Fuerteventura resort information

Caleta de Fuste

One of  the most famous tourist towns on the island is Caleta de Fuste - also known as Castillo, situated 10km south of the airport . Caleta de Fuste features a long main road that has low-rise buildings where you can find the main bars and restaurants.

If one is not a great fun of walking though, you can always rent an apartment nearer to the town centre and still experience the great nightlife of the resort! You can find there a wide selection of bars offering all kinds of entertainment from live music to karaoke and many restaurants including Chinese, Italian and authentic Spanish. One of several tree line roads there will take you to a man-made beach behind some cliffs and apartments.

The resort’s newest attraction is going to be nowadays a new golf course inclusive of club house restaurants, hotels, and many more facilities. Round the Golf Course a brand new shopping complex with some fine shops and restaurants, a multi-screen cinema (the films are in spanish) plus a 10 pin bowling alley, will not let you get short of things to do. Also Caleta de Fuste offers all the usual water sports as well as boat trips, diving, and even a submarine doing undersea excursions which is very exciting and adventurous. Because of Caleta's central location it's easy to explore the rest of the island if you hire a car

Corralejo

Another very popular resort on the island is Corralejo, which is situated in the north and, like Caleta de Fuste, it  used to be a small fishing village whereas now it is featuring a great number of hotels and facilities.

Corralejo however still looks unspoiled and there are still white sandy beaches in the town centre, where you can easily lay back and let the Canaries sun roll over your skin. The main street-where you will find most of the shops, bars and restaurants- leads right down the harbour, which looks across the other side of town and the sand dunes. The dunes are a protected nature reserve and they lie just beyond the town stretching for miles along the east coast and this is what makes Corralejo so charming and popular.

Activities in Corralejo include watersports, tennis, glass bottom boat trips, ferry trips to Lanzarote, Jeep Safaris, Island tours, Mountainbiking, Motorbike tours and can  satisfy all ages.

Costa Calma

Costa Calma is located 80km south of the airport  on the edge of the national park area of Jandia. Costa Calma had its first major tourist boom in 1984, despite its incredible white beaches. Although the very first hotel was built in 1977, it was only when the road from the capital Puerto del Rosario to Morro Jable was completed and connected Costa Calma properly, that tourism really started to take off.

Nowadays the resort has plenty of hotels (over 8000 beds), bars and restaurants. The main road into the resort is surrounded by palm trees and Canary pines which make it attractive and picturesque so if you drive all the way from the north then this is nice scenery to pass along. The long sandy beach of Playa Barca to the southwest is one of the strongest points of the island where is also easy to find a quiet spot even during peak season.

This beach is also very popular to wind surfers because of the strong off shore winds during the summer months.

El Cotillo

El Cotillo is situated on the northwest corner of Fuerteventura and is a fine small picturesque fishing village which is dedicated to the virgin of good travel (Virgin de Buen Viaje) and is quite impressive to see these words painted on the cliffs in the old harbour. However the village is peaceful offering good quality restaurants with great fish dishes, bars, shops and lots of new built hotels.

El Cotillo is now upgrading to one of the strong resorts in Fuerteventura with its long beautiful sandy beach that stretches out to the south part of the island. Playa Del Castillo is one of the nicest beaches in this area. Towards the south the beaches of Playa del Ajibe de la Cueva and the Playa del Aguila are lying both overwhelming and remote. You can really indulge yourself into deep blue water diving and a long hour sun bath.