Is Tenerife safe to go on holiday?

amiable · 29-05-2011 12:40PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Tenerife is just one large volcano and if it blows it'll take out the whole east coast of the united states. According to the TV show I saw all this on it could blow at any second! No one should be going anywhere near Tenerife, or the east coast of the united states, the whole Atlantic ocean should be off limits just to be sure.

I think you'll find that island is La Palma

amiable · 29-05-2011 12:42PM

kelle wrote: »

I am!

Not that I'd do what the McCanns did, just puts me off the country. We holidayed there twice before and let's just say we found the pace too slow. We stopped going to the restaurants after being left waiting for over an hour for our meals - torture when the kids are hungry!
Lots of other examples.

Anyway, this is not a Madeline thread....

I was in Portugal last summer and i couldn't fault the people there.

Service was amazing too IMO and we brought our 2 kids

Kids go missing in the UK too.

Kids have gone missing in Ireland

ScumLord · 29-05-2011 12:56PM

amiable wrote: »

I think you'll find that island is La Palma

Thinks it's Tenerife. I was on the volcano, only found out half way through the tour, had no choice but to high jack the tour bus and get us the hell out of there.

Minstrel27 · 29-05-2011 01:00PM

amiable wrote: »

Care to elaborate?

Personally i've been there several times and think its a beautiful place.

Granted down around the Veronica strip is a bit of a dive IMO but some people love that and each to their own.

Would i be right to assume you just don't like package holiday resorts?

Am I on trial here? It was my opinion.

amiable · 29-05-2011 01:00PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Thinks it's Tenerife. I was on the volcano, only found out half way through the tour, had no choice but to high jack the tour bus and get us the hell out of there.

I'll see your link and raise you mine

http://www.lapalma-tsunami.com/

I know about Mt Teide.

I've been up there myself.

amiable · 29-05-2011 01:03PM

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Am I on trial here? It was my opinion.

Care to show me where i stated you were on trial.

Care to elaborate why you formed that opinion or would you just prefer to contribute without backing it up with reasons why you came to such a conclusion?

kelle · 29-05-2011 01:03PM

amiable wrote: »

I was in Portugal last summer and i couldn't fault the people there.

Service was amazing too IMO and we brought our 2 kids

Kids go missing in the UK too.

Kids have gone missing in Ireland

I didn't clarify in my post, I felt the pace was too slow there that if an urgent matter like my child going missing arose the pace would be just as slow!

OK kids go missing everywhere, but the difference between Portugal and here is that they are more likely to be found here!

Anyway, I prefer camping holidays now. Not in Portugal though!

ScumLord · 29-05-2011 01:05PM

amiable wrote: »

I'll see your link and raise you mine

http://www.lapalma-tsunami.com/

I know about Mt Teide.

I've been up there myself.

They are wrong.
La Palma will not slide into the sea.
Even if it did, it wouldn't cause a tsunami that would reach the USA

:mad:

I prefer my half remembered doomsday version.

rossie1977 · 29-05-2011 01:08PM

tenerife is an island with a volcano but la palma is a giant volcano (most of it under water some 4000m), you can clearly see the difference in sizes in these two shots

http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/167699/530wm/E3800472-La_Palma_volcano-SPL.jpg

http://www.photoglobe.info/hl_tenerife/tenerife_from_space_details_small.jpg

teide has also been quiet for over 100 years while la palma is the most active of the canary volcanoes

Lustrum · 29-05-2011 01:08PM

Jesus this thread is scaring the bejaysus out of me with all these horror stories!

Imagine having to wait for service in a restaurant on your holidays when you're supposed to be relaxing. I'm not going to restaurants anymore now.

Or Tenerife, or anywhere there's a volcano, or Bulgarians, or somewhere that a child has disappeared, or where there was a plane crash.....

Hmmm, I know I'll have a virtual holiday online while wrapping myself in cotton wool and bubble wrap.

GROW UP PEOPLE!!!

amiable · 29-05-2011 01:09PM

Lustrum wrote: »

Jesus this thread is scaring the bejaysus out of me with all these horror stories!

Imagine having to wait for service in a restaurant on your holidays when you're supposed to be relaxing. I'm not going to restaurants anymore now.

Or Tenerife, or anywhere there's a volcano, or Bulgarians, or somewhere that a child has disappeared, or where there was a plane crash.....

Hmmm, I know I'll have a virtual holiday online while wrapping myself in cotton wool and bubble wrap.

GROW UP PEOPLE!!!

There's some really dangerous bubble wrap out there so be careful;)

looksee · 29-05-2011 01:11PM

Looks like there's a lot of people who should stay nice and safe in Ireland. Tramore's nice, lovely beach - though if you should happen to stray a couple of miles to the end of the beach you wouldn't want to swim in the Rinnashark channel, and you get some strange characters in the Burrows too.

