Gloria Palace Amadores Thalasso & Hotel
Gloria Palace Amadores is a 4-star hotel built into a south-facing cliff between the resorts of Puerto Rico and Amadores, on the south-west coast of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands. It's terraced down the hillside, so almost every room looks out over the Atlantic, and a panoramic glass lift drops from the grounds to the seafront promenade with a beach a few minutes' walk either side of it. Families come for the two pools above the sea, the splash park and a position between two sheltered beaches that shelve gently enough for a toddler.
On this page
- Is it worth it?
- Quick facts
- What the resort is like
- The lifts and the sea
- Every restaurant and bar
- What all-inclusive covers
- Rooms and suites
- Pools and the splash park
- The two beaches
- Babies and toddlers
- Accessibility
- Things to do
- The thalasso centre
- The area and days out
- Loves and gripes
- How it compares
- Getting there
- Weather
- Supplies and health
- Questions
- Photo gallery
Is it worth it?
Who the hotel suits, the two things that shape a week here and the facts to skim before the detail.
Gloria Palace Amadores is a 4-star hotel at Calle La Palma 2 in Mogán, run by Gloria Thalasso & Hotels, a Spanish group with two more hotels in the same corner of the island: the Gloria Palace Royal next door and the Gloria Palace San Agustín further along the coast. Of the three, this is the one with the strongest family facilities and the best views from its pools. What it doesn't have is an à la carte restaurant. You eat from the buffet all week.
It's terraced into a cliff, so you move between the rooms, the pools and the restaurant by lift, and a separate glass lift takes you down to the seafront promenade with Puerto Rico to the left and Amadores to the right. That glass lift runs during the hotel's daytime hours, so an evening down on the promenade means walking back up the road.
The thalasso centre is in the hotel's name, so it's worth knowing where a family stands with it: children can't use it, and adults pay for it on top of the board. There's no crèche for under-4s either, which is the real gap here. Guests rate the place highly all the same. As of June 2026 it sits around 8.5 to 8.9 out of 10 on Booking.com and HolidayCheck, and 4 to 4.5 out of 5 on TripAdvisor and Google, from thousands of reviews on each.
Best for
You want Atlantic views from the pool, a splash park and two calm beaches within a short walk, and you're happy eating from a buffet all week.
Maybe not for
You need childcare for a baby or toddler, you want a served dinner on site, or a cliff-side hotel with lift queues would wear you down with a pram.
Best ages
Four and up, when Tina's Club opens. Younger children are welcome at the club with a parent, and the splash park, the children's pool, the playground and free cots are all there for them.
What stands out
The views over the Atlantic from the pools and rooms, and an Autism Friendly certification with named measures behind it.
What to check
Which bars and hours your all-inclusive band actually covers, and that the airport shuttle is booked.
Where is it?
On a cliff between Puerto Rico and Amadores on the south-west coast of Gran Canaria, about 30 minutes from the airport.
Quick facts for families
What the resort is like
The setting, the shape of the building and the lifts you'll use every day to get around it and down to the sea.
The hotel sits in Mogán, a coastal municipality on the south-west of the island rather than the Maspalomas and San Bartolomé de Tirajana zone most UK families picture when they think of Gran Canaria. It's built into a south-facing cliff between the resorts of Puerto Rico and Amadores, and both are walkable.
The architecture is not what you expect of a 4-star all-inclusive. The building undulates in curves, in the style of the Barcelona architect Antoni Gaudí, with bold marine mosaics at the entrance and a central spiral staircase running up through the floors. Wooden pathways link the levels, and lifts serve each one. There are 392 rooms. It opened around 2003 and 2004 and was renovated in 2020 and 2021.
Almost all the rooms face the Atlantic and every one has a furnished balcony or terrace, which is the draw and the reason the views come up in nearly every review. It isn't a blanket promise of a clear sea view, though: guests on the lower floors describe outlooks that are partly blocked, and the hotel allocates the rooms, so treat the sea view as the norm here rather than something you pick.
