I signed up to Tripadvisor in 2007 for one reason and one reason only. Its Tenerife forum was rife with misinformation. The biggest culprit was connected to the weather. When people asked about the difference in temperatures between north and south Tenerife, coastal temperatures were given for the south whilst for the north those given were taken from readings at...
There are plenty of hotel swimming pools on Tenerife where architects have been allowed to let their imaginations off the leash. These are my ten personal favourites.
“Soy canario, no soy español.” “I’m Canarian, I’m not Spanish.” It’s something we’ve been proudly told countless times over the years in the Canary Islands. When the person saying it has referred to me as being English I usually respond with a counter “soy escocés, no soy inglés” (“I’m Scottish, I’m not English”) which usually...
It's the Hard Rock Hotel. Unless you're booking from a jungle hut where you've been living as a hermit for the last couple of decades, you should have an idea what to expect from a brand which is famous throughout the world.
“Why did they think that was going to work?” It’s a question we ask sometimes when we see a new venture where the venture isn’t in the slightest bit new at all. In our first summer on Tenerife we sat beside a young man in the Beehive Bar in Puerto de la Cruz. He and his wife had recently opened a bar, a Brit bar to be precise. It was in a local; business...
In 2016 a lot of the year was spent exploring different shores, even so we enjoyed yet another interesting year full of new experiences.
Playa Paraiso - Paradise Beach - it's the sort of name which conjures up visions of long, golden sand beaches lapped by turquoise water and backed by a row of swaying palm trees.