Playa de Las Americas Resorts

... and lively resort especially in the summer. The new resorts of Playa Fanabe and Costa Adeje are smart quieter upmarket extensions of Playa de las Americas with many new 5* hotels and a very different clientele. There are the theme parks of Loro Parque and ...

... 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 ...

... experience we had in Maspalomas and Playa del Ingles.   Originally, I planned for 2 days in Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas, resorts that are very similar to Maspalomas.  It'll be way too much time for that kind of tackiness ... but ...

... and just started walking along - it didn't take long from where we were staying to meet up with Costa Adeje, then Playa de Las Americas, then Los Christianos.  The absolute worst of the three is Playa de Las Americas - can you believe that there are ...

... towards the coaches waiting to whisk them off to their all-inclusive package holiday in one of the thousands of lookalike resorts in the tourist ghettos of Las Americas or Los Cristianos. Our rental car, a VW Polo, awaited us. At 25 euros a day it turned ...

... for only an all-too-brief moment.      Time for dinner - I left the beach and went through the Playa de Las Americas area - very glitzy, reminiscent of Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki.  I felt so out of place here!  It's just ...

... - well, neither can I if you are taking Tenerife as a whole and pigeon holing it into probably the two most famous resorts on the island, Playa de las Américas and Los Cristianos.   I know there must be more to Tenerife once you get past these ...