Tabaiba Princess
Tabaiba Princess is a four-star all-inclusive resort in Campo Internacional, the quieter inland part of Maspalomas on the south coast of Gran Canaria, in Spain’s Canary Islands. It’s a large, low-rise hotel set in landscaped tropical gardens, sharing a big pool complex, an aquapark and a sandy artificial beach with the Maspalomas Princess next door. Families come for the pools and gardens, the food and the value, on a good-value all-inclusive built for children of miniclub age.
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Is it worth it?
Who it suits, who it doesn’t and the facts to skim before the detail.
What families rate most at Tabaiba Princess is the setting: a large, low-rise resort in landscaped tropical gardens, with a pool complex, an aquapark and a sandy artificial beach. The food, the cleanliness and the value get steady praise too, and the resort holds a Biosphere Sustainable certification, current for 2026, for its environmental management. It sits in Campo Internacional, the calmer inland quarter of Maspalomas, away from the bars of the Playa del Inglés strip.
Two things shape whether it suits your family. First, the miniclub starts at age 4, and there’s no crèche or supervised care for younger children anywhere on site, so a baby or toddler is with you all week; if you need drop-off care for an under-three, this isn’t the resort for it. Second, the real beach at Maspalomas is about 1.5 miles (2.5 km) away, a 25-minute walk or a short taxi or bus ride rather than a stroll, so the pools and the sandy artificial beach beside them are your day-to-day water. Every facility here is shared with the near-identical Maspalomas Princess next door. If your children are 4 or older and you want a good-value all-inclusive built around a big pool area, it’s a strong pick; if you want to be on the beach or you need care for a baby, weigh it carefully.
Best for
Your children are 4 or older and you want a large pool complex and tropical gardens; good value matters more to you than being on the beach.
Maybe not for
You need drop-off childcare for a baby or toddler, or you want to walk straight onto a beach.
Best ages
From 4, when the miniclub takes over. Younger children are welcome, with cots, high chairs and heated pools, but they stay with you.
What stands out
The tropical-garden pool complex, a heated aquapark and a sandy artificial beach, set in extensive landscaped grounds.
What to check
That your child is old enough for the miniclub, and which board tier you want, the silver standard or the paid gold upgrade.
Where is it?
In Campo Internacional, the quiet inland part of Maspalomas on the south coast of Gran Canaria, about 22 miles (35 km) from the airport.
Quick facts for families
What the resort is like
The setting in Campo Internacional, the gardens and what sharing the site with the Maspalomas Princess means for a family.
The resort sits in Campo Internacional, a low-rise residential and hotel zone just south of the Maspalomas golf course, quieter and more family-oriented than the bars and clubs of the Playa del Inglés strip. It’s a large hotel in extensive landscaped grounds: tropical gardens of palms and pathways, with little bridges running over the pools. The address is Avenida Tour Operador TUI in Maspalomas. It was partially renovated in 2019, so not every room and bathroom has been updated, which matters when you pick a room type below.
Tabaiba Princess and the Maspalomas Princess next door are effectively two halves of one resort. They share every facility, the pools, the restaurants, the bars, the spa, the miniclub and the artificial beach, and the only real difference between the two hotels is the design of the rooms and bathrooms. That shared arrangement is worth picturing before you book, because it roughly doubles the number of guests around the pools and buffets. The ground is flat and the complex is easily walkable, though it is large; there’s no golf buggy or shuttle service, the small electric carts some big resorts run, so you cover it on foot. It’s built for accessibility, with ramps and eight lifts reaching the facilities, and adapted rooms can be arranged by email. For the wider island, its beaches and when to go, see our Gran Canaria guide.
Every restaurant and bar
The two all-inclusive tiers, the buffet and themed restaurants, all the bars and how the free dinners are booked.
Everything runs on an all-inclusive wristband, and it comes in two tiers. The standard silver tier covers all your meals and snacks, buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner, poolside snacks, soft drinks, beer, wine and a range of national spirits from the service stations, machine-made cocktails, ice cream and sweets in the afternoon. It also includes one free dinner per five-night stay at one of the two themed restaurants, and a late-night snack station. The gold tier, All Inclusive Plus, is an optional paid upgrade charged per person per night: it adds bottled water, international-brand spirits, a wider choice of freshly made cocktails, plus crepes and waffles at the El Goloso bar in the afternoon. It’s a modest nightly supplement, so weigh it against how much you’ll use it and confirm the current cost when you book. All-inclusive service runs from 7.30am to 11pm; before 9am it’s water and hot drinks only, with soft drinks and alcohol from 9am, and there’s a snack station at reception through the night, from midnight to 7am, with sandwiches, fruit, water, juice, tea and coffee.
