Hotel Fuerteventura Princess
Hotel Fuerteventura Princess is a 4-star all-inclusive on the Jandía Peninsula at the southern end of Fuerteventura, one of Spain's Canary Islands. Its 669 rooms sit low in bungalow blocks among subtropical gardens at Butihondo, and those gardens run straight onto a long golden beach with no road to cross. Families come for that beach, for three pools including a children's one built around a life-size pirate ship and for an entertainment team guests single out above everything else.
On this page
- Is it worth it?
- Quick facts
- What the resort is like
- Getting around
- What's all inclusive
- Every restaurant and bar
- Rooms and suites
- Pools and water features
- The beach
- The wind
- Babies and toddlers
- Things to do
- Club Sotavento
- The area and days out
- Loves and gripes
- How it compares
- Getting there
- Weather and when to go
- Health and paperwork
- Questions
- Photo gallery
Is it worth it?
Who this hotel suits, what you're trading for the beach and the facts to skim first.
Hotel Fuerteventura Princess is a big, long-established all-inclusive that does the beach part very well. It's built on Playa de Esquinzo-Butihondo, so you walk out of the gardens onto the sand without crossing anything, and the entertainment team is the thing guests praise most consistently. The airport run is the longest of the Fuerteventura resorts we've compared, around an hour, and the hotel sits on its own: without a car you have the hotel, the bus that stops outside or a taxi, because there's no walking out to a bar or a restaurant from Butihondo. Rooms are spacious and well cleaned, though furniture wear and dated décor come up repeatedly. Jandía catches the trade winds all year, and guests say it affects beach and pool days. There's no childcare below four, so with a baby or a toddler you fill the daytime yourselves.
Best for
You want the sand a walk from your room, plenty of entertainment laid on and a self-contained week with little to organise.
Maybe not for
You need childcare for an under-four, you want a town to walk into in the evening or a short airport run matters after a flight with young children.
Best ages
Four and up for the free clubs. Babies and toddlers are welcome and well kitted out, but the daytime is yours.
What stands out
The entertainment team, the direct beach access and a children's pool built around a life-size pirate ship.
What to check
Which all-inclusive tier you want before you travel, since the upgrades have to cover everyone in the room, and the weekly activity schedule when you arrive.
Where is it?
Butihondo on the Jandía Peninsula, at the southern end of Fuerteventura, about an hour from the airport.
Quick facts for families
What the resort is like
Where it sits, how the site is laid out, the two hotels it's easy to confuse it with and how you get in and out.
The address is Calle Gran Canaria, 13, Urbanización Butihondo, 35625 Pájara, on the Jandía Peninsula at the southern end of Fuerteventura in Spain's Canary Islands. Butihondo is a quiet, low-density stretch of coast about 5 miles (8 km) north of Morro Jable and the main Jandía resort strip, so there's very little around the hotel beyond other hotels. It's a 4-star property with 669 rooms, run by Princess Hotels & Resorts, an independent Spanish group.
The rooms sit in low bungalow blocks set through landscaped subtropical gardens rather than in a tower, which keeps the scale down and spreads the site out. Guests routinely describe it as maze-like for the first day or two, and some of the paths between the rooms and the main restaurant run uphill. With a pushchair there are lifts and ramps throughout and the adapted rooms are on the ground floor with no steps, though the ground isn't fully flat and some guests mention potholes on the paths between the bungalows.
Check-in is from 3pm and check-out by 11am, with a 24-hour reception; express check-in comes with the All Inclusive Premium tier. Wi-Fi is free throughout the hotel at a basic level on Standard All Inclusive, and Wi-Fi for one device is part of Premium. On site there's a mini market, a clothes shop and a souvenir shop.
Two names are easy to muddle with this one. Club Jandía Princess is the sister hotel immediately next door, a separate booking and a different product. Esencia de Fuerteventura by Princess is a separately branded adults-only hotel for guests aged 16 and over, operating in the same complex with its own restaurant, bar and pools. The family hotel is this one. For the island itself, its beaches and when to go, see our Fuerteventura guide.
