Tours & Activities in Tenerife

Kayak and Snorkel Excursion

Jet Ski Puerto Colón

Guided jet ski safaris from Puerto Colón along the Costa Adeje shoreline, no licence required.

Sognicanarias Watersports

El Médano school for kitesurf, windsurf, wing foil and surf with IKO and Spanish federation certified instructors.

Top Buggy Adventure

Buggy routes to Teide, along the coast and at sunset, from its own base in Las Chafiras.

Squatina Sub

Water sports base in San Andrés offering stand up paddle rental, lessons and guided routes at Las Teresitas beach.

Surf Life Tenerife

Playa de las Américas school offering stand up paddle lessons in the sheltered water by the El Camisón breakwater.

Kitesurf 313

IKO-certified kitesurf and wing foil school in El Médano with its own shop and online course booking.

Flash Jet Ski

Jet ski excursions from the Marina del Sur harbour in Las Galletas, with several routes along the south coast.

The Tenerife Boat Party

Award-winning Tenerife boat party with live DJs, unlimited drinks, swim stop and unforgettable ocean views. Book your Tenerife boat party online today.

Teide By Night

Evening Teide excursion with sunset, dinner and guided stargazing through telescopes.

Gran Azul Tours

Gran Azul Tours runs guided sea kayak and snorkelling trips in Palm-Mar, in the south of Tenerife, in small groups along the Acantilado de Guaza, where dolphins and sea turtles may be spotted. The trips are led by Laia, who has lived in Tenerife for 18 years. All equipment is included and no previous experience is needed. Private trips, kayak and SUP rental, sea meditation, a coastal hike and reiki complete the programme.

See You Diving Tenerife - PADI 5 Star

See You Diving is a PADI 5-Star dive centre in Los Cristianos, in the south of Tenerife, a few steps from the harbour where its boat trips start. It offers try dives in the pool or from the beach, guided dives, PADI courses and snorkelling with turtles, with a marine biologist explaining the life of the ocean. A marine biology internship, including underwater sampling, is also part of the programme.

Aquarius dive center

Aquarius Dive Center is a PADI 5-Star IDC and TecRec dive centre in El Fraile, in the municipality of Arona in the south of Tenerife, close to Las Galletas harbour. It runs small-group boat dives, calm first scuba experiences with personal guidance, PADI courses from beginner to professional level and TecRec technical training. The team dives with Scubapro equipment and draws on more than 35 years of diving experience.

Barco Pirata Peter Pan Tenerife

The Peter Pan is a Portuguese schooner from the last century that sails from the port of Los Cristianos, in the south of Tenerife, on a boat trip designed for the whole family. On board there is a pirate show that recalls the old days of sail and the tales of the pirates who roamed these waters, and the trip, which lasts about two hours, includes a swim in the sea before heading back to port.

K16 SURF SCHOOL TENERIFE

K16 Surf School Tenerife is a surf school in Playa de las Américas, in Arona, an area the school recommends for its good weather and its waves, which keep coming all year round. An official school of the Canary Islands Surf Federation, with qualified instructors and, by its own account, 21 years of experience, it offers group and private lessons, bodyboarding, adaptive surfing, surfskate and a summer camp for children.

DIVE LOVERS TENERIFE - DIVE CENTER

Dive Lovers Tenerife is a Polish-run SSI dive centre in Costa del Silencio, in Arona, with courses for beginners, children from age 8 and certified divers. The try dive is an individual dive of about 40 minutes with an instructor among volcanic rock formations and shoals of fish, where with some luck turtles, rays or angel sharks appear. For certified divers there are caves, wrecks and small groups.

Diving on the Moon Tenerife - Sea Trek

Diving on the Moon Tenerife offers Sea Trek helmet dives in Playa de las Américas, in Arona: you walk on the seabed breathing normally, with no diving licence or previous experience needed. The helmet is fed with air from the surface and keeps your head dry, so glasses can stay on. People aged 8 and over, non-swimmers and people with limited mobility can take part, always with a personal guide, at depths of up to 5 metres.

