Southern Gran Canaria

Southern part of Gran Canaria and is the tourist center of the island. Here there is a 12 km long sandy beach and the Maspalomas dunes. The central mountains protect the area against clouds and trade winds.

Get in
From Las Palmas, you can take either a 45-minute coach or 30-minute taxi drive to Playa del Inglés.

Get around
There are regular buses that stop in Playa del Inglés, and taxis to and from wherever you need or want to go.

Bus fares on the island are a real bargain (prices as of Dec 2017):
 * Las Palmas-Faro de Maspalomas: €5.60
 * Playa del Inglés-Puerto Mogán: €4.15
 * San Fernando-Puerto Rico: €2.75
 * All the areas surrounding the famous dunes: €1.40, which covers Faro in the west to San Agustín in the east

Maspalomas
is an ideal holiday destination for families, here there is a beautiful dune landscape and a 6 km long fine sandy beach. Maspalomas has a personality on its own, as it evolved into a fully equipped town - instead of a plain resort. It has a variety of infrastructure and public institutions rarely seen in other touristic areas, including private clinics and two hospitals, local and foreign schooling institutions, English-language cinema, golf courses, sports centers, thematic parks and a Summer University.



The following two parks can be accessed from Maspalomas via line 70, or from San Agustín and Playa del Inglés using line 45:

Playa del Inglés
is a large tourist metropolis right next to Maspalomas, with beautiful dune beaches. There are hardly any sights except a church that holds services in three different languages. In the evening, the city changes its face. Where families were on the beach during the day or shopping, now is the youth on the move and visited the countless nightclubs, bars and restaurants in the city.

Playa del Inglés has been associated with gay travelers for over 25 years, but is now a clubbing town. Despite the fact that the Canaries are primarily Catholic, the locals have embraced gay tourism. Each year in the second week of May, one of the largest gay pride festivals in Europe is held in and around the Yumbo Centre.

The tourist offices scattered about Playa del Inglés and Maspalomas are rarely open unless it is Caravale (main festival in February, gay festival in May).



Sleep
There many quality hotels and Apartments in this Region of Gran canaria. . There are at least 20 highly-rated hotels and apartments in Playa del Inglés for tourists, such as the Jardin Del Sol, RIU Papayas, Gran Canaria Princess.Some of them are these



Other destinations

 * There are some truly stunning vistas on the coastal road to Pourto Mogan (30 km west).