Being terraced also means steps between some of the pool levels, and guests describe those as steep and worth taking care on. That's the nature of a hotel built down a cliff rather than a fault in it, and it's why the lifts matter so much.
The guest mix is broad. There's a strong German base, UK families arriving on Jet2, easyJet and TUI packages, plus Spanish guests from the mainland. Despite the animation team working through the day and the evening, the feel is restful rather than lively.
Up and down all weekThe lifts, and getting down to the sea
A panoramic glass lift runs from the hotel grounds down to the seafront pedestrian promenade, and it's what makes the two beaches walkable at all. At the bottom, Puerto Rico is to the left and Amadores to the right. It takes a pram going down.
It runs during the hotel's daytime hours only, so there's no access at night. An evening on the promenade, or a late dinner in Puerto Rico town, means coming back by road, which is walkable but uphill and unlit. Worth deciding in advance rather than at 10pm with a sleeping child.
Puerto Rico town centre itself is roughly 15 to 20 minutes on foot, using the lift and then the promenade.
Inside the hotel, the lifts serve all the floors and you'll use them constantly, since walking between levels means the spiral staircase. At peak hours they get busy, with queues that are a real nuisance with a pram, and guests report lifts missing floors when it's busy.
Every restaurant and bar
The buffet, the six bars one by one and the package that decides which of them you pay in.
There's one restaurant here and it's the buffet. The group's two table-service restaurants are at the sister hotels, Gorbea at San Agustín and Kaia at the Royal next door, and both carry a surcharge, so a served dinner is a night out rather than an alternative to the buffet.
The main buffet restaurant is a large heated room with sea views, show-cooking stations where dishes are cooked in front of you, themed dinner nights and an exterior terrace for eating outside. Breakfast runs 08:00 to 10:30, lunch 13:00 to 15:30 and dinner 18:30 to 21:30. Men are asked to wear long trousers at dinner. The quality and the variety are among the things guests rate most highly about the hotel.
With young children it's a practical room. There's a children's buffet, and the menus come in pictogram form, put there as an autism-friendly measure and useful for any child who points rather than asks. On all-inclusive, staff bring drinks to your table at every meal. High chairs are available, and if one is essential for your week, confirm it when you book. Allergies and intolerances are catered for, and the thing to do is speak to the maître d' on arrival rather than work it out at the counter.
The six bars
The Lobby Piano Bar does coffee, cakes and drinks, with a large TV for sport and live piano. It's calm through the day and a drinks venue in the evening.
Bar Salón, the lounge bar, is where the evenings happen: a sea-view terrace, live music, shows and dances every night, plus the children's mini disco. All-inclusive drinks are served here during all-inclusive hours.
The Snack Bar is a terrace bar for drinks and snacks with a gourmet lunch menu at midday. On all-inclusive its snacks are covered from 10:00 to 18:30: hot dogs, hamburgers, fries, sandwiches, pizza and a salad buffet. The Pool Bar serves drinks poolside, also covered during all-inclusive hours. Ice cream in cones, and the cake of the day out from 15:30 to 17:00, come from designated bars.
Two bars sit outside the all-inclusive, and they're the ones to know about before the bill. The Paseo Bar is at the foot of the glass lift beside the seafront promenade, doing pastries, ice cream, sandwiches and snacks with a large plasma TV for sport. Nothing there is included and it takes cash only, so if you'll stop on the way back from the beach, carry some. The Chill Out Bar is positioned for the sunset and the ocean view, and its drinks are charged to every guest whatever board they're on.
The bit guests get caught byWhat all-inclusive covers, and what it doesn't
Board runs from bed and breakfast, through half board and full board, neither of which includes drinks, to All-Inclusive Premium.
