Stayed in Feb a couple of years ago. What surprised me, though I guess shouldn’t have, is how much it’s a busy working place. Lots more cars on the road than say Lanzarotte, with full on morning rush hour along the motorway south from Las Palmas (which given it’s a city of about 400,000 people like I say should not be a huge surprise).
We stayed here which was nice, on the side of a volcano it was possible to scramble up and run round the rim. But actually just outside the suburbs of Las Palmas (which I’d built in my mind as hipster central. Not really but a reasonable enough city).
I was there to surf really but it was big and blown out most days and I simply couldn’t find many places working. Highly competitive when it did work, but hey. So I hired bikes also from Freemotion, which I’d highly recommend. Slick operation and really well maintained bikes, mtb and road, with a sensible choice of frametypes.
I did one guided mtb ride which was a laugh, but I’d not do again – uplift to 1500m, ride down to coast along mainly landrover track type stuff. All clearly rode bikes but v mixed ability, just had to make the best of it. (Freemotion said Feb was end of season and that earlier they’d split groups and do more adventurous stuff – and the riding’s clearly there.)
I also hired a roadbike and did a couple of mountain rides, which felt more like it. Roads busier than other Canaries though.
You need to hire a car to explore.
Erm, that’s it.