On-road buggy tours in Lanzarote: tarmac routes, Slingshot and trike

An on-road tour is a buggy, Slingshot or trike tour that sticks to tarmac and never touches a dirt track. You drive yourself, following a guide, and you see the same volcanoes and vineyards as the mixed tours. What changes is the dust, the bumps and, from this autumn, the certainty that the route will run exactly as advertised.

Which on-road buggy tours are there in Lanzarote?

Prices are the same on GetYourGuide as on each operator's own website.

The Puerto del Carmen on-road buggy: El Cuervo and Las Grietas

This is the tarmac tour with the longest track record: 4.6 out of 5 from more than 700 reviews on GetYourGuide. It is run by H2O Sports, the same company behind the off-road routes from Costa Teguise, but this one starts and finishes in Puerto del Carmen.

The route crosses Los Volcanes Natural Park, stops for a walk up to Volcán El Cuervo (around 1 km, roughly 40 minutes on foot), passes through the La Geria vineyards and pulls up at Las Grietas before heading back. A reseller listing for the same route puts it at about 70 km on tarmac.

Worth knowing before you book:

• Drivers must be 20 or over and have held their licence for two years, and bring the original licence (no copies or photos). The same page also lists "under 21" as not suitable, so if you are 20, ask first.
• According to the operator's page, it is not suitable for children under 3.
• Guides speak English and Spanish. Hotel pick-up is optional at €5 per person.
• A maximum of five buggies per group.

Meeting point and how to get there: see buggy tours in Puerto del Carmen.

Check dates for the El Cuervo on-road buggy

Lanzabuggy's 4-seater family buggy: Timanfaya on the LZ-67 and Los Hervideros

Lanzabuggy (Aventura Lanzabuggy SL) is based on the LZ-2 at km 17 in Yaiza and picks up in Costa Teguise, Puerto del Carmen, Puerto Calero and Playa Blanca. Its Family Buggy Tour uses a four-seat automatic buggy with a 1,000 cc Rotax engine (the GetYourGuide listing calls it a Maverick Sport).

The route sets off from Uga and crosses Timanfaya and Los Volcanes Natural Park by road, passing through Tinajo, Tinguatón, Mancha Blanca, Masdache, Yaiza and Tías. It stops at Los Hervideros (swapped for another stop in bad weather, road closures or during sporting events) and finishes at a La Geria winery with a shop, toilets and tapas.

Nobody goes off-road in Timanfaya National Park: you cross it on the LZ-67. More on this buggy in 4- and 6-seater buggies.

• €160 per buggy, about €40 each with four on board.
• Up to two drivers per buggy, aged 21 or over with two years' licence.
• Departures at 09:30 and 13:15.
• Rated 4.6 out of 5, but from few reviews so far (around twenty).

At the winery stop, the driver is still bound by the drink-drive limit: 0.5 g/l in the blood.

Check dates for the on-road family buggy

Slingshot and trike: tarmac in a different vehicle

Polaris Slingshot (€170 per vehicle, two seats, 3 h). The operator says a car (category B) licence is enough, but it has more than 15 kW and the law requires you to be 21 to drive that on a B licence. Lanzabuggy also asks for two years' licence. There is no published fixed route. Rated 4.7 out of 5 on GetYourGuide.

Rewaco trike (€150 per trike, up to three people, 3 h). 1,100 cc engine and a manual gearbox, worth bearing in mind if you only drive automatics. The route covers Uga, Tinguatón, La Geria, San Bartolomé, Yaiza and the La Santa and Famara coasts, with stops at La Santa and at the Monumento al Campesino or Famara. Rated 4.8 out of 5.

Since 1 October 2026, riders on trikes and quads must wear an approved helmet, gloves on inter-urban roads and closed shoes. Buggies with a roll cage and seat belts recorded on their roadworthiness (ITV) certificate are exempt. On the trike the full kit is compulsory. With the Slingshot it is not clear whether its paperwork records that exemption, so ask when you book whether you will be given a helmet. Full comparison in trike and Slingshot.

Check dates for the Slingshot · check dates for the three-seat trike

Who is an on-road buggy tour best for?

Anyone who hates dust. Reviews of the mixed tours keep mentioning the dust from the tracks. On tarmac you avoid nearly all of it.

Families with young children. Two-seat buggies usually require passengers to be at least 1.35 m tall (because of the child-restraint rules). On H2O's on-road tour the only published exclusion is for under-3s, and an agency reselling Lanzabuggy's four-seater says there is no minimum age for passengers. Check with your children's exact ages.

Bad backs, with caveats. Tarmac spares you the potholes of the tracks, but H2O still lists back problems and pregnancy among the conditions not suitable for its tours. If that applies to you, ask before you pay.

Who it is not for: if you want dirt, loose bends and technical driving, an on-road tour will feel tame. One H2O review says it plainly: they had expected some driving on tracks. For that, look at the off-road tours.

What if the Cabildo restricts the dirt tracks?

On 2 October 2026 the Cabildo de Lanzarote (the island council) opened a one-month public consultation on an island bylaw that could restrict or ban tourist use of buggies and quads on dirt tracks and rural land. In July 2026 the councillor for territorial policy had already floated a temporary ban that would have left companies on tarmac only; it was never approved.

Nothing is banned today. But if the bylaw goes through, many routes are likely to move onto tarmac, and the tours that are already on-road would not need to change. If you are booking a mixed tour for the coming weeks, check where it will go when you book. Routes may switch to tarmac. The full background is in the Lanzarote buggy guide.

Reviewed: 6 October 2026