Los Cristianos; Wednesday, 21 February, 2024

I’d stayed overnight at an airport hotel and had taken advantage of night before checkin so that after a quick breakfast I was able to check out of the hotel and wander straight through security without needing to stop for anything else.

A smooth flight and a relatively painless journey through the airport at Tenerife, with the only downside of the night before checkin being the bags are always the last off. I made it through with about 10 minutes to wait for the bus into Los Cristianos, only to discover a massive queue at the bus stop which indicated the chances of getting on the first bus were unlikely and it was possible the service wasn’t being particularly reliable.

At 14:15 the 14:00 service finally turned up and it was touch and go if there would be space as it was a large bus with lots of potential standing room. Thankfully I didn’t need to worry as at 14:25 whilst the earlier bus was still loading passengers, and I was still about 10 people from the doors, the 14:30 pulled up so myself and the rest of the queue opted for an extra 5 minute delay but spent sat down in comfort. In the end we followed the earlier bus all the way back into Los Cristianos, arriving directly behind it with nobody standing on our bus.

From the bus stop I walked the 500m or so down towards the seafront and my hotel to checkin, drop off my bags and quickly freshen up before heading out for a wander along the seafront.

Just next door to the hotel was a small ice cream shop, so I decided to get into the holiday spirit by having an ice-cream in the sun, whilst continuing my walk along the seafront.

I walk all the way down to the harbour, but decided that there wasn’t much else to see so headed back to the hotel and paid a trip to the hotels pool, which was suitably refreshing.

Swim completed, and all showered and dried, I was just in time to head down for the start of dinner service in the hotel, which was convenient as I was starting to get quite peckish.

After dinner I had another wander along the seafront at night, but there wasn’t much more to see (other than some people who were already quite well gone from the drink at 8pm!), so after a while I headed back to the hotel to have a night cap and then an early night ready for an early start the next day.