Eden Catamaran

Eden Catamaran runs whale and dolphin watching trips from Puerto Colón in Adeje, in the south of Tenerife. Its catamaran, which holds 50 people, sails about three miles offshore, where a colony of pilot whales lives all year round, and on the longer trip it anchors in a bay for swimming and snorkelling. The company was founded in 2003 and works with the Atlantic Whale Foundation.

KAYAKING SHINGI ADVENTURES

Kayaking Shingi Adventures runs kayak, snorkelling and stand-up paddle outings in Palm-Mar, in the municipality of Arona in the south of Tenerife. Its guided kayak and snorkel tour sets off from La Arenita beach towards the Bahía de las Tortugas, a calm stretch of water facing La Gomera where turtles, fish, rays and, with some luck, dolphins are often seen. No previous experience is needed.

Atlantic Eco Experience

Atlantic Eco Experience offers whale and dolphin watching and diving on the south coast of Tenerife, from Puerto Colón, with a focus on protecting the marine environment. It approaches the animals with engines off and at a safe distance, collects the plastic it finds on every trip and works with the La Tahonilla wildlife recovery centre. It also runs adapted sailing and diving and PADI courses.

One Two Dive Tenerife

One Two Dive Tenerife is a PADI 5 Star dive centre located inside the GF Isabel hotel on Avenida de Moscú in Costa Adeje. It offers discover scuba dives, PADI courses from Open Water up to Divemaster, guided boat and shore dives and snorkelling, always in small groups. Pickups are available from Los Cristianos, Las Américas and Adeje, and a VIP service pairs divers with a personal instructor.

Los Gigantes Blue

Los Gigantes Blue runs sea activities from the Los Gigantes marina in Santiago del Teide, on the west coast of Tenerife. The programme covers guided jet ski safaris along the Teno-Rasca coast, a kayak and snorkel route to the bay of Masca, small-group boat trips, whale and dolphin watching outings and private sailing boat hire with a crew on board.

Tenerife Paragliding Center - Kangaroo Tandem

Kangaroo Tandem in Costa Adeje runs tandem paragliding flights over the south of Tenerife. The standard, plus and premium flights take off in the Costa Adeje area and usually land on La Enramada beach, while the elite flight starts in Teide National Park and lands in Puerto de la Cruz. Flights include photos and video and pick-up from hotels in Costa Adeje.

Adventure kayak in Tenerife

Adventure kayak in Tenerife is a kayak and canoe tour agency based on Calle Juan Reverón Sierra in Los Cristianos, in the municipality of Arona in the south of Tenerife. The coast around Los Cristianos, with its harbour and beaches, is a common starting point for kayak outings along the island's southern shoreline.

Canary Kayak Tenerife

Canary Kayak Tenerife runs kayak trips from Los Cristianos in the south of Tenerife. The outing combines paddling with a snorkelling stop, a visit to a sea cave and a look at the local marine life. Equipment is included, the trip is adapted to all levels of experience, and underwater scooters can also be hired for the snorkelling part. The trip lasts about two and a half hours.

Scubafriends Tenerife

Scubafriends Tenerife is a PADI 5 Star IDC dive centre in the SalYTien shopping centre in Las Américas, Adeje. It offers try dives, guided dives, snorkelling and PADI courses from Scuba Diver up to instructor level, as well as Tec Rec technical training. Groups are kept to five or six people for courses and dives alike, and Course Director Salvatore, who lives in Tenerife, tailors each course to the student.

Teno Activo

Teno Activo is an outdoor activity company based at the Los Gigantes marina in Santiago del Teide. Its kayak and snorkel trips and its paddle surf outing set off from there beneath the Los Gigantes cliffs, rock walls rising almost 500 metres, alongside boat trips to watch whales and dolphins and sailing excursions. The company also runs night-time star walks in Teide National Park and electric mountain bike tours.

Deep Fin Tenerife

Deep Fin Tenerife is a dive centre in Las Galletas, in the south of Tenerife, that takes divers out on its own boat to a range of dive sites along the island's southwest coast. It works in small groups with personal attention, offering try dives for complete beginners, snorkelling, guided dives for certified divers and courses from Open Water to Diver Stress & Rescue, all led by local instructors.

