Best Things to Do in Costa Teguise: 25 Honest Picks for 2026

This is the list we actually hand to guests at Casa Los Alisios when they ask what is worth doing during their week in Costa Teguise. We live here, host guests every week, and these are the places they come back raving about. Distances and walking times are from the villa itself at Av. de las Palmeras 9.

The first 15 items are inside Costa Teguise and reachable on foot or with a short taxi hop. Items 16-25 are day trips by car or bus, including the four César Manrique sites in the north of the island and a UNESCO Starlight Reserve overhead at night. Mix and match as you like.

At a glance: best of Costa Teguise by mood

You want…	Go to	Item #
A calm family beach	Playa del Jablillo lagoon	2
To learn windsurfing	Playa de Las Cucharas + a surf school	1, 7
A rainy or windy day	Aquarium, Jungle River, Manrique sites	9, 11, 22, 23
Sunset and tapas	Promenade walk + Pueblo Marinero	4, 5, 15
A weekly market	Friday at Pueblo Marinero, Sunday in Teguise	6, 16
César Manrique architecture	Pueblo Marinero, Jameos, Mirador, Foundation	5, 21, 22, 24
The volcanic landscape	Buggy tour, Timanfaya, La Geria	12, 17, 18
Stars and quiet	Stargazing in the centre of the island	25
A short break, no car	Items 1-15, all walkable from a Costa Teguise base	1-15
Three classic day trips	Teguise market, La Geria, Timanfaya	16, 17, 18

1. Playa de Las Cucharas

The main beach of Costa Teguise, about 40 minutes on foot from the villa along the promenade or a 6-minute drive. Dark volcanic sand, parking right at the beach, a row of restaurants and rental shops on the seafront, and clean toilets and showers. It is also the windsurfing and kitesurfing beach of the east coast, host of the World Triathlon Cup Lanzarote (March) and the start line of the Lanzarote International Marathon (December). Morning sun, afternoon breeze. Lifeguards in summer.

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2. Playa del Jablillo

The family beach. A small cove 20 minutes on foot from the villa, enclosed by a crescent-shaped rock wall that breaks the swell and creates a calm, shallow lagoon. Perfect for toddlers, first-time swimmers and anyone who wants flat water on a windy day. There is a playground next to the sand, a couple of beach bars on the promenade above, and the rock wall keeps the water calm even when the trade wind picks up.

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3. Playa El Ancla

Our closest beach, 10 minutes on foot from the villa’s front door. A small wind-protected cove with rocky entry (bring reef shoes), clear water on a calm day, and some of the best snorkeling in Costa Teguise. Sunrises here are the reason we live on the east coast. The walk crosses Av. de las Palmeras, a short dirt track and Av. del Mar, then drops you at the cove. No sunbeds, no bar, no lifeguard: bring your own water and shade.

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For the full picture of every beach in Costa Teguise with rock-entry details, wind exposure and facilities, see our full guide to beaches in Costa Teguise.

4. Walk the seafront promenade

A flat coastal path runs the full length of Costa Teguise, from the north end at Las Cucharas down past Jablillo, Playa Bastian and the Barceló hotels to the southern marina. About 4 km end to end, paved the whole way, buggy-friendly. It is the single best way to get a feel for the town on your first morning. Stop at any of the beach bars for a coffee.

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5. Pueblo Marinero

The architectural heart of Costa Teguise, designed by César Manrique and built between 1979 and 1982 as a low-rise white-and-green fishing-village pastiche. The plaza itself is worth a photograph on any day of the week, with a few good restaurants and bars around the edges. On Friday evenings it hosts the weekly craft market (see next item).

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6. Friday craft market at Pueblo Marinero

Every Friday evening from around 17:00 to 22:00, Pueblo Marinero fills with roughly 80 stalls selling Canarian crafts, aloe vera products, leather goods, handmade jewellery, local wines and cheese. Live folk music, street food, and a much calmer atmosphere than the bigger Teguise Sunday market (item 15). Easy combine with dinner at one of the plaza restaurants afterwards.

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7. Windsurf or kitesurf at Las Cucharas

Las Cucharas is one of the three main windsurf spots in Lanzarote (Jameos and Famara being the other two). The bay is side-onshore in the usual northeast trade wind, with flat water inside the reef and chop outside. There are three surf schools on the beach offering beginner lessons, board and rig rental, and multi-day courses: Costa Teguise Kite, Windsurfing Lanzarote and OceanExtreme. Prices move around, check each school’s site for the current rate.

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8. Scuba diving and snorkeling

Costa Teguise has two top-rated dive centres running daily shore and boat dives: Native Diving on Playa del Jablillo and Pro Dive on Av. del Mar. The easiest snorkel is straight off Playa El Ancla with a mask and reef shoes. For a structured first-timer experience the Sea Trek helmet walk on the seabed at Las Cucharas is popular and has no licence requirement. Our full scuba diving and snorkeling guide for Costa Teguise covers operators, course prices and the best dive sites.

