Guía de Isora ecstatic over confirmation of new 5-star luxury hotel, Villa de Erques

[Janet]

 It's been some seven years in the pipeline, but Guía de Isora Ayuntamiento is today ecstatic after the 5* Villa de Erques hotel project has been unblocked. The hotel, which will be just inside the municipality's boundary near the Marazul complex, will supplement Guia de Isora's exclusive 5* hotel market, complementing the Abama and Melía hotels which straddle Playa San Juan and Alcalá respectively.

National private investors have now committed to the purchase of the plot of some 165,000 square metres for the construction of the luxury hotel which will offer 744 places. The council's tourism minister, Héctor Gómez, said that it had been his lifetime's dream and that the council's planning was already in place for the development. There would still be some administrative work to do, he said, but this dream was now going to be a reality. Excellent news for a municipality which is becoming known as a conference, spa and gastronomy area without equal in Tenerife. JA

[Perikles]

How can a whole municipality be ecstatic? I wonder who sold the land to the project.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Do you mean to say that you do not have bands roving up and down your street playing music while people pour out of their houses, hands waving madly, dancing around?  Joyous celebration all around?  Happiness on every face?  Neighbour stopping neighbour to shake hands and congratulate one another? 

[Perikles]

Actually, no.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Glad I don't live in Vera.

[Perikles]

Glad I don't live in Vera.

I wish you did - it would be handy to be able to borrow the hardware for changing a lightbulb. 

[Michael]

Ok I confess. I'm building it. I thought it would be handy for visiting Janet.