Travel to Tenerife

Flying to Tenerife

Spain's national airline is Iberia (www.iberia.com), which provides frequent flights to Tenerife from mainland Spain and destinations across Europe. Budget airlines including EasyJet (www.easyjet.com) and Ryanair (www.ryanair.com) have frequent flights to Tenerife from across the UK.

Flights are cheaper and more frequent during the winter high season from September/October to March/Easter.

Airport Guides

Flight times

From London to Tenerife is approximately 4 hours 20 minutes.

Departure tax

None

Travelling to Tenerife by Rail

Driving to Tenerife

Getting to Tenerife by boat

Tenerife has a major port in its capital city of Santa Cruz (www.puertosdetenerife.org) which is currently the only port of entry for goods ships and passenger liners. Plans for a second port, in Granadilla in the south east of the island, met strong local opposition on ecological grounds but should be completed by 2018.

Cruise ships

Tenerife is a popular stopover for transatlantic cruise liners, including the QM2, with more than 500,000 passengers disembarking into Santa Cruz in 2015.

Ferry operators

Trasmediterranea (tel: +34 902 454 645; www.trasmediterranea.es) operates a weekly service between Lanzarote, Las Palmas and Tenerife and Cadiz in mainland Spain. Armas (tel: 0034 928 33 600; www.navieraarmas.com) sails weekly to Lanzarote, Las Palmas and Tenerife from Huelva.