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Seven Night Tenerife Self-Catering Stay For Two Adults and Up to 2 Children for €189
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18-10-2011 4:12pm#1
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Meh, if I have to attend a meeting for an hour or so, what harm. Neither in the position to buy a time-share, nor would I have any interest in one. Not someone that can be "hard-sold" either (working in pre-sales myself so I'm well able to handle salesmen
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The reviews on tripadviser for the apartment complex are all good so it could be as simple as the usual "meet-and-greet" you get on package holidays. If not, sure the worst it can cost me is an hour of judging some guys sales pitch!0 -
i actually used to live 2 minutes up the road from the complex and it's grand. yes, it is a timeshare resort, but don't let that put you off, if you show no interest they won't hassle you about it. if you want a celeb endorsement, sporty spice owns one of the apartments.
the upsides are that there's plenty to do locally in los gigantes, puerto santiago and playa de la arena as well as a little further afield, with the only real downside being that the complex is as the top of what is affectionately known locally as 'cardiac hill' so wherever you go, the journey out is always going to be downhill, but the journey home will always be up hill and its a real fecker of a hill by any standards.
having said that, when you're walking up it pissed with friends after a night out, it is a bit of a laugh and the taxi's are cheap and plentiful (and normally mercs).
it's a great spot for scuba diving, whale and dolphin trips, fishing, hiking and you can even visit some of the sites used in scenes from star wars up near the (dormant, but still smoking) volcano and the new clash of the titans (meh, not so much) movie as well as several of others if you're in to that sort of thing.
if you have any questions, just give me a shout. it's been over 10 years since i lived there and i'm ready to go back to catch up with old friends, so i'm all booked up!
edit: also, booking.com has those apartments going for anything up to 900 quid a week, booking direct someone said they got it for 300 pounds for a week. for a comparison, i'm after checking with a mate over there and 1 bed self catering apts. are going for around 210-220 euro per week if booked locally.0 -
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it really is a lovely area and i used to know a guy who's dad has one of those apartments so i've been in them and they're actually really nice and tidy with decent sized balconies and plenty of room inside.Sweet!
vibe666, you couldn't have given me better news about something that was a bit of a gamble! Brilliant!
there's a supermarket 2 minutes walk down the road and a small shopping centre too in the sister apartments of this place, but there's also plenty of places to eat out and the food is cheap enough that you could spend the whole week eating out very cheaply.
there's also plenty of bars and stuff nearby and there's a poolside bar as well in the hotel (think they also do snacks) if you don't fancy going very far.
the whole area is very nice imho too, much nicer than las americas or los christianos (where most people go), it's very family friendly (our 1st baby will be 7 months when we go out there) and there are lots of regular visitors as well as what the locals call 'swallows', who are retired people who spend their winters out there for the good weather.
that said, it's still got plenty of bars and clubs and you can stay out all night if you really want to as well, so its got a nice mix of both sides of the holiday coin.
personally, the best times to go would be for the 3 kings (spanish christmas) celebrations at the start of january (afaik the 4th and 5th, but double check to make sure) or during the massive local carnival in march. we've just booked up ours for March 2nd to the 9th so we can catch the local carnival which starts on the 1st March as it really is a great time to visit if you want to get the most out of it as there's parades and music and fireworks and loads of local culture to soak up and enjoy.
it's warm enough all year round (99% of the time, at least during the day) at sea level that you could spend christmas day sunbathing and look up and see snow on top of the volcano (or even drive about 1.5h up there and have a snowball fight!).
in august it can get to significantly more than 40 degrees at times and even the locals have trouble coping with that, so avoid those times if possible.
i actually spent most of my time living there sleeping on a pull out sofa on a balcony and usually it was with just a single sheet on the bed, no duvet or anything.
also, something we did notice when booking our flights is that there don't seem to be any flights on a friday from april onwards and aer lingus don't do friday flights at all, so it's ryanair or nothing if you want to fly direct, unless you fancy a stopoff in the UK first.
all in all my wife and i are pretty psyched about it as it's where we first met 11 years ago (she moved out for a year and her best friend and lots of our other friends still live there) and now we'll be going back for a holiday to our old home.
anyway, if anyone is going out for that week in march then let me know and we can have a few drinks and i'll point you in the direction of all the best stuff to do and see. 0 -
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we only have one child and they didn't even question it when we booked our dates.turbodiesel wrote: »Just book it and make up a name for a 2nd child (niece nephew etc). If asked when arriving where's the 2nd kid just say the child was sick or something....
Whoever is going....enjoy....
it does say "up to" 2 children, so technically speaking 0 is less than 2 so still "up to".So can two adults go with no bambinos? Whilst it's a good deal, I'm not sure if it's worth starting a family in order to avail.
not off the top of my head, but it's worth noting that the yellow submarine works out of san miguel which is near the airport so it's over 40km away from where you'll be staying.Anyone know if there's a Tenerife / Canary Islands version of dealpage.ie?