Thalassa Buceo

Thalassa Buceo is an SDI dive centre in Los Abrigos, in the south of Tenerife, about ten minutes from Tenerife South airport. It works with very small groups, personal attention and well-kept equipment, offers SDI courses, dives at different sites along the coast and snorkelling in the port of Los Abrigos, and adapts courses for people who need special attention.

Monte Cristo Catamaran

Monte Cristo Catamaran runs trips on a purpose-built catamaran from Puerto Colón in Costa Adeje to watch whales and dolphins in their natural habitat. The tours cruise along the south coast of Tenerife in small groups, leave time for a swim in the Atlantic and include food, snacks, drinks and a transfer. Bookings are made directly on the company's own website.

Whale Wise Eco Tours & Research

Whale Wise Eco Tours & Research runs responsible whale and dolphin watching trips from the marina at Los Gigantes, on the west coast of Tenerife. The guides are marine biologists, groups are small and the boat is a custom-built hybrid vessel. The company puts half of its profits into marine research and conservation projects. Trips can be booked online or by phone.

Ori Surf

Ori Surf is a surf school in El Médano, in the south of Tenerife, right by Playa de la Jaquita. It runs surf lessons for all levels and ages, including families, with local instructors and all equipment included, alongside wingfoil lessons and board rental. There is a children's course with board and wetsuit, and adaptive surf lessons for people with disabilities. Activities are booked online.

Jet Ski Island Tenerife

Yamaha jet ski safaris from pontoon 9 in Puerto Colón, in small groups with a swim stop.

Parapente Tenerife

Parapente Tenerife is the name under which Enminube Parapente, based in La Laguna, runs tandem paragliding flights over Tenerife's volcanic landscape and the Atlantic. It is authorised by the Canary Islands Government's tourism department, and its pilots are qualified professionals with more than 30 years of experience. Flights take off from areas such as El Teide, the Orotava Valley, Puerto de la Cruz and the Güímar Valley, with flight video and transport included.

Surf school Tilegit Tenerife

Surf school Tilegit Tenerife, also known as Tilegit Surf, is a surf school in Playa de las Américas, in the south of Tenerife, with more than ten years of teaching at every level. It runs group lessons for up to eight people and private lessons, both two hours long with all equipment included, plus advanced coaching with video correction. Its local instructors are trained in first aid and water rescue.

Shaka Surf Tenerife

Shaka Surf Tenerife is a surf school in Playa de Las Américas, Arona, about 30 metres from the shore, that has been teaching surfing on the volcanic coast of southern Tenerife for more than two decades. Its instructors are certified by the Canary Islands Surf Federation, teach all levels in seven languages and provide all the equipment. The school also runs SUP lessons and tours and kayak and snorkelling trips in Los Cristianos.

WET MONSTER Dive Center

WET MONSTER Dive Center is a Polish-run dive centre in Costa del Silencio, Arona, in the south of Tenerife, set right on the shore of the Montaña Amarilla underwater reserve. Licensed to train under the PADI and SSI systems, it offers first dives for adults and children, courses from beginner to divemaster, specialities, snorkelling with turtles and dives from its own motorboat.

Barbarian Diving Tenerife S.L

Barbarian Diving is an SSI dive centre in Los Cristianos, south Tenerife, run by a German-led team. It works with a maximum of four divers per guide and teaches in English, German and Spanish, from a first try dive to specialty courses and Divemaster training. The team puts particular focus on beginners and on divers who feel nervous about going under.

Deep Ocean Diver - PADI Dive Center

Deep Ocean Diver is a family run dive centre based in Radazul, Tenerife, working as a five star PADI dive centre, a dive school and a divers club, as well as an official Cressi shop and an air refill station. It is led by David, its founder, a PADI Staff Instructor, professional boat skipper and marine biologist, with a team of marine biologists and the centre's own Zodiac boat.

