Wednesday, 06 February 2019 09:16

Gran Canaria Tip: Where To Go For St Patrick's Night

Gran Canaria has St Patrick's Night celebrations in all major resorts and in Las Palmas Gran Canaria has St Patrick's Night celebrations in all major resorts and in Las Palmas photosgrancanaria.com

If you're in Gran Canaria on March 17 for St Patrick's night, here's where to go for the best craic.

The best St Patrick's night spots in Playa del Inglés

In Playa del Inglés, head to the Aguila Roja Shopping centre at the east end of the resort. Also known as the Irish Centre, it is famous for its Paddy's night celebrations. Members of our Facebook Group recommend the atmosphere at Patrick's Bar and Mulligans

Alternatively, head to the Red Cow and Shenanigans in the Prisma Centre.

Where to go for St Patrick's night in Puerto Rico

The Puerto Rico shopping centre goes all in for St Patrick's Night with a parade of local Irish residents, plenty of green, orange and white balloons and drinks offers in most of the bars. Dicey Reillys, the Shamrock and the Horse & Jockey are good places to start but just wander around and dip into anywhere that has the atmosphere right.

Celebrating St Patrick's night in Puerto de Mogán

There are two Irish bars right by the water in the marina: The cosy Irish Tavern and the much larger Dennehys with tables on the square. The Bar Marina at the west end of the town by the boatyard is also Irish owned. 

Irish bars in Las Palmas for St Patrick's Night

After years with no proper pubs, Las Palmas has two real Irish bars. Irish-owned Paddy's Anchor sports bar on the beachfront is a big place and will be heaving on March 17 with the Guinness flowing. The smaller, pubbier, Irish Rover on Calle Diderot will also have an excellent atmosphere and also does Guinness.  

Over in the old town, head to McCarthy's Irish Pub. It's an Irish pub out of a box but hey, Paddy's night is what you make of it. 

 

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    The Parafarmacia In Gran Canaria Is Not A Chemist!

    If there is one thing we hate it is visitors being tricked in Gran Canaria. In the past we've warned about overcharging at Gran Canaria chemists, and rip off electronics shops in resorts. 

    In this Tip Of The Day we return to the island's chemists or rather, to the island's fake chemists.

    A chemist in Gran Canaria is called a Farmacia and always has a green cross sign. Farmacias are the only place tobuy medicine in Spain, even basics like paracetamol.

    However, there is another kind of shop in Gran Canaria that looks and sounds like a chemist but doesn't sell medicine. This is the Parafarmacia and it also uses a green cross sign.

    A parafarmacia is a herbal medicine shop that is not allowed to sell any normal medicine such as paracetamol, ibuprofen or antibiotics. 

    Instead, parafarmacias sell herbal alternatives to medicine but don't have to prove that they work and they can charge whatever they want.

    We recently heard from a visitor to Gran Canaria who went into a parafarmacia and was charged 40 euros for a herbal alternative to Ibuprofen. It was only when they read the label that they realised what had happened. 

    To locate a genuine farmacia, see this website and search within your municipio (Puerto Rico is in Mogán, Playa del Inglés is in San Bartolomé de Tirajana). At weekends and on fiesta days many farmacias close but there is always one open, known as the farmacia de guardia, in each municipio.

    Search for the nearest one to you with this tool

    Lex Says: To keep costs down, see this article for the way to ask for generic medicine rather than expensive branded alternatives. 

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