Fuerteventura Holidays

Fuerteventura (or Fuertaventura), our second favourite Ventura (after Ace, obvs). More golden sandy beach than the rest of the Canaries put together, water you can swim in every month of the year, and somehow still great value.

Highlights of your Fuerteventura Holidays 2026 and 2027

• Scorchio all year round (we love to see it) - hot enough to still swim in the sea in Jan (we love to sea it!)

• Miles of beach to pick from, literally miles and miles and miles

• A haven for all kinds of surfing - from classic to wind to kite

• Home to the delish Majorero cheese (trust us, it's a highlight)

• And the Corralejo natural park full of amazing sand dunes

Good to know for your Fuerteventura Holiday

• ☀️ Weather - Highs of 21°C in January and 28°C in August, around 2,900 hours of sunshine a year, and no rain at all from May to September. The sea runs 18°C to 22°C.

• The Oldest Canary Island - with volcanic origins dating back over 20 million years, it’s got history!

• 💶 Money - Cheaper than the Med and it shows: a menu del dia is €12 to €15, a caña is €2 to €3, a plate of papas arrugadas €5. There is no tourist tax in Fuerteventura, so nothing to settle at reception either.

• UNESCO Biosphere Reserve - in 2009, the entire island was declared a reserve, protecting its unique landscapes and wildlife.

• 🏖 Fun fact - There is a beach near Corralejo that looks exactly like someone has tipped a cinema's worth of popcorn across the shore. Every single piece is a rhodolith, a marine algae that grows red on the seabed and gets bleached white by the waves on the way in. Its actual name is Playa del Bajo de la Burra, nobody on earth uses it as a beach, but people visit to take pictures, and those who do are asked to leave the popcorn precisely where they found it. Which is harder than it sounds, because everyone wants a jar of it for the shelf at home.

Making the most of your holidays in Fuerteventura

"The best thing we did was visit the Ajuy caves, on the west coast. We parked at the top of the village, walked along the cliff, then down a lot of stone steps (wear proper shoes) into these incredible caves the sea has cut into the rock. The rock here is old ocean floor, so you're standing on something a hundred million years older than the island (and it looks it). Properly amazing, and it costs nothing. Check the tide first, because the caves close off near high water. And my other top tip is, go up to the Mirador de Sicasumbre one night to go stargazing, it's a short drive inland from Costa Calma. Take a jumper, it is colder than you think, but it's in the dark sky area and the view is unbelievable."

- Rob Rooks, OtB Holiday Expert

Fuerteventura is perfect for you if...

• You want a Canary Island where the beach is the point

• You have always fancied trying to surf and would rather learn somewhere the instructors do it for a living

• You want winter sun in January that is genuinely warm rather than technically warm

• You are travelling with a family and want shallow, calm water on one coast and something dramatic to look at on the other

• You want banging beaches, but you also want interesting landscapes

• You appreciate an incredible holiday at a great price

Best Spots to Stay in on your holidays to Fuerteventura

Fuerteventura is basically one big sandy playground, but picking the right base is key. Whether you want to catch waves or just catch some zzz's, here is the lowdown on the top spots...

• Corralejo - the island’s liveliest hub where traditional charm meets surfer cool. With 10km of white sand dunes and brilliant local fish restaurants, it’s a total all-rounder. Top pick for groups, water sports fanatics, and families who want a bit of buzz with their beach days.

• Caleta de Fuste - a purpose-built favourite that’s all about convenience. Boasting a calm horseshoe bay that’s safe for little swimmers and the island’s only golf course, it’s a stress-free zone. Ideal for families and couples who want everything within easy walking distance.

• Costa Calma - Calma by name, calma by nature. If your main goal is to flop on a sunbed and do absolutely nothing, this is your spot. With endless turquoise waters and a chilled vibe, it’s 10/10 for couples and quiet-seekers escaping the daily grind.

• Playa de Jandía - a mix of wild, windswept beauty and sheltered coves, on the longest run of sand on the island and a little over an hour from the airport. Dramatic scenery that feels like the edge of the world, and the base for the walk out to the legendary Cofete beach. Perfect for adventure lovers.