BRISUB - Buceo y Snorkel/ Tenerife Sur/ Las Galletas

BRISUB is a dive centre in Las Galletas, in the south of Tenerife, with instructors who have more than 20 years of experience behind them. Its programme runs from recreational courses, from entry level up to Dive Master, through to technical training, and takes in try dives, guided outings and snorkelling. Dives cover wrecks, caves and volcanic seabeds where turtles, rays, groupers, corals and nudibranchs turn up.

Fly2fun Tenerife

Fly2fun Tenerife runs paragliding flights over the north of the island from a base in Puerto de la Cruz. The Izaña take off sits between kilometres 33 and 34 of the TF-24 road, at 2300 metres above sea level, and the descent is usually a gliding flight down to the coast that opens with the Teide in full view. The pilot, Marco, comes from Italy and has logged more than 25,000 flight hours.

Whale Watch Tenerife

A company specialising in whale and dolphin watching excursions off Costa Adeje, departing from Pontoon 3 at Puerto Colón Marina. Trips last two hours, take a maximum of ten guests and are accompanied by biologists who work in English and Spanish. The boat is an eight-metre rigid inflatable with cushioned seats and a canopy for shade, and a hydrophone on board lets passengers listen to the animals underwater.

Friends of the Ocean - Tenerife Surf School

A surf school on Paseo Guadalajara in Playa de las Américas, in the south of Tenerife. The programme covers beginner lessons, private sessions and the rental of boards and of the rest of the surf equipment. Every instructor has completed the requirements of the Surfing Instructor Level One qualification from the Academy of Surfing Instructors, and Amedeo Blandi is named as the Friends of the Ocean instructor. Booking runs online, by phone or via WhatsApp.

Dive Center Tenerife by WhatNext Adventures

A dive centre based in Las Galletas, in the Tenerife municipality of Arona, on Calle Consuelo Alfonso Díaz Flores. The team describes itself as a group of enthusiasts who work comfortably in more than five languages, and since 2025 the centre has also offered nitrox diving. The programme starts with a try dive, a first underwater experience accompanied by a personal instructor, and continues with structured PADI training for those who want to go further.

Sky of Tenerife - Sky & Dany S.L

Sky of Tenerife is a multilingual flight team based in Adeje, in south-west Tenerife, devoted to tandem paragliding and paratrike flights. It is led by Daniel Crespo Valdez, FAI paratrike world champion in 2007 and twice Spanish paragliding champion with the RFAE in 2018, with more than twenty-five years of experience. The team brings together six certified tandem pilots, and every flight includes five photographs taken with a GoPro.

Marítima Acantilados

Marítima Acantilados runs boat excursions out of Los Gigantes, with its office on Avenida José González Forte in Santiago del Teide and its boats moored in the town's marina. Whale and dolphin watching cruises leave from there, with a swimming stop in the bay of Masca and a return run along the foot of the cliffs, alongside trips into the volcanic caves and deep sea fishing charters.

Scuba Point Diving Tenerife

Scuba Point is the dive centre at Puerto Colón in Costa Adeje, and the parent brand through which the dives of Aqua Marina and Zero Gravity Tenerife are booked as well, since both work out of the same harbour. The programme covers try dives for first timers, guided fun dives for certified divers, snorkelling boat trips and PADI courses running from Open Water through Rescue to Divemaster. Groups stay small and trips are booked online.

Biosean - Whale watching & marine science

A whale watching and marine science operator based in Las Galletas, a fishing village in the south of Tenerife. Every trip sails with marine biologists and researchers on board, aboard a stable and non intrusive boat that takes ten passengers and carries the Blue Boat mark awarded by the Tenerife tourism department. The route runs through the Teno-Rasca Special Area of Conservation.

BIG FISH Dive Center Tenerife - Nurkowanie Teneryfa

A dive centre in the heart of Los Cristianos, on the south west coast of Tenerife, some two hundred metres from the sea and close to the harbour. As a PADI 5 Star IDC centre it covers the whole training ladder, from a first breath underwater through to instructor level certification. Its underwater safaris reach the most striking dive sites on the island, with boat dives and shore dives led by professional instructors.