All-Inclusive Premium covers the three buffet meals, snacks from 10:00 to 18:30, ice cream cones, the cake of the day and a drinks service from 10:00 to 01:00 taking in water, soft drinks, juices, tea, coffee, national and local beer, standard wine, cocktails and premium spirits. Table service at every bar and restaurant comes with it, the room safe is free with a refundable deposit, and anything not included is discounted by 30%. All-inclusive guests wear an identification bracelet for the stay.
What it leaves out is the Chill Out bar, the Paseo Bar in its entirety, the thalasso centre, the sports facilities such as the tennis court, the telephone, room service, laundry and the minibar.
This is the part of a stay here that causes the most trouble. Guests regularly describe confusion over which bars and which time windows the package covers, and the Chill Out exclusion is the most common unexpected charge on the bill. A handful also report charges appearing that they didn't recognise, removed when they queried them, so it's worth glancing at the bill during the week rather than at the desk on the last morning.
On the last day, the all-inclusive contract runs from 12:00 on arrival to 18:00 on departure, though the room itself has to be vacated by noon. Plan around 18:00. The hotel also presents that same 18:00 as a benefit of booking direct for stays of four nights or more, so if yours is shorter, or booked through an operator, it's worth confirming at booking.
Rooms and suites
Every category, how many each is listed for and which one suits a family with a baby or toddler.
There are four room categories and they're all sea-facing. The table is the line-up with the maximum each is listed for; the guidance after it is which works with young children.
| Room | Listed maximum | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Double Room Sea View | 4 | A double bed made up from twins, a sofa bed for a third person and a sea-view balcony or terrace |
| Double Room Thalasso Sea View | 3 | A premium double, positioned to face the thalasso area as well as the sea |
| Family Suite Sea View | 6 | Two separate bedrooms, a living area and a private terrace with sea views |
| Double Room Premium Sea View Private Pool | 3 | A double with its own plunge pool looking out to sea. The most expensive category |
The Double Room Sea View is the entry room and the one most families will be pricing. It has a double bed made up from twins pushed together, a sofa bed for a third person and a sea-view balcony or terrace. Inside there's air conditioning, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, a telephone, a chargeable minibar, a chargeable safe with a refundable deposit, free Wi-Fi, a shower and tub combination, a separate WC, double sinks, a hairdryer, a magnifying mirror and toiletries. It's listed for up to four, and what's described in it is sleeping space for three, so if you're four in one of these, ask where the fourth person sleeps before you book.
The Family Suite Sea View is the one built for a family: two separate bedrooms plus a living area and a private terrace with sea views, listed for up to six. A door you can close on a sleeping baby while you sit up is the thing a family notices most, and this is the category that gives you one. The beds within those bedrooms are worth asking about when you book.
The Double Room Thalasso Sea View is a premium double positioned to face the thalasso area as well as the sea, listed for up to three. The Double Room Premium Sea View Private Pool is the top category and the most expensive, with a private plunge pool looking out to sea, listed for up to three. Neither is a family layout, so with two children in tow the choice is really between the Double Sea View and the Family Suite.
Kettles are in the rooms, which is the small detail that matters most with a baby: you can heat water for a bottle or warm a pouch without going anywhere. Rooms near the pool area draw daytime noise reports from guests, worth weighing if a nap in the room is part of your day.
Check-in is from 14:00 and check-out by 12:00, with early check-in and late check-out available at a surcharge if there's space on the day. The hotel is non-smoking throughout. Accessible rooms are available on request in advance, subject to availability. Pets up to 5 kg are accepted, one per room and at an extra charge, though not in the common areas.
Pools and the splash park
Each pool named, the splash park that's the family headline and the two very different beaches at the bottom of the lift.
There are two large freshwater pools on the terraces, a separate children's pool and a splash park.
The upper main pool is an infinity pool that looks straight out over the Atlantic, with sun terraces around it. The view from it is the single most praised thing about this hotel, across the review sites. The lower pool is the second big one, further down the terraces and closer to the children's club and the splash park, and it's where the animation team runs the daytime activities. The children's pool is separate again, and it's the one a family with a toddler will spend the week beside.