Cheap holidays to Fuerteventura

OK, listen up cheap holiday hunters - Fuerteventura is the cheapest of the big three Canaries (and for many people that makes it the best). Known as a windsurfing wonderland (the more you know), this Canary Island gem is a slice of sunny paradise without the premium price tag (phew). Dive into watersport adventures, chill in cute coastal towns, or...y'know...just binge on tapas without your wallet wincing.

Cheap holidays Fuerteventura-style are not a compromise here: the beaches are free, the island is small enough to see on a hire car, and the money you save goes on dinner rather than on the room. Eating out is where you notice how cheap this island can be: a menu del dia runs €12 to €15 for three courses, a caña is €2 to €3, and a plate of papas arrugadas with mojo is about €5. There is no tourist tax on Fuerteventura either, so nothing extra lands on the bill at check-out.

The cheapest months to fly are May, June and late September into October, and they are also the best swimming months, with the sea at its warmest and the wind lighter than in high summer. January and February are the other value window: 21°C, dry, quiet beaches, and hotel prices at their lowest of the year. If you are tied to the school holidays, the saving is in the board basis rather than the dates, because 45 of the island's bookable holidays are all-inclusive and a five-star all-inclusive here regularly costs less than half board on a busier island.

Two local tricks. Base yourself in Caleta de Fuste or Nuevo Horizonte rather than beachfront Corralejo and you will pay noticeably less for the same week, with a ten-minute transfer thrown in. And the best things on the island are free anyway: the Corralejo dunes, the lagoons at El Cotillo and the walk out to Cofete cost nothing but your time.

Low-cost Fuerteventura fun awaits, so grab your sunnies, slap on some sunscreen, and let's get going without blowing the budget.

Best Hotels for Your Fuerteventura Holidays 2026/2027

Whether you're browsing our last-minute holidays or just on the hunt for a cheeky, cheap holiday to Fuerteventura, this island has everything from swanky suites to whopping all-inclusive resorts. Here are our top picks from across the Fuerteventura hotels lineup.

💑 What are the best hotels in Fuerteventura for couples?

• Secrets Bahia Real Resort & Spa sits right on the beachfront at Corralejo looking across to Lobos Island, with a serious spa and the best guest reviews on the island. Adults only, and the one to book if you want the trip to feel like an occasion.

• Barcelo Corralejo Bay is a short walk from the beach with a wellness centre and an adults-only calm, close enough to walk into town for dinner and far enough that you cannot hear it.

• H10 Ocean Dunas is a stylish adults-only four-star in the middle of Corralejo, 50m from the beach and a short drive from the dunes. The pick if you want the town on your doorstep rather than a resort compound.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 What are the best family hotels in Fuerteventura?

• Barcelo Fuerteventura Mar is the island's family workhorse and one of the best-reviewed resorts in the Canaries across an enormous number of stays. Beachfront at Caleta de Fuste, saltwater pools, mini golf, a kids' club and all-inclusive with themed a la carte restaurants including Mexican and Brazilian.

• Bluesea Aloe Corralejo has four pools, a kids' club and wellness facilities, with all-inclusive available and the Corralejo strip near enough to walk. The easy choice if you want everything handled.

• Fuertesol is bungalows with their own kitchens at Caleta de Fuste, with a family pool and a kiddie splash zone and poolside snacks when nobody can face cooking. Family holidays Fuerteventura parents book twice.

• Occidental Jandia Playa has direct access to Jandia beach in the south, with four pools including one for small children, a spa and several bars, on one of the best stretches of sand on the island.

✨ What are the best luxury hotels in Fuerteventura?

• Riu Palace Jandia is beachfront elegance in the south, with suites, a la carte dining at Krystal and all-inclusive done at Palace level.

• Iberostar Selection Fuerteventura Palace sits on the Jandia beachfront with a spa, several restaurants and a pool area people book the holiday for. Fully renovated from top to bottom and recently reopened, so everything in it is new.

• Elba Corralejo Premium Level Only Adults 16 is the quiet, grown-up option in the north, around 2km from the dunes and a long way in feel from the family resorts.

🎉 What are the best hotels in Fuerteventura for groups?

• Alua Suites Fuerteventura is all suites, 50m from the beach, with eight pools, five restaurants and an adults-only club area with its own pools. Room to spread out and no arguments about who is sharing.

• Playa Park has a rooftop infinity pool, a spa, several bars and nightly live entertainment, in the middle of Corralejo.

