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Tax Update 2019
With thanks to our associates at Blevins Franks. If you live in the Canary Islands there is some good tax news this year. The local government has approved its regional budget for 2019 and it has reduced the two lowest income tax rates and extended the 99.9% relief...
Brits in Spain
The 🇬🇧️Government will continue to pay state pension, child benefits, and disability benefits to eligible 🇬🇧️nationals in the EU after the UK’s exit from the 🇪🇺️. Here you can find guidance on...
Voting Rights
The Voting Rights Treaty between 🇬🇧and 🇪🇸 has been signed.If you are a 🇬🇧 national living in 🇪🇸you will be able to continue to vote and stand in local elections in any scenario. Remember to register by...
A good pace for the works of the Port of Playa Blanca
After knowing how to draw up the drawers that will make up the work to expand the port of Playa Blanca, it has been possible to see how the first of the 16 drawers that will shape the new dike is manufactured in Los Mármoles dock. Some boxes of more than 2,500 tons of...
Language Exchange / Intercambio Idiomas
Intercambio de idomas / Spanish and English Language Exchange every Monday evening 6.00pm in Costa Teguise. Everyone welcome just come along buy a drink and join in the conversation. Please let us know if you are interested. Todos los lunes por la tarde a partir del...
Turismo Lanzarote wants to reconquer the Spanish traveler
The Foreign Promotion Society of Lanzarote (SPEL-Turismo Lanzarote) is finalizing the preparations to go next week to the International Tourism Fair of Madrid, Fitur 2019, which this year will be held between 23 and 27 January at IFEMA . The president of the...
15 new bicycles for the Cabildo Road Safety Service
The Cabildo of Lanzarote, through the Road Safety and Education Service, coordinated by the councilor Óscar Pérez, has just acquired 15 new bicycles that will be used for the different programming practices that take place on the island, both in the educational field...
The port of Arrecife gains competitiveness
Seven days a week to travel between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Arrecife de Lanzarote , is the result of the increase in the frequencies of Naviera Armas with the addition of the vessel Al Andalus Express on Sundays and Mondays. This new service comes to...
The tourism sector registers a “good” Christmas campaign
It is not for flying but you can say that the levels of occupation in this recently completed Christmas campaign have been satisfactory . The hotel association Asolan and the Confederation of Businessmen of Lanzarote (CEL) are analyzed in this way....
More than six thousand cruise passengers in Arrecife
Arrecife hosted this Friday more than six thousand tourists from the AIDA Cruises of AIDA Cruises and the Zenith of Pullmantur docked from the first hour in the Port of the Mármoles of the capital. In the afternoon they will welcome the AIDAcara that will remain until...
Five-star hotels seek better positioning
The tourist promotion of Lanzarote and its consolidation as a holiday destination of reference, requires a constant renewal of its promotional strategy in the different niche markets. That is why, from the tourist association ASOLAN, the Foreign Promotion Company...
There will be no strike on Ryanair
The Lanzarote residents who planned to take a flight tomorrow, Thursday or January 13 with the Ryanair company, can rest assured after the cabin crew of the airline dismissed the strike early this morning. Apparently the unions Sitcpla and USO have reached an...
Ryanair will keep all flights with the Canary Islands on Tuesday, on its first day of strike
The airline trusts to operate all scheduled flights DIGITAL LANCELOT Ryanair launches the year 2019 with a new strike called cabin crew (TCP) in Spain, called to stop on 8, 10 and 13 January by the unions USO Sector Aéreo and Sitcpla, some stoppages...
Be careful if you travel with Ryanair next week
The cabin crew (TCP) of Ryanair have announced that they will go on strike the next days 8, 10 and 13 of January, when the conciliation act in the Interconfederal Service of Mediation and Arbitration (SIMA) between the company and the representatives of the workers...
The Mirador del Río stairs, among the most “unique” in Spain according to Traveler
The digital publication www.traveler.es , a medium dedicated to travel, tourism, nature and gastronomy, contained in a wide report what are, in his opinion, the 17 most unique staircases of Spain and stood out among them, the staircase of the Mirador del River. Above...
The president of Ireland travels on Ryanair to spend his holidays in the Canary Islands
The president of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, received the New Year in Gran Canaria and did it after arriving at the archipelago in Ryanair regular flight, as OK Diario has published, among other media.The national press has highlighted this austerity, describing his...
The first cruise of 2019 will arrive in Arrecife on January 2
Real Street presented on Saturday a very good atmosphere. The influx of tourists in shops and cafes, was remarkable thanks to the arrival of several ships to the capital. https://youtu.be/dmnD9z6NN0M The cruises will continue to be protagonists in 2019 and is...
Calima to say goodbye to 2018
The Aemet forecast for Monday, December 31, last day of the year, a clear day, with alternating high clouds and haze, more abundant in the afternoon, as well as temperatures with few changes or slight rise. The wind, will be protagonist in this last night of the year,...
Spain’s Minimum Wage to increase
Spain's minimum wage will jump by 22% in 2019 - the largest annual increase in more than 40 years. It means millions of low-paid workers could see a pay rise from €736 ($835; £665) to €900, effective from January. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced the...
The islet of Fermina faces its new stage in the hands of the CACTs
The remodeling of the islet of the Fermina on the part of the Centers of Art Culture and Tourism of the Cabildo of Lanzarote continues wind in stern. Work is currently being carried out in the electrical installation in the area after years of neglec After many...
Happy Christmas
Finally Lanzarote has its well-deserved Archaeological Museum
The Archaeological Museum of Lanzarote is already a reality after the opening, yesterday Thursday , of the side naves of the emblematic building on Fajardo street, in Arrecife. Pedro San Ginés, President of the Island Council of Lanzarote, and Isaac Castellano,...
From Lanzarote to Bordeaux starting in summer
The airline easyJet has announced the opening of the next summer campaign of a route between Bordeaux and Lanzarote, the fourteenth connection established by this company of British economic fares with the island. The intention of easyJet is to maintain this route in...
An incredible schooner docks at Marina Lanzarote
Xarifa arrived at port after eleven days of sailing from the Iberian Peninsula, in order to spend Christmas in Lanzarote and participate in the transatlantic regatta Panerai Transat Classique, which will depart from the marina of Marina Lanzarote, in Arrecife, the...
Smart Island, the platform for sustainable impulse, goes out to tender
The Art, Culture and Tourism Centers have taken out the tender for Smart Island: Lanzarote Intelligent Reserve of the Biosphere, a project that aspires to become a public-private collaboration platform that promotes the island's sustainable development through its...