The splash park is the family headline, and the hotel describes it as a colourful splash park with slides, water jets, sprays and tipping buckets. It's open 10:00 to 18:00, and children under 8 have to be supervised by an adult at all times, so it's somewhere you sit and watch rather than somewhere you leave them. The animation team uses the area for supervised activity too.
The swimming pools are heated during the winter months, and the hotel gives 24 to 25°C as its target while noting that wind and cloud change how warm the water feels. Guests still report cold water in winter. That heating covers the two main terrace pools, so if a warm pool in January with a toddler is the reason you're booking, ask about the children's pool by name.
Sun loungers and umbrellas are free, and guests repeatedly note there are enough to go round, which isn't a given at this end of the market. Pool towels are free with a refundable deposit, and changing them costs. One pool has accessible entry for people with reduced mobility.
Left and right at the bottomThe two beaches
Sitting between two beaches is unusual, and the two are quite different from each other. Both walks start at the foot of the glass lift, and the walking times are the figure to plan around.
Playa de Puerto Rico is a 5-minute walk to the left, roughly 300 m. It's 280 m of golden sand rather than the volcanic black you find elsewhere in the Canaries, sheltered by harbour walls so there's no significant wave action at any time of year, and it shelves gently with a very shallow entry. Loungers and parasols are for hire. The jet-skis and parasailing run from the marina nearby rather than off the beach itself, so the sand stays quiet.
Playa de Amadores is a 10-minute walk to the right, roughly 500 m. It's an 800 m crescent bay of imported Caribbean coral sand, protected by two breakwaters so the water is calm and shelves gradually, and it has held a Blue Flag every year since 2004. Blue Flag is an award the Foundation for Environmental Education makes each year on water quality, safety and access, rather than a permanent badge. There are lifeguards during beach hours, showers, paid toilets and changing rooms, plus sunbed and parasol hire, all of it cheap. Pedalos are for hire and there's an inflatable water play area out in the sea for part of the year. Access is unusually well set up, with amphibious chairs, handrails, accessible pathways and accessible toilets. There's no smoking on the sand, and no ball sports or loud music before 18:00, with volleyball allowed after that, which keeps it quiet through the hours you'd be there with young children.
Babies and toddlers
The club and its age floor, the kit that comes with the room, plus the access and autism-friendly measures the hotel has put its name to.
Tina's Club is the miniclub, for ages 4 to 12, running 10:00 to 17:00 with the animation team: arts and crafts, face painting, Jenga. Families describe an open formula where children come and go as they like rather than sign in for a fixed session, which is how it works in practice rather than a policy you can hold them to. The animation team is one of the specific things guests praise.
There's no crèche or supervised childcare for under-4s. Children under 4 must be accompanied by an adult in the Mini Club, so a toddler is welcome there, with you alongside. That's the limit of what the hotel offers a younger child, and the comparison with TUI BLUE Orquídea further down puts it in context. What is here for a younger child is the splash park, the separate children's pool, an outdoor adventure playground, free cots, the kettle in the room and pictogram menus at the buffet.
A Teenagers Club runs alongside the main animation programme. In the evening the mini disco is in the Bar Salón, and there's a daytime animation programme for adults and children together.
Cots are free for babies up to 24 months and have to be requested in advance rather than asked for on arrival. High chairs are available in the buffet restaurant, and confirming one at booking is worth doing if it's essential for your week.
Named measures, not a badgeAccessibility and the autism-friendly certification
The whole Gloria Thalasso & Hotels group carries an Autism Friendly certification, and at Amadores it comes with named measures behind it: a fast check-in protocol, pictogram menus in the buffet, pictogram signage, visual guides, trained staff and a preference form you fill in before you arrive. The form in particular means the week can be set up before you land rather than explained at a busy desk.