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9. Aquarium Lanzarote

The most-reviewed attraction in town and a solid option on a windy or rainy day. Thirty-three tanks including a 500,000-litre central tank with a shark tunnel, plus touch pools with starfish and sea urchins. Located in Centro Comercial El Trébol, open daily 10:00 to 18:00, last entry 17:15.

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10. Aquapark Costa Teguise

The biggest water park on the island: 25 slides, 11 pools, dedicated toddler area, plus paintball, a 10D cinema and mini golf on site. Seasonal: it runs June to November, daily 10:00 to 17:00, and closes outside that window, which surprises many spring visitors. Check the Google Maps listing for the current year’s dates before heading over.

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11. Jungle River Adventure Golf

A 15-hole themed crazy-golf course with flowing streams, waterfalls and tropical planting through the layout. On-site beer garden, pool tables, shuffleboard and a free games area, so it works as an evening out with kids, not just a round of golf. Daily 10:00 to 22:00, at Centro Comercial La Fontana.

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12. Buggy tour of northern Lanzarote

Guided 4-seater buggy tours out of Costa Teguise through the volcanic interior to Peñas del Chache (the highest point on the island), the Guatiza prickly pear quarries and the salt flats. Two to three hours, roughly half of the route off-road. Minimum age to drive is 20 with a full licence held for at least two years; passengers can be younger. Run by Buggy Experience Lanzarote / H2O Lanzarote, who also offer jet ski, parasailing and catamaran trips from the same base.

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13. Costa Teguise Golf course

An 18-hole championship course on the edge of the resort, designed by John Harris in 1978 and extensively upgraded since. Website: lanzarote-golf.com. A palm-lined valley course with volcanic rock hazards and ocean views from several holes. Clubs and buggies available to rent, and the restaurant on the clubhouse terrace is open to non-golfers too.

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14. Community pool, padel and tennis

For our guests: the Nazaret private residential community has a communal pool, padel courts and tennis courts, all 2 minutes on foot from Casa Los Alisios. Padel gear can be rented from the reception. On a busy travel day the community pool is often emptier than the beach and stays warm into the evening. Included in the villa stay, not separately ticketed.

15. Evening tapas at sunset

Costa Teguise faces east, so the sun sets behind the resort rather than over the sea. The payoff is golden evening light on the water and the cliffs of Famara in the distance. Our favourite way to spend a first evening is a slow walk along the promenade from Las Cucharas toward Pueblo Marinero around 19:30, stopping for tapas and a glass of Malvasía at whichever terrace looks busiest.

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16. Day trip: Teguise Sunday market (10 min drive)

Villa de Teguise, the former capital of Lanzarote, hosts the biggest open-air market in the Canary Islands every Sunday from 09:00 to 14:00. About 400 stalls, 10,000 visitors on a typical Sunday, and a handful of genuine historic monuments (Palacio Spínola, Castillo de Santa Bárbara with the Museum of Piracy, and the Iglesia de Guadalupe on Plaza de la Constitución). Go early, park free on the edge of town, back for lunch. See our full Teguise Sunday market guide for timing and parking.

17. Day trip: La Geria wine region (20 min drive)

The black volcanic valley between Uga and Masdache where Malvasía Volcánica grapes are grown in pits of volcanic ash, each protected by a semicircular stone wall. A UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1993 and one of the strangest agricultural landscapes in Europe. Four bodegas to choose between: El Grifo (the oldest in the Canaries, founded 1775), Bodega La Geria (the classic tourist stop), Stratvs (modern, with restaurant) and Los Bermejos (small, weekday-only tours, produces our favourite bottle to bring home). Full details in our La Geria wine region guide.

18. Day trip: Timanfaya National Park (30 min drive)

The volcanic heart of Lanzarote. A guided coach route through the Fire Mountains with live geothermal demonstrations at the Islote de Hilario (water into steam, dry bushes into flame from the heat of the rock below). Can be combined with a camel ride at Echadero de Camellos and lunch at the César Manrique-designed El Diablo restaurant which grills over the natural heat vent. See our Timanfaya National Park guide for tickets, timing and what to skip.

19. Day trip: Rancho Texas Lanzarote Park (20 min drive, Puerto del Carmen)

Not in Costa Teguise, but worth the short drive. A combined zoo, water park (Aqua Rancho) and live animal shows in one ticket: sea lion shows, birds of prey, and a Western-themed evening experience. Open daily from 09:30 to 17:30.

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20. Day trip: Mirador del Río (30 min drive)

The northern-tip viewpoint that defined César Manrique’s architectural style. Set roughly 475 metres above the El Río strait, the building is half-carved into the cliff and the two vaulted windows (Manrique called them “the eyes of the viewpoint”) frame the view across to La Graciosa and the Chinijo Archipelago. Indigenous ceramics by Juan Brito line the entrance corridor; iron sculptures hang from the ceiling. There is a small café on the upper terrace. Open daily 10:00 to 17:00 (last entry 16:40). Run by CACT Lanzarote, the public network that also operates Jameos, Cueva de los Verdes and Timanfaya.

