Playa de la Arena

. Close to Los Gigantes, the giant cliffs of the resort can be seen from across Playa De La Arena. The resort has many restaurants, bars and shops aimed mainly at tourists. Playa De La Arena's main business is tourism. The playa, meaning beach in English is entirely of black, natural, volcanic sand. The beach is one of the cleanest on the island, and even won the European Blue Flag for cleanliness.Fact|date=February 2008

Tourism

Playa De La Arena receives thousands of tourists a year, mainly from Spain and the United Kingdom, but also from Germany and The Netherlands.Fact|date=February 2008 There are three main hotels in Playa De La Arena, which are the Playa La Arena hotel, which can be seen from the main part of the town, Barcelo Varadero and the Bahia Flamingo.

Hotel Playa La Arena

Situated in the resort of Puerto Santaigo, on the rise overlooking Playa La Arena village, the Hotel Playa La Arena offers tourists a modern look to their holiday in a nice area of the island. The hotel has 432 rooms, three bars (Piano (Evening), Nightclub (Entertainment every night) & Pool (daytime)) and two restaurants - (one by the pool) and a pool snack bar. Clean & friendly.

The hotel is part of the 'Spring Hoteles' chain - there are four other hotels on the island: Hotel Vulcano & Hotel Bittacora (almost opposite each other - situated between Los Christianos and Playa Las Americas) - and Arona Gran Hotel in Los Christianos centre.

'Spring Hoteles' is part of a large business enterprise based in Barcelona, Spain.

The building department of this group is 'Edustro SA'.

'Edustro SA' are developing on behalf of the group a brand new complex of residential homes and apartments 'Residencial Playa La Arena' on the hill rising above the resort. The purpose of this development is to protect the area surrounding and overlooking the group's latest flagship hotel ('Gran Hotel Santiago' due to open at the end of 2007) - update: the new hotel has been renamed 'Hotel Costa Los Gigantes' and is due to open May 2008, some five months later than originally planned.Fact|date=February 2008

Barcelo Varadero

South of Playa De La Arena, is the Barcelo Varadero resort in El Varadero, around half a km from Playa De La Arena. The hotel, which is part of the Barcelo hotel chain, has 319 apartments spaced over six blocks, named from A-F as well as a swimming pool.

Bahia Flamingo

With 142 rooms, the hotel Bahia Flamingo stands next to Barcelo Varadero. The hotel offers leisure and sport activities such as tennis, archery and football.

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