As the kids get older, it gets harder to find a vacation spot everyone can agree on. They are too old for Disney anymore and too young to want to hit New York for a week of Broadway shows. Our family loves to vacation on the island of Lanzarote.
Lanzarote is one of the Canary Islands, off the Northern coast of Africa. From the East coast of the United States, it will take about 14 hours to travel there by plane. It is worth the flight! First, the weather. All of the Canarys benefit from their location. They sit smack in the middle of what's called the Trade Winds and that keeps the climate very moderate. Lanzarote, being an island with few mountains and being the eastern most of the island chain, has the most dry and stable climate of the islands. You can spend a month in Lanzarote and have sunny days every single day.
That might be enough right there to convince the guy in Buffalo that he needs a winter vacation pronto. Lanzarote offers much more, however. There are great places to stay, either in town or in the country side. If you are having a large family vacation (we like to vacation with my sister and her family), perhaps you'll want to rent a villa and have the best of both worlds. A big house with a pool, because most of the rentals do have at least a small pool. Best of all, Lanzarote is small enough that you are only about 30 minutes from anywhere. So rent a car and a villa and relax when you want and explore when you want.
If you stay in town at one of the resorts (and I say "town" like there is only one, but there are several good-sized cities), you will find incredible choices for entertainment. All the resorts do a great job of offering activities for kids, teens and even grandparents!
In our family my daughter is the scientific type, so she finds all sorts of ways to stay busy exploring the flora and fauna of the island. Lanzarote has several volcanoes and a growing eco-tourism trade. You could spend days just exploring the cactus gardens. My husband is the golfer, and now that Lanzarote has two golf courses, he's that much more eager to go. For me, laying on the beach with a thick paperback is my idea of heaven. Lanzarote has all of that to offer, plus great shopping and wonderful restaurants.
It is a great choice for a new family adventure. Forget about Hawaii and think about going East instead of West. Visit Lanzarote just once and you'll be hooked.
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