The bus, the car and the rampsGetting around, and getting in and out
A public bus stops outside the hotel roughly every half hour and costs very little for the run into Morro Jable and the Jandía area. Taxis are the other option. What you can't do is walk: strolling out to a different bar or restaurant in the evening isn't practical from Butihondo, so a week without a car means the hotel's own bars and restaurants, or a bus ride. With a car you can reach the whole island in a day, on the FV-2 running south past the door and the mountain road over to Cofete.
The distances to the nearest services give you the measure of the place. The pharmacy is 2 miles (3 km) away at Esquinzo. The Jandía Shopping Centre and the Jandía Golf Course are both 3 miles (5 km), Playa de Jandía is 3 miles (5 km) and Morro Jable is 5 miles (8 km).
For step-free access, 15 of the Standard Rooms are adapted: ground floor, garden view, no steps and a bathroom with a bathtub, washbasin and adapted toilet. Ramps reach all the facilities including the restaurant and the pools, and the pool is entered by ramp. The door widths are 80 cm at the room and the bathroom, 150 cm at the balcony and 90 cm at the lift.
The beach is the exception to all that, since it's on the doorstep. Sand is sand, though, and a pushchair is hard work beyond the firm strip by the tideline.
What all inclusive includes here
The three all-inclusive tiers and the three boards that aren't, then every restaurant and bar on the site.
Six boards are on offer, which is more of a decision than it sounds. Three are all inclusive, Standard, Plus and Premium. The other three are bed and breakfast, half board and full board, and on those the drinks aren't included with meals, so you buy them separately.
Standard All Inclusive is the green wristband, and it covers breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks through the day. The drinks come from service stations: soft drinks, still and sparkling water, beer and wine on tap, own-brand spirits and a set of pre-made cocktails, being the Piña Colada, Blue Lagoon, Love on the Beach, Tequila Sunrise and Aperol Spritz. The detail that catches people out is the hours. Included drinks run 10am to 11:30pm and you're charged outside them. Fresh orange juice at breakfast is an extra charge as well, though plant-based milks are included. Each room gets two reusable water bottles to refill at the bars and dispensers.
All Inclusive Plus is the black wristband. It adds international spirit brands, young and crianza wines by the glass with bottles extra, bottled Heineken and Appletiser with meals and cocktails made fresh to order rather than pre-mixed, being the Negroni, Margarita and Caipirinha. Drinks service stretches to 12:30am. It's a modest premium per person per day.
All Inclusive Premium takes everything in Plus and adds Wi-Fi, express check-in, turndown, a bathrobe and slippers, the minibar replenished on arrival, the next day's weather forecast and late check-out on request if it's available.
The rules on the upgrades matter if you're weighing them up. Plus and Premium have to be taken by every guest in the room and for the whole stay, with a three-night minimum on the upgrade, so you can't buy one for a single adult or for a couple of days in the middle. You book them at reception on arrival, or in advance by email.
Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and lactose-free options are catered for, and so are children's meals. Alcohol is served only to guests aged 18 and over.
Three restaurants, seven barsEvery restaurant and bar
There are no à la carte restaurants here. This is a buffet hotel, with open seating, so you turn up when you're hungry within the serving hours. Those hours are approximate and shift with the season, so treat the times below as the shape of the day rather than a timetable.
Food Market is the main restaurant and where you'll eat most meals: an air-conditioned indoor buffet doing international food with live cooking stations, and themed dinner nights through the week covering Canarian, Spanish, Mexican and Italian. There's a children's buffet, and a section of the room reserved for Esencia guests. Breakfast runs 7:30 to 10:30am, lunch 1 to 3pm and dinner 6:30 to 9:30pm in summer or 6 to 9pm in winter. If you're leaving early, an early breakfast runs from 5:30am, which you ask for at reception the evening before.
Siroco is the terrace restaurant above the beach, looking out over the Atlantic, and it's the useful one with young children. It does snacks, hot and cold dishes, pastries, ice cream and coffee from noon to 5:30pm, which is where you go when a toddler's hunger doesn't line up with the buffet's lunch hours. Lunch service moves here from the Food Market on a seasonal basis.
Mirador serves breakfast, lunch and dinner with sea views and its own themed nights, though it's for Esencia de Fuerteventura guests only.