On physical access, accessible rooms are available on request in advance, subject to availability. One pool has accessible entry for people with reduced mobility, and the thalasso's main pool is accessible too. Down at Playa de Amadores there are amphibious chairs, handrails, accessible pathways and accessible toilets.
The thing to weigh is the lifts. With reduced mobility, or with a pram, you move around this hotel by lift, and the spiral staircase isn't a workable alternative to one. The glass lift down to the promenade closes at night, so an evening return from the beach is the uphill road rather than the lift.
Things to do
What's on at the hotel, the thalasso centre and who can use it, plus everything within reach beyond the gate.
Free on site: table tennis, pétanque (the French game of boules), archery and air rifle shooting. The gym, with aerobic and weight machines, is free to hotel guests.
The daytime animation programme covers aqua aerobics, spinning, bingo, bowls and cocktail making. The format changes with the season, and the current one is at reception when you arrive rather than published in advance.
Paid: the tennis court, which is floodlit, and the pool table. The pool table is in the games room, which guests describe as also having air hockey and bowling.
Evenings belong to the Bar Salón, with nightly shows and live music, and the animation team working day and night.
Elsewhere there's a mini shopping gallery, a hair salon, a defibrillator, an ATM, electric vehicle charging points, business and meeting facilities, plus free luggage storage before check-in and after check-out. A separate screened terrace is set aside for naturists.
Guests get green-fee discounts at three golf courses: Anfi Tauro, about 2.5 miles (4 km) away, Salobre at about 4 miles (7 km) and Maspalomas at about 9 miles (15 km). Reception arranges it.
The name on the doorThe thalasso centre
Thalassotherapy is treatment using seawater, and it's half the hotel's name, so it's worth being clear about what's there and who can use it. Thalasso Gloria Amadores runs to over 1,800 m² with 28 individual treatment cabins.
Inside there are two dynamic contrast pools at 16°C and 37°C, an aquatic gymnastics pool and a relaxation room with sea views. The hydromassage circuit takes in counterflow swimming, which is a current you swim against on the spot, along with jets, waterfalls and microbubble seating. There's a sauna, a Turkish bath and a steam room, plus Scottish and Kneipp showers, both of which alternate hot and cold water. The fitness pool is open 10:00 to 19:00 every day.
Treatments run from relaxing and therapeutic massage through oriental therapies, meaning ayurveda, shiatsu and acupuncture, to thalasso programmes of mud baths, algae baths and aromatherapy, with 3 to 12-day programmes, hydrotherapy and medical services alongside.
Two things decide whether any of that is relevant to you. It's for over-15s only, so children can't use it, and it isn't part of the all-inclusive, so it's a surcharge on top of whatever board you're on, with a 10% discount for hotel guests. It's also not recommended in pregnancy. It's open every day, year round, and it sells day passes, so you don't have to be staying at the hotel to use it.
Its condition is the weak point. Recent guest reviews describe the thalasso as dated, with maintenance problems, and it's the one part of the hotel that consistently disappoints people at a place that otherwise scores well. If the thalasso is why you're choosing this hotel over its sisters, the Royal next door includes its spa water area in the room price.
Off the parkThe area and days out
Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria is a compact resort town below the hotel, roughly 15 to 20 minutes away via the lift and the promenade. It has supermarkets, pharmacies, restaurants, bars, car hire and two shopping centres, Pasarela Centro and Europa Center. Its marina is the hub for watersports, whale watching and boat trips.
The Playa de Amadores side is quieter: a handful of apartments and the Gloria Palace Royal next door, with little retail compared with Puerto Rico. The Mogán Mall shopping complex is uptown and needs a car or a taxi.
There's a bus stop 300 m from the hotel. The Global lines, guagua being the Canarian word for a bus, include Line 1, and they serve Puerto Rico and connect on to Maspalomas, Puerto de Mogán and Las Palmas.
Puerto de Mogán is 15 minutes south, a fishing village with a marina and a network of canals that has it known as Little Venice, plus a sheltered beach. Anfi del Mar is about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) from it, and the bus connection is easy.
