Santa Cruz de Tenerife Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Land

Bus

TITSA buses radiate out from the bus station (922 21 56 99; www.titsa.com) beside Avenida Constitución, with major routes including the following:

Bus 102 Puerto de la Cruz via La Laguna & Tenerife Norte (€4.10, 55 minutes, every 30 minutes)

Bus 103 Puerto de la Cruz direct (€4.20, 40 minutes, more than 15 daily)

Buses 106 & 108 Icod de los Vinos (€5.80, 1¼ hours, more than 15 daily)

Bus 110 Los Cristianos & Playa de las Américas direct (€7.30, one hour, every 30 minutes)

Bus 111 Los Cristianos & Playa de las Américas via Candelaria & Güïmar (€7.30, one hour 20 minutes, every 30 minutes)

Bus 341 Tenerife Sur (€5.70, 50 minutes, 20 daily)

Buses 014 & 015 La Laguna (€1.25, 20 minutes, every 10 minutes)

Car & motorcycle

Car-rental companies (some also rent out motorcycles) are plentiful. Major operators also have booths at the estación marítima (ferry terminal).

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Boat

The Acciona-Trasmediterránea (922 84 22 44; www.trasmediterranea.com; Estación Marítima Muelle Ribera) runs a weekly ferry (from €256, car €166, two days) with cabins to Cádiz, via Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Puerto de Rosario (Fuerteventura) and Arrecife (Lanzarote), departing every Monday at 3pm. Trasmediterránea also runs a daily jetfoil to Las Palmas at 8am (€51, one hour 10 minutes). It leaves at 10am on ­Sunday.

Naviera Armas (902 45 65 00; www.navieraarmas.com) runs a fast ferry (€24, 2¾ hours) to Las Palmas twice a day on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, three times daily on Wednesday and once daily on Saturday and Sunday; and to Morro Jable (€37.40, seven hours) on Fuerteventura every Monday at 3am. It also has a boat (€42, 12¼ hours) at 6.45pm on Wednesday and Friday to Arrecife on Lanzarote.

Fred Olsen (902 10 01 07; www.fredolsen.es) has six to eight daily high-speed ferries (€64, 1¼ hours) to Agaete in the northwest of Gran Canaria, from where you can take its free bus onwards to Las Palmas (35 minutes).

Garajonay Exprés (902 34 34 50; www.garajonayexpres.com) connects Los Cristianos with San Sebastían (€19, 45 minutes), Playa Santiago (€22, one hour) and Valle Gran Rey (€23, 1½ hours) on La Gomera, three times daily at 8.30am, 1.55pm and 6.15pm. Passengers based in Santa Cruz can take a courtesy bus to Los Cristianos to catch the ferry.

Buy tickets for all companies from travel agents or from the main Estación Marítima Muelle Ribera building (from where the Fred Olsen boats leave). Naviera Armas has its base further to the south.

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Air

Tenerife Norte is the nearest airport to Santa Cruz. It handles nearly all flights between the islands, and very few others.

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