Tenerife Tourist Guide

Ryanair flights to Tenerife Sur

Ryanair is opening late 2007 the following new flight routes:

Dublin - Tenerife South (From 19 October)
East Midlands - Tenerife South (From 30 October)
Liverpool - Tenerife South (From 30 October)
Shannon - Tenerife South (From 10 November)

Prices are starting by less than 99 GBP (150 Euro) including taxes and baggage fees. All these flights to Tenerife from UK or Ireland take about four hours to reach Tenerife.

Ryanair started to fly late 2006 to the Island of Tenerife through his flight Dublin - Tenerife North. We used this route last year, with a really cheap price (50 Euro return ticket, including taxes).

More information in ryanair.com.

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Britain’s rainy summer boosts winter sun tourism

Budget airline Jet2.com reported a significant increase of tourists to the Canary Islands, as the miserable weather in United Kingdom encouraged more and more Britons to book summer and winter sun holidays.

“The summer has been abysmal in the UK and we have already seen a surge in bookings for package holidays to the sun for the remainder of the summer” said Jet2holidays.com’s general manager, Mandy Round.

“Early bookings figures indicate that there will be a knock-on effect for winter as families who have holidayed in the UK look for cheap winter deals to the sun.”

Among the airline’s deals are week-long breaks to Tenerife from 120 Euro (£79) per person for travel in November. This is based on four people sharing a single bedroom self-catering apartment at the Sand Club Apartments in Golf del Sur, flying from Belfast, Blackpool, Leeds Bradford, Manchester and Newcastle.

Jet2.com mentions that Tadcaster, Yorkshire averages only 1.6 hours of sun per day and 8 °C (47 °F) in November, while Tenerife has 7 hours and 24 °C (75 °F) (see Tenerife yearly weather)

Source: Jet2

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Your consulate in Tenerife (I)

Due to the high presence of tourism in the Canary Islands, most of the main European countries have consulates in the Island. If you are looking for a consulate/embassy address in Tenerife, the following addresses may be useful:

Consulate of United Kingdom
Plaza Weyler, 8-1o
38003 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Phone: +34 922 286 653/+34 922 286 863
Fax: +34 922 289 903
Opening times: 8,30am-2pm
Email: tenerife.enquiries@fco.gov.uk
Web site: www.britishembassy.gov.uk/…

Consulate of Ireland
Castillo, 8-4o A
38002 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Phone: +34 922 245 671
Fax: +34 922 249 957
Opening hours: 10am-1pm

Consulate of Germany
Costa y Grijalba, 18-bajo
38004 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Phone: +34 922 248 820
Fax: +34 922 151 555
Monday to Thursday 10am-1pm

Consulate of Belgium
Villalba Hervás, 4-2o
38002 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Phone: +34 922 241 193 (In case of emergency: +34 620 201 769)
Fax: +34 922 241 194
Opening time: 9am-1pm
Web site: www.diplomatie.be/tenerife/

Consulate of Netherlands
Villalba Hervás, 5-3o
38002 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Phone: +34 922 271 721
Fax: +34 922 240 287
Opening time: 9am-12,30pm
Email: nlgovtfe@terra.es

Consulate of France
Punta de la vista, 3 - 1o
38111 Santa Maria del Mar
Phone: +34 922 232 710
Fax: +34 922 232 517
Opening time: 9am-12,30pm
Email: consulat.tenerife@telefonica.es

Please notice most of the consulates like the British, Irish or German are situated in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Tenerife North).

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Tenerife and variations of the word

Where is the word Tenerife coming from? Same as many places names in the Canary Islands, the word Tenerife is not Spanish at all. It comes in fact from ‘ten er efez’, name given by the old aborigines of La Palma, an island nearby. It meant ‘White Mountain’ (ten = mountain, er efez = white), referring to the Mountain Teide, easily visible from that island.

Although typically not translated, we can find these translations:

Spanish: Tenerife (pronunciation: tānārē’fā)[key]
English: Tenerife or sometimes Teneriffe
German: Teneriffa
French: Ténérife
Hungarian: Tenerifei

The misspellings of the word Tenerife are very common. Having a look to our visits logs from Google, Yahoo or MSN, the most common ones are Teneriff, Tennerife, Tenerifi, Tenerrife, Trenerife or even Tenerreef. Less common are Tenerifa and Trenerife.

If you know other names given to this island, do not hesitate to let us know

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Tenerife photos from tourists and locals

Flickr has an important collection of photos of Tenerife. We found these pictures far more real than the typical tourist guides photos, as they show the Island of Tenerife from the point of view of tourists and locals. If you click in the photo below, it will be shown the author and a link with the original location.

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