E-scooters on Lanzarote: Hoppy in Puerto del Carmen, what a ride costs, the promenade, the airport and Spain’s rules

Which e-scooter app works on Lanzarote?

This guide, like our map, covers shared e-scooters: the stand-up kind you unlock with an app and pay for by the minute, not mopeds or mobility scooters. On Lanzarote our map shows one operator, Hoppy, and only in Puerto del Carmen, in the municipality of Tías. In Spain your contract is with Hoppylectrico S.L. of Elche.

At 00:03 local time on Saturday 31 October 2026 the map of Puerto del Carmen showed 205 Hoppy scooters free to rent at that moment. That total covers Hoppy’s whole Puerto del Carmen area, from just west of the old harbour along the seafront to Matagorda. The map shows each scooter’s place, its range and Hoppy’s price; zoom in and it draws Hoppy’s two no-ride areas too, but not its parking spots, so the app has the final word.

Dott isn’t on the map. Dott lists Lanzarote among its locations but names no town, area or price there; if you see a Dott scooter, its app has the details.

Elsewhere, councils remove rental scooters that lack a municipal permit: Yaiza’s police took 82 shared scooters off Playa Blanca’s streets on 9–13 May 2026, and Teguise’s were removing unauthorised ones in Costa Teguise later that month. Arrecife, the capital, has none on the map, and shops that hire out e-scooters by the day aren’t on it either.

How much does a Hoppy scooter cost in Puerto del Carmen?

Hoppy charges €1.20 to unlock plus €0.35 or €0.37 a minute, depending on the scooter, and most are on the higher rate. The map shows each scooter’s rate, as in “€1.20 to unlock, then €0.37 a minute”, and the app shows it before you unlock.

You pay for every minute the scooter is unlocked, moving or not, until you end the ride at a spot. A rental can last up to 24 hours and costs at most €361.

Signing up. You need a phone and a credit or debit card, which Hoppy asks for before you can register; it then tops up your balance automatically unless you turn that off. You need no driving licence: you confirm in the app that you’re 18, the age Hoppy requires, although Spanish law lets you ride from 15. New to shared scooters? See how to rent an e-scooter.

Where to start and end a ride: Hoppy’s 63 spots

A Hoppy ride can start and end only at one of its marked parking spots: 63 along the resort on 31 October 2026. Elsewhere you can ride, outside the two no-ride areas below, but not end the ride, so find the nearest spot in the app before you set off: you pay until the ride ends. Park inside the marked area, upright and out of people’s way.

Tías’s police remove rental scooters left on pavements, promenades and pedestrian areas and keep them in the municipal depot.

Can you ride on the Avenida de las Playas promenade?

No. Spanish law bans all vehicles from pavements and lets e-scooters into other pedestrian areas, promenades included, only where a town’s bylaw allows it. Tías has no such bylaw in force, so the seafront promenade is for walking.

• The bike lane. A bike lane runs along the Avenida de las Playas, the seafront avenue. Spanish law lets e-scooters use a bike lane only where signs allow them; otherwise ride on the road or walk the scooter.
• The old town by the harbour. Hoppy won’t let you ride through, start or end a ride in a small no-ride area around the old harbour.
• Inland. A large Hoppy no-ride area covers the land behind the resort, up towards Tías village and the LZ-2. The seafront at Playa Grande, Los Pocillos and Matagorda lies outside both no-ride areas.
• The beaches. Tías’s beaches bylaw bans vehicles of any kind from its beaches and bathing areas, and from the strip of coast that must stay free for people on foot. Riding or parking one on a beach is a serious offence, fined €750.01–1,500.

The airport, Arrecife and the guaguas

Interurban roads, here the LZ-2 above all, are closed to e-scooters, and Hoppy has no spot outside the resort: none at the airport, in Puerto Calero, in Tías or in Arrecife.

• The airport. César Manrique-Lanzarote airport lies beside Matagorda, but you can’t end a ride there: on 31 October 2026 the nearest scooter stood about 2 km from the terminal. Intercity Bus line 161 leaves Terminal 1 every 30–60 minutes from 07:30 to 21:30 (timetable of 31 October 2026) and reaches Matagorda in about 6 minutes, then runs along the resort to Puerto Calero, Yaiza and Playa Blanca. It doesn’t carry passengers between two stops within Puerto del Carmen.
• Arrecife. Line 2 links the capital with Puerto del Carmen.
• Your own scooter on the guagua. Intercity Bus Lanzarote, which runs the island’s buses (guaguas), carries bikes and e-scooters only folded in the luggage hold, never inside, one per person, on buses that have a hold. A Hoppy must end its ride at one of its spots, so it can’t go on the bus.

Spain’s e-scooter rules for visitors

Spain’s rules changed on 1 October 2026 and apply here as everywhere else; the Canary Islands have no e-scooter law of their own. On a rental, the operator handles registration and insurance.

A helmet has been compulsory for every e-scooter rider in Spain since 1 October 2026, on rental scooters too: €200, and the police may immobilise the scooter. Hoppy’s terms also require a CE-marked helmet on every ride, and Hoppy doesn’t lend one, so pack your own.

Fines are halved if you pay within 20 days, and according to Spain’s traffic authority, the DGT, you lose no licence points on an e-scooter. The scooter’s lights must be on after dark, and from 1 October 2027 by day too.

Do the scooters run all year? Season and sun

• All year, round the clock. Hoppy gives its Puerto del Carmen hours as 24/7 and publishes no winter break. After dark, wear the reflective item the law requires.
• Sun. At Lanzarote airport, beside Matagorda, the average daily high ranges from 20.7 °C in January to 29.1 °C in August, with 2,986 hours of sunshine and about 19 rainy days a year (AEMET, 1981–2010).
• Range. Hoppy’s scooters can go up to 60 km on a full battery; the map of Puerto del Carmen shows how far each one has left.

Hoppy also runs on Fuerteventura, in Caleta de Fuste and Corralejo: see e-scooters in Fuerteventura. Going on to Tenerife? See e-scooters in Tenerife.

Did you know?

• Hoppy once rented in Playa Blanca too. In June 2024 Yaiza’s police began removing the scooters of Bird, Hoppylectrico (Hoppy’s Spanish company) and a third firm, Spadimur, from Playa Blanca because they had no permit. On 18 June the council gave initial approval to its mobility bylaw.
• Three summers of removals. Tías’s police removed 34 rental scooters from Puerto del Carmen in July 2024, because the company running them had no municipal permit, then 72 e-scooters in August 2025 and 71 in one week of July 2026.
• A bylaw five years in the making. Tías consulted the public on an e-scooter bylaw in August 2021; in July 2026 La Voz de Lanzarote reported that it had commissioned a consultancy to draft one.
• A €340,000 repair. The Cabildo, the island government, resurfaced the Avenida de las Playas bike lane between Calle Acatife and Avenida Italia for €339,606 of Spanish tourism funds, passed on by the Canary Islands government; the works finished in February 2023.