Finca de Arrieta childrens cactus garden
Over the recent months the 2017 Children’s Cactus Garden at Finca de Arrieta has moved on towards completion. This is an ongoing project where guests, their children and their new friends [...]
Ecotourism and Sustainability school trip
A group of students from British School of Lanzarote accompanied by Lanzarote Eco Insider visited Finca de Arrieta last week during a school trip focused on Ecotourism and Sustainability. The [...]
Our swimming pools
Our swimming pools are solar heated and work with salt chlorine generators. A salt chlorine generator is an eco-friendly chlorination system that creates chlorine from sodium chloride (salt). As [...]
Volcanic Island Training – Reach for the Stars
We met first Amy Kilpin during her training week in Lanzarote at the end of December 2013. Having already competed in the Lanzarote 70.3 Ironman the previous year, Amy already had an affinity [...]
What are the benefits of an ‘eco’ holiday?
At Lanzarote Retreats, ‘Finca de Arrieta’ we pride ourselves on our green credentials, being totally ‘off-grid’ relying on the wind and sun, recycling our water, providing [...]
Eco Yarn & Pharrell Williams
Our blog is perhaps not the first place you would come to for news of the antics of hip hop superstars and high street fashion outlets. Eco awareness is seldom a featured topic of rap artists [...]