/2002 9:07:41 AM]

 

what they said. Also, If you get a chance, drive to Betancuria (I think thats the name. Its a small town in the middle of the mountains) The mountain drive is absolutely stunning. The town actually has authentic tumbleweed blowing down the street and some guy whistling in the background. I'm nearly sure I saw Clint Eastwood shoot a couple of the locals. Honest.

Jandia is where all the really nice hotels are, along with the Germans. Correlejio is the younger scene, but it wouldn't exactly be considered Club 18-30.

If you get a jeep and go dune exploring, be careful... you wouldn't believe how lost you can get in a few dunes.

Take every chance to smell the camels and goats. mmmmm.

Most beaches have naturist bits on them somewhere. Don't get your **** sunburnt the day before you fly home, and don't get sand in your ****. Both are incredibly painful (speaks with the voice of experience)

Be careful what you eat. The vast majority of the food is fine, but we did eat a Pizza which we believed to be made from goats cheese. Actually turned out to be made from goats AND cheese.

 

ROTFLMFAO @ FB and his nuddy bits

 

there's a very good diving centre in corralacos (sp ?), run by a spanish bloke - that was the first time i went diving and it was a great place to do it.

good place to windsurf too

cant comment on the naturalist beaches, but FB does sound as if he knows what he's talking about....

 

Stayed in the North of the island just outside the capital about 2 years ago. Weather was good its probably worth hiring a car so you can see the rest of the island. As above recommend day trip to Lanzarote

 

Great place if you like sand and sand and more sand and wind and wind and sandy wind and windy sand...

 

sorry forgot to mention, they have lots of sand and wind

 

not that long back,

was in jandia, a lot of krauts !!!!

nice,very windy at night, bloody warm, still spent a shed load of money

 

Went to Sotavento (strong wind) for a speedsailing competition, years ago.

The best memory was windsurfing across the lagoon at the end of the beach, which was full of hammerhead sharks The locals told us that the sharks bask in the warm shallows and are pretty harmless. All the same, it was the best gybes I've ever done

Corralejo best for wave sailing/bars/babes.

 

Thanks for the replies, we're going to ??? de Fuste place, dont mind it too quite as long as you can go places that arent, just hoping the weather hold out, went away in June and September last year to Sardinia and Menorca and it rained

[Edited by LeeMac - 1/21/2002 1:17:51 PM]

 

Caleta De Fuste - In the middle on the right hand side. There a good few bars and clubs there. The same guy owns all the supermarkets in Caleta, so bring a couple of days food with you and shop in one of the other resorts. We found that a tin of soup was the same price as a bottle of vodka in one place - mmmmmmmm - liquid diet. They used to run a happy hour pub crawl, where each bar had 2 for 1 offer on Tropical for a certain time each day. If you got the knack you could stagger round each bar from about 3.00 PM until you couldn't drink any more (3.15 usually ) never paying full price

 

p.s. It hasn't rained since 1934 or something - honest