Looking at the Yellow Submarine trip which looks great but even including the 15% discount offered on their site for on-line booking would cost €129.20 for a family of 4!
http://www.submarinesafaris.com/t/uk/index.html
if you want to get close to the action, i'd recommend a "try dive" at los gigantes dive centre instead. it's a 10-15 minute stroll from the hotel and you can bring the kids (assuming they're not too young, i'm checking the minimum age now) it will be cheaper and you'll be close enough to touch the fish, rather than sitting in a tin can.
they also do a 'discover scuba' thing so you can try out all the diving gear in a swimming pool if you're worried about being in the sea, so you're not out in the open water when you first try it. that way if you decide you like it, you can book a try dive out in the sea afterwards.0 -
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I did a couple of 'try dive' in Malta years ago and absolutely loved it. Given the choice I'd love to spend the week getting the PADI Open Water cert but since the kids are 3 and 6, I'll have to wait til they're a bit older for it.if you want to get close to the action, i'd recommend a "try dive" at los gigantes dive centre instead. it's a 10-15 minute stroll from the hotel and you can bring the kids (assuming they're not too young, i'm checking the minimum age now) it will be cheaper and you'll be close enough to touch the fish, rather than sitting in a tin can.
they also do a 'discover scuba' thing so you can try out all the diving gear in a swimming pool if you're worried about being in the sea, so you're not out in the open water when you first try it. that way if you decide you like it, you can book a try dive out in the sea afterwards. 0 -
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sunbathing all year round, obv. depending on the weather, but you'd be lucky if it rained in that part of tenerife 6 times a year and there was one year when i was there where it rained properly only once, although it was a torrential downpour that was throwing manhole covers 4 feet into the air due to the water pressure in the drains, but that really was only a once off.
it is sometimes windy and the sea can be rough from time to time, but for the most part it's a paradise island for the weather. if you took a boat from the canaries and sailed directly east, the first thing you get to is the sahara desert (or the sahara beach being as you'd be on the coast!) and you are more or less right above the equator which is why it's so popular all year round.
also worth mentioning that there's a big english speaking ex-pat presence out there and as a result of that and the number of english speaking tourists most of the locals will speak decent english too, so no problems with the language barrier if you don't speak spanish.0 -
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it actually happened a couple of years ago when i posted a bargain £599 full board week in the maldives.I can just see it now. Couple A take the deal and head on down to Tenerife. At dinner, they notice a lot of similar looking guests. They get chatting to some others.....
"So, how did you guys get here?"
"Well, we spotted this great deal on a site called boards.ie......."
"OMG, so did we"
Some others join in......
"Couldn't help overhearing, did someone say boards.ie...."
yada yada......
yip yip.....
etc
And they call it 'getting away from it all':cool:
of course we'd all PM'd each other before we flew out, but it was an amazing holiday all the same and we're all still friends.
a bunch of boardsies had all booked various weeks and met up there before and after we were there too and all had an equally fab time from what i heard.0 -
yes, i probably should have said cardigans for the ladies in the evenings and to leave it a little while for the sun to get on the pool before you dive in.Bring a warm fleece; you'll need it as it can be very chilly at night. I also wouldn't recommend jumping into the pool - big mistake I made before when I thought I was lucky to have a pool all to myself. Took me all of 1 second to find out why, brrrr!
that said, this is where i slept, every night (well, sometimes not till the morning) when i lived in los gigantes (for 3.5 years).
all the time i was there, the only times i ever slept indoors was one time when i had the flu, the rest of the time i was out on the pull out sofa on the balcony and it was never too cold or too windy as long as the blind at the side was down, the front blinds stayed up most of the time unless it was really hot during the day and we wanted to keep the sun out.0 -
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check for available flights using www.skyscanner.ie.who is everyone flying with?? Ryanair only go out on thursdays:(
ryanair are the ONLY ones who do friday flights to Tenerife South airport (use the abbrev. 'TFS' on flight websites the same as you'd use 'DUB' for Dublin), BUT they aren't doing Friday flights from April onwards as far as I can see (no idea why).
We're booked up from Fri 2nd to Fri 9th March flying with Ryanair, just in time to take in the Carnival. 0 -
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i'll be going with locally myself, the airports have a captive audience so they're likely to be more expensive and you won't need a car for the whole 7 days anyway imho, so it would be a waste.Any tips on car hire out there vibe666? Best to stick with an airport rental or would you get a good deal locally?
you'll want to arrange airport transfers via coach though (i'd check with the apartments/resort people to see what they recommend) so that would need to be factored in. you *could* get a taxi, but it's over 40km to puerto santiago from the airport, so it might be pricy, but i'll confirm that with a friend to get the actual cost and let you know.
i actually have a mate who has a hire car business out there so i'll check with him on prices and let you know about that too. 0 -
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jesus, that IS cheap. just waiting to hear back from my mate, but the taxi is apparently about 50 quid each way, although there are airport coach transfers available but at that price it would almost be too expensive NOT to get a car.Just took a look at their site rocky, very impressed that they include child seats in the rental price!
Quoting me €102 for the full duration of our stay for a Citroen C2. Not bad at all. Taking transfers to and from the airport out of that and it works out very cheap to have the car for the week (which could be useful from the description of this "cardiac hill"!
you'd want to make sure that you get the 'all in' price though. we booked a car when we got married in portugal and they demanded a large security deposit off a credit card, or cash as well as 'extra' insurance (which i'm guessing is where they make their money) and wouldn't give us the car without it. i'd already paid for the car in advance, but this wasn't included and as we were getting married out there we didn't have any spare room on the credit cards so we were almost very stuck.
once you know that's the price you'll pay when you get there and there aren't any hidden extras that's a great price tho imho.0 -
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