Tenerife Top Paragliding

Tenerife Top Paragliding runs tandem paragliding flights in the Costa Adeje area, in the south west of Tenerife. It offers four options according to the take off point: Taucho at 800 metres, Ifonche at around 1,100 metres inside a protected natural area, a longer version from that same height, and Izaña at 2,200 metres with views over the Teide National Park. Flights are booked online.

Diving Angel Plongée Tenerife

Diving Angel is a French speaking dive centre based in the village of Los Gigantes, in the south west of Tenerife and in the municipality of Santiago del Teide. It works with divers of all levels, offering snorkelling outings, try dives, exploration dives, training courses and group trips, and it goes out to sea with its own boat. The centre presents itself as the successor to Buceo Marina Los Gigantes.

Picarus Sailing Club, Avistamiento de Cetáceos , Los Gigantes

A boat excursion operator sailing from the harbour of Los Gigantes, in Santiago del Teide, on the west coast of Tenerife. The trips combine the view of the Los Gigantes cliffs with whale and dolphin watching and with snorkelling stops. The company describes itself as practising sustainable tourism and puts respect for the animals and their habitat as its main concern during the outings.

Ika Ika Surf Camp & Surf School Tenerife

Ika Ika Surf Camp & Surf School Tenerife has been running since 2013 in Playa de las Américas, Tenerife, and works in line with the Federación Canaria de Surf. Its instructors teach in Spanish, English, Italian, French and German, and the school runs open group lessons, private groups from two people upwards and one-to-one sessions. Board, wetsuit, boots, locker and shower are included, and slots follow the day's tide.

Scubanana Dive Center

Scubanana Dive Center is a dive centre in the marina of Radazul, in the municipality of El Rosario on Tenerife, a few minutes south of Santa Cruz. It is a PADI centre and covers the whole progression, from a first try dive for children of ten and over through to professional training. The bay is sheltered, so many of the dives are entered straight from the shore, in small groups sorted by level.

Franz Surf School

Franz Surf School is a surf school on Calle México in Playa de las Américas, on the southern coast of Tenerife. It runs small group lessons for two to six people, private group lessons for two to four, and one to one sessions, and it takes pupils from the age of eight upwards. Teaching is offered in Spanish, English, Italian and French, and board and wetsuit come with the lesson.

PADI 5* Travel Sub Dive Center Tenerife

Travel Sub is a PADI 5 Star IDC dive centre in Puerto Colón harbour, Costa Adeje, housed in the Escuela Náutica building. It runs PADI courses at every level, from a first try dive through to instructor training, and organises guided dives for certified divers, snorkelling outings and private charters. Groups are kept small and divers board straight from the quay, without carrying tanks down to the boat.

Kontraola - Tenerife Surf School powered by Quiksilver and Roxy

Kontraola is a surf school in Playa de las Américas, in the municipality of Arona, right beside the stretch of coast where its sessions take place. It works with every level, from people who have never stood on a board to surfers refining their technique, in group, semi-private and private lessons. The instructors hold Canarian and Spanish surfing federation qualifications, and boards, wetsuits and rash vests are supplied.

Maco Yacht – Whale Watching & Dolphin Tour Tenerife - Costa Adeje

Maco Yacht runs sailing trips out of Puerto Colón in Costa Adeje to watch whales and dolphins in the wild off the south of Tenerife. Two formats are offered: a shared outing in a small group of no more than eleven people, and a private trip with exclusive use of the boat. A local skipper is on board in both cases, and the sailing includes a stop for swimming and snorkelling.

Tenerife Mana Kayak

Tenerife Mana Kayak is a small family-run outfit based in Los Cristianos, in the municipality of Arona, running kayak trips combined with snorkelling. The route follows the Los Cristianos cliffs as far as the spot the company calls Lovers Cave, and by its own account there is a good chance of seeing dolphins and turtles along the way. Instructors hand out the gear and cover the basics before the group sets off.

Astroland Tenerife

Astroland Tenerife runs guided stargazing in Teide National Park, on a private plot away from the roadside viewpoints and car parks where most such outings take place. The session combines professional telescopes, an explanation of the constellations and night-sky photography, with access to a mountain refuge that has a bathroom and a fireplace. Groups are kept small and the commentary is given in Spanish and English.