Can anyone give us an update on Esquinzo beach, specifically the sunbed area below the Robinson which is (was) quite popular with naturists who don't like to rough it in a stone circle. When I was there in February a large chunk of it had been ripped away by the sea, leaving exposed rocks. Not very good for swimming.
Hi Magoo, we're off there next week, so can give u an update then :-)
Hopefully Emiliio's will be open !
Mister Magoo - Have no fear, the sand is there. Rocks in the water though so you have to pick a careful channel to enter. Emilio is razed to the ground but looks like they - who?- are building a new place. Lotsa chairs, mostly new. €4 per piece still. Have a good one, Waldo. ;D
Thanks for that. We have been visiting that section of beach for years. Yes, the sand does come & go, but I have never seen anything like the state it was in in Feb. Emilio's was shut & boarded up & the sunbed price had gone up 33%. Needless to say, it was not very busy. Jaynek, I eagerly await your report before planning further trips
Good news indeed Conniebee, thanks for posting.
We go out on Saturday for 2 weeks at the Fuerteventura Princess and like Magoo were wondering what we would find on the beach. Shame about Emilio's but sounds like they have a plan!
Fred.
Don't know if you saw it, but I posted some photos of the state the beach was in, on this thread
http://www.fuerteventura-forum.com/index.php?topic=14812.0 (http://www.fuerteventura-forum.com/index.php?topic=14812.0)
Hope that the tides have been kind for your visit
Just read this and gutted that Emilio's has gone. Not in the best of condition but the beer were always ice cold and the gambas at lunchtime were excellent
It was also conveniently close to the naturist spot below as we also prefer sunbeds to the stone circles
Myself and my wife are going W/C 6th May and will now possibly have to look for an alternative location to spend our sun soaked days. We are stopping in the Princess Hotel and were wondering if anybody is able to suggest an alternative location with a bar close by that is populated mainly by naturist and is relatively close to the hotel. We went last year built did not explore much as the spot by Emiloe's had everything we needed.
Look forward to notdeadfred's trip report and any other suggestions Forum members may have
Sally
If you walk a bit further North along the beach, there is another beach café. Its at the end of the stone circles just below the Monte Marina, so there is a mix of naturist / textile. However, the sunbeds for hire seem somewhat exposed to the wind as they are on a dune.
Thanks Magoo
Seem to remember this from last year, the sunbeds were on the slope of a small dune I think. Yes exposed but close to a cafe.
Regardless of the fact that Emilios has gone is the naturist area below it still a good place to go or is it nosiy due to the construction of a new bar?
Magoo,
yes thanks I had seen your photos of the beach, and think I know where you were. We never did know the names of the bars though, so which one is Emilio's please, in relation to the Fuerte Princess? North or South?
We sometimes used the raised sunbeds at the side of a bar just beyond the water sports centre. Is that it? Despite being higher up the hillside it seemed to be quite sheltered most of the time. Relaxed mixture of naturist and textile. I don't remember there being any sunbeds "below" the bar when we were there last May.
Sally27,
If you leave the hotel and turn right, past the Magic Life, past the area where people feed the ground squirrels, there is a small area next to the cliffs which was mostly naturist last year, with a bar just a few more yards further along.
Hi Sally
The beach it's self is OK & offers some shelter from the wind. The only gripe I had was that access for swimming was poor due to the amount of exposed rock. Sunbeds & sombrillas have been renewed & new windbreaks put in. However this has jacked up the price to €12.00 per day for the two of us. The sunbeds were very under-utilised with only abot 5 couples including ourselves using them
Emilio's is (was) North of the FP just beyond the Hobicat / windsurf centre. Our sunbed spot was just beyond that
Thanks
will do some investigation turing right and left from the hotel on our first day
of course the hotel has a good naturist pool are but we also like to be near the sea
Hope the weather will hold for our arrival week after next
Thanks again
Quote from: Magoo on April 26, 2013, 14:40:11 PM
Emilio's is (was) North of the FP just beyond the Hobicat / windsurf centre. Our sunbed spot was just beyond that
OK, so sounds like the same one we were using. Shame, we liked it there, but we'll have a look and hopefully still be able to settle there. Will post an update next week.
