Rural Hotel in Lanzarote

Hotel CASONA DE TAO

There’s a Lanzarote that never makes it into the travel brochures.
No parasols, no sun loungers. Just fig groves growing on
black earth, whitewashed villages with green doors, and a silence
broken only by the north wind.
Casona de Tao is right there. In the municipality of Tao, in the heart
of the island, twenty minutes from the airport and light years from
mass tourism.

Hotel Rural Casona de Tao
Rural accommodation in the heart of the island

Casona de Tao is a restored Canarian country house with twelve rooms. No more. The size isn’t a limitation, it’s a deliberate choice.
With twelve guests, or fewer, breakfast isn’t a buffet with tongs. Check-in isn’t a form. We know your name before you arrive, and when you do, you’ll notice the difference.

The building keeps what makes Lanzarote’s architecture unique: volcanic stone walls, interior courtyards open to the sky, Canary pine beam ceilings that have been in place for decades. This isn’t an imitation of rural life. It’s the real thing, with the comfort you’d expect from a well-kept place to stay.
Quality mattresses. Cotton bed linen.

hotel rural casona de tao

Suites & Family Suite

Desayuno incluido · Cancelación flexible · Mejor precio directo

Suites desde 105€ / noche.

donde Tus sueños cobran vida

Espaciosas y diseñadas para su comodidad y descanso.
Proporcionan impresionantes panorámicas de volcanes y flujos de lava característicos de Lanzarote.

Equipamiento: Wi-Fi, Smart TV, nevera, baño privado con gel y champú, secador de pelo.

Servicios Destacados: Piscina y Jacuzzi, cocina comunitaria gratis, lavandería, parking gratuito.

Timbayba

Suite desde 108€ / noche
Huéspedes: 2 · Tamaño: 60m²
Desayuno Incluido
Cancelación gratis según tarifa.
Aire Acondicionado, vistas volcán.

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Don Manuel de Tao

Suite desde 103€ / noche
Huéspedes: 2 · Tamaño: 55m²
Desayuno Incluido
Cancelación gratis según tarifa.
Vistas a volcanes, Fama y mar.

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Yaiza

Suite desde 108€ / noche
Huéspedes: 3 · Tamaño: 55m²
Desayuno Incluido
Cancelación gratis según tarifa.
Vistas a volcanes y mar.

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La Bodega

Suite desde 172€ / noche
Huéspedes: 5 · Tamaño: 70m²
Desayuno Incluido
Cancelación gratis según tarifa.
Vistas a volcanes, Famara y mar.

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hotel rural casona de tao

habitaciones
dobles DELUXE

Desayuno incluido · Cancelación flexible · Mejor precio directo

Dobles desde 85€ / noche.

Rincones únicos, llenos de magia…

Las Habitaciones Dobles Deluxe son un refugio de tranquilidad y elegancia. Con grandes ventanas que iluminan el espacio y capturan la esencia del paisaje.

Equipamiento: Wi-Fi, Smart TV, nevera, baño privado con gel y champú, secador de pelo, servicio de lavandería y parking gratuito.

Servicios Destacados: Piscina y Jacuzzi, cocina comunitaria gratis, lavandería, parking gratuito.

El Golfo

Desde 94€ / noche
Huéspedes: 2 · Tamaño: 35m²
Desayuno Incluido
Cancelación gratis según tarifa.
Vistas a volcanes, puesta de sol.

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Famara

Desde 93€ / noche
Huéspedes: 2 · Tamaño: 37m²
Desayuno Incluido
Cancelación gratis según tarifa.
Vistas a volcanes, jardín, porche.

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Arrieta

Desde 93€ / noche
Huéspedes: 2 · Tamaño: 30m²
Desayuno Incluido
Cancelación gratis según tarifa.
Vistas a volcanes, terraza privada.

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Tiagua

Desde 104€ / noche
Huéspedes: 3·Tamaño: 40m²
Desayuno Incluido
Cancelación gratis según tarifa.
Huéspedes: 3·Tamaño: 40m²
Vistas a volcanes, piscina.

