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Posted: 18:47 - 20 Oct 2019 Post subject: Tenerife holiday advice needed. |
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From anyone who's been and it wasn't a long time ago.
First off, it has to be Tenerife.
So basically, good hotels, shit ones to avoid etc. And is £1500 enough spending money for a fortnight (eating out every night, cafes, drinks, drugs [coke's cheap there, right?] and maybe a couple of excursions [or jet skis] etc).
And when are the off/on peaks, cheapest time this side of xmas.
TIA.
Fuck, forgot to mention night life and banging clubs. I have no idea how big the island is. ____________________ "There's the horizon! Ride hard, ride fast and cut down all who stand in your way!" |
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Posted: 19:12 - 20 Oct 2019 Post subject: |
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1500 is about 3 times too much to enjoy yourself. |
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Playa de las Americas is where all the action is.
The main drag is wall to wall bars, clubs and restaurants and it also has the best beaches - they import white sand from Africa, whereas everywhere else has volcanic sand, which is black and slightly sticky.
I'm not sure there are many really shitty hotels, they've been doing tourists for a long time now, so they've pretty much got it sussed, I would probably go self catering apartment, then you aren't tied to meal times and you can come and go when you like.
It isn't the cheapest place on the planet (they took the opportunity to hike everything up when they changed to euros) but £750 a week should be enough.
I always used to go over Xmas, but the run up to it should be OK and you can avoid families if you time it right.
Can't comment on drugs, never been offered them there and don't use them if I had, so you'll have to research that elsewhere. ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
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Shaft wrote: | Playa de las Americas is where all the action is.
The main drag is wall to wall bars, clubs and restaurants and it also has the best beaches - they import white sand from Africa, whereas everywhere else has volcanic sand, which is black and slightly sticky.
I'm not sure there are many really shitty hotels, they've been doing tourists for a long time now, so they've pretty much got it sussed, I would probably go self catering apartment, then you aren't tied to meal times and you can come and go when you like.
It isn't the cheapest place on the planet (they took the opportunity to hike everything up when they changed to euros) but £750 a week should be enough.
I always used to go over Xmas, but the run up to it should be OK and you can avoid families if you time it right.
Can't comment on drugs, never been offered them there and don't use them if I had, so you'll have to research that elsewhere. |
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Any of the Canary islands are good. Nicer peeps than mainland Spain too.
750 per week is enough as long as you don't pay for secks. ____________________ Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN. |
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There's tons of pushy big Africans everywhere selling watches and probably lots of other stuff too.
I stayed near Playa de Las americas, but it's still a short taxi ride from the main resort and shops/bars/cafes to what they called the strip where all the clubs and big bars are.
We stayed half board in a decent hotel with a huge pool and island bar. We used to go every other night to the strip and then drink in the local bars in the town on the other nights. It was ok but not mega busy in the local bars.
Went into a funky neon bar one night (was almost dragged in by the staff) and inside at the front was a bar which was dead, but there was a stage at the back surrounded by semi enclosed bays of big comfy seating like an American diner all around the outside. As soon as I had a beer in my hand all these Russian and Lithuanian strippers appeared and said "come with me to the back for a private special dance for 40euros". I'm not the brightest at sussing places out immediately as I step through the door, but we downed our beers bottled it and dashed out of the door before anything else happened. It didn't look like the sort of place you could just say we'll sit and drink our beer and just watch you dance. They really wanted your money!
Tenerife has some great bits though, Mount Teidi is worth going up to see all the black aero texture rocks, and the mountain does have some good roads leading up to it. It'd be great to have a bike for a day or two there!
But the best thing about Tenerife, far better than the sandy beaches even was the biggest and best Waterpark in Europe at the time anyway. I spent two separate days there scaring myself silly on water rides and jumping off rocks into pools etc.
Dont really know much about the availability of drugs, but if its a constant supply of drugs, from cannabis, coke, crack or heroin then I'd say go on a city break to Lisbon in Portugal. Its a beautiful city, but terrible for cars and getting around by road. But as soon as you leave your hotel/apartment your almost constantly offered all the above substances, and by people in cafes, markets, Middle of the street outside the fashion district, and even by the taxi drivers. If I wanted to be stoned for a week its probably where I'd go. |
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Thanks for the info guys.
We've booked a 5-star in Adeje, not far from Las Americas (palmos de or whatever) and a car (160 euros for the fortnight, fuck me gently, that's cheap. Auto Reisen, seems like they're one of the few that don't fuck you in the ass with various scams). £949pp. The waterpark sounds like a must-do. I think we'll be doing some scuba-diving too, 70 euros a pop for just under an hour. Other than that it'll be picnics in the back of beyond, beaches, bars, clubs and restaurants. First holiday in over ten years and the first just the two of us (last one was when I joined the wife and kids in Japan for a month, while they were there for a year so the kids could become fluent in Japanese).
The drugs thing was a joke, coke does SFA for me and the mandy will be molly wearing a hat, no thanks. A bit of weed might be nice though. ____________________ "There's the horizon! Ride hard, ride fast and cut down all who stand in your way!" |
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My mate has just split up with his other half, so has booked a couple of weeks in Tenerife. Unfortunately, he's booked the resort in the North, Playa de la Cruz or similar.
It's just past the North side of the largest mountain in Europe, so in winter, when the sun is low, is often in the shadow of the mountain. I haven't got the heart to tell him why it's cheaper there this time of year. ____________________ TZR250 2MA road, TZR250 1KT road, TZR250 2MA race, TDR250, YZF-750R Boost colours.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 4 years, 160 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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