The catch at Secrets Bahía Real Resort & Spa

The resort stands on its own at the southern end of Corralejo, on the road out towards the dunes. The harbour, where the Lobos boats leave, and the old streets around Calle La Iglesia, where most of the town's restaurants and bars are, are 37 minutes on foot along Avenida Corralejo Grandes Playas, or 9 minutes by car. The nearest cluster of cafés and bars, around Calle Hibisco, is 17 minutes' walk. Inside the gates there are seven restaurants, four bars and live music every night, which is how the resort is meant to be used, but a dinner out is a taxi each way.

The spa covers more than 2,500 m², with hydrotherapy pools, a sauna, a steam bath, sensory showers, an outdoor Jacuzzi and an oriental hammam for the rasul ritual, and its treatments use Natura Bissé. Every service is charged on top of the room, on every board, the Unlimited-Luxury all-inclusive included. Prices are not published. Services can be paid in cash, by card or to the room, and a booking cancelled or changed less than 12 hours ahead is charged at 50%.

Chozo for Canarian cooking, Himitsu for teppanyaki and sushi, Ólio at the top of the hotel and Nebbiolo for pasta and pizza serve dinner only, from 18:30 to 21:30 in winter and 19:00 to 22:00 in summer, and each needs booking ahead. All four keep a formal dress code: long trousers, a collared shirt and dress shoes for men. Half-board rates cover breakfast and dinner at the Market Café buffet, with drinks extra, so the four rooms are an all-inclusive pleasure. The Bay Lounge, the Canarian lunch restaurant over the sea, is charged even on the all-inclusive, and how many restaurants open each night depends on occupancy.

There are no standard doubles: every room starts as a 36 m² Junior Suite with a furnished balcony and a king-size bed or two singles. What changes is the outlook. The plain Junior Suite is sold without a view, the Junior Suite Pool View faces the pools, and the Junior Suite Frontal Ocean View looks straight out to sea, towards Isla de Lobos and Lanzarote. Most rooms have ocean views, but only the ocean-view categories promise one. For a two-night stay from Tuesday 8 June 2027 the Pool View was €270 a night for two with half board. After booking, the hotel opens a platform where you choose the exact room yourself.

Playa de las Agujas, three minutes from the rooms, has fine golden sand at the back but volcanic rock and lava shelves where you walk into the sea, most of all at low tide, and no permanent beach services. Like every beach in Spain it is public, not the hotel's own. The long white beaches of the Grandes Playas, with sunbed hire, begin with Playa del Pozo, 18 minutes south on foot, and the open dune beaches at Playa del Moro are 10 minutes by car. The two large pools in the gardens are where most of the swimming happens.