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Mirador de Tamia

Desde 103€ / noche
Huéspedes: 3 · Tamaño: 40m²
Desayuno Incluido
Cancelación gratis según tarifa.
Vistas a volcanes, Terraza.

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Mirador de Jable

Desde 103€ / noche
Huéspedes: 2 · Tamaño: 35m²
Desayuno Incluido
Cancelación gratis según tarifa.
Vistas a volcanes, Famara, mar.

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La Graciosa

Desde 106€ / noche
Huéspedes: 2 · Tamaño: 30m²
Desayuno Incluido
Cancelación gratis según tarifa.
Vistas a volcanes, puesta de sol.

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Alegranza

Desde 92€ / noche
Huéspedes: 2 · Tamaño: 35m²
Desayuno Incluido
Cancelación gratis según tarifa.
Vistas a volcanes, Famara, jardín.

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What to See and Do from a Rural Hotel in Lanzarote

Rural tourism in Lanzarote isn’t just about the scenery. At Casona de Tao we have specific recommendations for every type of traveller:

FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE ISLAND The La Geria wineries are Europe’s most singular volcanic vineyard. The vines grow in pits dug into the lava, sheltered by small stone walls. What that soil produces is unlike any other wine in the world. Masdache, El Grifo, Stratvs — any of them deserves a morning visit. See our guide to wine tourism in Lanzarote.

FOR THOSE SEEKING NATURE WITHOUT THE CROWDS Timanfaya National Park has its tourist bus routes, but also guided walking access that almost no one takes. Ask us before you go.

FOR THOSE WHO WANT CÉSAR MANRIQUE WITHOUT THE QUEUES The César Manrique Foundation and the Jameos del Agua are two of the most extraordinary places in the Canary Islands. Go early: there’s no queue at 9am.

FOR THOSE LOOKING FOR VILLAGE AND MARKET LIFE The Teguise market, on Sunday mornings, is the biggest in the Canary Islands. Local crafts, farm produce, live music. Bring cash.
Agrotourism in Lanzarote is at its best in this part of the island: farming country, family-run wineries and honest, unpretentious food.

Book Direct: The Lowest Price Guaranteed

If you found us on Booking, welcome. But if you book here, on our official website, you’ll pay less. Always.

It’s not a marketing trick. OTAs charge the hotel between 15% and 25% commission on every booking. When you book through them, you end up paying that cost one way or another. When you book direct, that margin disappears.

☀ Breakfast included. On every direct booking, no exceptions, no extra cost.
↩ Flexible cancellation. Free up to 5 days before arrival, no questions asked.
◎ Personalised check-in. We contact you before you arrive to coordinate everything and tell you what you need to know.
◇ No hidden fees. The price you see is the price you pay.

Why book here instead of on Booking?

When you book directly with us, there’s a real person on the other end. Someone who can be flexible with check-in times, who knows whether the room you want faces north or south, who can suggest a restaurant for your arrival night, or tell you plainly whether the weekend you’ve picked
will be busy or not.

Charming Rural Hotels in Lanzarote: What Sets Us Apart

“Charming” has become a marketing label that no longer means anything. Some hotels use it just because they’ve got a potted plant in the lobby.

When we say Casona de Tao is one of Lanzarote’s charming rural hotels, we mean it literally: the building has history, the setting has character, and the welcome has warmth.

What sets us apart from the island’s other rural hotels:

THE SIZE Twelve rooms. When a rural hotel grows past 30 or 40, it stops being rural and becomes a small urban hotel set in the countryside. It’s not the same thing. Scale changes everything: how breakfast sounds, how the corridor feels, what conversation at reception is like.

THE LOCATION Tao isn’t a tourist area. It’s a farming municipality with its own identity. Those looking for the real Lanzarote know it; those looking for nightlife and beach bars won’t find it here.

THE ARCHITECTURE We haven’t dressed up a shed with terracotta tiles to make it look Canarian. The house is Canarian. The walls are volcanic stone because that’s how they were built. The courtyard is internal because that’s how it was done on this island. The restoration has respected all of that.