A dress code applies from the afternoon onwards in the bars and restaurants: no swimwear, no sleeveless shirts and no sportswear, and men need long trousers or smart tailored shorts for dinner. The gala dinners on 25 and 31 December ask for formal dress, with long trousers, a shirt and a jacket or tie.
There are seven bars, and two of them are closed to families.
| Bar | What it is | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Sabana Cocktail Bar | The central meeting point, for a morning coffee or an evening cocktail | 10:00 to midnight |
| Jaleo Nightclub | Nightly shows from 21:00 to 23:00 | 17:00 to 01:00 |
| Arena Bar | Poolside, and seasonal | 10:00 to 19:00 |
| Match Point Sport Bar | Twelve 75-inch TVs, pool tables, board games and a smoking area | 17:00 to midnight |
| Sotavento Club Bar | Inside the adults-only Club Sotavento, for guests 18 and over | 10:00 to 18:00 |
| Vivero Chill Out Bar | Live acts and concerts from 20:00 to 23:00 in season | 17:00 to midnight |
| Coral Chill Out Bar | A stage for live acts, in the Esencia area only | 11:00 to 18:00 |
How dining works here
There's no booking system. The buffet restaurants are open seating and you walk in during the serving hours, so nothing needs arranging in advance and there's no competing for the early sittings, which is one of the easier things about the place with young children. There's no à la carte option to book for an evening on your own either, and Siroco's terrace hours are the nearest thing to eating outside the buffet.
On the food itself, the buffet does the job rather than being the thing families rave about. The variety is there, including the children's sections, dietary needs are handled, and the live cooking stations and themed nights get good mentions. The recurring complaint is repetitiveness on a longer stay: at 10 to 14 nights, guests start finding it samey. Hot food served lukewarm comes up in some older reviews.
Rooms and suites
Every category with its official size, which one suits a family with a baby or toddler and the honest read on their condition.
The line-up in the main hotel is short. There's the Standard Room, the same room with a sea view and the Superior Family Room, which is two Standard Rooms joined together. The table is the full set with the official sizes; the guidance after it is which one suits young children.
| Room | Size | Sleeps | Layout and view |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Room | 30 m² | 2 adults + 2 children | One room with a sofa bed or armchair, and a furnished terrace or balcony over the gardens |
| Standard Room, sea or side sea view | 30 m² | 2 adults + 2 children | The same room, with a sea or side sea view from the balcony |
| Superior Family Room | 60 m² in total | 4 adults + 2 children | Two interconnecting 30 m² Standard Rooms joined by a door, each with its own bathroom, beds and balcony or terrace, garden view |
| Adapted Standard Room | 30 m² | 2 adults + 2 children | Ground floor, garden view, no steps, adapted bathroom. There are 15 of them |
The Standard Room at 30 m² sleeps two adults and two children. You get a king-size bed on request if one's free, or two singles pushed together, plus a sofa bed or an armchair and a furnished terrace or balcony over the gardens. Most have a bathtub, and 15 of the Standard Rooms have a walk-in shower instead. Inside there's air conditioning, satellite TV with national and international channels, an unstocked minibar fridge, a safe, a kettle with tea and coffee, the two reusable water bottles, a tiled floor and a wake-up service. A cot and a baby bottle warmer come on request.
The Standard Room with a sea or side sea view is the same room with a different outlook from the balcony. It's worth knowing that a babyphone, which is a baby monitor, comes on request, free and subject to availability, with this one and with the Superior Family Room.
The Superior Family Room is the one built for a family. It's 60 m² in total, made up of two interconnecting 30 m² Standard Rooms with a connecting door between them, and it sleeps up to four adults and two children. Each half has its own bathroom, its own balcony or terrace over the gardens and its own beds. That two-room shape is the practical part with a baby or a toddler: the children sleep behind a closed door while you use the other room, rather than everyone tiptoeing around one space after seven o'clock. Free baby bottle warmers and baby monitors are on request here too.
Housekeeping clears the room daily, sheets are changed on request and towels are on demand, with two pool-towel exchanges a week included. Dry-cleaning and laundry are available with a surcharge.
On condition, the picture across the reviews is that the rooms are spacious and housekeeping rates well, while furniture wear and dated décor come up often enough to expect them, and the look trails resorts that have been renovated more recently. Some refurbishment work has been done.
