If you need help with accommodation on Gran Canaria the following information may be useful to you:

There are several good rural hotels scattered around the island, if you want details contact me by email and I will send you contact numbers and websites for most of them.

Mountain Walking Holiday

If you fancy a 7 day hotel-to-hotel trekking holiday in Gran Canaria we can recommend New Experience Holidays - we helped design this Trek, finding the hotels and the writing of the walks.

If you chose to stay in 'tourist land' on the south coast there are a great number of good hotels, many offering excellent deals on the Internet.  Maspalomas and Playa del Ingles is a much better destination than Puerto Rico or Puerto Mogan as far as getting to the hiking routes is concerned.  The capital city Las Palmas is a good destination if you want to walk mainly in the north.
 

Canarian Food and Drink

The food in Gran Canaria is quite simple and wholesome, using mainly local ingredients.  Here is a list of some of the local specialities, Potaje ( meat and vegetable soup ) Mojo sauce ( spicy sauce usually served with small potatoes ) Gofio ( toasted maize ) various Cheeses made from the milk of Sheep, Goats and Cows. Almonds and Honey are used extensively in deserts and cakes.  A lot of wine is made in small bodegas around the island, some of it is quite good, and worth a try. In rural restaurants Pork, Rabbit and Goat are popular meat dishes.

Serano Ham