THE PRICE-TO-EXPERIENCE RATIO We’re not the cheapest hotel in Lanzarote. Nor the most expensive. We’re the one that gives you the most for what you pay, when what you value is the experience and the welcome, not the number of stars on the façade.

What Kind of Trip Is Casona de Tao For

We’re not the perfect hotel for everyone. And that’s a good thing: hotels that try to be perfect for everyone end up being perfect for no one.

Casona de Tao works especially well for:

· Couples on a getaway looking for peace, intimacy and a setting that does the work on its own.
· Travellers who want to know the real island: the Lanzarote of Manrique, of volcanic wine, of villages that haven’t changed.
· Anyone celebrating something: an anniversary, a birthday, a proposal, or simply the end of a hard season that deserves a reward.

Romantic Getaway in Lanzarote

If you’re coming as a couple and want something more than a nice room, we’ve prepared something special:

Welcome touches, restaurant recommendations you won’t find on TripAdvisor, and rooms designed so the stay itself is the plan.

Tao, in the Centre of Lanzarote: 20 Minutes from Everything

The municipality of Tao belongs to Tinajo, one of the island’s most authentic areas. From here:

· Lanzarote Airport — 20 min
· Timanfaya National Park — 15 min
· La Geria wineries — 15 min
· Jameos del Agua and Cueva de los Verdes — 25 min
· Famara Beach — 20 min
· Teguise Market — 10 min (Sunday mornings)
· Arrecife, the capital — 20 min

You don’t need the car all day. You can head out to explore in the morning and be back for a relaxed lunch.

Where to Stay in Lanzarote: Why the Interior Makes the Difference

This is the question nobody answers well: what’s the best area to stay in Lanzarote?
The honest answer depends on what you’re after. If you want beach right outside your door, go south. If you want the real island — unfiltered volcanic landscapes, villages that never changed, food that isn’t made for tourists — the interior is where you should sleep.

Staying in central Lanzarote has an advantage neither the south nor the north can offer: you have everything within reasonable reach, without picking a side.

Tao, in the Centre of Lanzarote: 20 Minutes from Everything

What to See and Do from a Rural Hotel in Lanzarote

Rural tourism in Lanzarote isn’t just about the scenery. At Casona de Tao we have specific recommendations for every type of traveller:

FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE ISLAND The La Geria wineries are Europe’s most singular volcanic vineyard. The vines grow in pits dug into the lava, sheltered by small stone walls. What that soil produces is unlike any other wine in the world. Masdache, El Grifo, Stratvs — any of them deserves a morning visit.

FOR THOSE SEEKING NATURE WITHOUT THE CROWDS Timanfaya National Park has its tourist bus routes, but also guided walking access that almost no one takes. Ask us before you go.

FOR THOSE WHO WANT CÉSAR MANRIQUE WITHOUT THE QUEUES The César Manrique Foundation and the Jameos del Agua are two of the most extraordinary places in the Canary Islands. Go early: there’s no queue at 9am.

FOR THOSE LOOKING FOR VILLAGE AND MARKET LIFE The Teguise market, on Sunday mornings, is the biggest in the Canary Islands. Local crafts, farm produce, live music. Bring cash.
Agrotourism in Lanzarote is at its best in this part of the island: farming country, family-run wineries and honest, unpretentious food.

Frequently Asked Questions

What’s special about Casona de Tao’s architecture?

Lanzarote’s vernacular architecture is the result of centuries adapting to an environment with very few resources: little water, little wood, plenty of volcanic stone and plenty of wind. The island’s traditional houses have black or whitewashed stone walls, interior courtyards that shelter from the wind and gather the light, and Canary pine beam ceilings — a wood highly resistant to humidity — that have stood for decades, sometimes centuries.
Casona de Tao keeps all of that. It isn’t decoration. The walls are volcanic stone because that’s how they were built. The interior courtyard exists because that’s how it was done on this island. The restoration has respected the materials and proportions of the original building, adding only what’s needed to make it comfortable to stay here in 2025.
It’s the kind of building César Manrique championed his whole life: architecture that grows out of the land it stands on, not architecture imported from somewhere else.

