Practical Information

Tourist Office

The new Tourism Office is located in an historic building in the Historic Center, which hosted the first school of Arucas in 1835, as subsequently being used as police station almost all the last 20th century, still preserving the old cells opened to the visitor´s curiosity. He will find here a meeting- and starting-point to visit the city, getting the best attention and tourist information.

It has a lift for access to the typical canary patio and services for disabled people. It is located on the main pedestrian street in the historic center, a few meters away from the Church of San Juan Bautista, tourist icon of the town. Its spacious and multifunctional hall, with capacity for 150 people, equipped with the latest technological advances, ideal for holding courses, conferences, screenings or exhibitions of paintings or photographs. In its first year of opening has assisted more than 20,000 users, and is currently one of the tourist offices in Gran Canaria with better facilities to manage the demands of users.

Opening hours
Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 16:00 h

Visitor service

The Support Service and Tourist Information are destined to welcome the visitors to the town of Arucas and their main aim is to improve the tourist satisfaction about the destiny and to please them in their demands for information about the tourist offer they can enjoy. The Tourism Office of Arucas ( depending from the Tourism Councillorship ) is the responsible for providing support services and tourist information.These services are provided in the building situated on the street León y Castillo, nr. 10, located in the Historic Center of Arucas, and are managed by the staff of the Tourism Office. The main purpose of the Tourism Office of Arucas focuses on facilitating regularly a comprehensive tourist information of the municipality of Arucas and the island of Gran Canaria to the citizens and visitors. This is related to the tourist resources, transportation, accommodation, services, monuments, shows and other activities associated with tourism and leisure. Since 2011 it features the distinctive quality SICTED (Integral System of Tourist Quality).

Opening hours
Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 16:00 h

Services

On-site Attention Service
Personal Support Service: this is a personalized service to all users who come in person to the Tourism Office of Arucas, offering a complete, decisive, objective and immediate attention and serving as link between the visitor and the municipality.

Non-Presential Attention Service
Distance Support Service: it is a service that even pretend to approach the indispensable information about the tourist offer of the municipality to the citizens of Arucas and current and potential visitors, in a straightforward way, without having to go to the Tourism Office. This service is provided via phone, fax, mail, email and social networking sites, where the Tourist Office is registered.

Specialized Attention Service
Specialized Support Service: it is a service of attention to demands that need a more personalized and exhaustive attention by their characteristics, providing an appropriate solution to each specific circumstance, as well as provide support and intercommunication between visitors and municipal establishments , in the search for accommodation and catering. Moreover from this service it manages the attention to mass media, groups, tour guides and disable people.

Self-consultation service
Auto Consultation Service: it is a service provided by the Tourism Office and allows the users to be self-sufficient to get the information through various brochures about the tourist offer of Arucas or through the free internet access on the computer provided for this purpose.

Guided tours service "A walk through the Historic Center of Arucas"
Guided tours services "A walk through the Historic Center of Arucas" It is a service of guided visits through the Historic Center of Arucas, mainly aimed at groups of school-centers, neighbourhood, cultural and sport associations.

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