Local guide

CICAR - Costa Adeje (The Duke Shops)

CICAR car rental office in Costa Adeje.

Family Doctors

Private medical centre in Costa Adeje with 24-hour emergency care.

Aqua Club Termal

Large public spa and thermal circuit in Costa Adeje.

Move & Balance Fisioterapia

Personalised physiotherapy in Costa Adeje, southern Tenerife.

Overfly Tenerife

Overfly Tenerife is an adventure sports centre in Adeje that runs tandem paragliding flights over the south west coast of Tenerife. Three options are offered: the standard flight over Costa Adeje, the longer and higher Performance flight, and an acrobatic flight with wing overs and dynamic turns. Take off is usually from Taucho, in Adeje, at around 800 metres above sea level.

FlyTenerife

FlyTenerife runs tandem paragliding flights in the south-west of Tenerife, with the meeting point on Avenida de Ayyo in Adeje. The passenger flies alongside a qualified pilot, and the routes cover the south and the north of the island and the area of the Teide National Park. The pilots are certified by F.E.L.A. and F.A.E., count more than thirty years of flying and hold Spanish and Canary Islands championship titles.

Tenerife Sailing Charters

Tenerife Sailing Charters runs boat trips out of Puerto Colón, in Costa Adeje. Its website describes the sailing yacht Pecazul, forty feet long and taking up to eleven passengers, the motor boat No Worries for a maximum of ten people, and a boat given over to parasailing. Trips are booked either as a shared or as a private charter and take in whale and dolphin watching, swimming and snorkelling.

White Tenerife

White Tenerife works out of berths 6 and 8 at Marina Puerto Colón in Costa Adeje, with a fleet of five vessels: the catamaran White Paradise, the sailing yachts White Sea I and White Sea II, the catamaran Abrazo and the speedboat Demon. The programme covers dolphin and whale watching, chill out sailing trips, the run to the bahía de Masca and private nautical charters, all on advance booking.

Freebird One

A whale and dolphin watching catamaran based at Puerto Colón in Costa Adeje. Its own website sets the trip out in several formats: short runs along the Adeje coast, a mid length option and a longer crossing up to Masca and Los Gigantes, with pick up available from the north of the island as well. Two further catamarans from the same operator complete the fleet.

Barranco del Infierno

Guided trail through a protected nature reserve in Adeje, with mandatory helmet and limited daily access.

Bar Casi Guachinche

Cosy bar with homemade food and good house wine in Adeje town.

Guachinche Tabaiba

Guachinche in Adeje with homemade Canarian food, fish and traditional dishes.

Pal Choso Guachinche

Costa Adeje guachinche with grilled meats, close to Aqualand.

Agromercado Adeje

Adeje's municipal farm market is in the Las Torres industrial estate and opens Saturdays and Sundays from eight until half past one. It is the closest farmers' market to the south-western resort area.

Playa de la Enramada

A wide dark-sand beach beside La Caleta in Adeje, Tenerife, prized for its sunsets.

Agi's Nails

Royal Delfin Catamaran

Royal Delfin Catamaran sails from Puerto Colón in Costa Adeje for whale and dolphin watching along the south-west coast of Tenerife. The vessel carries sixteen panoramic windows below the waterline and a submerged viewing compartment, and specialist guides on board work in Spanish, English, German and French. The longest crossing includes a swimming stop in the bay of Masca. Places are booked online or by telephone.

Playa de la Pinta

An urban beach of golden sand in Costa Adeje, next to the Puerto Colón marina and the sailing club. It measures around 180 metres long by 40 wide and is sheltered by the harbour breakwaters, which cuts the swell right down and makes it one of the calmest stretches of the Adeje shoreline. There is a lifeguard service, adapted access, showers, foot washes and a commercial strip with bars and restaurants right by the sand.

Boca del Paso

Boca del Paso is a natural balcony in the uplands of Adeje, at a little over 930 metres, looking straight into the head of the Barranco de las Torres. It is reached on foot along the waymarked PR-TF 71 trail, the Camino de Teresme, with the usual starting points at the hamlet of La Quinta, the old town of Adeje and Ifonche. The ground is stony and very exposed to the sun, with almost no shade along the way.

Playa del Puertito de Adeje

An unspoilt cove in a small fishing village in southern Tenerife, with crystal-clear water and good snorkelling, free of development.

Playa del Duque

The most elegant beach in Costa Adeje: pale sand, calm waters and top-tier services with a Blue Flag, in front of the luxury hotels of southwest Tenerife.