RIU Hotels: new hotel on Gran Canaria

The multinational Mallorcan hotel chain RIU Hotels has recently opened the 4 star Club-Hotel Riu Gran Canaria, with 636 rooms, that is their largest hotel in Spain and the second on an international scale, only beaten by the Club-Hotel Riu Tequila, with 664 rooms at Playa del Carmen (México).

Situated 35 kilometres from Las Palmas airport, it has a main building with 585 rooms, plus 51 apartments along the boulevard that borders the coast in the urbanization of Meloneras. The establishment enjoys a mild microclimate on the south of Gran Canaria and is near the park Dunas de Maspalomas, with beautiful beaches.

The new Club-Hotel Riu Gran Canaria is the 88th hotel in the RIU chain and 35th in the Canaries. In those islands the firm is the leader with 17,000 beds in 12 hotels in Gran Canaria, 6 in Tenerife, 10 in Fuerteventura and 7 in Lanzarote.

Source: Departamento de Prensa de la cadena RIU Hotels

More information about the Canaries: www.canariasonline.com

Date of publication: 17/08/2000

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