Tenerife Information for Tourists and Resident Expats

Tenerife has a staggering selection of holiday accommodation. For the independant family booking into a self-catering holiday apartment in Los Cristianos or Las Americas would be ideal. In most cases you have all the comforts and amenities of a first class hotel but are not tied to specific mealtimes.

Those who have no inclination to be grocery shopping, cooking or washing their own dishes will be happy to know that Tenerife has a very wide choice of hotels from homely 2 and 3 stars to fabulous world class five star deluxe. Considering the quality of the latter, you will be happily surprised at hotel rates here.

Look at the descriptions of the Hotel Sir Anthony (5 star) in Las Americas and the Hotel Colon Guaranhani (4 star) in Fañabe for example. You can also use the box here to search according to dates to see which hotels and aparthotels have availibility for your preferred dates and to compare prices. (Prices quoted are all-inclusive - no hidden charges!)

Tenerife is a fantastic destination for all kinds of watersports, diving and windsurfing. If you are on holiday with children there are many themeparks from the most famous which is Loro Parque in Puerto de la Cruz though personally I prefer the Eagle Park (Aguilas Park) near Los Cristianos.

A new venture from the Loro Parque group is Siam Park which is slated to open in December 07. It will be Europes biggest water park and hopefully will price itself more reasonably than the outrageously overpriced Aguapark.

The sadly demised Skypark looks like it is gone for good and word has it that the location will one day be a train station! Don't hold your breath on that one though because as yet Tenerife has no trains.

Scuba-diving, Bob-diving, quad-biking, rock-climbing, camel riding, horse riding ... you may not have enough time to fit it all into one holiday.

For those who like a more leisurely holiday, all the hotels and most self-catering complexes have pools to lounge around. Many of the villas actually have their own private pools and considering that many of the privately owned holiday villas in Tenerife sleep 6 or more you will be pleasantly surprised at the fantastic rates on offer.

There are beaches galore though many are natural pebble or silky, black volcanic sand.

You can arrange a walking tour of Santa Cruz or a visit to Tenerife's mysterious pyramids at Guimar.

Well by this time you've probably heard or read all the usual tourist office stuff: the fabulous year-round temperatures, the ecological diversity, the wealth of family friendly attractions, the choice of accommodation, variety of restaurants, etc.

It's all true. Whether you are planning a romantic getaway with your one-and-only in a private holiday villa, a golfing break with the boys,  a family holiday with kids in tow in Costa del Silencio or a great blast with a bunch of friends in Las Americas, Tenerife does have something for everyone.

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