ok quick update. The beach in front of FP as far as Emilo's and beyond looks much the same as last year. Rebuilding of Emilio's is well advanced, but the next little bar along, the one that sat a bit higher up, has vanished without trace. Naturists still using sunbeds along this stretch. To the south of the FP not so good. The stretch of sand in front of the Magic Life is no more. The whole length is now covered in rocks about 7/8 metre wide. No sand visible when tide in, but still some when out. Signs have been erected advising alternative walking routes to bypass this section of the beach. Will try to post some photos in due course.
If you are there now can you tell us what the weather is like and the likely forecast for next week?
Seems as if our usual lunchtime drink on the beach may not be possible this year unless they hurry up and finish Emilioes by next week!!
"Rebuilding of Emilio's is well advanced, but the next little bar along, the one that sat a bit higher up, has vanished without trace. " Not sure which one you mean. Was it north of Emilio ?
We recommend 10 mins walk further ( north) to Luciano y Klaus at Esquinzo Butihondo - good food and fair prices. ( And do not recommend the new place at Mal Nombre, definitely up-priced with its rebuild.) Also is a new row of chairs just before L&K- better than the previous scattering over the dune.
Re enquiry on other thread, you can indeed walk from M. Nombre to Risco but better with tide going out, and will need shoes for much rock- scrambling.
lunchtime drinks on the beach not advisable anyway unless the weather improves! Each morning has been thick cloud with strong chilly winds. Fleeces and anoraks have been much in evidence! Sun eventually breaks through for short spells early afternoon. This morning it is raining! Forecast for rest of week is much the same, max temp 21c. Yes, the bar I refer to was a little north of Emilio's.
That's a bugger Fred. Sounds like the weather has not improved much since we went in February. The sea state was beyond my modest swimming ability for a lot of the time as well.
This is bad was relying on good weather as we have always had it in the past
The location of the PH is fantastic if you have good weather but a little isolated if not
looks like we will be packing more clothes than we would normally!
yes if this keeps up you will need a couple of warms things if you like early mornings. Sun breaking through a bit earlier each day, but still not reliable. Goods news is the sea has calmed down a lot since earlier in the week - might brave my first nude early morning swim soon!
Fingers crossed that it will improve, the weather forecast trend is showing it getting warmer so things may be looking up for when we arrive middle of next week
Hopefully warm enough for your dip in the sea
Well finally arrived in Fuerteventura and made it to Esquinzo beach - update is yes emillios has gone, absolutly NO trace left, but yes they are building a new one next door to the surf club, a 100 mtrs away, It's looking nearly done, so hopefully not long before prawns in garlic and a cool beer !
The beach is looking better than it did in oct last yr, the sand is coming back ;-) only at low tide is there pebbles, so not to bad. Oh well best go and make the most of the next week in paradise :-)
yesterday was our first full day on the beach since arriving. Weather is definitely improving and is forecast to keep doing so - phew! The heavy seas earlier in the week have improved the beach in front of Magic Life a bit. The stretch of stones at foot of dunes is only half as wide as it was when we arrived. The power of the sea indeed.
Well the weather just got better each day and for our final couple of days there hasn't been a cloud in the sky. The new bar next to HobieCats is now open. Didn't try it ourselves but we heard that the food was good.
The people who run the beach bar directly in front of the FP have indicated to customers that they will have to close quite soon. This appears to be something to do with action by the local authorities over perceived ownership of the beach front. I think what he meant was that the council are claiming they own that part of the beach, and are enforcing controls over who can and cannot trade there. Apparently this is what happened to Emilio's, and if this one closes too it will also be completely removed.
The new bar next to HobieCats is very similar design to the ones at Jandia itself, and may be some standard installation specified by the authorities.
