For the benefit of any BR members I am happy to be contacted by E mail (see profile) to answer specific questions. I have been going there for almost 30 years and have just returned from a week there.
Flights are about £150 return but a basic self-catering package can be had for around £200 a week including the fare. The locals are suffering fom a shortage of tourists and have taken the strange step of raising prices to try and maintain their income!
Car hire is excellent value; I had a 1.2 5 door Fiesta for Euros 108 for the week all included; petrol is 77 cents a litre and with a taxi from and to the airport @ 80 euros, a car for a week for 108 made good sense. Evrything seems expensive by UK standards but drink is cheaper and good value meals out can be found quite easily.
Weather was cooler than usual, mostly due to lots of thin cloud cover. 10 Minutes rain in a week so no complaints. About 20C by day and 15C by night. Glad to help anyone thinking of a holiday there.
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Flights are about £150 return
Or a lot cheaper on a certain Irish airline that has massively increased the number of flights it is operating to the Canary Isles this winter.
And for the motoring link, I agree car hire and petrol is cheap.
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I too have been holidaying out there for years even when the airport was just a shed & the roads were all just dirt tracks.
Used to be a lot hotter & dryer than in recent years but has become a lot more expensive.
I very nearly bought a Villa in playa blanca 25 years ago for 22K. thats my only regret. used to love the place
I doc
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AF you are right about the Shamrock team but my £4 return flight plus taxes etc making £85, was only half full both ways and they are stopping flying the route on 13th Feb ie in 10 days! One of their GTW based a/c flies to Dublin every morning and to the Canaries every afternoon; it remains to be seen if all Canaries flights are stopped or just the 3 a week ro Lanzarote
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I bought a timeshare there and that is MY only regret! People my age who bought want to opt out, their children don't want them as a gift and the re-sale market is flatter than flat!
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A coincidence as I?ve just come back from a first visit there (10 days) and thoroughly enjoyed it. 25C best and 17C worst. Picked up a well worn C3 petrol (gutless so 1.0 I guess?) at £110 for 10 days from the airport and rented a house west of Playa Blanca. At first I thought the C3 was prematurely knackered but having driven on the road to the remote Papagayo beach (which everone does once I guess) then the fact that the suspension still worked was impressive! Couldn?t get used to the big A pillars ? dangerous IMO and not helped by the island?s policy of growing a big bush on the final approach to every single mini roundabout to further block your vision. Coach trip through the Timanfaya National Park is a must for first timers ? some scary ascents and drops! So little traffic and generally well maintained roads made getting about a pleasure and some of the landscape is stunning with nothing but lava fields ? just rocks and all black, no plant or animal life. We kept away from the Irish bars, the Sky Sports outlets and the hotels harbouring Brit pensioners for the winter and had a great time and came back with spare cash. Only filled up once and that was at 87 cents a litre. Definitely going back.
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 02/02/2010 at 00:28
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We have a Villa (time share) 1 week in Las Brisas. Might get rid for little money. All done correctly, Escritura etc.
MD
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MD - if you want the latest news on the expense and complications of disposing of Spanish Property send me an e mail! I was relieved of euros 225 just to get myself into the position of being legally allowed to sell my own property. Weeks at Las Casitas are NOT selling at £1000.
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". Coach trip through the Timanfaya National Park is a must for first timers ? some scary ascents and drops"
Absolutely fantastic, especially if you get the long tour when they are quiet. I have to say it is a must! If you go do not miss the tour.
I used to spend x-mas's out there & temp used to be around 88 each day but its cooler these days. the whole island used to be almost sandy everywhere whereas it can be quite green now.
having said that i still had fantastic hols there but getting dear now.
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I dont like the place, not sure if its the dark coloured beaches, the irish bars and british pubs, arabs trying to sell you fake watches, the constand wind, or the fact I had a Daewoe Lanos as a hire car.
It was good to discover the work of Cesar Manrique tho,
Taking the harp airline to Seville in March. The flights are 208 quid, the added fees and charges are 200 quid. Would you adam and eve it.
Edited by Altea Ego on 02/02/2010 at 16:12
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AE - I think you may have been Chav Central = Puerto del Carmen! Playa Blanca is a lot quieter, not many Irish pubs there and, apart from one with EIGHT flat screeen TVs in it, easy to avoid. No fake watches in the Market at the Rubicon Marina wed and sat each week. Everything just very expensive overall!
Edited by Armitage Shanks {p} on 02/02/2010 at 17:33
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>>> Everything just very expensive overall! <<<
= ?.
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