Maspalomas and its dunes are 20 to 25 minutes east: the lighthouse and a 400-hectare protected dune system, with camel rides and Playa del Inglés alongside. Aqualand Maspalomas, 25 minutes east, is a large waterpark with baby-friendly areas. Palmitos Park, 20 to 25 minutes north-east, is a subtropical zoo and botanical garden with dolphin and exotic bird shows, a butterfly house, crocodiles and meerkats. Sioux City Gran Canaria is 20 minutes east near Playa del Inglés, a Wild West park with stunt shows and pony rides.
Further out, Poema del Mar, the aquarium in Las Palmas, is 45 to 50 minutes north, with three zones covering deep ocean, reef and jungle, and it lands better from about age 4. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria itself, the same drive, has the cathedral, the old town and city beaches.
Boat trips go from the Puerto Rico marina, a 15-minute walk along the promenade: whale and dolphin watching year round, the coastal ferry to Puerto de Mogán and glass-bottom boats. For the rest of the island and how the south compares with the north, see our Gran Canaria guide.
Loves and gripes
What guests rate and what frustrates them, and how the hotel sits against its sisters and the rest of the island.
What families love
- The Atlantic views from the pools and the rooms, cited by nearly everyone, including guests who were mixed on the rest.
- Staff friendliness at the bars and in the restaurant.
- The pool area, and enough loungers to go round.
- Room cleanliness and the daily cleaning.
- Buffet quality and variety, with the show cooking and the themed nights.
- The children's animation programme.
- The position between two beaches.
- Value for money.
Common gripes
- Reception, by some way the most persistent one: slow check-in, errors with pre-booked transfers, waits for room allocation, unrecognised charges and communication.
- The dated condition of the thalasso.
- Pool water feeling cold in winter despite the heating.
- Working out what the all-inclusive covers.
- Lifts busy at peak, with queues that hurt with a pram and the odd missed floor.
- Isolated reports of dated decor and room maintenance.
Set against each other, the picture as of June 2026 is consistent across the platforms. Booking.com has it at 8.5 out of 10 from 1,607 reviews, HolidayCheck at 8.9 out of 10 with 89% of 3,593 guests recommending it, Google at 4.5 out of 5 from 4,605, and TripAdvisor at 4 out of 5 from around 10,474, which puts it 42nd of 415 hotels in Puerto Rico. Booking.com's sub-scores show where the strength sits: location is the highest at 9.1 and value for money the lowest at 8.1, with cleanliness 8.6, comfort 8.7, facilities 8.6, staff 8.9 and Wi-Fi 8.5. The occasional review describes a far worse stay than any of that suggests, though those are single accounts rather than a pattern, and cleanliness is one of the things the body of reviews consistently praises. Scores move, so treat these as a rough steer and check the current ones yourself.
Against its sisters, and the islandHow it compares
Three Gloria hotels sit in this corner of the island and they split cleanly.
The Gloria Palace Royal Hotel & Spa, 200 m from Amadores beach, is the group's flagship: 4-star superior, with the spa water area in the room price rather than charged for, and the Kaia à la carte restaurant. It holds a TUI Global Hotel Award Quality 2024 and a Jet2holidays Quality Award 2023.
The Gloria Palace San Agustín T&H is 4-star with a similar thalasso offering and the Gorbea à la carte restaurant, a HolidayCheck Gold 2025 and a slightly longer 25-minute transfer, close to San Agustín beach. Mumsnet's own round-up of Gran Canaria family hotels picks that one as its beach hotel and doesn't include Amadores at all, which is worth knowing when you're weighing the three.
Amadores is the middle of the three on price. It has no à la carte, and its thalasso is a surcharge rather than something included the way the Royal's water area is. In exchange it has the strongest family facilities of the three, with Tina's Club, the splash park and the teens club, plus the best pool views. The group has a fourth hotel, Gloria Ízaro Club Hotel, though that's on Lanzarote, a different island, so it isn't a like-for-like alternative.
