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Heading south towards the Jandia Peninsula you'll arrive first at the tidy and top Fuerteventura family resort of Costa Calma. Costa Calma's edge over Caleta de Fuste is definitely its long stretch of glorious sandy beach which spreads down to Playa Barca in the south west of the resort. Costa Calma is the beginning of the stretch of some of the best beaches on the Canary Islands, leading into Sotavento and beyond down the Jandia Peninsula. The difference between Costa Calma's fabulous golden sandy beach and Sotavento however is that it's much more sheltered and ideal as a family beach - safe sheltered bathing is on the menu here. There's also lots of space so if it's peace and quiet you're looking for on a Fuerteventura beach you can find it somewhere along the Costa Calma stretch, especially outside of the peak summer season.
Costa Calma is a pretty Fuerteventura resort too - it's been tastefully designed with streets lined with palm trees, and green space inbetween accommodation complexes. Accommodation is generally low built, with lots of bungalow and studio styled apartment and apart-hotel complexes. It's popular with German holidaymakers down here! Costa Calma falls within the region of the Jandia Peninsula, and forms part of a selection of other smaller resorts building up on this stretch of the Pajara and Jandia Peninsula coast - increasingly it's being referred to as Costa Jandia. As Fuerteventura continues to develop and rebrand itself, Note also below the resort of Morro Jable seems to be rebranding itself as Playas or Playa de Jandia. It's the relatively new luxury leisure hotels popping up in this area that are generally responsible for the renaming, with a little help from the regional Cabildo.
A beach resort in every sense of the word, Costa Calma is a bustling character Fuerteventura resort with a superb family beach, nicely sheltered for safe bathing, that stretches for about 12 miles all the way from Costa Calma down to Morro Jable - this incorporates the most stunning beaches probably on all the Canary Islands, and includes the ultimate Fuerteventura Beach - Sotavento! Costa Calma's beach is cleaned daily.
Crammed with accommodation, you'll navigate by accommodation rather than street names here in Costa Calma, although the resort doesn't have a built up feel. Care was obviously applied to the development of Costa Calma. There's some rather upmarket hotels in Costa Calma, and many accommodation complexes with all inclusive swimming pool and leisure facilities.
This Fuerteventura resort was somewhat of a late developer, only really taking off tourism wise from the mid 1980s. Its newness shows in its tidy streets and pristine beach. Buried somewhere in the middle of Costa Calma is the original small village around which the resort was constructed - Canada Del Rio. The pretty green zone which runs the length of Costa Calma resort has much to do with the pleasantness of the place - you're likely to pass through this pine tree laden green space at some point if you're based in this Fuerteventura resort. Costa Calma is a long resort, rather than a deep one so you never feel overcrowded. Several small and unassuming shopping centres are dotted along the resort. Most of Costa Calma's activities are beach based.
There's a spot of reasonable windsurfing to be had here (although the best is further down at Sotavento where the winds are stronger). You'll find a scattering of surfing and windsurfing huts hiring out equipment along Costa Calma's beach. There's a good choice of all inclusive accommodation in Costa Calma, but if you're on a self catering run there's a reasonable choice of restaurants along the pizzeria line, and some great bars too. Costa Calma's beach is a good jogging beach by the way if you're into jogging. The resort's popularity with German visitors menas you might find that all inclusive accommodation tends to focus on German language entertainment.
Welcome to the most beautiful beach on the Canary Islands, Sotavento Beach just to the south of Costa Calma. This Fuerteventura beach is host to the prestigious Windsurf World Cup Annually (see weblink right), and has a kitesurfing and windsurfing scene to die for. Checkout the Playas De Jandia weblink also to the right. A relatively new website, it lists windsurfing hotspots and kitesurfing schools and information in this area of Fuerteventura.
Pretty fishing village Las Playitas on the East coast of Fuerteventura south of Caleta de Fuste is a quiet picturesque base (at the moment!). There's some development going on here in the form of luxury spa hotels and complexes, but it's being carefully done just outside the little fishing village, and no doubt providing valuable jobs and investment for locals who work long and hard hours cleaning, serving, bar tendering and waitering. Las Playitas is a good central base, offering easy access south to Jandia, north to Puerto del Rosario and Corralejo and into the beautiful interior of Fuerteventural via Pajara.
Las Playitas is currently very popular with German holiday makers - the hotels are to the luxury spa end but not extortionately expensive. It's an ideal quiet pretty black beach base, with good diving, and all inclusive spa hotels offering gyms, deluxe swimming pools and various other amenities including kids clubs and nightly entertainment. It's definitely going to get bigger round these here parts!
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