On your right, look for the tall, round-edged concrete tower with stacked balcony bands and big “HOTEL” lettering near the top, rising above the palm trees.
This is the AC Hotel Gran Canaria... one of the city’s classic “look up” moments. It’s a proper high-rise for Las Palmas: 26 floors, about 84 meters tall, planted right by Santa Catalina Park like a confident exclamation point. When it opened in 1972, it debuted as the Hotel Don Juan, catching that early-70s wave when modern travel was getting louder, brighter, and a lot more vertical. Because what says “holiday by the sea” quite like a concrete tower?
Over the years, the building kept changing its name as owners came and went-Los Bardinos, Sol Inn, and now AC-like a celebrity with a new agent. And of course it sits close to Las Canteras beach and just a short stroll from the Elder Museum... so you can do science, sand, and skyline in one neat little radius.
When you’re set, Santa Catalina Park is a 3-minute walk heading east.
