A tourist has been injured at a Lanzarote holiday hotel after falling from the second floor right into a knee-deep fish pond crammed with Koi carp and terrapins.
Firefighters and medical staff needed to be called to rescue the victim after the bizarre incident on the five-star H10 Rubicon Horizons Collection in the favored resort of Playa Blanca.
The alarm was raised around 11:30pm on Saturday.
The water within the fish pond the person fell into, considered two floors below street level by a hotel buffet restaurant, was only about 15 inches deep.
Medical staff had already fitted him with a neck brace by the point firefighters arrived.
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They lifted him out on a rescue board that they had strapped him onto before taking him to a waiting ambulance.
He was then evacuated to Molina Orosa Hospital within the Lanzarote capital Arrecife.
The tourist’s nationality and age has yet to be released.
It was not immediately clear this morning what his current condition is and the way he managed to fall and find yourself where he did.
Local police and Civil Guard officers were also mobilised by a regional government emergency response coordination centre but couldn’t be reached today for comment.
The hotel where the incident occurred, which recently modified its name from the H10 Rubicon Palace, said it will not be saying anything due to ‘client confidentiality.’
The seafront adults-only establishment bills itself online as an iconic five star resort with an interior design inspired by the island of Lanzarote.
Playa Blanca is Lanzarote’s southernmost town and is extremely popular with British tourists.
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