Costa Teguise; Tuesday, 23 November, 2021

The hotel turned out to be a bad choice as the bed was about a solid as a block of concrete, so I woke up with an aching back which was still twinging slightly as I waited for the shuttle bus back to the airport.

I’d been trying to checkin online for the flight from Madrid to Lanzarote, but the Iberia app kept refusing to let me do so. I had to join the actual checkin queue, which moved very slowly, combined with the shuttle being slightly late, meant I could feel my stress levels rising. Thankfully once I reached the front of the queue it was all very quick as they just needed to see me personally back at the airport before they could release my bag from the overnight store into the main baggage system.

From then on I though the journey would be relatively smooth sailing, and it was right until I got to the arrivals lounge at Lanzarote airport, where I was expecting a transfer to be waiting for me. Instead there was nobody to be seen. A rep eventually turned up about 5 minutes later and directed me to the upper level where she told me my transfer was just arriving. 10 minutes later and with no transfer in sight I had to head back down to arrivals and track down the rep again, who insisted that my transfer was just outside the airport – I had to head back up to the upper level and wait another 10 minutes before the transfer finally appeared.

From there it was a smooth journey out to Costa Teguise and a much smoother checkin to the hotel. After dropping off my stuff in my room I headed out into town for a wander.

From my aborted visit to Lanzarote at the start of the European lockdowns in March 2020 I remembered their being a very nice icecream shop on the sea front towards the centre of Costa Teguise, so I wandered there and could confirm that the ice cream was as good as I remembered it.

I had a bit more of a wander along the seafront before turning back inland and heading over to the aquarium – about the only actual attraction in Costa Teguise. The aquarium houses the usual suspects of species with displays on the local marine life, as well as more tropical species and of course a walk through tunnel in the shark tank.

From the aquarium I headed back to the hotel to freshen up and then headed down for dinner before an early night.