The island of Gran Canaria.
The island of Gran Canaria.
The rest of the holiday...
Flowers in the hotel garden.
Flowers in the hotel garden.
Throughout this whole journal I have hardly mentioned the hotel where we stayed. In this section I will. During our visit to Gran Canaria we stayed in the hotel Eugena Victoria, and I quite enjoyed our stay here. The hotel is clean, the rooms are cleaned on a daily basis and the food is simply great and in abundance. For breakfast there is fresh sliced bread, fresh rolls, sweat toppings, savoury toppings, yogurt, serials, fresh fruit, bacon and eggs, baked beans, baked potatoes and probably things I haven′t mentioned so far. For lunch this is pretty much the same.
A palm tree.
A palm tree.
For dinner there is fish and multiples sorts of meat, multiple sorts of vegetables, baked potatoes, cooked potatoes and there is pasta. I you want a salad there are large bowls with sliced raw vegetables like paprika, onion, cucumber, olives, etc.. For desert you can have fresh fruit, yogurt, or pastry. On some evenings there is a tower that is made out three in size varying bowls which are stacked on top off each other from which warm molten chocolate is running down. You can cover sliced bits of fresh fruit with the molten chocolate for dessert. When I returned home and stepped on the scale I noticed that I had gained three kilos in ten days! Need I say more?
A local court yard.
A local court yard.
In spite of all this variety off food there are always people that walk by the food counters, have a quick look at all the food, and then say something stupid like; oh, are we having this or that again! Yes there is pasta again, and yes there is chicken again, and yes there is more food that was there on some previous day! The thing is to vary your food every day. You are not supposed to eat the same thing over and over again. If you had pasta yesterday you will find pasta on the counter today also. But someone else might not have eaten pasta yesterday and would like to eat it today! If the abundance off food in this hotel is still not good enough for you, you should stay at home where life must be much, much better then here!
Next to the pool is a snackbar where during the day you can buy all sorts of snacks like ice cream and hamburgers ore drinks like beer, cola and tonic. If you have an all-inclusive arrangement like we did it is all free, including everything from the bar inside.
Another palm tree.
Another palm tree.
During the evenings there is entertainment in the big hall on the ground floor. This entertainment consists out of karaoke evenings during which the guests are invited to show their vocal skills and entertain (or simply irritate) the other guests with their singing. Sometimes outside groups are booked to perform in flamboyant shows with feathers, song and dance. These performing groups may not always be off the highest standard but they are clearly no less enthusiastic and they do draw large numbers off guests. So, if you want to watch the show sitting down, make sure that you are there in time or you will be watching the show standing up in the back off the room.
Las Palmas departure lobby.
Las Palmas departure lobby.
If all of this is still not your cup of tea you can go outside and sit on the terrace. Almost every evening a band is playing live music there. They sing songs in English as well as in Dutch, and also in the German language. If you are still not satisfied with this, there are at least a hundred thousand bars in the direct vicinity where you can go to and drown your discomfort with the situation in a torrent of alcohol.
So, that is it for this year. I’ll see you next year!
Cheers!