• BLUESEA Corralejo Village is 250m from the beach with the town's bars a short walk away.

• Arena Beach is a Corralejo apartment complex, so you get kitchens and space, right by the strip.

💰 What are the best-value hotels in Fuerteventura?

• Las Marismas de Corralejo is apartment-style accommodation 500m from the beach with two pools, central enough for the bars and cheap enough to leave room for dinner out every night.

• Caybeach Caleta is self-catering 300m from Castillo beach, with a pool heated through the winter, hydromassage loungers beside it and a poolside bar.

• Broncemar Beach has three pools including one heated in winter, junior suites and a price that undercuts most of the beachfront.

• Villa Florida is the quiet Caleta de Fuste option, apartments with kitchens and an easy-going feel, for anyone who want

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All Inclusive Holidays To Fuerteventura

All inclusive holidays in Fuerteventura - the beach-blessed star of the Canaries - are where cheap holidays abroad turn into legends, and tans are as mandatory as flip-flops. It's a windsurfing mecca where the breeze is your dance partner, and the waves are the dance floor.

All inclusive Fuerteventura holidays are not a sideline here, they are one of the most popular ways to holiday here. Picture a sangria as chilled as the island itself, a backdrop of dunes rolling off to the horizon, and every sangria, beer, cocktail and plate of Canarian potatoes already paid for before you left home.

The standard is high because there is a lot of competition. The minimum you can expect is three buffet meals, snacks through the day, local beer, wine and spirits, and entertainment in the evening, with the bigger resorts running it round the clock and adding a la carte restaurants on top.

The thing worth checking before you book, because it varies more here than in Turkey or Egypt: a la carte restaurants and imported spirits often sit outside the package, and the resorts that include them tend to say so plainly on their own page. If you're the kind of group that will only drink the premium stuff then it's worth checking before you book.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 What are the best all-inclusive hotels in Fuerteventura for families?

• BLUESEA Club Caleta Dorada puts three pools and a kids' splash park behind an all-inclusive band, with a mini club and an activity programme that runs all day.

• Broncemar Beach does all-inclusive at suite level in Caleta de Fuste, with three pools and evening entertainment, at a price that surprises people.

💑 What are the best all-inclusive hotels in Fuerteventura for couples?

• Ereza Mar - Adults Only is a refurbished four-star looking straight out over the Atlantic at Caleta de Fuste, with a heated pool, an infinity pool and the bars and restaurants of the resort on the doorstep. Adults only, all-inclusive, and on the calm side of the island.

• Hotel KN Matas Blancas - Adults Only sits in Costa Calma, which is the quietest of the four main resorts to begin with, and then puts an adults-only door on it. The pick if the plan is a sunlounger, a book and nobody under 18 within earshot.

🎉 What are the best all-inclusive hotels in Fuerteventura for groups?

• Arena Beach is apartments in Corralejo with all-inclusive available, so you get the kitchens and the space and still do not have to think about the bar tab.

• BLUESEA Corralejo Village runs its all-inclusive alongside a heated pool 350m from the beach, with the Corralejo strip walkable at the end of the night.

Last-minute holidays to Fuerteventura

Last minute means booking inside about six weeks of flying, and Fuerteventura is unusually good at accomodating last minute holidays. The island runs a full programme every month of the year, so there is no dead season where the flights stop and nothing is left, which is what makes most last-minute searches disappointing elsewhere.

What actually comes free at short notice here is board basis rather than beds. Rooms get released across the big resorts at Caleta de Fuste and Corralejo week by week, and because so much of the island is sold all-inclusive, a late deal will often move you up a board type rather than down a star rating. That is the opposite of how it usually works.

The windows worth watching are the two shoulders, late September into October and the weeks either side of the February half term, when the weather is still doing everything you came for and the school-holiday spike has passed. If your dates are fixed and your resort is not, keep the resort open: the same week can swing a long way on price between the north of the island and the south.

The best beaches in Fuerteventura

Fuerteventura has more sand than the rest of the Canaries combined, and the only real decision is which coast. The east is sheltered and calm, the west is wild and windy, and the island is narrow enough to swap at lunchtime.

• Grandes Playas, Corralejo - The famous one. White sand running for kilometres alongside the protected dunes, with water that turns genuinely turquoise on a bright day and Lobos Island sitting out in front of it. Windy in the afternoons, which is why the kite crowd loves it.

