Sunny Sunny Sunny (Gran Canaria)

Member Name: OhLala-17

Product:	Gran Canaria
Date:	11/01/09 (176 review reads)
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Advantages: Great Weather, Lots To Do.

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I went to Gran Canaria in August 2006.
We stayed in a little place between Puerto Rico & Puerto Morgan called Playa De Los Amadores.

It has a man made beach with over 800 meters of sand and sea.
And in the sea (when i was there) was a big bouncy sea activity center, with rock climbing, trampolines and a few other bits it looked quite good and when we went to look at it, didn't cost to go on which i though was good!
The beach is very nice and most importantly clean!
There are many sunbeds & umbrellas which do cost & you do have to get there early to get some together.
The beach was in a cove shape and had mini piers either side, one pier was still being done while the other had sun beds and, was where you could hire out pedalos.
Near the end of the piers was a rope with boys on, which is so swimmers had there own swimming space with no pedalos coming in.
As you came off the beach they had showers and foot showers so you could clean your feet off! Along the sea front were many shops & resturants we ate at about 3 of the resturants while we were there and all were very good!

If you wanted to go into Puerto Rico you could get there by Taxi or walk, we walked everytime as there was a special sea front walk way. It took about 15 - 25 minutes depending how fast you walk or how hot it was!

Puerto Rico didn't impress us too much, the beach seemed packed compared to our one and the resturants were alot more expensive. We did go shopping in a local shopping area in Puerto Rico which was really good and also they have a mirina where you can catch boats to go Dolphin & Whale watching. We did the Dolphin trip and it was very good (Although i did feel a little sea sick) but it made it all worth while when we saw the dolphins & whales!!

Puerto Mogan; This is a lovely village near by, we got here by boat/ little ferry. They have a few shops & resturants but it's mainly to see the houses and what not, personally this didn't float by boat but it did my parents.
We saw a yellow submerine! And i did come out which a song when i saw it... haha. I'm sure you can guess the song =)

Other Things In Gran Canaria- Where we stayed in Playa De Los Amadores it was on a cliff i suppose. At the bottom is the beach, road & little things. Then as you go up the cliff it has some hotels and right at the top is a shopping plaza. We found this really useful as it gave us more places to eat near by and was alot more lively.
There was shops and resturants which were open till late, information centers, enclosed trampolines for younger ones, and basketball court.
We ate up here a few times and found it cheap & the portions were huge in one resturant! I ordered a small chiken & something (expecting it to be a few bits of cut up chicken, boy was i wrong! It was a whole small chiken!!
In the information shop were many brochers about what Gran Canaria had to offer.

Maspalomas sand dunes.
Water Parks- Aquasur which is the biggest water park on the island. With 33 slides and 13 attractions. This is by Maspalomas.
Or Puerto Rico Water Park - This has the longest & fastest slide out of the water parks.

Camel Rides - You can ride these on the Maspalomas sand dunes or in a little village Fatage.

Palmitos Parque- I went here and had a really good time! It's a park which is pretty much in the desert and to get to it you go though some really dry and baron land. It has over 100 plam trees, 15,000 plants lots of birds and animals Such as: Monkeys, Crocs, reptiles, butterfly house, emu's, wallabees and many many more!
They have shows with eagles and falcons, a parrot show & a show where you can touch snakes and some other animals.

Gran Canaria is just 130 miles from Africa and near by islands are Tenerife & Fuerteventura.
The weather is from 18 degrees in the winter & 22 degrees in the summer although it does get alot warmer!
The capital is Las Palmas and flying time from the UK - Gran Canaria is about 4 & a half hours.

Summary: Great Sunny Island To Visit