Tenerife Tours: Bus, Guided And Private Island Tours, Compared Honestly

The Teide and Masca Island Tour. It is the most complete route and the most booked. If you prefer a shorter day, the El Teide Bus Tour gets you into the national park and back by mid afternoon. If you have already seen Teide, take the North Tenerife Bus Tour or the Island Tour Without Teide.

Most coach tours collect in the south: Costa Adeje, Playa de las Americas, Los Cristianos and the resorts around them. You enter your hotel name when booking and get the pick-up point and time by email. Several tours also collect in Puerto de la Cruz on set days, and the Private Teide Tour From Santa Cruz collects at the cruise port gates or your hotel in the capital.

More than most people think. Three tours start in the north: the Puerto de la Cruz to Teide half day tour, the Puerto de la Cruz Teide Stargazing with dinner, and the Private Teide Tour From Santa Cruz. Four south tours also collect in Puerto de la Cruz on set days: the Teide and Masca Island Tour, the North Tenerife Bus Tour, the La Gomera Day Trip and the La Palma Day Trip. The pick-up days and any small supplement are on each tour page. The El Teide Bus Tour and the Island Tour Without Teide leave from the south only.

Because the coach from the north is arranged specially and seats are confirmed with the operator in advance, so Club Canary asks for full payment at booking for all Puerto de la Cruz pick-ups. For the south tours you pay a small deposit online and the rest on the day. Both ways you get the same seat, the same guide and the same Best Price Guarantee.

In cash to the guide, or through a payment link or QR code the guide or the local operator gives you on the bus, where you can pay by credit card, PayPal and similar. The link is used instead of a card machine because the machines on the buses often have no signal in the mountains. It takes a minute on your phone. Club Canary has arranged thousands of these tours and this part almost never causes a problem. If you prefer, you can also pay the full amount to Club Canary online in advance.

Full day island tours run about eight hours including pick-up and drop-off. The El Teide Bus Tour and the Puerto de la Cruz tour are shorter, about five to seven hours. Ferry day trips to La Gomera and La Palma are the longest, about ten to twelve hours. Stargazing tours are evening trips of three to five hours.

Coaches carry around 30 to 50 people, have a longer pick-up round and a guide who speaks to the whole bus. Small group tours use minibuses or vans with 8 to 19 seats, collect faster, stop longer, and the guide has time for questions. Small group tours cost more per person. Both see the same places.

For two people it is a luxury. For four or more, compare it with the coach: a private tour is priced per vehicle, so six or eight people often pay about the same per head as a coach seat and get their own guide, their own route and no waiting for other guests. Cruise passengers with a fixed deadline and people with mobility limits also benefit.

No. The coaches Club Canary works with on Tenerife are slightly smaller than normal touring coaches so they can take the mountain roads, and they have no toilet. There are toilet stops at the villages and viewpoints along the route, and the guide announces them. All coaches have air conditioning.

Most coach tours Club Canary offers are multilingual, with the guide switching between English and other languages such as German, Spanish, French, Italian or Dutch depending on the group and the day. Some tours are English only, including the small group stargazing and the La Palma trip. You choose the guide language when you book, and the language shown for your date is the one that runs.

Yes, on most tours. On the coach tours children from 2 to 11 pay the child rate and children under 2 usually travel free on a parent's lap. Some tours have a minimum age or an adult only price, for example the wine tasting, the jeep safari and some stargazing tours. The age rules are on each tour page, and if you are not sure, message Club Canary on WhatsApp with the ages of your children before you book.

A warm layer, even in summer. Teide National Park sits above 2,000 metres and can be 10 degrees colder than the coast, with wind. Comfortable shoes, sunglasses, sun cream and water. In winter there can be snow and the road can close at short notice, in which case Club Canary contacts you about a new date or a refund.

No. None of the coach tours include the cable car. Some private tours can include a cable car stop if you buy the ticket in advance, and the guide can advise on timing. Queues and wind closures are common, so the coach tours stay on the accessible parts of the park.

By ferry from Los Cristianos, with a guided coach waiting on the other island. Club Canary offers a classic La Gomera day trip with lunch included, a small group La Gomera trip with a fast ferry, and a La Palma day trip with the 2021 volcano. Bring your passport or EU ID card, it is checked at the port.

You choose the tour and date on the Club Canary website and pay online. For most south tours that is a small deposit, with the rest paid to the guide on the day. For Puerto de la Cruz pick-ups it is the full amount at booking. You receive a confirmation with your pick-up time and point by email. Club Canary is a licensed travel agency in Costa Adeje that books these tours with the local operators who run them, with a Best Price Guarantee and a team you can reach every day.

The operator decides on the day, most often because of wind or snow on the Teide road or rough sea for the ferries. If the operator cancels, Club Canary offers you a new date or a full refund of everything you paid, your choice. We contact you as soon as we know, by WhatsApp or email, usually the evening before or early that morning.

Yes, and Club Canary keeps this fair. Most tours have a free cancellation window, shown on the tour page, and because you normally pay a deposit rather than the full amount, your money at risk is small. Inside the window the deposit is kept, because the seat is confirmed with the operator and often cannot be sold again. A no show or a same day cancellation is never refunded. Illness is not covered either, unless you send an official medical certificate, in which case Club Canary asks the operator for a refund on your behalf. That is why we recommend travel insurance for every holiday.