Food Market is the main buffet, shared by both hotels and the default for most meals. It has an air-conditioned interior and an open-air terrace, with live cooking stations at every service and high chairs on hand, and you walk in without booking. Breakfast runs 7.30 to 10.30am, lunch 1 to 3pm and dinner 6.30 to 9.30pm.
Il Peccato is the Italian themed restaurant, over on the resort’s commercial boulevard: a buffet with live cooking, open for dinner only, 6.30 to 9.30pm. The Italian format sits easily with children. You need to book, and one dinner here per five-night stay is included on the standard tier.
Kokoro, directly opposite, is the Asian themed restaurant, with an Asian buffet, live cooking and fresh sushi prepared on the spot, again dinner only, 6.30 to 9.30pm, with booking required. The same one-free-dinner rule applies, so you’d pick either Il Peccato or Kokoro for your included themed meal.
La Choza is a healthy snack bar by the Tabaiba pool, with grilled, steamed and oven-cooked snacks and vegetarian options, open 11am to 5.30pm. Mordisco Family Snack sits by the aquapark and is set up for children, open 10.30am to 6pm, which makes it the natural place to refuel on a water-park day.
Special diets, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, lactose-free and baby food, are catered for at no extra charge if you email the restaurant maître d’ before you arrive. From the afternoon the bars and restaurants ask you to change out of swimwear, sleeveless tops, flip-flops and sportswear; men need long trousers or formal shorts for dinner, and the gala dinners on 25 and 31 December call for smart dress.
The five bars
The El Goloso poolside bar does coffees and sweet snacks, with crepes and waffles free for gold-tier guests between 3.30 and 5.30pm, open 10am to 6.30pm. The Tropical Bar in the Tabaiba pool area serves drinks through the day, 10am to 6pm. The H2O Bar is adults only, for over-18s, with a tea menu included and smoothies at a surcharge, 10am to 6pm. La Terraza Chill Out is an open-air terrace lounge with cocktails and premium drinks, some at a surcharge, and occasional live music at sunset, 9am to midnight. The El Teatro Bar is the main evening venue and runs everything from the children’s mini-disco to the live shows, 6.30pm to midnight.
How the themed-restaurant booking works
Il Peccato and Kokoro both need booking ahead, through the self-service kiosks in the hotel or the hotel app. Your standard all-inclusive includes one dinner at one of them per five nights, per adult; any extra dinners cost a per-adult supplement with a reduced rate for children, worth confirming when you book. Both fill up, especially in peak season, so book early in your stay rather than leaving it to the night you fancy going.
Rooms and suites
Every room type with its official size, then the pool complex and the beach.
There are eight room categories, all with Princess’s official sizes below. A cot is free on request but must be confirmed on the booking, so add it when you book rather than assuming it’s there. Check-in is from 2pm and check-out is noon.
| Room | Size | Sleeps | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Room Single Use | 30 m² | 3 | A double or twin, a sofa bed and a bath. |
| Standard 2 Adults | 30 m² | 2 | A double or twin, a sofa bed and a bath. |
| Superior Standard | 30 m² | 3 | Updated décor and a contemporary shower; the most up-to-date bathroom of the standard rooms. |
| Standard Family Room | 37 m² | 4 | Two adults and two children, or three adults; more floor space for a cot; a shower. |
| Superior Family Room | 60 m² | 6 | Two interconnecting standard rooms, two full bathrooms and two private balconies. |
| Junior Suite | 40 m² | 4 | Open-plan, a double bed and a sofa bed, a shower. |
| Junior Suite Garden | 44 m² | 4 | A private terrace with sun loungers, a double bed and a sofa bed. |
| Suite Prestige | 65 m² | 4 | Two balconies, two full bathrooms and premium toiletries, robes and slippers. |
With a baby or toddler, the question is how much separate space you want. The 30 m² standard rooms are compact once a cot and a toddler’s kit are in; of them, the Superior Standard is the one to book if a refreshed bathroom matters, since it’s the category Princess specifically fits with a contemporary shower and updated décor. The Standard Family Room at 37 m² gives more floor space for a cot and sleeps four. For a proper separate sleeping space the Superior Family Room at 60 m² is the most practical layout: it’s two interconnecting rooms with two full bathrooms and two balconies, so a napping child can be shut away from the adults. The Junior Suite Garden at 44 m² adds a private terrace with sun loungers, useful for early mornings or keeping an eye on a napping child without disturbing anyone, and the Suite Prestige at 65 m² is the most spacious, with two balconies, two bathrooms and premium toiletries.