The Esencia zone has its own set of room types, listed separately on the Princess Hotels site, and some of them are family rooms. Esencia de Fuerteventura by Princess is also sold as a hotel in its own right, for guests aged 16 and over, so whether a family with younger children can book an Esencia room is a question for Princess Hotels before you plan a stay around one.
Pools and water features
Each pool and who it's for, the sand the gardens open onto and the wind that comes with this coast.
The main hotel has three outdoor pools, and the children's pool is one of the three rather than an extra on top.
The largest is the main pool, and it isn't heated. A second main pool is heated year-round, which is the one that matters for a winter stay. The third is the children's pool, built around a life-size pirate ship with a bridge and a slide, with water games around it, and it's heated in winter. There's no splash pad here, whatever the pirate ship suggests in photos: the ship and its water games are the children's pool, not a separate water-play area.
Two more pools sit outside that count of three. The Club Sotavento chill-out pool is adults only, for guests 18 and over. The Esencia area has two private pools, one adult and one children's, for Esencia guests only.
Guests describe the pools as attractive and well kept in most reviews, with mould in tile grout and missing tiles raised in some older ones. The persistent complaint is towel-saving: sunbeds claimed early in the morning and then left empty. The hotel's policy is against reserving beds, though guests say it isn't consistently enforced.
The beach
The beach is Playa de Esquinzo-Butihondo, two adjoining beaches named after the Esquinzo and Butihondo valleys, running to roughly 1.7 miles (2.7 km) of fine golden sand between them. Butihondo is one of Pájara's four Blue Flag beaches, alongside Costa Calma, El Matorral and Morro Jable, and it held the flag again for the 2026 season. Lifeguard cover and public toilets and showers come with the Blue Flag, since those are part of what the award requires.
The bungalows open straight onto it. The water is usually calm and clear over shallow sandbars and it shelves gradually, which is what you want for a child who wants to wade rather than swim. Sunbeds and umbrellas are out on the beach. The hotel organises windsurfing, sailing and stand-up paddleboarding from it, so ask at reception for what's running and what it costs.
The wider Playa de Esquinzo-Butihondo has naturist sections, more so as you head north towards the naturist zone, and there are no marked boundaries between them. The stretch in front of the hotel is nearer the clothed end. The hotel's own former nudist pool was replaced in 2017 by the Club Sotavento area, so there's nothing of the sort inside the resort.
Fuerteventura is windy, and Jandía gets it year round
Fuerteventura is one of the windiest of the Canary Islands, and this is the caveat that comes up most consistently about this stretch of coast. The Jandía Peninsula sits on the leeward side, so it's more sheltered than the north of the island, though the beach is exposed to the trade winds all year, and guests raise it repeatedly: it affects beach time and pool time, not one or the other.
June to August is the windiest stretch statistically, even though that's when the air and the sea are warmest. September and October are the calmer of the warm months. None of this is a fault of the hotel: every hotel in the Jandía area shares the same wind, and it's Caleta de Fuste, over on the more sheltered side, that's the calmer part of the island.
Babies and toddlers
The age floor on the clubs, the baby kit you can ask for and everything else that fills a day here.
There's no crèche, no nursery and no structured childcare below four: the Miniclub starts at four, so with a baby or a toddler the daytime is yours to fill. That's normal for the island's family resorts rather than unusual, so if you were counting on a couple of free hours a day, this isn't the resort that provides them.
What the hotel does provide is the kit, free and on request, subject to availability: cots, high chairs in the restaurants, baby bottle warmers so a night feed doesn't mean a trip out of the room and baby monitors, which are what let you sit out on the terrace after bedtime rather than in the dark inside. The monitors go with the sea or side sea view Standard Room and the Superior Family Room. Children's meals and early mealtimes are catered for as well, and the Superior Family Room is the one that makes an early bedtime easy, for the reason above: two rooms and a door between them.
Babysitting is available on request at an extra charge. Ask Princess Hotels for the current rate if you want to plan an evening around it.
