Tenerife Bus Service TITSA

Tenerife’s bus service is really very good.

Often unfairly maligned, it runs regularly, the buses are clean and the drivers are usually friendly. In fact, as a way of getting about, taking a Tenerife bus from say, Costa Del Silencio to Santa Cruz, is really hard to beat. On that particular route there is a more direct service and one that goes through every twist, turn and cul-de-sac between here and Timbuctu – certainly worth doing once for the sight-seeing value but in general you are better to go for the more direct bus.

On the Santa Cruz route, pay attention to the bus stops that you pass along the way. Some seem to be perched on the roadside with nothing nearby but an eye-watering uphill scramble to a far off pueblo you can just make out clinging to the hillside in the distance.

Time to time the bus stops and lets people off in the middle of nowhere and you think … what? Where on earth are these people going for there is nothing in sight except a steep hillside or a cliff falling away to the sea.

Using Santa Cruz, Los Cristianos or Las Americas as a hub, there is really nowhere in Tenerife that you can’t get to by bus.

One of the island’s most experienced and entertaining bus afficiandos is writer Colin Kirby. Many of the Tenerife adventures that he writes about on his blog start off in the early morning at a bus stop.

The only reservations I have about

the Tenerife bus service are: 1) Do not try to catch a bus out of Los Cristianos or Las Americas between about 4pm and 7pm. Having been there several times myself, even heavily pregnant, I can tell you that it is worth the price of a taxi to avoid the unsightly scrum to get a seat.

2) The TITSA website – what a nightmare! Forget trying to make head nor tail of the extrememly confusing TITSA website. There are very handy little bus timetables given out at all the Tourist Info centres and you will find they make much more sense than the porridge of information that you have to wade through on the TITSA website.

Bono Bus Discount Card

There is a discount card which can be purchased from all stations and terminals of TITSA and many shops around Tenerife. The Bono-Bus card costs about €12 but saves up to 30% of the cost of transport as well as discounts for entry into Tenerife’s museums.

TITSA website

TITSA Downloads – bus timetables, routes, etc.

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