Holiday Apartments for Rent in El Cotillo

El Cotillo

El Cotillo is still a relatively small fishing village even though there has been quite a spurt of building activity recently. The local council has a host of proposals to make the village more attractive to tourism but they are unlikely to come to fruition for a number of years – the councils here work even slower than in the UK!

We have two harbours in the village. The old harbour (el muelle chico) is, as you’d expect, at the heart of the traditional part of the village with the new harbour at the seafront of the newer part of the village. Neither harbour is large by any stretch of the imagination but then neither is the village. The new harbour is from where the local fishermen set sail and land their catches but the old harbour is still important to village life as it is the centre of many village activities such as the fiesta in August.

El Cotillo does not boast a shopping centre or even trendy shops but it does have numerous restaurants and bars offering a variety of cuisines, ambiences and locations such as the Puerto Nuevo Restaurant which opened in January 2007 under new management. Indeed, we have calculated that during a fortnight’s stay in El Cotillo one could dine in a different establishment every night and still not have visited them all!

Some recent additions to the village are a bank with Cash Machine, a doctor and a chemist for "over the counter" medications and various first aid and baby goods.

If this is not enough for you, there is a regular bus service to Corralejo and Puerto del Rosario. If you intend to hire a car during your stay, Corralejo is only 20 minutes drive away and Rosario is around 40 minutes.

For those of you with an adventurous nature, the Atlantic Ocean provides waves for surfing and the constant breeze provides interesting conditions for wind surfers & kite boarders. Scuba diving is also pursued at various places all around the island.