Apartamento Las Agujas, Fuerteventura

Advantages: Warm
Disadvantages: Strong winds, Lack of Places of any real interest. Fairly poor nightlife for families.

...are available from 10am until 6pm or so too. Reception is 24 hour and is shared with Las Olas across the road. Before you go to Fuerteventura , please ensure that you don't mind fairly strong winds. For example Parasols and chairs were regularly blown over (but not blown away)around the pool area, and if you had been swimming the winds did make you feel really cold once you came out the water. I was rather disappointed by just how strong the winds were. The small beach (situated in town) which Cosmos says is 700metres away from Punta Elena is not of the highest standard. There was more than the odd bit of litter lapping the shores, and we also saw broken glass in the sand on 3 different parts of the quite small beach (Approx 300 - 400 metres). This beach however was just one of around 150 different beaches on the island and one we would... Read review

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...In February 1999 we visited the one bedroomed apartments at Dunas Club, Corralejo, Fuerteventura. They came with the following facilities : microwave, toaster, kettle & fridge, telephone, TV, hairdryer, iron & ironing board. For our sixth visit to Fuerteventura we booked a week in a one bedroomed apartment at Dunas Club. On arrival at Fuerteventura Airport on 17th March 2000, we were told by Judith A Johnson that as Dunas Club was overbooked we would be staying in a one bedroomed apartment at Sol Las Olas, some 3km away from where we wanted to be. When we protested that Sol Las Olas did not have the facilities we had booked, Judie told us that was not a problem as they would be supplied. It was all lies!!! We ended up in a Studio, pic at http://members.aol.com/portlanddirect/view.jpg Thomson defence called this a garden view! The next... Read review

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...The holiday was booked with Portland Direct, which is owned by Thomson Holidays. In February 1999 we visited the one bedroomed apartments at Dunas Club, Corralejo, Fuerteventura. They came with the following facilities : microwave, toaster, kettle & fridge, telephone, TV, hairdryer, iron & ironing board. For our sixth visit to Fuerteventura we booked a week in a one bedroomed apartment at Dunas Club. On arrival at Fuerteventura Airport on 17th March 2000, we were told by Judith A Johnson that as Dunas Club was overbooked we would be staying in a one bedroomed apartment at Sol Las Olas, some 3km away from where we wanted to be. When we protested that Sol Las Olas did not have the facilities we had booked, Judie told us that was not a problem as they would be supplied. It was all lies!!! We ended up in a Studio, pic at http... Read review

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