The Miniclub takes fours to sevens and is free. It has indoor and outdoor play, a playground, an outdoor stage for shows, a TV room, snacks that are included on all inclusive, the children's buffet and the mini-disco. The mini-disco itself runs nightly and is open to all ages, and it's repeatedly named as a highlight for young children.
There's no baby shop on site. The mini market covers basics, but don't count on it for nappies, formula or baby food, and the bus reaches Morro Jable's wider shops.
Sharky's Swim School runs at the Match Point Sports Centre next door, with lessons for children and adults from certified instructors. It's charged.
On resortThings to do
Most of what fills a day here is included. The animation team runs a daytime programme of pool games, competitions and themed activities, and it's the single most consistently praised thing about the hotel: engaging, and good with children of all ages. In the evening the same team carries the shows in the Vivero bar and the Jaleo Nightclub, with nightly performances, live bands, themed nights, comedy nights and DJ sets.
Also included are aqua gym and water aerobics daily, beach volleyball, table tennis in a room of its own, the gym, the cinema in the kids' zone and the windsurfing, sailing and paddleboarding the hotel organises on the beach. In the game zone the pool table costs extra while the table-tennis room next to it is free. Pick up the weekly activity schedule when you arrive, since that's what tells you which of it is running and when.
The Maxiclub takes eights to twelves, free, with structured activities run by the entertainment team. The Teen Club covers thirteens to seventeens with a cinema, table and board games and gaming consoles, and it runs seasonally rather than all year.
What's charged mostly sits next door at the Match Point Sports Centre: four artificial grass courts for hire, with tennis lessons for all ages and levels from qualified instructors, and padel played there too. Personal trainer sessions are available. Golf classes run at the Jandía Golf Course, 3 miles (5 km) away.
Adults onlyClub Sotavento, the adults-only area
There's no spa here in the usual sense. What stands in for one is Club Sotavento, an area for guests aged 18 and over on the site of the hotel's former nudist pool, which was replaced in 2017. Inside it there's a chill-out pool, two jacuzzis, a sauna, a Turkish bath, a relaxation area and a terrace bar, with Bali beds to rent and massage and relaxation treatments for a charge. Children can't go in, so it's somewhere the two of you use in turns rather than together.
The area and days out
The village up the road, the day trip the hotel shuttles you to and how much of the island a hire car opens up.
The hotel sits on its own, so everything below means the bus, a taxi or a hire car. The bus outside the door, roughly every half hour, reaches Morro Jable and Jandía easily enough, and that covers the two closest of these. For the rest you'd want a car.
Morro Jable, 5 miles (8 km) away, is the nearest proper town: a fishing village with local character, seafood restaurants, a harbour and the ferry terminal, from which you can make a day of it across to Las Palmas on Gran Canaria. Dolphin and whale watching boat trips leave from the harbour there too.
Oasis Wildlife Fuerteventura, a zoo and botanical park 15 miles (24 km) away, is the day out the resort itself supports. A free hotel shuttle runs to it, and you get the schedule from reception.
Playa de Jandía, 3 miles (5 km) away, is one of Fuerteventura's most celebrated beaches, wide and golden and popular for windsurfing and kitesurfing.
Playa de Cofete, 19 miles (30 km) over the mountains, is wild, remote and dramatic, with rough water and no facilities. With a toddler that makes it a scenic drive and a look rather than a swim.
Jandía Natural Park, 6 miles (10 km) away, is volcanic mountains, sand dunes and wildlife, and it suits children who can manage a walk.
Betancuria, 38 miles (61 km) away, is the island's historical capital, with the Santa María church and the Archaeological Museum.
Corralejo Dunes Natural Park is 67 miles (108 km) north at the top of the island, a big sand-dune landscape and a full day with a hire car, best combined with Corralejo town. Isla de Lobos, a small uninhabited islet with clean beaches, is reached by boat from Corralejo or on excursions from Morro Jable.
For the wider island, its beaches and its seasons, see our Fuerteventura guide.
Loves and gripes
What guests rate and what frustrated them, and how it sits against the other Fuerteventura family resorts.
