Las Americas Beach Resort

... so many new hotels and shopping centres to add to the familiar Club 18-30 haunts in Playa de las Americas, still a popular and lively resort especially in the summer. The new resorts of Playa Fanabe and Costa Adeje are smart quieter upmarket extensions of ...

San Eugenio, Playa de Las Americas, Tenerife. If there is a Supreme Being, the climate here is evidence that she might be on our side. Warm in the day, balmy in the evening and cool enough to sleep at night. We are now in the second of our six weeks on ...

... to the other side of the island to go to Loro Parque (zoo and aquarium), and went in to the main resort area of Playa Las Americas to see the beach and go to markets. Our resort was about 10km outside of the city centre, so we found the evenings got ...

... sunshine to less the seasonal affective disorder. We went to Tenerife in 1999 and got a late deal to stay in Playa de las Americas. The accommodation (assigned on arrival) was O.K. bordering on average and the resort itself is a bit like Blackpool on ...

... may exist, 100%, for tourists, but it is a town with a real buzz about it, building restrictions have curtailed the high rise resort developments you see in Cancun and in Ibiza, which makes the edge of mass-tourism far softer and easy to adjust to. ...

Ahhhh, what a relaxing week that was. The beach was fantastic, as well as the resort and the locals. We will definitely have to make another, and longer, trip to Cuba. With only a week there we didn't want to waste a day or two heading into Havana. ...

... to revisit one of the countries we had visited but instead we have opted for a 7 day holiday package to an Iberostar resort in Playa De Las Americas on Tenerife.   It appears to be somewhat like the Gold Coast only on steroids but without a lot ...

... time up our sleeve we decided to push on to have a look once and for all the urban sprawl of the Los Cristianos/Las Americas holiday mecca. The result wasn’t any great surprise- a seemingly never-ending sea of concrete-slab condos, British bars and ...

... beach consists of three small, sheltered coves, where a remarkable tourist centre with good hotel faiclities has grown up. Playa de las Americas it lies in the townships of Arona and Adje and must be mentioned because it is of great importance as a ...

... potato cart does a pretty brisk business.  After eating, I sat outside and wrote in my journal for a while at Plaza de Las Americas (sadly, it was America in name only, as there were no Spanish hotties like the waitress from our last in Las ...

... of Teide but of the mists rolling in over the volcanic landscape.We also made use of our walking book for a scramble behind Las Americas, and a vertiginous trip along a paved canal high above the resort. We stop for lunch at what Andy calls Žboccadillo ...

...  "your stop"... their faces were white and I couldn't blame them!! It did cause us to get very nervous about what our resort was going to look like - Brendan was biting his nails the whole way. But our stress was for nothing, the taxi driver dropped ...

... fell).  We did finally arrived at this beautiful resort.  Well almost arrived.  The only way into the resort was to ride another 300 yards down the beach.  The beach was soft, deep sand, and it was just not doable on my ...

... are native to Mexico and are the descendants of the Aztecs.  Around the year 1500 the Spaniards made there way over to the Americas to rape, pillage and conquer any people to get to precious land, and precious gold.  A large number of the native ...