The Teguise City Council has granted the license to a five-star luxury hotel in Costa Teguise with a capacity for 709 places linked to health and spa tourism, "thus representing one of the largest private investments in the tourist area of the municipality of around 100 million euros".
According to the City Council, "this is a unique project that establishes an interaction between the environment, the geology of the place, the ethnographic culture, the production of salt, sports, aquatic therapies and the current social economic activity of the island such as tourism".
With capacity for 709 people, it will have 3 single rooms; 252 double rooms of which 7 are adapted; 40 suites, 2 are adapted; 60 suites with their own pool, 2 are adapted; and 1 Premium suite with a large private pool.
The hotel complex will be designed for people with all types of conditions, with facilities fully adapted for people with reduced mobility. In this center, clients receive various physiotherapeutic treatments with the use of sea water or products related to it, beneficial for health. A medical service, personalized food service, together with the purification of the interior air of the rooms, complement the health care. The spa will have a useful surface area of 4,811.63 m2, making it one of the largest in Europe.
The hotel complex, according to reports from the City Council, "stands out for its sports facilities", including two large covered areas, the west sports area, with a multi-purpose court, paddle tennis, gym, swimming pools and complementary services, its total surface area is 2,313.92 m2. East sports area for nautical activities, archery and pistol shooting, cycling, trekking and footing, in the basement with a useful surface area of 2,108.99 m2. These are complemented by a games and competitions pool outside, with the network of paths and cycling activities of the urbanization and with the nautical activities of the urbanization in which international events and competitions are held.
From the Teguise City Council, the mayor Oswaldo Betancort, is pleased that "these large investments, in addition to being pioneering and offering a differentiated product, are projected in Teguise, benefiting the population of Costa Teguise and Lanzarote, in general, with the creation of employment that this complex will entail".
Finally, they add that "the detailed urban planning in the General Plan of Ordination of the Municipality of Teguise establishes for plot 244-F that its buildability must be destined to a hotel with a minimum category of four stars and an important part of it to equipment that complements the establishment itself, the Costa Teguise urbanization and the Island in general. This ordinance, together with the uniqueness that the property is a pioneer and promoter of thalasso-therapeutic facilities and has a clear desire for integration into the environment, has motivated the drafting of this project".