The 2019 renovation was partial, so some bathrooms have been refurbished and others keep their older fittings. Only the Superior Standard category is described as having the updated contemporary shower, so if a modern bathroom matters to you, book Superior Standard or above rather than a plain standard room. None of the rooms is a swim-up or garden-access type beyond the Junior Suite Garden’s terrace, so that terrace is as close to direct outdoor space as you’ll get here.
Every room comes with free Wi-Fi, air conditioning, a 49-inch satellite TV, a safe, an empty mini-cooler, a phone and a hairdryer, with daily cleaning and pool towels on arrival plus two free exchanges a week; the floors are laminate. Adapted rooms are available and confirmed by email. The only thing separating Tabaiba Princess from the Maspalomas Princess next door is the room and bathroom design; the Maspalomas side starts a touch cheaper, but as the two share every facility the choice between them comes down to price and room style rather than anything you’d do on holiday.
Pools and water features
The pool complex is the resort’s centrepiece. By the hotel’s own breakdown there are eight outdoor pools: four for adults, a separate adults-only pool, a children’s pool and two in the aquapark, with most heated in winter, from 1 November to 30 April, to around 25°C. Its services page lists nine, so the exact total isn’t pinned down, but the shape of it is clear. The main area has four adult pools among the tropical landscaping, two of them heated in winter. The adults-only pool, for over-18s, is also heated in winter, and adds massage jets and a counter-current swimming lane, with hammocks and loungers, Balinese beds for an extra charge and the H2O chill-out bar alongside. There’s a dedicated children’s pool, heated in winter. Sun loungers and parasols are free for all-inclusive guests when available; the Balinese beds cost extra.
The aquapark, on the Maspalomas Princess side of the shared grounds, has two heated pools with slides, a splash area and water games. Alongside the pools there’s an artificial beach, a sand surface with a beach volleyball court, which stands in for the real beach on days you don’t want the 25-minute walk.
The beach
The resort isn’t on the beach. Maspalomas Beach is about 1.5 miles (2.5 km) away, which the hotel gives as a 25-minute walk; the ground is flat, but it’s a purposeful outing with a young child rather than a quick dip, and in the summer heat the walk is tiring with a pushchair. A taxi rank and bus stop sit directly outside, so many families ride down. This is the single most common gripe in the reviews, and it’s why the pools and the sandy artificial beach beside them are the day-to-day water for families staying here.
When you do go, Maspalomas Beach is a long golden arc of sand, about 1.5 miles (2.5 km) of it, backed by the famous dunes and flying a Blue Flag for 2026, with a family zone at the Faro (lighthouse) end, lifeguards and kiosks. It shelves gently, though this is the open Atlantic, so some days carry surf; for guaranteed-calm paddling the heated pools are the more reliable option with a small child.
Babies and toddlers
Where the childcare starts and stops, and what the resort provides for a baby or toddler.
Start with the line that shapes the week: the miniclub takes children from age 4, and there’s no crèche or supervised childcare for anyone younger anywhere on site. A baby or toddler under 4 is with you throughout, so the resort isn’t the one to choose if you’re after drop-off care for an under-three. From 4, the miniclub runs a daily programme with professional monitors for 4 to 12 year olds, plus an evening mini-disco at the El Teatro Bar; the mini-disco is also from age 4, with younger children welcome alongside an adult.
There’s no babysitting service confirmed on the hotel’s own pages, so don’t count on one; if you need an evening off, email the hotel to ask rather than assume it’s offered.
What the resort does have for little ones is straightforward. Cots are free on request, high chairs are in the restaurants and baby food can be prepared if you email the restaurant maître d’ before you arrive, at no extra charge. The children’s pool and the aquapark are heated through the winter, and there’s a children’s playground on site. Under-4s need an adult with them at the pools and the water park.
Things to do
The sport and games, the evening entertainment, the hotel app and the adults-only spa.
Plenty is laid on beyond the pools. There’s a fully equipped gym, free for guests aged 18 and over, with cardio and weight machines, and a programme of directed classes including zumba, aquagym and pilates, with yoga and spinning for over-18s. For all ages there’s table tennis, giant chess, billiards, table football and beach volleyball, plus a games room where some activities cost extra. Archery runs on the Maspalomas Princess side of the shared complex.
In the evening there’s a programme of professional shows, live music and the children’s mini-disco at the El Teatro Bar. It’s a genuine nightly programme rather than the resort’s headline draw. The hotel runs a webapp that carries the entertainment schedule, the drink menus and room-upgrade options, and it’s the main way to keep track of what’s on during your stay.
