The town of Taurito is stunning. It's a bay that has been built up as a tourist resort, with most hotels built into the hills on both sides. The abandoned hotel Taurito is no exception, having been built, or at least intended to be built into the eastern hillside. Around the height of the global financial crisis of 2008, Spain and the Canary Islands, Greece, Portugal, and Ireland were hit hard. Spain found itself with a massive financial hangover and this is one of the reasons why the Canaries are littered with abandoned would-be hotels like this one. This hotel was started in 2007 and work was abandoned in 2009. Having spent a week in Gran Canaria in January / February 24, and of course, loving a bit of urbex, we were keen to check out the abandoned hotel of Taurito.
Nobody knows for sure why construction was stopped in 2008. It is simply assumed that nervous bankers pulled the plug and that all workers on site were told to down tools and leave. The state of the site would certainly back up this theory. This is a magnificent but partially completed concrete jungle that has been basking in the Canarian sun for nearly eighteen years. Nothing has happened here since, for whatever reason, construction stopped. Whilst some of the more portable tools and valuable assets will have been taken, the site is littered with things such as electrical fuse boxes as well as staircases that remain without guard rails. The idea, looking at the bare bones of the place would suggest that the hotel had a large number of rooms facing the sun as it would rise over the opposite hillside. During my visit, at around mid-day at the end of January, I witnessed the sun just starting to rise and then covering the site, as can be seen in the video. #urbex