Oh, and 2 sunbeds plus umbrella still €12.
We have now returned home :( but before we left we tried the new beach bar, we went for a drink there on Thursday, and even thought they ( not the old emillio's crew) hadn't officially opened they were happy to serve us , even if it did mean we were sitting amongst the building rubble and builders! They opened on friday, but it was yesterday before we finally had something to eat with our friends, pizza and club sandwiches are highly recommended ;D and they were still building around the customers, a new staircase went in yesterday afternoon so no more clambering up a steep sandbank :-)
The beach is improving every day, and during Friday night at least a foot of sand was bought in as it nearly covered the big rocks over which is quiet a transformation,the only real problem rocks now is a small strip that is exposed at low tide.
In summerary we would now recommend esquinzo beach as it is finally back to its glorious state that we all know and love.
Finally got round to uploading some of my beach photos to my Flickr account, so here as promised are some varied views of Esquinzo (taken between 27th April to 11th May) which will hopefully reassure Magoo and others that the beach has recovered, and (possibly more importantly) also let them see exactly where the new bar is!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnalot/sets/72157633605446872/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnalot/sets/72157633605446872/)
EXCELENT! What a difference three months makes. When we were there the rocky outcrops on IMG_8630 where totally exposed. The 10ft shelf seems to have gone as well. Still looks a bit quiet on the loungers, maybe €12 / day is putting folk off
Thanks for posting Fred
The shelf is only 1/2ft now at highest point, and I took some of the pictures during our first week when the weather was a bit iffy and not many people on the beach. During the second week the loungers were full much of the time as people made up for lost sunning time, undeterred by the €12!
The other downside of losing that much sand was that the gentle slope into the sea was lost, allowing waves to come in like a freight train. Being knocked over & bounced along the uncovered rocks in your birthday suit, is quite character building!
quick question -where's the easiest place to access the beach near magic life or FP, from public road? I drove down there yesterday evening, but it seems impossible to get to the beach, and I'd like to go!
Quote from: Magoo on May 24, 2013, 10:12:47 AM
The other downside of losing that much sand was that the gentle slope into the sea was lost, allowing waves to come in like a freight train. Being knocked over & bounced along the uncovered rocks in your birthday suit, is quite character building!
Ouch! Hope the bruises have gone now. 'Er Indoors got bowled over by a wave last week, even with the gentle slope. Didn't feel or notice anything at the time, but since we got back the osteopath says she's got a hairline crack in a vertebrae, so watch out for those waves everyone!
Quote from: tiger79 on May 24, 2013, 23:34:37 PM
quick question -where's the easiest place to access the beach near magic life or FP, from public road? I drove down there yesterday evening, but it seems impossible to get to the beach, and I'd like to go!
There is car park at the Magic Life end of the FP, opposite the bottom of the road down from the main road, and a track leads from there right down onto the beach. The track skirts round the perimeter of the FP, with a good view of parts of the nudist zone! You can park at the beach bar (and walk to the right for the Magic Life beach area) or even drive right along to the Hobiecats (see img_8640 in my photos).
thanks, will look again!
Quote from: tiger79 on May 24, 2013, 23:34:37 PM
quick question -where's the easiest place to access the beach near magic life or FP, from public road? I drove down there yesterday evening, but it seems impossible to get to the beach, and I'd like to go!
Alternatively, you can drive into Esquinzo & use the path behind the Marina Playa hotel.
OK, found the access road down the side of FP. The beach wasn't really as nice as I'd expected, but it was cloudy!
The No 5 bus is running from the stop near The Jandia Princess to Jandia and Costa Calma, 1.25Euros each way [well it was]
Quote from: Spike On Q on May 28, 2013, 18:51:48 PM
The No 5 bus is running from the stop near The Jandia Princess to Jandia and Costa Calma, 1.25Euros each way [well it was]
"Blakey" Does this mean, you've finally managed to persuade the No: 5 to come down the hill? It seems you have, as I found another comment from a German guy about a new route for the last few weeks.
