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Canary Islands All Inclusive Vacation Package At One Large Resort, Ten Nights
A canary islands all inclusive vacation package puts you in a resort of six hundred to nine hundred rooms for ten nights, which is exactly why the per person figure is the lowest in our catalog.
Ten nights, from $1,460 per person.
Nothing here counts you and nothing here follows you off the page. One word can be written down, and only the word yes, so this strip stops coming back. What that means in full.
The islands sit about seventy miles off the coast of Morocco, which is why they hold sixty five to seventy degrees Fahrenheit through January while Madrid sits near forty. That is the whole commercial logic of the winter season here, and it is the reason a canary islands all inclusive vacation package at a large resort carries the lowest per person figure of anything this office books. Volume does it. A property with eight hundred rooms buys food by the pallet and staffs to a rota, and the price per head falls accordingly.
What nobody puts in the brochure copy is the wind. The trade winds run down the archipelago from the northeast for most of the year, and they hit Fuerteventura and Lanzarote first and hardest. Those two islands are low, flat and largely treeless, and there is nothing between the water and your sunbed to slow the air down. On the east coast of Fuerteventura in February you can have seventy two degrees, full sun, and a wind that makes lying flat on a towel genuinely unpleasant by two in the afternoon. This is not a rare day. It is the normal condition, and it is why the windsurf industry settled there.
Tenerife and Gran Canaria are different because they are tall. Both have a central massif high enough to split the island in two weather systems: cloud stacked on the northern slopes, dry and bright in the south. Almost every large resort on those two islands sits in the south for that reason, and the shelter is real. If wind is your main worry, the south coast of either of the big islands is the answer, and we will say so when you call.
- What size this is
- Several hundred guests share the property with you, so the buffet runs on an industrial schedule, the pools have a sunbed rush at half past eight, and nothing about the day can be improvised for you personally.
- What is actually included
- Ten nights in a double room at a large all inclusive property on Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura or Lanzarote; three buffet meals daily plus house wine, beer, soft drinks and spirits during posted service hours; airport transfer by shared coach on arrival and departure; resort pools, sunbeds and the standard evening entertainment program; one written itinerary and one point of contact at this office.
- Who else is on it
- Between six hundred and nine hundred guests, mostly northern European couples and families on the same seven, ten or fourteen night rotation, with a heavy turnover every Tuesday and Saturday; the practical effect is queues at the buffet from 7:30 to 9:00, a towel scramble at the main pool, entertainment aimed at the widest possible audience, and staff who will know your room number but not your name.
- What it does not include
- Flights to and from the islands; anything eaten or drunk outside posted service hours or at the a la carte restaurants that charge a supplement; bottled premium spirits, specialty coffee and minibar restocking; excursions, car rental, ferries between islands, and the fuel and parking that go with them; resort spa treatments, paid kids club sessions and paid sports; tips; travel insurance, visas and passports, none of which this office sells or advises on; single occupancy, which carries a supplement quoted separately.
- Who should not book this
- Anyone who wants quiet at breakfast, a room that is not near a corridor of two hundred identical rooms, or a resort that will rearrange anything for one couple. Also wrong for people who need reliable flat calm for open water swimming, and for anyone who thinks a warm island in January means a hot beach every single afternoon.
What eight hundred rooms actually does to your ten days
The scale shows up first at breakfast. A property this size runs the buffet from about half past seven to ten, and the middle ninety minutes are crowded enough that a family of four should expect to split up to find seats. Go at half past nine and you walk in. Most people work this out by day three and then defend it.
Sunbeds are the second thing. Large resorts print rules against reserving beds with towels at dawn and then do not enforce them, because enforcing them would mean confronting paying guests before eight in the morning. Assume the main pool is claimed by nine. The quieter pools, usually the ones furthest from the lobby, stay open later into the morning and are worth walking to.
The third effect is subtler and it is the one that matters. At this size, nothing is arranged around you. The a la carte restaurants take bookings on a rotation, typically one or two sittings per stay per room, and you book them at reception on your first morning or you do not get them. The entertainment is set weeks ahead. If you want a day rearranged, a table held, a driver at an odd hour, that is not what several hundred guests buys you. It buys a low figure and a functioning machine.
from $1,460per person
- Where it comes from
- The lowest figure this office has actually booked this trip at inside the last twelve months.
- Read as
- Two people sharing one room, unless the rows above this say otherwise for your case.
- What lifts it
- A smaller party than the size this trip is filed under, a better grade of room, a peak week, and a late decision.
- When it stops moving
- When an operator puts its own name under it in writing. Until then treat it as the floor of a range this office has seen.
Whatever you settle is settled with that operator, on whatever system it runs. No part of it passes through this office and no card is ever seen here.
Which months work here and which ones people get wrong
December through March is the season, and it is priced as one. Sea temperature bottoms out around sixty four degrees Fahrenheit in February and March, which is swimmable for about twenty minutes if you are used to it and not at all if you are not. Most large resorts heat at least one pool; ask, because not all of them do, and the unheated ones in January are cold enough to end the argument.
The other trap is summer. July and August are hot, busy with Spanish domestic holidays, and expensive relative to the winter rate, which surprises people who assume a winter sun island must be lowest priced in its own summer.
- Dec to Feb
- Peak winter demand. Air 68F, sea 64F, short days, heated pool matters.
- Mar to Apr
- Same weather, thinner crowds, best value of the year on the big islands.
- May to Jun
- Warmest balance. Sea climbing, wind steady, low rainfall.
- Jul to Aug
- Hot, full, and the calima, a dust haze off the Sahara, is most likely.
- Sep to Oct
- Warmest sea of the year, around 73F. Occasional heavy rain in late October.
- Any month, east islands
- Fuerteventura and Lanzarote hold a persistent afternoon wind. Plan a sheltered pool.
What gets fixed at confirmation and what stays open
Everything that costs money gets decided before you pay the balance: island, resort category, room type, board level and the transfer. What stays open is smaller than people expect, because at this scale the property allocates rooms by its own system on the day of arrival.
- QuestionYou tell us island, dates and party size. We send two or three properties by type and level, with the figure per person and what it covers.
- HoldWe ask the supplier to hold rooms for a stated number of days. Nothing is charged and nothing is committed.
- ConfirmationDeposit paid, resort and room category locked, transfer booked, written itinerary issued. A figure takes two to four working days to prepare.
- Final balanceDue before departure by the date printed on your itinerary. Room number, floor and view are set by the property at check in, not by us.
Ask the question you actually have
Most people calling about this trip want to know one specific thing: will the wind ruin it, or will the resort be too big, or whether the food holds up for ten nights. Write it down and send it. A message is read the same working day.