As of mid-2026 the picture across the platforms is a well-liked resort with a long tail behind it. Booking.com has it around 8.2 out of 10 from roughly 2,700 reviews. TripAdvisor gives 3.8 out of 5 from about 4,400, and On the Beach the same 3.8, while Holiday Truths sits at 4 out of 5 from a much smaller 31. Treat those as a rough steer rather than a verdict, and one that leans towards English-speaking guests, since most people staying here are German and much of their comment sits on German-language sites. The two big scores diverge because they cover different eras: TripAdvisor carries decades of reviews for a hotel that's been running a long time, Booking.com skews recent, and there's been refurbishment work in between. Recent guests rate it more highly than the long tail does.
What families love
- The animation team, ahead of everything else.
- The beachfront setting and the clear water.
- The gardens and grounds, well kept.
- The pools.
- Housekeeping and cleanliness.
- An atmosphere families describe as welcoming.
Common gripes
- Sunbeds saved with towels early in the morning.
- A buffet that turns repetitive on a stay of 10 nights or more.
- Restaurant and bar service that reads as unengaged next to the animation team.
- Rooms that look dated.
- The isolation without a car.
- The wind.
- A Standard All Inclusive drinks list narrower than some expect.
- Potholed paths between the bungalows.
The clientele is predominantly German, which shows in the staff's communications, the queues and the dining habits. Most UK guests find it no issue at all, and some find it unfamiliar.
Against the other Fuerteventura resortsHow it compares
Set against the other Fuerteventura resorts we've looked at, the strengths and the weaknesses are both easy to name. The beach and the direct access to it are as good as Iberostar Gaviotas Park's, which is the closest comparison on that front, though the Iberostar is fresher after a 2024 renovation and rates higher. The Caleta de Fuste hotels have a far shorter airport run and a more sheltered bay. Elba Castillo does more for under-threes. The Corralejo hotels give you a town you can walk into in the evening, which is the one thing Butihondo can't offer.
On the rest: the kids' club ages and the baby kit here are standard for the group rather than a point of difference, while the animation team is a real one. Value sits in the middle, neither the cheapest nor the premium option. Its TripAdvisor standing is the lowest of the shortlist, though the Booking.com score is competitive.
Getting there and when to go
The run down from the airport, the months that suit young children and the health and money bits before you fly.
Fuerteventura airport (FUE) is about 48 miles (78 km) away, roughly an hour by car. That's around twice the run to the Caleta de Fuste hotels, and a coach transfer takes 1 to 1.5 hours depending on the route the operator takes.
Driving yourself, take the FV-2 south signed Morro Jable and stay on it for about 43 miles (70 km); it becomes dual carriageway after Costa Calma. Leave at junction 79, turn right at the first roundabout onto Calle Gran Canaria, right again onto Calle Lanzarote, then left. Reception is on the right.
On when to go, September and October are the best balance for a family. The sea is at or near its annual peak, around 23 and 22°C, the air sits around 27 and 25°C, the trade winds are usually calmer than in high summer and there are fewer people. July and August are the hottest with the longest sunshine, and statistically the windiest. November to March is mild at about 20 to 21°C with a cooler sea around 18 to 19°C, brief and infrequent rain, better value and the heated pools to fall back on.
One thing to settle before you fly rather than on arrival: if you want the Plus or Premium all-inclusive tier, it has to run for the whole stay and cover everyone in the room, so decide it as part of the booking rather than partway through the week.
Month by monthWeather and when to go
The figures below are typical long-term averages for Playa de Jandía and the south of the island, which is where the resort sits. This is Fuerteventura's warmest and driest zone, 2 to 3°C warmer and noticeably drier than the north, so the northern resorts' figures don't apply here. One of the main pools is heated year-round and the children's pool is heated in winter, so the cooler months still have swimming.
| Month | Daytime high | Overnight low | Rain | Wet days | Sea temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20.5° | 16° | 14 mm | 2 | 19° |
| February | 20.5° | 15.5° | 16 mm | 2 | 18° |
| March | 21.5° | 16° | 12 mm | 2 | 18° |
| April | 22.5° | 17° | 5 mm | 1 | 19° |
| May | 24.5° | 18.5° | 1 mm | 0 | 20° |
| June | 25.5° | 20° | 0 mm | 0 | 21° |
| July | 27° | 21.5° | 0 mm | 0 | 22° |
| August | 27.5° | 22.5° | 0 mm | 0 | 23° |
| September | 26.5° | 22° | 2 mm | 0 | 23° |
| October | 26° | 21° | 8 mm | 2 | 23° |
| November | 23.5° | 19° | 13 mm | 2 | 22° |
| December | 21.5° | 17° | 26 mm | 3 | 21° |
Typical monthly averages from weather-station records. Sea temperature is the open-water figure, so a sheltered bay can feel a degree or two warmer.