What’s the best area to stay in Lanzarote if you want to get to know the real island?

If you’re after beach and nightlife, the south — Puerto del Carmen, Playa Blanca — is the most practical choice. But if you want to understand Lanzarote, staying in the centre of the island changes the trip completely.
We’re in Tao, in the municipality of Tinajo, and from here everything is within reasonable reach without being in any tourist hotspot: Timanfaya National Park 15 minutes away, Jameos del Agua 25, Teguise Market 10, the La Geria wineries 15 and the airport 20. You don’t have to choose between north and south, because you’re in the centre.
What you won’t find here is crowds, beach bars and queues. For some people that’s exactly what they’re after; for others, it isn’t. If you’re reading this, you’re probably one of the former.

How many rooms does the hotel have, and why does that matter?

Twelve. And the number matters more than it seems.
When a rural hotel grows past 30 or 40 rooms, it starts working like a small city hotel dropped into the countryside: a buffet with tongs, reception on shifts, long corridors, a new face every time you come down for breakfast. Scale changes everything.
With twelve rooms, breakfast is a conversation. Reception isn’t an airport counter. We know who’s arriving each day, what they’re celebrating and where they’re from. That can’t be manufactured: either the hotel is small, or it isn’t.
It’s also why all 12 rooms can be booked exclusively for weddings and group celebrations: the couple and all their guests under one roof, with no one needing to take a taxi back to the hotel.

What’s the difference between booking on Booking.com and booking direct with Casona de Tao?

The main difference is the price: when you book direct on our website, you pay less than on Booking for the same room. It’s not magic, it’s simple maths. OTAs charge the hotel between 15% and 25% commission on every booking. When you book through them, you end up paying that cost one way or another.
Booking direct at hotelruralcasonadetao.com also gets you breakfast included at no extra cost, flexible cancellation up to 48 hours before arrival, and direct contact with us from the moment you book — not an automated chatbot, but a real person who knows the hotel and can sort out whatever you need before you arrive.
The only reason to use Booking is if you didn’t know us before. Once you do, there’s no reason to keep paying their margin.

What is FAQ?

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Is it worth staying in inland Lanzarote instead of the south?

It depends on what you’re looking for. If your trip revolves around the beach, the south has more options and more tourist infrastructure. If your trip revolves around the island itself — its volcanic scenery, its culture, its food, its architecture — the interior wins, hands down.
From Tao you can reach the best beaches in the north (Famara, La Garita) in 20 minutes. The southern beaches (Papagayo, Playa Blanca) are around 40 minutes away. Not that far. But the difference in setting between sleeping in a resort in Puerto del Carmen and sleeping in a volcanic country house in Tao is huge: one gives you a pool and entertainment; the other gives you Lanzarote.
For a trip of 4 nights or more, where you want to do something different every day, the centre is strategically the best location on the island.

What can you do from Casona de Tao? Is it a good base for exploring the island?

It’s probably the best base on the island for anyone who wants to see it all without being tied to one spot.
Within a 25-minute radius of Tao you’ll find: Timanfaya National Park (the most spectacular active lava routes in Europe), Jameos del Agua and Cueva de los Verdes (César Manrique’s architecture built into volcanic tunnels), the César Manrique Foundation in Taro de Tahíche, the Mirador del Río (with views over La Graciosa), the La Geria wineries (a volcanic vineyard unlike anywhere else in the world), Teguise Market (the biggest in the Canary Islands, Sundays only), northern beaches like Famara (surfing and cliffs), and the capital, Arrecife, for a city afternoon.
What you won’t reach in 25 minutes: southern beaches like Papagayo or Playa Blanca, which are about 40-45 minutes away. For anyone who wants to combine north and south on the same trip, renting a car — always recommended in Lanzarote — solves everything.

