Gran Canaria, Maspalomas, Road or MTB

Not mountain biked there, but road ridden a lot from Maspalomas and I doubt you'd be disappointed as long as you like hills. Plenty to go at for a week.

I have seen some mtb trails that criss-cross some of the road climbs, and they look good too as far as I could see. Possible a long old schlep on an mtb to get to the top of them though - the people we saw were all on electric mountain bikes.

Yeah I'd say the same, I did a lot of research into taking the mountain bike using the heatmap, there are definitely trails but quite a bit of climbing to get to them, and some may be walkers paths, i believe there may be some more enduro trails but they are up in the north. There is the new bikepacking race which crosses the island, but i'm glad i took road bike, but yes, its definitely very hilly!

I got some good riding done with Free Motion. They would pick up at the hotel in the morning, shuttle to the top of the mountain, then guided trails down to the coast and then shuttle back to hotel. Some really nice singletrack, some technical bits, but nothing too horrendous from memory. I'd use them again if I went back.

I've ridden road and mtb round there, latter with Free Motion too on uplift but don't think I saw the best of it as it was off season and group was too mixed ability. You can see there's good stuff about though. The road was great though were were staying in the working north of the island where roads are lumpier and generally busier. Some of the hairpin climbs from the tourist strip - thinking of the Mogan one - from the are fantastic. Need to go back really.

I think I'm saying both are good, but road is better than you'd expect.

In true STW fashion I will ignore the question and say Gravel!

I've been to a few of the Canary Islands with a Norco Search and found it to be the perfect companion. In fact it made far more sense there than it did in the UK. Sold the Search a while back but imho a gravel bike makes sense there.