Lanzarote | Activity holidays in the Canary Islands with Authentic Adventures

The ancient volcanic island of Lanzarote, easternmost of the Canaries, was reshaped nearly three centuries ago by the largest eruption in recent history, and the landscape it has left behind is truly extraordinary. 32 new volcanoes were created, covering a quarter of the island with lava, and today you can still see the solidified lava streams.

Successively home to the Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Portuguese and the Ottoman Empire, Lanzarote has a fascinating cultural history to go with its unique geology. The island is also home to a spectacular variety of plant life.

Where we stay

H10 Bahía Blanca Rock

At Authentic Adventures we usually stay in local family run hotels but in Lanzarote we have booked the full quota of winter sun facilities. The H10 Bahía Blanca Rock is an apartment complex built in the traditional Canary Islands architectural style - white with archways, verandahs and infinity pools - in Playa Blanca, a fishermen's village in the south of the island.

We stay in apartments with comfortable bedrooms, bathrooms with hairdryers, a nicely furnished living room with TV and kitchen equipped with fridge and kettle for preparing drinks after a morning spent walking or painting. There's plenty of comfy seating around the swimming pools – which are heated in winter. There's a help yourself buffet breakfast and the restaurant welcomes the whole group to dinner. Incredibly, these apartments are such good value that we can charge our guests less for a holiday in Lanzarote than in some smaller hotels elsewhere without all these extra facilities.