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21. Day trip: Jameos del Agua (25 min drive)

A volcanic tube that César Manrique transformed in the late 1960s and 70s into a single integrated public space, opened in 1968 and completed in 1977. The headline feature is the underground crystalline lagoon, around seven metres deep, home to the rare blind albino crab (Munidopsis polymorpha) that lives nowhere else in the world. The same complex includes a 550-seat natural auditorium with the acoustics still in regular use for concerts, a restaurant set into the rock and a bar by the lagoon. Open daily 10:00 to 18:00 (last entry 17:15).

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22. Day trip: Cueva de los Verdes (25 min drive)

The unmodified end of the same lava tube as Jameos. A guided walking tour through about one kilometre of natural volcanic cave, formed by an eruption of the Volcán de la Corona several thousand years ago and used by islanders to hide from Berber and Barbary pirate raids in the 16th and 17th centuries. The acoustics inside are extraordinary and the guides usually demonstrate them at one halt in the route. Bring a fleece. It stays cool underground in any month.

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23. Stand-up paddleboarding at Las Cucharas

Same bay, different sport from item 7. The inside of Las Cucharas stays glassy most mornings until the trade wind builds around lunchtime, which is the window for an easy beginner SUP session. The afternoon swell that the windsurfers chase is the same swell that gives intermediate paddlers a real workout. SUP rentals are available from the same beach shops that rent windsurf gear; no licence, around 60 to 90 minutes is a comfortable first session. If you are a stronger paddler, the coastal stretch from Jablillo north past Charco del Palo is the longer outing.

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24. Day trip: Fundación César Manrique (15 min drive, Tahíche)

The artist’s own house, built into five connected volcanic bubbles in the lava field of the 1730 to 1736 eruption. Manrique lived here from 1968 to 1988 and turned the upper level into a conventional Canarian house and the lower level into a series of underground living rooms inside the lava, each one with a different palm tree growing out of the floor. Now a foundation gallery of his work, his personal art collection (Picasso, Miró, Tàpies among others) and the architecture itself. Open daily 10:00 to 17:30, last ticket 17:00, closed 1 January. fcmanrique.org.

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25. Stargazing in the Starlight Reserve

Lanzarote was designated a UNESCO Starlight Reserve and a Starlight Tourist Destination in 2014. The lowest light pollution is in the centre of the island, around Tinajo and Mancha Blanca, and on the high south ridge at Mirador de Femés. On a clear new-moon night the Milky Way is visible to the naked eye and the southern constellations sit lower on the horizon than from northern Europe. Local astronomy guides run occasional tours; for a self-guided session, drive 15 to 30 minutes out from Costa Teguise after dinner, park safely off the LZ-30 or near Femés, bring a fleece and an offline star map (the Stellarium app works without signal), and look up.

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Best things to do in Costa Teguise by month

The headline events that shape what is worth doing at a given time of year:

• January–February: Quiet, sub-£100 flights from the UK, water 18°C. Best months for golf, hiking and the long-distance Lanzarote 360 walking route. Cabildo de Lanzarote often runs guided winter night-sky sessions around the Tinajo observatory.
• March: World Triathlon Cup at Las Cucharas brings elite open-water swim and bike crowds for a long weekend.
• April–May: IRONMAN Lanzarote (usually third Saturday of May), the original Ironman race in the European calendar. The swim start and finish are at Puerto del Carmen and the bike route passes within a few kilometres of Costa Teguise. The week before the race is the densest training week on the LZ-1.
• June: Wine Run Lanzarote takes over the La Geria valley for a Saturday morning of trail running between bodegas. Sea warming through 21°C.
• July–August: Peak windsurf conditions at Las Cucharas, water 22°C, Spanish school holidays. Pueblo Marinero adds extra evening events. Hottest air of the year, manageable in the trade winds.
• September–October: Our favourite. Water at its warmest (22°C), trade winds easing, flights cheaper than the school months. October sometimes hosts the Ocean Lava triathlon and the Vuelta Ciclista a Lanzarote.
• November: Quiet shoulder month, water still 21°C. Aquapark season ends. Aquarium and Manrique sites stay open as usual.
• December: Lanzarote International Marathon starts at Las Cucharas in early December. Christmas markets fill Pueblo Marinero and the resort gets its only meaningful festive lighting.

For full month-by-month detail on weather, crowds and prices, see Best time to visit Costa Teguise.

How to build a week from this list

Our guests who stay a full week tend to do something like: two beach mornings (Cucharas for sun plus restaurants, Jablillo for the family), one aquarium or aquapark day, one buggy or windsurf day, and three day trips (Teguise Sunday market, La Geria wine region, and Timanfaya). That still leaves time for a long lunch at Pueblo Marinero and a communal pool afternoon.

For families, see our things to do in Costa Teguise with kids. For remote workers, the digital nomad guide to Costa Teguise covers workspace, internet and weekly rhythm. And for the full island picture beyond the east coast, the top things to see in Lanzarote collects all the day-trip destinations in one place.

How this guide stays accurate

Prices, opening hours and seasonal closures move around. Every listing above links to its operator’s own site and to its Google Maps listing, which Google updates live when a business reports new hours or a temporary closure. If we find something wrong, we update this page and reset the “Last updated” date at the top. Email us at hola@casalosalisios.com if you spot a change we have missed.