Meloneras: Lopesan 953-room hotel plan, no opening date

What changes for holidaymakers in the south?

Holidaymakers will notice nothing for now, because the hotel has neither a start date for building nor an opening date. One Spanish report headlined a confirmed opening, but its text gives no date.

Lopesan wants to build a five-star family hotel in Meloneras, a district of Maspalomas in the south of Gran Canaria. The site lies in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana.

Nobody has published prices or booking options. Until Lopesan says more, anyone planning a trip to Meloneras should stick to existing hotels.

What exactly is Lopesan planning in Meloneras?

The hotel is to be called Lopesan Meloneras Family. The engineering firm TYPSA announced a new contract with Lopesan in a company statement, covering the architectural building project.

According to TYPSA, the hotel is to have 953 rooms on 160,000 square metres. Gardens, several pools, four restaurants, and retail and leisure areas are to come with it.

The contract is a step in the technical process, not the start of building. Lopesan has issued no statement of its own on the project.

How much money is behind it?

Nobody has published an investment figure for the 953-room hotel. The more than 700 million euros quoted cover the whole Meloneras 2A zone, not this hotel alone.

That zone stood idle for over 20 years, blocked by the 1996 plan and the 1987 partial plan. In 2025 the Ayuntamiento (town hall) of San Bartolomé de Tirajana freed it with a plan change.

First deputy mayor Alejandro Marichal, who is responsible for Urbanismo (town planning), set out the main points in May 2025. The change allows over 700 million euros of investment and hotels with 3,600 beds in 1,800 rooms.

Marichal also cited over 300,000 square metres of public land for sport, education, social services, health, green space and roads. The forecast counted 1,500 jobs during construction, then 900 direct and 1,500 indirect jobs afterwards.

Is it the same project as earlier Lopesan plans?

No source says whether the 953-room hotel is the same project as earlier plans. In December 2023, reports said Lopesan had received licences for a different five-star hotel in Meloneras.

That hotel was to have 533 rooms and 1,200 beds on roughly 48,000 to 50,000 square metres next to ExpoMeloneras. The investment stood at 61 million euros.

In June 2025 the council stopped work in the Pasito Blanco and El Toscón barrancos (ravines) near the Meloneras golf course. The council said building licences were missing, and only a permit to channel the ravine existed.

Ecologistas en Acción and Turcón had complained beforehand, and Lopesan called the pause voluntary, saying the project would be reorganised. Whether the stop has been lifted is not known.

Separately, media reports say the council granted a building licence for the “Hotel Meloneras Boutique”: five stars, 249 rooms, 41.6 million euros, 36 months of construction. That is not the 953-room hotel.

How full is the south already, and what comes next?

Gran Canaria had 75,473 hotel beds in 2024 and 70,635 in 2025, according to Promotur, based on the ISTAC survey (the Canarian statistics institute). San Bartolomé de Tirajana alone had 44,288 beds in 2025.

In March 2025 bed occupancy in the south stood at 79%. The source is the INE (Spain’s national statistics institute).

An EY study counts 44 hotel projects with over 6,000 rooms planned across the Canaries by 2028. It lists Lopesan with 956 rooms among the biggest additions, though nobody has checked whether it means the same project.

A council building licence, a construction timetable and a statement from Lopesan are still missing, and no source names dates. Under Ley 19/2003, a law caps bed growth on each island every three years, but how it applies today has not been checked.