Touring South to West - Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico, one of Gran Canaria’s most popular family resorts situated at the mouth of a large valley, is our next stop. Once a small fishing port, the Puerto Rico of today abounds with hotels and apartments, built on the terraces of the steep slopes rising from the coastline, fortuitously brightened up with lush greenery to please the eye.

Bustling during high season, you’ll find Puerto Rico altogether more laid back in low season. With a small but beautiful beach, covered with sand from the Sahara, space is at a premium with sun beds lined up on a jetty. Set back from the beach, in a lush tropical garden with exotic plants and flowers, you’ll find two public swimming pools. Renowned to be the sunniest spot of the island, this holiday resort is a mecca for sun worshippers.

Puerto Rico also offers a selection of water-sports activities, ranging from jet-skiing, sailing, diving, big-game fishing and windsurfing to leisure excursions such as pleasure boat trips along the coast, dolphin watching cruises or a trip in a glass-bottom boat to discover the world under the water.

Other off-beach attractions include golf courses, a water park featuring all kinds of entertainment for young and old and a handily-placed shopping centre nearby.

Puerto Rico also boasts a picturesque harbour and enjoys renown as a sailing centre, members of its clubs having won five Olympic medals. Deep-sea fishing, likewise, thrives here, evidenced in the 50+ world records claimed by fishermen setting out from this port.