Maybe stay at home, safer really.

looksee · 29-05-2011 01:13PM

Tho come to think of it, aren't there some statistics that show most accidents happen in the home. OMG.

amiable · 29-05-2011 01:14PM

looksee wrote: »

Tho come to think of it, aren't there some statistics that show most accidents happen in the home. OMG.

Yes but at who's home?

looksee · 29-05-2011 01:15PM

Does it matter? Either way you would probably be safer going on holiday.

Cantona's Collars · 29-05-2011 01:16PM

I'm not driving anymore,I heard there were people crashing into each other.:pac:

The op was in Lanzarote which is part of the Canary Islands,strange question to ask "Is Tenerife safe?",it's as safe as any resort.

Personally I'm not sure if the op is just winding everyone up with such a ridiculous question or is like those people who post comments on the Daily Mail website and is genuinely scared of everything out there in the big bad world.

amiable · 29-05-2011 01:19PM

Christ is it worth living?

looksee · 29-05-2011 01:23PM

amiable wrote: »

Christ is it worth living?

Probably not, but when you get to that stage you go to Tenerife and get your head chopped off.

Cantona's Collars · 29-05-2011 01:49PM

looksee wrote: »

Probably not, but when you get to that stage you go to Tenerife and get your head chopped off.

Or sit in a car in Dublin and have it blown off.Saves money on flights too.

Nodin · 29-05-2011 01:55PM

zerks wrote: »

Or sit in a car in Dublin and have it blown off.Saves money on flights too.

People want a change from the usual though. They need the odd chop.

TheZohanS · 29-05-2011 01:59PM

amiable wrote: »

Christ is it worth living?

He didn't think so...

suicide_circus · 29-05-2011 02:08PM

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/goldfinger-link-to-timeshare-couple-murdered-in-tenerife-523897.html

Kess73 · 29-05-2011 02:12PM

jimpump wrote: »

at least in dublin, its a bullet to the head...no beheadings!

whoevers thinking im ****ting of goin to tenerife, it aint me. its the ppl im goin with that are a bit scechy after hearin bout the decapitation
personally i couldnt give 2 fcuks

Yep, would never happen in Dublin.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/murder-mutilation-and-dismemberment-ireland-transfixed-by-scissor-sisters-case-422436.html

Irish Musician · 29-05-2011 07:06PM

jimpump wrote: »

and BTW, crumlin man here and them canaries are 100X more dangerous than dublin

I make my danger comparisons as a Drimnagh man

booboo88 wrote: »

im loving the plug there
dublin is a ****ehole. but good shops

"Shopping in a shoitehole",the rubber bandits could use that title for their next relase

Big Nasty · 29-05-2011 07:15PM

Thing is most of what the media prints is bad news. They're not likely to print '50,000 people had the time of their lives holidaying in Tenerife / Dublin / Beirut, etc last month.' Good news doesn't sell like bad news.

I was in a cop bar in NY 10 years back and got talking to a NYPD Homicide Dick - dude told me he would be afraid of his life to go to 'lil 'ol Ireland! :eek:

Friend of mine married a girl from Beirut - he's been over there plenty of time reckons the vast majority of it is cool.

Tenerife is just the same as anywhere else - it's not a warzone but you can meet bad elements everywhere and anywhere.

Saila · 29-05-2011 08:19PM

is it safe to go to tesco?

Greentopia · 29-05-2011 08:24PM

looksee wrote: »

Looks like there's a lot of people who should stay nice and safe in Ireland. Tramore's nice, lovely beach - though if you should happen to stray a couple of miles to the end of the beach you wouldn't want to swim in the Rinnashark channel, and you get some strange characters in the Burrows too.

Maybe stay at home, safer really.

I'm from Tramore. Am I safe or not?? :eek:

WoollyRedHat · 30-05-2011 12:47AM

kelle wrote: »

I am!

Not that I'd do what the McCanns did, just puts me off the country. We holidayed there twice before and let's just say we found the pace too slow. We stopped going to the restaurants after being left waiting for over an hour for our meals - torture when the kids are hungry!
Lots of other examples.

Anyway, this is not a Madeline thread....

You're right, it's an anti-common sense thread... as you were

Berns · 30-05-2011 01:09AM

Saila wrote: »

is it safe to go to tesco?

Dunno with the dodgy lookin possibly cooked/not sausages

Snowbat · 30-05-2011 03:49AM

Saila wrote: »

is it safe to go to tesco?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/10/04/tesco-guards-beat-up-my-disabled-son-15-115875-21720881/

Tesco security guards beat up a disabled teenager they wrongly suspected of shoplifting, in front of his horrified mother.

Charlie Roche, 15, was felled with a punch on the nose which drew blood, then kicked as he lay helpless.

His mother Jenny tried to pull the staff off but they only stopped the beating when an off-duty policeman who was out shopping stepped in.

Is Tenerife safe to go on holiday?

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