Cheap Holidays to Lanzarote: When to Go and Where to Stay

Lanzarote is warm all year, so the price of a fortnight here follows the UK school calendar far more than the weather. Summer holidays, Easter, the half-terms and Christmas are when families travel and package prices generally climb. Travel outside those weeks and you are usually looking at the better-value end of the market.

The weather gives you plenty of room to do that. January sees highs of 21°C with a single rain day on average, and December manages 22°C. February is the wettest month, yet that still means only around 17mm spread over four days. Late spring is a good compromise: April reaches 25°C and May 24°C, each with just one or two rain days, and there is a gap between the Easter break and the summer rush when low cost holidays to Lanzarote are easier to find.

Autumn is the other window worth watching. October still averages 28°C and November 25°C, with around three rain days each, so once the October half-term has passed you get late warmth without peak-season demand.

Larger resorts with more hotels tend to produce more competition and more choice at every budget, and on Lanzarote that points first to Puerto del Carmen. It is the island's most searched-for resort, home to around 30,000 people, and just six minutes from the airport, so transfers barely eat into your first day. Playa de los Pocillos is on its doorstep, and neighbouring Tías, four minutes from the terminal, has Playa de Matagorda.

Arrecife, the island's capital and largest town, is five minutes from the airport and suits travellers on budget holidays to Lanzarote who would rather be in a working town than a resort strip, with the Castillo de San José and the Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo to fill a cloudy afternoon. Costa Teguise has Playa del Jablillo and Playa de los Charcos, plus the Royal Residence of La Mareta nearby.

Playa Blanca is popular too, but neither it nor Costa Teguise appears among the resorts closest to the airport, so allow for a longer transfer when you weigh up package deals to Lanzarote for those areas.

Flexibility does most of the work. Midweek departures are often less in demand than Friday and Saturday flights, and checking several UK regional airports rather than only your nearest can turn up cheap deals to Lanzarote that a single search would miss. Booking well ahead for school-holiday dates, or keeping an eye out closer to departure if you can travel off-peak, gives you the widest spread of options.

Board basis matters as much as the headline price. Self-catering apartments let you shop locally and eat out when you choose, while all-inclusive suits families who want a fixed budget. A package bundles flight, hotel and transfer into one booking, and with a transfer of only a few minutes to Puerto del Carmen or Arrecife you lose little time either way.

This page shows live package holiday deals from several providers alongside hotel prices, tours and tickets and car hire, so you can compare cheap package holidays to Lanzarote against booking each part separately before deciding.

Lanzarote airport (ACE) has direct flights from the United Kingdom and sits unusually close to the main bases: Tías is four minutes away, San Bartolomé and Arrecife five, and Puerto del Carmen six. That short hop is one reason cheap breaks to Lanzarote work well even for a long weekend.

Once there, car hire opens up the rest of the island. Timanfaya National Park lies near El Golfo, the Jardín de Cactus is at Guatiza, and the Fundación César Manrique is at Nazaret, while the Cueva de los Naturalistas near San Bartolomé and Los Volcanes Natural Park near Tías are closer to the airport side. Ferries also sail from Arrecife and Playa Blanca, with Corralejo among the nearby ports, if you fancy adding a sea crossing to your trip.