The spa is for adults only, over-18s. Entry is charged and sessions run 90 minutes between 10am and 7pm. It has a Finnish sauna, a Turkish steam bath, a wellness pool with hydromassage, bithermal showers and a salt room, with massages and treatments bookable on top.
The area and days out
What’s on the doorstep, the shopping and the day trips, with their drives.
The resort sits away from the beach but close to a lot else. The Maspalomas golf course, an 18-hole course, is 300 m away. The Maspalomas Dunes nature reserve is about a mile (1.5 km), a 20-minute walk, with access now kept to marked trails; a carrier works better than a pushchair in the sand. The flat Faro-to-Meloneras promenade, roughly 1.2 miles (2 km) each way, is the easiest free outing with a pushchair, with restaurants, shops and sunset views, and the lighthouse itself is about 1.2 miles (2 km) away. A local market is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away, and Arguineguín is about 5 miles (8 km) away.
On site there’s a commercial boulevard with a shopping area and an ATM, and reception is staffed 24 hours, which helps with a late arrival, an early flight or a sick child in the night. Car and bike rental is arranged through the hotel via an outside provider. The fuller shopping is at Meloneras Boulevard, about 2 miles (3 km) away. The Yumbo Centre, listed among the hotel’s features, is a Playa del Inglés shopping and nightlife complex about five minutes away by car, an adults’ evening out rather than a daytime family stop.
For a day out with water, Aqualand Maspalomas is the closest water park, about 1.2 miles (2 km) away, with a Children’s Paradise zone for younger children, open daily 10am to 5pm and to 6pm in July and August. Its 2026 prices are €25 for an adult, €19 for a child and €10 for a toddler, with under-2s and children under 0.90 m free (last checked July 2026). Palmitos Park, about 7 miles (11 km) and a 15-minute drive, is a subtropical animal and bird park with dolphin and birds-of-prey shows, good from around 2 or 3 years up; entry is tiered by age with under-3s free, and the rates change by season, so check the current price before you go.
Holiday World Maspalomas is an evening leisure complex with the Wooland funfair and bowling; the funfair runs Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday from 4 to 11pm and Friday and Saturday to 11.30pm, bowling is daily from 10am, rides are pay-as-you-go and it’s closed Monday and Tuesday. Camel rides run from the dune edge, about a 15-minute walk away, in the mornings, roughly 30 minutes a ride.
Further out, Puerto de Mogán, about 14 to 16 miles (22 to 25 km) and a 25 to 30-minute drive, is the “Little Venice” of Gran Canaria, with canal bridges, a sheltered harbour beach and a Friday market, a classic half-day out. Puerto Rico, about 12 miles (20 km) away, has boat trips and a sheltered beach that suits toddler paddling, and Playa de Amadores, about 19 miles (30 km), is a man-made, calm, enclosed beach, the best engineered toddler beach on the island. Mundo Aborigen, about 6 miles (9 km) away at Fataga, is an open-air museum of pre-Hispanic Canarian life, and Roque Nublo, the island’s landmark rock, is 26 to 39 miles (42 to 63 km) inland and best treated as a drive and a viewpoint with young children, as the trailhead car park has been closed since January 2025.
Loves and gripes
What families rate and what frustrates them, and how it sits against the other Gran Canaria options.
What families love
- The pool complex and tropical gardens, the most-praised part of the resort.
- The food, well rated for a buffet all-inclusive.
- The cleanliness, called spotless again and again.
- The staff and service around the pools and bars.
- The value for what you get.
Common gripes
- The 25-minute distance to the beach, the most common complaint.
- Noise in the evenings.
- The size and crowding, with the shared complex doubling the guest numbers.
- The miniclub starting at 4, with nothing supervised for younger children.
On the review platforms the resort sits among the more highly rated hotels in the area, with a TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice award for 2024, a Travelife Gold award for 2018 to 2020 and an Ecostars Silver rating in 2023, and it’s named as a best-value all-inclusive in a Mumsnet family guide to Gran Canaria.
Against the other Gran Canaria optionsHow it compares
Within Gran Canaria, the most useful comparison for a family with a baby or toddler is TUI BLUE Orquidea at Bahia Feliz, the island’s strongest choice for under-3s: it runs a dedicated Baby and Tots Club for 0 to 36 months with qualified staff, a shaded baby pool and a beachfront setting, all things Tabaiba Princess doesn’t offer for that age, so if you need supervised care for a baby it’s the clear alternative. HD Parque Cristóbal in Playa del Inglés is another option for children of club age with more baby infrastructure, its Kids Suites coming with a baby pack of bottle warmer, blender and highchair, three kids’ clubs and bungalow-style privacy. For self-catering and full control over weaning or formula, the Apartamentos Cordial Mogán Valle at Puerto de Mogán have kitchens and a quieter setting. At the top end, the five-star Lopesan Baobab at Meloneras has an African theme and seven pools including a lazy river, at a more premium price. The Maspalomas Princess next door is, for practical purposes, the same resort: shared facilities, a slightly lower starting price and only the room design to tell them apart. Within the wider Princess Hotels group, Princess Taurito sits about 16 miles (25 km) away and the Mogan Princess and Beach Club is more boutique.