Health, money and paperwork
There's no FCDO warning against travel to Spain or the Canary Islands, so the standard advice applies. UK passport holders don't need a visa: the passport has to have been issued within the past 10 years and be valid for at least three months beyond the day you leave, and the 90-days-in-any-180 Schengen rule applies to tourist trips.
A GHIC covers emergency medical treatment. There's no pharmacy on site, and the nearest is 2 miles (3 km) away at Esquinzo, so pack the children's medicines you'd want to reach for at 2am rather than assume you can buy them.
The currency is the euro. The Canary Islands charge IGIC at 7% rather than mainland Spanish VAT, so some things come out slightly cheaper here than on the mainland.
Questions
The things families ask most, the official pages worth a bookmark and when this guide was last refreshed.
Is there any childcare for a child under four?
Only babysitting, which is charged and arranged through the hotel rather than a room you can drop a child into. It runs on request rather than to set hours, so give notice. If supervised care for an under-four is what makes the holiday work, this isn't the resort built for it, and Elba Castillo over at Caleta de Fuste is worth comparing.
Which room should we book with a baby?
The Superior Family Room, if the budget stretches. It's the only one where you can shut a door on a sleeping child and still have a room to sit in, and it's one of the two rooms the baby monitor goes with. If it doesn't stretch, the sea or side sea view Standard Room is the other, and the terrace becomes your evening.
Will the wind spoil a beach holiday?
Not usually, though expect some days when it's strong enough to drive you off the sand and away from the pool. If that would sink the week for you, this isn't the coast to book, and Caleta de Fuste on the sheltered side of the island is the alternative. If you're coming here anyway, it comes down to which month you pick.
Will we come across naturists on the beach?
Possibly, if you walk north along the sand, since the sections aren't marked off from each other. The stretch directly in front of the hotel is nearer the clothed end, and there's nothing of the sort inside the resort, so it comes down to how far you wander.
Can we manage a week without hiring a car?
Plenty of families do, on the bus outside the door. What you can't do is walk out to dinner. So it comes down to whether you're content to eat in every night for a week; if you'd want two or three evenings elsewhere, take the car.
Can we upgrade the all inclusive once we arrive and see how it goes?
You can book Plus or Premium at reception on arrival, but not partway through and not for one of you. Both have to cover every guest in the room for the whole stay, with a three-night minimum on the upgrade, so it's a day-one decision rather than a day-four one.
How do we get to Oasis Wildlife Fuerteventura?
There's a free hotel shuttle. Ask at reception for the times when you arrive if you want to plan a day around it. It's 15 miles (24 km) away, so treat it as a full outing rather than a morning.
How dated are the rooms, really?
Dated in the décor and the furniture rather than in the cleaning, which reviewers rate well. If the look of a room matters as much to you as the space, the Iberostar Gaviotas Park was renovated in 2024 and shows it. If it's floor space and a balcony you're after, this is a lot of room.
Can we buy nappies and formula there?
Not reliably, so bring enough for the whole trip. The mini market on site does basics rather than a baby aisle, and the wider shops are a bus ride away at Morro Jable, which is a morning gone rather than a quick errand.
How do we make sure we book the right hotel?
Check the name carefully, because two others sit alongside it. Club Jandía Princess is a separate hotel next door with its own booking, and Esencia de Fuerteventura by Princess is a separately branded adults-only hotel for guests 16 and over in the same complex. The family one is the Hotel Fuerteventura Princess.
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- Hotel Fuerteventura Princess: the hotel's own site for rooms, the all-inclusive tiers, the children's clubs and what's included.
- GOV.UK Spain travel advice: entry rules and the latest on Schengen requirements before you travel.
- Fuerteventura with little ones: our guide to the wider island, its beaches and when to go.
Last updated 15 July 2026.
