€200 for the whole minibus with one or two of you, then €25 more for each extra passenger up to nine, at any hour. Across the island to the green north. With nine of you, that comes to about €42 each, straight to your hotel door.
Whether you are staying on the seafront by Lago Martianez or in a garden hotel above the town, your transfer from Tenerife airport to Puerto de la Cruz crosses the island to your door. Below are the hotels we drive to most, with the best known described in full.
Any address in Puerto de la Cruz costs the same. We have no link with the hotels named here; they are simply some of the best known in the area.
H10 Tenerife Playa stands on the seafront at Avenida Colon, facing the Lago Martianez pools. It runs on an all-inclusive basis. There are two pools for adults, one heated in winter, a children's pool, a jacuzzi and a garden with Balinese beds. The spa and the gym are on the tenth floor, with views over the sea. Family rooms and a day and evening entertainment programme suit a family holiday, and the minibus crosses the island to the door, from €200 for your whole group.
Hotel Botanico is a five-star grand luxury hotel on Avenida Richard J. Yeoward, next to the botanical garden of Puerto de la Cruz. Its own gardens cover about 25,000 square metres, with Mount Teide in view. The Oriental Spa Garden takes up some 3,500 square metres of them. It was the first hotel in the Canary Islands to join The Leading Hotels of the World. For a stay like this, the private minibus waits for you inside arrivals and drives you to the entrance, from €200 for your whole group.
Melia Costa Atlantis stands on Avenida Venezuela in Puerto de la Cruz. It reopened after a four million euro renovation. In its gardens are two outdoor pools, one for adults and one for children. That makes it an easy choice for a family stay in the north, close to Lago Martianez and the old town. The whole family and the cases travel in one minibus across the island, from €200 for your whole group.
The animal park at Punta Brava, opened in 1972 with about 150 parrots and now spread over some 13.5 hectares. It keeps orcas, dolphins and gorillas, and the Planet Penguin ice house. It is five minutes from the seafront.
The sea-water pools on the promenade, designed by Cesar Manrique among tropical gardens and his wind sculptures. A protected historic garden since 2005.
The black-sand beach at the western end of town, laid out by Cesar Manrique with gardens and waterfalls.
The oldest botanical garden in the Canary Islands, near Playa de Martianez.
From TFS airport to Puerto de la Cruz, every hotel, villa and apartment, to the door rather than the nearest bus stop. All at the same price.
Puerto de la Cruz was one of the first tourist towns in the Canary Islands, named a site of national tourist interest in 1955. Its historic quarter keeps more than 140 protected buildings around Plaza del Charco. By the sea, Plaza de Europa opens out beside the town hall.
The road runs up the east coast past Santa Cruz, then down into the north. If your airline also flies into Tenerife North, that airport is much closer; most UK flights land at Tenerife South, and that is the drive we price here.
The bus from Tenerife South Airport to Puerto de la Cruz runs direct only a few times a day, so after a delayed flight the next one can be a long wait. A taxi from the rank runs on the meter for the whole drive across the island, and a family of five or a group may need two cars.
One minibus for up to nine, from €200 for your whole group, with the price agreed before you fly. A late landing or slow traffic on the long drive north changes nothing in what you pay.
Your Puerto de la Cruz airport transfer works the other way too: the same price and the same driver standard, collected from your door at the time you choose. We recommend being at the airport three hours before your flight.
A taxi from the rank runs on the meter, so the fare changes with the time of day and the traffic. Our transfer is a fixed price for the whole minibus, one way: €200 for one or two, €375 for nine, agreed when you book.
You choose the pickup time when you book. We recommend being at the airport three hours before your flight, and from Puerto de la Cruz the drive crosses the island, so allow for it.