Is Casona de Tao a good hotel for a romantic getaway in Lanzarote?

Yes, and we’ll say it plainly: it’s exactly what a large part of our guests come here for.
The setting does much of the work on its own: a volcanic island with little light pollution, quiet villages, sunsets over the volcanoes, and small restaurants where you need to book ahead because they only have eight tables. It’s not the setting of a 400-room resort with a spa; it’s something harder to manufacture.
What we add on top: welcome touches if you let us know you’re celebrating something, restaurant recommendations you won’t find on TripAdvisor’s rankings, availability to coordinate any surprise before you arrive, and rooms — especially the suite — designed so the stay itself is the plan, not just somewhere to sleep between activities.
If you’ve got something to celebrate, tell us when you book. We’ll make it worth it.

How much does it cost to stay at a rural hotel in Lanzarote? Is it expensive?

Price ranges at rural hotels in Lanzarote are wide: from around €80 a night at more basic accommodations to over €300 at properties with a private pool or a strong luxury component.
Casona de Tao sits in the mid-to-upper part of that range, with breakfast included on direct bookings. We’re not the cheapest hotel on the island, and we don’t try to be: the price reflects the level of attention, the quality of materials, and the fact that twelve rooms allow for a kind of care that simply doesn’t scale.
What we do guarantee is that booking direct on our website gets you the lowest price available for that same room. If you find a better rate for the same dates on any other platform, write to us and we’ll match it.

What makes Casona de Tao different from other rural hotels in Lanzarote?

What makes Casona de Tao different from other rural hotels in Lanzarote?
There are several good rural hotels in Lanzarote. What sets us apart isn’t one single thing, but the combination of three that rarely come together in the same place:
Strategic location in the centre of the island. Not in a tourist area, not tucked away in the far north where nothing’s open in winter. In the centre, with easy access to everything worth seeing.
Genuine human scale. Twelve rooms. Not twenty, not thirty. The number that lets the hotel function like a hotel, not like a block of apartments with a front desk.
Architecture that isn’t a stage set. The house is a restored historic Canarian building, not a new building dressed up with traditional touches to look old. The difference shows in the materials, in the proportion of the spaces, and in how the building sounds when it’s quiet.
If those three things match what you’re looking for, Casona de Tao is probably your hotel in Lanzarote.

Rural Hotel in Lanzarote

Hotel CASONA DE TAO

Hotel Rural Casona de TaoRural accommodation in the heart of the island

Suites & Family Suite

Timbayba

Don Manuel de Tao

Yaiza

La Bodega

habitacionesdobles DELUXE

El Golfo

Famara

Arrieta

Tiagua

Mirador de Tamia

Mirador de Jable

La Graciosa

Alegranza

What to See and Do from a Rural Hotel in Lanzarote

Book Direct: The Lowest Price Guaranteed

Charming Rural Hotels in Lanzarote: What Sets Us Apart

What Kind of Trip Is Casona de Tao For

Romantic Getaway in Lanzarote

Tao, in the Centre of Lanzarote: 20 Minutes from Everything

Where to Stay in Lanzarote: Why the Interior Makes the Difference

Tao, in the Centre of Lanzarote: 20 Minutes from Everything

What to See and Do from a Rural Hotel in Lanzarote

Frequently Asked Questions

What’s special about Casona de Tao’s architecture?

What’s the best area to stay in Lanzarote if you want to get to know the real island?

How many rooms does the hotel have, and why does that matter?

What’s the difference between booking on Booking.com and booking direct with Casona de Tao?

What is FAQ?

Is it worth staying in inland Lanzarote instead of the south?

What can you do from Casona de Tao? Is it a good base for exploring the island?

Is Casona de Tao a good hotel for a romantic getaway in Lanzarote?

How much does it cost to stay at a rural hotel in Lanzarote? Is it expensive?

What makes Casona de Tao different from other rural hotels in Lanzarote?

Hotel Rural Casona de Tao
Rural accommodation in the heart of the island

habitaciones
dobles DELUXE