Against the wider Gran Canaria field, TUI BLUE Orquídea at Bahía Feliz has a dedicated Baby & Tots Club from 0 months with Level-3 qualified staff and a shaded baby pool, and Amadores has no equivalent of any of it. Orquídea sits inland from the beach, though, where Amadores has two walkable beaches and the views. Lopesan Baobab in Meloneras is larger, 5-star and African-themed, with a lazy river and more pools, where Amadores is smaller and better placed for walking to sand. Apartamentos Cordial Mogán Valle in Puerto de Mogán is self-catering, so you get a kitchen, with no comparable thalasso and a quieter village feel. Radisson Blu Mogán is more modern and has a kids' club, though its beach is a 15-minute walk.
On the awards shelf, the hotel holds a Booking.com Traveller Review Award 2025, a HolidayCheck 2024 certification and a HolidayCheck Gold Award 2019, and on sustainability it's Travelife Gold certified, achieved in August 2022, Biosphere certified and on TUI's Green & Fair list.
Getting there and when to go
The journey in, the months that suit young children, the weather behind that and where to buy nappies when you run out.
Gran Canaria Airport, LPA, is 30 minutes away, about 22 miles (35 km) on the GC-1 motorway. British Airways and Iberia, easyJet, Ryanair and Jet2 all fly there from multiple UK airports, and the packages come through Jet2holidays, TUI, easyJet Holidays, On the Beach and loveholidays.
A paid airport shuttle is available at a surcharge, and it has to be requested and booked in advance through the hotel. It isn't laid on because you've booked a room. Transfers going wrong is part of the recurring complaint about reception, so confirm yours before you travel. Parking at the hotel is free, covered and private, and there's a taxi rank there too.
The four-night figure you'll see attached to the all-inclusive direct-booking benefit is a promotional threshold rather than a rule about how long you can book for.
The hotel is open year round with no closed season. April to October is the most reliable stretch for warm settled days, with July and August the hottest and the busiest. October to May is the winter-sun window, warm for being outside but with a sea that stays cool. April to June and September to October give you warm days without the peak crowds. December to February suits a wellness trip more than a beach one, since the terrace pools stay heated and the thalasso runs through it while the sea is at its coldest.
Month by monthWeather
Gran Canaria is one of the islands where which coast you're on really does change the weather, and the hotel is on the south-west, which is markedly drier than Las Palmas and the north. The figures below are for Playa Amadores rather than an island average.
Rain here is minimal. February, the wettest month, averages around 27 mm across the whole month, and it tends to fall as brief showers over about three days. Sunshine runs from six hours a day in winter to nine or ten at the height of summer. The sea is comfortable for swimming from May to November. A 19°C winter sea will feel cold to a young child.
| Month | Daytime high | Overnight low | Rain | Wet days | Sea temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21.5° | 15.5° | 20 mm | 3 | 20° |
| February | 21.5° | 15° | 27 mm | 3 | 19° |
| March | 22.5° | 15.5° | 10 mm | 2 | 19° |
| April | 23° | 16.5° | 4 mm | 1 | 20° |
| May | 24° | 18° | 3 mm | 0 | 21° |
| June | 25.5° | 19.5° | 0 mm | 0 | 22° |
| July | 27.5° | 21° | 0 mm | 0 | 22° |
| August | 28° | 22° | 1 mm | 0 | 23° |
| September | 27.5° | 21.5° | 4 mm | 1 | 24° |
| October | 26.5° | 20.5° | 16 mm | 2 | 23° |
| November | 24.5° | 18° | 17 mm | 3 | 22° |
| December | 23° | 16.5° | 19 mm | 4 | 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.
Supplies, health and practicalities
There's a pharmacy in Puerto Rico town, about 15 minutes away via the lift and the promenade. The pharmacies here serve a large resident and tourist population, so they're well stocked all year rather than seasonally.