• Playa de Sotavento, Jandia - A vast lagoon that fills and empties with the tide, leaving a shallow sheet of warm water you can walk out into for a very long way. It hosts the windsurfing and kiteboarding world tour for a reason.

• Playa del Castillo, Caleta de Fuste - The calm one. A sheltered horseshoe bay with barely any swell, which makes it the easiest beach on the island with small children, and it is a walk from most of the resorts.

• Playa de Cofete - Twelve kilometres of wild, empty sand backed by mountains on the far side of the Jandia peninsula, reached by a rough unsurfaced track. Do not swim, the currents are serious and there is no lifeguard. Go for the view, which is one of the great sights of the Canaries.

• Playa de la Concha, El Cotillo - A sheltered white-sand cove on the north-west coast with a natural rock breakwater, so it stays swimmable when the rest of that side is not. Sunset here is the island's best.

Fuerteventura holidays 2026/2027 - Travel Guide

💑 What are the best things to do for couples in Fuerteventura?

• Sunset boat trip from Caleta de Fuste - Golden hour on the Atlantic with a glass of something cold and dolphins turning up more often than you would expect.

• Mirador Morro Velosa - A viewpoint in a hillside house looking out over the whole volcanic interior. Free, and the best photograph on the island that does not involve sand.

• Bodega Conatvs wine tasting - The island's first legally established winery, growing vines in volcanic gravel and winning international awards doing it. Tour, taste, take a bottle back.

• Dinner at El Cotillo - A small fishing village on the north-west coast with seafood restaurants right on the water and none of the resort strip about it.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 What are the best things to do on a Fuerteventura family holiday?

• Oasis Wildlife - Giraffes, elephants, sea lions and one of the largest botanical gardens in the Canaries, with a cactus collection the children will walk past and the adults will not.

• Acua Water Park, Corralejo - Slides, lazy rivers and splash zones, with a kids' club included. Open from late March to early November.

• The Corralejo dunes - Ten kilometres of protected white sand that is essentially the world's largest sandpit, and the reason most Corralejo holidays get booked. Take a board and slide down them.

• Boat trip to Lobos Island - Twenty minutes from Corralejo to a tiny volcanic island with rock pools, a walkable crater and an abandoned lighthouse. You need a free permit from the Cabildo to land, numbers are capped and it books out, so sort it online a few days before you travel.

🎉 What are the top things to do for groups in Fuerteventura?

• Surf or kitesurf lessons - The wind and waves here are genuinely world-class and the schools take complete beginners. Everybody falls in, which is the point.

• Dune buggy tour through the Corralejo dunes - Loud, sandy and exactly as daft as it sounds.

• The Corralejo bar strip - A walkable run of bars with happy hours and live music, lively without being mayhem.

• Catamaran cruise with swimming stops - Sail the coast, jump into the Atlantic, look for dolphins on the way back.

Local Lingo

Spanish is the official language in Fuerteventura, or Fuertaventura as it's sometimes spelt, and although English is widely spoken in the resorts a few choice Spanish phrases will always earn you a smile:

• Hola, OH-lah, Hello

• Gracias, GRAH-thee-as, Thank you

• Por favor, por fah-VOR, Please

• Una caña, por favor, OO-nah KAH-nyah por fah-VOR, A small beer, please (the magic words)

• ¿Cuánto cuesta?, KWAN-toh KWES-tah, How much does it cost?

• ¡Muy rico!, mwee REE-koh, Very tasty!

• Buenas tardes, BWEH-nas TAR-des, Good afternoon

More Canary Island Holidays

• Tenerife - the biggest Canary Island and an all-rounder. Mount Teide, waterparks, black sand beaches and year-round sunshine for families, couples and groups alike.

• Lanzarote - volcanic landscapes, arty Cesar Manrique vibes and some of the most dramatic scenery in the Canaries. Brilliant for couples and culture lovers.

• Gran Canaria - a mini continent with golden dunes in the south, lush forests in the north and a buzzing nightlife scene in Playa del Ingles. Something for everyone.

• La Palma - the greenest Canary Island, nicknamed La Isla Bonita. Stargazing, hiking and a slower pace of life for those who want to properly switch off.