Tenerife on a budget
Tired of staring at glossy brochures listing holidays that you know you simply can’t afford? Desperate to get away for a few weeks in the sun? Well there is another way. Thousands of holiday makers every year are looking to the budget end of the travel market to find their well earned annual break. The internet is a great place to start looking for these realistically priced holidays which can be built to suit your own needs.
The best deals are normally to be found at the more popular resorts and the island of Tenerife is an excellent destination for a budget holiday. Cheap holidays to Tenerife are out there, you just need to know where to look.
First thing; getting there. The internet is full of flight offers and cheap flights to Tenerife are not too difficult to come by. The main charter airlines all fly here as do most of the budget airlines although there are one or two exceptions. The best way in which to find your cheap flights to Tenerife is to use a flight search company. This way you can price the flight from your local airport.
Bear in mind the cheapest flights will normally be out of a major airport such as Gatwick or Manchester, but even allowing for travel, this can still be a better budget option than a local airport. Tenerife has two major airports, Reine Sofia in the South and Los Rodeos in the North, so make sure that the flight you are booking is not going to land at the opposite end of the island to your chosen hotel.
Flight found, you now have to get to your destination. Again the internet is full of websites offering resort transfers. These can be obtained quite cheaply if booked well enough in advance. If you do your homework before you fly you will have a good idea as to taxi prices and transfer alternatives, having found your cheap flights to Tenerife you don’t want to ruin your budget with an expensive transfer. One thing to bear in mind is that although a multi drop coach transfer may seem reasonable, you could also be sitting on the bus for a couple of hours as you get through all the drops whereas a direct transfer may take as little as twenty minutes.
Accommodation on Tenerife can again be found on the internet. There are accommodation search sites which will call up the details of all available hotels on your chosen dates. A little more research will find you plenty of reasonably priced apartments for rent. The larger resorts will have the greatest variety on offer. As an example, Playa de Las Americas is a lively resort where cheap holidays to Tenerife shouldn’t be hard to find.
Remember that self catering accommodation is often cheap to book but do allow plenty in your budget for food, something else to remember is that most apartments in Tenerife have hob style cookers but no ovens or grills, so meal preparation on a self catering holiday is limited.
