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So we want a last minute holiday without rain next week. So far I’ve looked at Athens and found flights and a boutique hotel we have stayed in before has availability but I’m thinking maybe something different. It’s going to rain in Madeira and Portugal so I thought maybe a Canary Island.
I’ve stayed in Gran Canaria before and we’re not really into English pubs and the Yumbo Centre these days. So I’m thinking maybe another island or different part of Gran Canaria.
Any tips of where to go for a bit of culture and no English pubs?
Loads of culture, history and geology in Tenerife, especially in the capital Santa Cruz. It has a long and fascinating history – including being the site of the battle where Nelson lost his arm! A trip to the caldera at the base of Mt Teide is a must or even take the cable car to the summit which will be covered with snow just now – a mesmerising sight from the ground when you are lying in the sun!
Loads of culture, history and geology in Tenerife, especially in the capital Santa Cruz. It has a long and fascinating history – including being the site of the battle where Nelson lost his arm! A trip to the caldera at the base of Mt Teide is a must or even take the cable car to the summit which will be covered with snow just now – a mesmerising sight from the ground when you are lying in the sun!
Thanks sounds good. Maybe another time as the BBC Weather app says it’s going to rain most of next week.
It certainly can’t compete with Athens, but I found Santa Cruz de Tenerife pleasant and not particularly touristy.
It’s not quite culture but there’s also some cracking natural scenery on your doorstep if you have a hire car.
Lanzarotte is a strange place. Quite unique, volcano is worth a visit, as is the underground theatre. Not your average beach resort island if you choose to look around. Sadly lots of brits go to a resort and just sit round the pool 🤷
nice 70’s designed place near the cactus museum, which had some rare glow in dark crabs- also ocean water filled swimming pools on coast. Going up a volcano and eating at a baking hot hotel restaurant was fun. Such a bonkers landscape. I much preferred lanzarote to tenerife
did whale watching in tenerife, was a high light, the rest I found gnarly
Yes, whale and dolphin watching highly recommended. When we went in 2021 we saw dolphins, pilot whales plus an enormous fin whale.
Santa Cruz also has a Calatrava-designed auditorium plus a number of museums and galleries. Towns like La Laguna and La Orotava have interesting architecture and natural features. There’s a world-famous observatory part way up to Mt Teide which does tours if you’re interested in astronomy.Lanzarote is beautiful – you can find white sand beaches and snorkeling worthy of the Caribbean. With all the islands, if you avoid the biggest tourist resorts you’d hardly know they were there!
Go to Porto , you won’t regret it
Cesar Manrique Foundation and his house on Lanzarote…
I don’t think Porto will be very warm next week!
Next Tuesday 21st February, is Mardi Gras/ Carnaval, so check accommodation availability before booking flights. Some Carnavals in Spain are great.
Puerto de Mogan and Meloneras on Gran Canaria have some good accommodation.Tenerife has variable weather depending on where you are, the North (which is more interesting) tends to have more rain. Perhaps a split stay for some pool time before you come home? Though the weather throughout the Canaries hasn’t been particularly good recently .
I like Lanzarote too , plenty to do away from the real tourist spots if you have a car
I don’t think Porto will be very warm next week!
20 degrees for the next 7 days, superb restaurants and a bit of culture, excellent shopping and a short transfer from the airport.
That’ll do me.18 degrees in Adeje and nowt to do, two hours to Porto and four to Tenerife innit?
Looks like we need to visit Tenerife and Lanzarote later in the year.
It’s going to rain in Porto next Tuesday and Wednesday.
No it isn’t, it’ll be very pleasant.
Have a lovely holiday wherever you decide to goNorth Tenerife is a world apart from the high-rise, purpose-built resorts in the south. It’s a place of charming old colonial towns, dramatic sea-cliffs, moss-covered pine forests, endless vineyards, banana plantations, boutique hotels, and lunar volcanic landscapes. The climate is more to my liking, too – cooler, cloudier, damper.
Costa Adeje and it’s environs have little to draw me. But I will never have enough of the North.
I lived in Puerto de la Cruz for a year as a student many years ago and the most annoying thing was the cool/cloudy/damp weather! But all the other stuff, absolutely, and the climate does make for spectacular contrasts between north and south.
The Carnival in Santa Cruz is the biggest outside Rio apparently so accommodation would probably be an issue,
We were in Tenerife a few weeks ago – we spent the first half of the holiday in Costa Adeje but it is touristy – you can find quieter beaches if you go further away from Los Cristianos. We went to Garachico in the north – lovely little town with 2 very nice heritage hotels. The weather was cloudier and cooler but it may have been the same in the south.
And it’s very hilly if that’s a factor – I used muscles I didn’t know I had going up and down. My legs ached for days.
@qc, the San Roque in Garachico is an excellent boutique hotel, brimming with character and fantastic food. Highly recommended.
@jj – we stayed at the San Roque.
As others say, due to the flecha shape of Tenerife, the relief of Teide and the trade winds and movement of the Azores anticyclone, weather varies a lot across the island and changes rapidly.
For culture get to the North and East os the island or, better still, go to La Gomera or La Palma.
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