For supplies, the Spar, the DIA and the local shops in the Puerto Rico Centro Comercial are the same walk. They carry baby food, formula, nappies and Apiretal or ibuprofen, Apiretal being the Spanish equivalent of Calpol.
Wi-Fi is free throughout the hotel, rooms included.
For medical care, the south Gran Canaria health centre covers the Mogán municipality, and there's a health centre at Arguineguín, about 10 minutes by car. A UK GHIC or EHIC, the card that gets you into state healthcare across the EU, works in Spain including the Canaries, and you still want travel insurance alongside it rather than instead of it.
On entry, there are no FCDO travel warnings for Spain or the Canaries, and UK passport holders need no visa for stays up to 90 days. The EU's ETIAS waiver has been announced and then postponed several times, so check gov.uk and the EU's own site nearer your travel date rather than planning around a start date now.
On money, the split is worth remembering: most outlets take cards only, while reception, the thalasso and the Paseo Bar take cash only. There's an ATM on site.
Questions
The things families ask most, and where to see the photos.
Does the all-inclusive stop when we hand the room back on the last day?
No. The room goes back at noon, but the bracelet keeps working until 18:00, so the last day is still lunch and a drink with the bags in the free luggage storage. If you booked through an operator, or for fewer than four nights, ask them to confirm the 18:00 applies to you, since the hotel also sells it as a direct-booking perk.
Can we leave a two-year-old at the club for an hour?
No. A two-year-old is welcome in the Mini Club, but you stay in there with them, so it's somewhere to play together rather than an hour off. Tina's Club is the only programme for younger children here and it starts at four, so if child-free hours are part of why you're booking a resort, weigh that before you pay.
How much cash will we need?
Enough for the beach and the Paseo Bar at the foot of the lift, which is where most guests get caught: it sits outside the package and it doesn't take cards. The loungers, parasols and toilets at Amadores are paid for too, though cheaply. The ATM is on site, so this is a stop on the way past rather than something to sort before you fly.
Should we book the hotel shuttle or arrange our own transfer?
Either, as long as you book it. The shuttle is a paid extra you have to arrange, and pre-booked transfers going astray is one of the things guests flag most often here, so travel with your confirmation to hand. If it doesn't show, the rank at the airport is a 30-minute fallback, and the hotel has its own rank for the way back.
Will a Double Room Sea View fit two adults and two children?
Ask the hotel before you book rather than at check-in, since rooms are allocated in advance. The category is listed for four and the sleeping space described in it covers three, so the fourth place is the thing to pin down. If the reply doesn't suit, price the Family Suite Sea View instead: two separate bedrooms, listed for six.
What do we need to bring for a baby?
Whatever you'd normally travel with for feeding. There's a kettle in the room and the cot is free, but no bottle warmer or blender to count on. The Spar and DIA in Puerto Rico stock formula, nappies and baby food, so it's a 15-minute walk rather than a suitcase full if you'd rather buy at the other end.
Will the children’s pool be warm in January?
The hotel's winter heating covers the two main terrace pools. Whether it reaches the children's pool is a question for reception before you book, and with a toddler that's the pool that matters. Even the heated pools draw cold-water comments on a breezy day, so don't count on a January swim being the shape of the week.
Is there anything here for a teenager?
A Teenagers Club runs alongside the main animation programme, and its ages and hours are worth asking about when you book. Beyond the club there are the two big pools, the tennis court, the games room, the beaches and Puerto Rico town at the bottom of the lift, and the thalasso takes over-15s, so a teenager can use it when a younger sibling can't.
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Useful links
- Gloria Palace Amadores Thalasso & Hotel: the hotel's own site for the rooms, the all-inclusive terms and the thalasso.
- GOV.UK Spain travel advice: entry rules and safety updates before you travel.
- Gran Canaria with little ones: our guide to the island, its beaches and when to go.
Last updated 15 July 2026.
