Fuerteventura is only seven nautical miles away from Playa Blanca and yet it’s almost always invisible in a haze which makes it look just a little mysterious
A few things have happened to us along the way while we’ve been here –
A few days in and we got trapped in the lift with another couple. It seems that we had arrived at our chosen floor but that the lift door had decided not to open. I can’t remember ever being stuck in a lift before and it was a little daunting, especially as the lift is the warmest place in the hotel! We pressed the emergency button and shortly afterwards the door duly opened and we were greeted by a smiling technician wielding a box spanner and we were free.
When we had been here a week we went back to our room just before teatime to find that neither of our digital room key cards would work. We suspected that the hotel thought we were only here for a week rather than for the 11 nights we had booked. We went down to Reception to be told that they had been disabled at 1pm that day. The receptionist than asked us how long we wanted to stay for which we thought was a rather odd question and she then reprogrammed them. Telling us that they were disabled at 1pm was rather helpful. Check out time here is 12 noon which in itself is helpful, but it suggests that we could finally leave the room on our last day just before 1pm and get away with it. It seems we won’t be picked up until 6pm so we will be refugees for long.
It rained at one point. How dare it?! We were driving round with the roof off and some dark clouds appeared. We’ve seen that at times in the past, but nothing comes of it. Then suddenly spits and spots started to fall on our skin. I then had to switch the wipers on. Just as I decided that I needed to pull over and put the roof back, it stopped and that was it. And we’ve had that happen before now.
The other thing that happened was that the convertible roof of our hire car, a mini convertible made of course by BMW would randomly start to open or close on its own. We never established the cause of this but we did conclude that the whole mechanism was rather crude compared to what we’re used to at home!
When we first came to Lanzarote in 1988 there were stray cats everywhere. We were told that a sterilisation programme was under way and in subsequent years to number of cats slowly decreased. Our hotel here seems to have two resident strays, one a very slim one and the other who definitely looks pregnant. We asked a waitress at the bar if they were strays as they both look well fed and she confirmed that they were. I asked who fed them and she said it was people who lived near the hotel. That seems odd as our hotel doesn’t seem to have any private housing in the area!
There are three outdoor pools here – two main pools and one smaller Jacuzzi pool. One of the main pools is supposedly heated but both are just slightly on the chilly side whilst the Jacuzzi pool is definitely heated but only to about 22C. With all the solar panels abounding on all the hotel rooftops here you would imagine that they could have the water warmer if they wanted. When we return in February we were pleased to read that our hotel then which has one main pool and one children’s pool has the main pool heated in the winter until the end of March.
They have a ‘lifeguard/pool attendant here which most hotels
don’t have and it seems that he switches the Jacuzzi action on and off at what
seem like random times and he finishes work at 6pm, so after that it seems
you’re on your own! There are no pool
hours as such.
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