So what route is the bus following then now?
I guess when it leaves the dual carriageway, it must be coming directly down to the big roundabout near to the JP hotel.
What does it do after that? Does it do a tour of Esquinzo like the old blue'n'yellow used to, before continuing along the coast?
How's work on the new Supermarket next to the JP going too? When is that due to open?
Great news about the No:5 - but if you could get it to pass the FP too that would be brilliant!
The No. 5 comes along the old road, Mal Nombre, Esquinzo, etc. - then down to the big roundabout to the bus stop by the Jandia Princess, then back up again
Mercadona - months away yet, but looks like a very effective nuclear shelter
"I hate you Butler!!"
Had to book again just to check the state of the beach..... Well someone had to do it ;D
Roll on the 25th September .
Any updates on the how the beach is holding up? Thinking of our 2014 visit & would like to stay in Esquinzo again, but a nuked beach might entail a change of venue
G'day all. Just back from a couple of weeks at the Fuerteventura Princess, and glad to report that the beach hasn't been "nuked". There are a few more loose stones at the water's edge than our previous visit, but not sufficient to cause any problems. The shelf next to where Emilio's used to be was a bit higher too, but not insurmountable, and all the sunbeds had been pulled back inside the little bay there to shelter from the strong winds at the time.
The stretch along the front of the Magic Life though hasn't done so well, and at anything near high tide was virtually impassable due to the wide area of rocks which have accumulated along it's full length. The beach after that between there and Jandia itself though was fine.
The biggest shock however was the disappearance of all the "unlicensed" beach bars, including the one right in front of the FP, the one at the far northern end of Esquinzo, and the one between Magic Life and Jandia. All traces have been completely removed, meaning that there are now only 3 beach bars between Mal Nombre and Jandia - Mal Nombre itself, next to Hobiecats, and Jandia itself. They are all modular to exactly the same design so the beach has lost a bit of its traditional character.
There are new "No Entry" traffic signs at the foot of the road down the side of the FP to the beach.
:(Disastrous news that Emilios Bar is gone at Esquinzo. Does seem to be so- even Trip A. has a comment. Did not like the format of the new Tierra Dorada, or the staff. The dead hand of progress strikes again. What happened to the parking at Emilios, and are there beach chairs still there ? Ta. :'(
Conniebee, the new bars all look the same, have similar limited menus, are more expensive and don't have the character or ambience of the now removed ones. I dare say they are cleaner and meet all the local hygiene regulations, but just not the same. 2 coffees, a small beer, a ham and tomato sandwich (on plain dry bread) and a slice of apple cake came to €20 on the one and only occasion we stopped at one. It's cheaper and better quality at the FP poolside bar!
Yes there are still sunbeds in all the same places - €12 for 2 beds and a brolly. You can still park directly in front of the FP on the "right" side of the No Entry signs, just above where the beach bar used to be. But we saw a few vehicles ignoring those signs and driving a bit further down.
€12 :o That's a 33% hike, no doubt to pay for the municipal café bars
Hi all
We were at Esquinzo in October - on the day the new beach bar opened (which is right next to the surf club)
Apart from the other 3 beach bars being missing, nothing much had changed, If anything the sunbed area next to what was Emilio's, has improved.
Yes there are more pebbles at the waters edge, but that is a result of all the storms early last yr, we were told that they have been partially covered by the sand and would continue to do so, but it might take a yr or so to bring the beach back to its pure sandy status, we noticed, even in the 10 days we were there that one of the large rocks was slowly being covered and was disappearing before our eyes.
As for the parking, yes they have put "no entry" signs up, but you can drive down to the beach entrance of the FP (above the old beach bar) and if you have a disabled badge you can continue to drive all the way to surf club where there are 2 sheltered disabled bays, with a nice wooden slatted walkway to the waters edge.
We were due to return next week, but due to me having an emergency op a few weeks back, we have had to cancel but have re-booked for the 4th June ;D, so looking forward to "coming home" to Fuerty.