About us

Who we are

We are a couple with two teenagers, based in Marseille, France, and what we love most of all is travelling together, the four of us. I'm Jérôme R, and I run this site.

We discovered the Canary Islands in 2023, during a first trip to Fuerteventura. It was love at first sight: we went back in 2025, and we intend to keep exploring the archipelago, island by island, in the years ahead.

We also run a guide dedicated to Poland, poloniaguide.com, another country we fell in love with.

Thirty years with Spain

This passion for the Canary Islands is part of a much longer story. I fell in love with Spain in 1996, during an Erasmus exchange, and I lived there for seven years, between Madrid and Barcelona.

Since then, I've gone back regularly, almost every year. Over thirty years, I've had the chance to discover nearly all of Spain's autonomous communities: Madrid, Catalonia, Galicia, Asturias, the Basque Country, Andalusia, Castile and León, Castilla-La Mancha, Valencia, and many more.

Why this guide

I created canariesguide.com to keep a living connection with the Canary Islands and keep exploring them, with the idea of spending time there regularly, and perhaps settling there one day.

My wife and children share this affection for Spain, and my kids enjoy learning Spanish. With this guide, I hope to eventually discover the rest of the archipelago, one island at a time.

What we experienced, and what we haven't seen

We have stayed on Fuerteventura twice, in July 2023 and July 2025, and spent a week on Lanzarote in July 2025, reached by ferry from Fuerteventura. The pages about these two islands draw on those stays: our travel journal, our photos, our invoices. Under each page title, a short line tells you whether it is based on our time there, on our time there backed by research, or on research only.

We have not visited Tenerife yet. Its pages are research-based guides, built from reliable sources, including official, local and Spanish websites, with no personal anecdotes.

How we work

The memories, photos, prices and opinions are our own. We use artificial intelligence tools to help shape the texts. Every page is then reread, and its facts, opening times and figures are checked against our own documents or official sources before publication.

The site is written in French, then translated into English, German and Polish with the help of artificial intelligence, and checked (meaning, figures, place names). I am not fluent in all these languages: if you spot a mistake or an awkward phrase, please tell us via the Contact page and we will fix it.

When information changes (prices, opening times, access), we update the page; the date of the last update is shown under each title.

Our approach

Practical, verified information over superlatives: indicative prices, real constraints (tracks, seasons, bookings), the good and the less good surprises.

Our independence

canariesguide.com currently receives no payment of any kind: no advertising, no affiliate links, no free stays. Links to service providers are purely editorial.

If the site ever includes affiliate links, they will be clearly labelled on the pages concerned and in the legal notice.