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With year-round guaranteed sunshine, mainly golden-yellow or powder-white beaches, and only a four-hour flight from the UK, not surprisingly the Canary Islands are one of Britain’s top holiday destinations. The islands also offer a range of water sports, including surfing, windsurfing and snorkelling. And some of the best beach hotels in the Canary Islands are particularly geared to families with children’s clubs, playgrounds and separate children’s pools.

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Which Canary Island has the Best Beach for me?

• Lanzarote offers the steadiest of climates so is always a safe bet. Its popular resorts are Playa Grande at Puerto del Carmen, just south of Arrecife, the capital, and Playa Blanca, an attractive modern resort and close to the lovely coves of Punta del Papagayo.
• Close to Lanzarote, Fuerteventura offers what many consider some of the Canary Islands’ finest white-sand beaches.
• In Tenerife, the south-west resorts of Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas and Costa Adeje offer plenty of soft-white sands, a vast array of hotels and 24-hour fun.
• Gran Canaria has a good range of purpose-built beach resorts.
• The small island of La Palma is relatively untouched by mass tourism and offers a superb black-sand beach at Puerto Naos
• while the even smaller island of La Gomera offers a dramatic forest-and-cliff landscape with tiny, pristine beaches.

Equally popular in winter as well as the traditional holiday periods, our Guru's recommendations for 10 of the best beach hotels in the Canary Islands can get snapped up quickly.

10 of the Best beach hotels in the Canary Islands

The Best beach hotels on Fuerteventura

• The adults-only Avanti Boutique Hotel, a stone’s throw from the beach, oozes white urban-chic and rooms feature private sun-decks, and hot tubs.
• Close to the beach on the east coast, Barcelo Castillo Beach Resort offers excellent water sports, three pools, al fresco dining and crisp, contemporary rooms and suites.

The Best beach hotels on La Palma

• Wrapped in gardens and with lovely sea-views, Hacienda de Abajo is a historical villa with graciously furnished romantic bedrooms.

The Best beach hotels on La Gomera

• With a stunning cliff-top location, the vast Jardin Tecina offers mesmerising sea views - and across to Mount Teide on Tenerife - contemporary-style rooms, five pools and huge gardens.

The Best beach hotels on Lanzarote

• The magnificent Princess Yaiza Suite Resort Hotel, at Playa Blanca, offers five-star luxury from the balconied contemporary-style rooms and eight restaurants to the large spa, sports facilities and six pools.

The Best beach hotels on Gran Canaria

• There’s no shortage of activities at the five-star Grand Hotel Residencia near Maspalomas. Next to a golf course and with a spa, tennis courts, several pools and a gourmet restaurant, you might find it hard to find time to make it to the beach!
• In the country yet close to the beach on the north-west coast, Finca Las Longueras has delightfully traditional rooms, a beautiful pool and lush, palm-tree-dotted gardens.

The Best beach hotels on Tenerife

• The sprawling Villa Cortes in Playa de las Américas has all you could want for a luxury beach holiday with six restaurants, four bars, a spa, private cabanas, richly furnished rooms and a vast pool with waterfalls.
• Close to the beach but surrounded by banana plantations, Hotel Rural el Navio offers simple but charming rooms - some with balconies or terraces - and a pool.

If you haven't spotted your idea of the perfect place to stay on the Canary Islands on our Guru's list of 10 of the best beach hotels in the Canary Islands you could:

• Expand your search to include all the best places to stay on the Canary Islands?
• Or refine your search by island and consider only the best places to stay on Gran Canaria? or the best places to stay on Tenerife? or the best places to stay on Lanzarote?
• Or you could refine your search by the kind of hotel you fancy and check out our Guru's recommendations for 10 of the Best Luxury Hotels in the Canary Islands? or for 13 of the Best Rural Hotels on the Canary Islands? or 16 of the Best Hotels on the Canary Islands for Families?
• Or you could contact one of our friendly Gurus for personalised advice.

10 of the Best Beach Hotels in the Canary Islands