Getting there and when to go
The journey in, the fact that it’s open all year and the months that suit young children.
Gran Canaria airport (LPA) is about 22 miles (35 km) away, 25 to 30 minutes by road. There’s no hotel transfer service, so you make your own way: a taxi rank and bus stop are directly in front of the hotel. The Global bus line 66 links the airport with the Maspalomas and Faro area in about 40 minutes and takes contactless cards. With a pushchair, luggage and car seats a taxi or a pre-booked private transfer is the easier arrival.
The resort is open all year. All the children’s pools, including the aquapark, are heated from November to April to around 25°C, so the pool side of the holiday works even in the cooler months. The spring and autumn shoulders are warm but short of the peak summer heat and crowds, which suits young children.
Weather
Maspalomas sits on the south coast of Gran Canaria, in the island’s sunniest, driest corner, sheltered from the cloud that can sit over the north. The figures below come from the island’s airport weather station on the east coast; the Maspalomas south coast is generally a touch warmer and sunnier, though sea temperatures are much the same right around the island. The resort never closes, so the table covers the whole year. The island keeps the same clock as the UK, so there’s no jet lag and nap times aren’t thrown out.
| 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.
Health and practicalities
Medical cover, baby supplies, parking and the house rules.
There’s a medical service at the hotel, subject to availability and a charge, which is the first stop for a minor illness; there’s no pharmacy on site, with the nearest about 2 miles (3 km) away and the San Roque Hospital about 2.5 miles (4 km) away. As in the rest of Spain, a UK GHIC or EHIC card gets you free urgent treatment at public health centres, and it’s worth carrying alongside travel insurance. Nappies and formula are easy to find in the Spanish supermarket chains, Mercadona and Hiperdino.
Parking at the hotel is free but limited and not guaranteed. Electric scooters and e-bikes aren’t allowed inside the hotel, and pets aren’t accepted apart from service animals.
Questions
The things families ask before booking, the official pages worth a bookmark and when this guide was last refreshed.
Is there any childcare for a baby or toddler?
No. The miniclub starts at 4, and nothing supervised runs below that, so plan on having your under-3 with you the whole week or bringing your own childcare. If you want an evening to yourselves, the resort doesn’t confirm a babysitting service on its own pages, so email the hotel before you book to ask rather than count on one.
How many pools are there?
The hotel’s own pages don’t fully agree, giving eight on one and nine on another, so don’t book on an exact number. What you can rely on is the make-up: four adult pools, a separate adults-only pool, a children’s pool and a two-pool aquapark, most of them heated in winter.
How do we get from the airport?
There’s no transfer laid on by the hotel, so arrange your own. A taxi or a pre-booked private transfer is simplest with a pushchair and car seats, at 25 to 30 minutes; the airport bus, Global line 66, is the cheap option at about 40 minutes and takes contactless cards. The taxi rank and bus stop are directly outside for the way back.
Do the free themed dinners need sorting in advance?
Yes. Book Il Peccato or Kokoro through the in-hotel kiosks or the app as soon as you arrive, because both fill up in peak season and your standard tier only includes one of them per five nights. Extra dinners cost a supplement with a reduced child rate, so if you want to eat there more than once, factor that in.
Can they cater for allergies or make up baby food?
Yes, at no extra charge, but it isn’t automatic. Email the restaurant maître d’ before you travel with the details, whether that’s a gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian or vegan diet or baby food, so it’s set up before you arrive rather than sorted on the day.
What time can we check in?
From 2pm, with check-out at noon. A late check-out can sometimes be arranged for a charge if there’s availability, which is worth asking about if you’ve a late flight home with a small child.
Can we get an adapted room?
Adapted rooms are available, and the resort is built with ramps and lifts throughout, but they’re on request, so email the hotel to confirm one for your dates before you book.
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Useful links
- Tabaiba Princess: the resort’s own site for rooms, the all-inclusive tiers, the miniclub and the current offer terms.
- GOV.UK Spain travel advice: entry rules and safety updates before you travel.
- Gran Canaria with little ones: our guide to the wider island, its beaches and when to go.
Last updated 17 July 2026.
