Car hire in Fuerteventura

Not for a beach week in central Corralejo or Morro Jable. Barceló Corralejo Sands is 7 minutes on foot from Waikiki Beach, and Tiadhe's line 6 runs from Corralejo to Puerto del Rosario, about every 30 minutes for much of the day from Monday to Saturday, with line 8 to El Cotillo; Corralejo Surfing Colors is 5 minutes from the bus station. Riu Palace Jandía is 12 minutes on foot from the centre of Morro Jable, with a bus stop 2 minutes away; lines 01 and 10 link the town with the capital, and line 111 runs out to Cofete.

Two need one. ZEL Fuerteventura and Paradisus stand alone on Playa Barca at Sotavento, 47 minutes on foot from Costa Calma, and Tiadhe has suspended the Gorriones stop at their turn-off until further notice. Five more are far easier with one: Secrets, at Corralejo's southern edge; El Mirador, alone on Playa Blanca by the airport; Elba Palace, inside a golf estate whose free shuttle reaches the beach on morning runs; and Iberostar and Royal Palm on the Jandía coast, where little lies beyond the sand.

For the odd trip, taxis run on the meter. By day, the airport to Caleta de Fuste comes to about €15, to Corralejo about €55 and to Morro Jable about €120, estimates from the official tariff and the routed distance.

Fuerteventura has one airport, just south of Puerto del Rosario, with one terminal. Aena lists nine firms with desks on Floor 0, in the arrivals area: AutoReisen, Avis, Cicar, Europcar, Goldcar-InterRent, Hertz, Payless, Sixt and TopCar. A few offers come with a free shuttle to a depot outside the airport instead. On expedia.ie on 26 October 2026, of the 125 offers for a week from 8 June 2027, 116 had the desk and the car at the terminal and 9 used a shuttle; for the February half-term week, 115 of 126 were at the terminal and 11 used a shuttle. A shuttle adds a transfer at both ends, so allow for it before a flight home.

At the desk, the main driver needs a full driving licence, a passport or ID card and, normally, a credit card in their own name for the deposit: a debit card can often pay for a booking but may not be accepted at collection. Before you drive off, walk round the car with the agent, make sure every mark is on the condition report, and take photographs. Do the same, inside and out, when you return it.

On expedia.ie on 26 October 2026, a week from Fuerteventura Airport cost from €71 with a manual gearbox and €82 automatic for 8 to 15 June 2027, and from €97 and €112 for the February half-term week. Taxes, basic damage cover and free cancellation are included.

What they leave out is the excess, the share of any damage you pay before the cover takes over, and the deposit blocked against it, normally on the main driver's credit card. Goldcar's Spanish terms set a small car's excess at €2,300 and hold €950 of it as a deposit, and TopCar's deposit with basic cover runs from €900 to €4,000, by car and rate. Each firm's own cover, sold online or at the desk, cuts or removes both; cover bought elsewhere does not lift the deposit.

On fuel, choose full to full. Extra drivers and child seats can cost extra: Goldcar lists €10 a day per driver and €13 a day for a baby seat, plus 17% at FUE. A young-driver charge must be in the total price at booking, so give your real age.

Two Canarian firms with desks at the airport sell direct, not through Expedia. Cicar's Canary terms include cover without excess, extra drivers and child seats; AutoReisen's, zero-excess cover with no deposit, a second driver and standard child seats.

A UK photocard licence is valid in Spain without an international driving permit; a paper licence may need updating to a photocard, and a provisional one is not valid. EU and EEA licences are valid while in date. The legal minimum age is 18, but hire firms set their own: Goldcar, TopCar and Cicar ask for 21 and AutoReisen 23.

The drink-drive limit is 0.5 g per litre of blood, or 0.25 mg per litre of breath, and lower in the first two years after passing. Children up to 135 cm tall ride in an approved child seat in the back, unless other children fill the rear seats or there are none. A phone may be used only hands-free, with no handset or earpiece. Unless signs say otherwise, a car may do 120 km/h on autovías, such as the FV-1 dual carriageway towards Corralejo, and 90 on other roads outside towns; in towns, 50, 30 or 20, by the type of street.

Since 1 January 2026 the connected V-16 beacon has replaced warning triangles. The car's owner, here the hire firm, keeps it in the glovebox: check before you leave. After a breakdown, switch it on, put it on the roof and call 112 or the firm's assistance line. Outside towns, wear a reflective vest on the road.

Two roads carry most of the island. The FV-1 runs north from Puerto del Rosario to Corralejo, and the FV-2 south past the airport and Caleta de Fuste to Costa Calma and Morro Jable. It is a long drive: off-peak, like every time here, Corralejo to Morro Jable takes about 105 minutes. Inland, the FV-20 leaves Puerto del Rosario for Antigua and the FV-30 climbs through Betancuria, 31 minutes from El Mirador, 35 from Elba Palace and 48 from ZEL and Paradisus.

North of Puerto del Rosario, the FV-1 dual carriageway takes the through traffic, while the old road, the FV-104, runs through the Corralejo Dunes Natural Park on its last 10 km into Corralejo, past the Grandes Playas: 10 minutes from Secrets, 11 to 14 from Barceló Corralejo Sands. Walk into the dunes only on the marked paths.

At the southern tip, a gravel track of more than 20 km runs from Morro Jable to Punta de Jandía and Cofete, kept up by the Cabildo. The Cofete viewpoint is 33 minutes from Riu Palace Jandía and 36 from Iberostar. Goldcar's, TopCar's, Sixt's and AutoReisen's terms all rule out or leave uncovered driving on unpaved roads, so read yours; Tiadhe's line 111 runs out from Morro Jable at 10:00 and 14:15.

Two of our ten park you free: Paradisus, and Iberostar, whose outdoor car park costs nothing. Three have parking without a published price: Secrets, on site; Elba Palace, in its own car park; and ZEL, outdoors. Barceló Corralejo Sands charges, at a price given only at reception, and has an electric charging point. Corralejo Surfing Colors, El Mirador, Royal Palm and Riu Palace Jandía publish nothing on parking, so ask all four before you arrive.

In Corralejo, the La Oliva council is adding more than 500 spaces, among them a two-floor car park of 364 spaces by the bus station, put out to tender in October 2025. In Puerto del Rosario, the council stopped charging in its blue and green zones on 20 November 2025 while it prepares a new contract, so read the street signs, which may change. In Morro Jable, Pájara council signposted more than 400 spaces in July 2026, including the Barranco del Ciervo area near the centre.

Only if your firm allows it, and the terms differ. Goldcar's Spanish terms let its cars travel between the Canary Islands with its Cross Border cover, €12 a day up to €156 a hire, a little more in its busiest weeks. TopCar allows it only with its prior authorisation, which needs its Super Cover plus its Multi-Island Cover, €50 at the counter, and only to islands where it has an office, Lanzarote among them; the car must come back to Fuerteventura. Sixt's Spanish conditions forbid moving a car between islands without the firm's written authorisation, and AutoReisen's terms say the same.

The crossing readers make is Corralejo to Playa Blanca, at Lanzarote's southern tip. Fred. Olsen Express sails it in 25 minutes by fast ferry, with 13 sailings each way on weekdays and 11 at weekends; its Bocayna Express takes cars. Baleària Canarias, the former Naviera Armas, takes about 35 minutes. Car fares vary with the date, so price the crossing when you book. With a hire car on Fred. Olsen, enter 'Hire' as the make and model and 0000XXX as the plate, and send the real details no later than an hour before you sail. The port is 5 minutes by car from Barceló Corralejo Sands, off-peak.

The alternative is to cross as a foot passenger and hire a second car on Lanzarote.