Тенерифе Tenerife

In early September, my wife and I rested in Tenerife, at the Jardin Tropical Hotel for ten days. Not for the first time in Spain, we went to the Costa del Sol several times, once to the Atlantic in El Puerto de Santa Maria. This time we decided, since the vacation is not as long as usual, not to scatter, to give up long domestic trips to interesting places and give ourselves up to swimming and sunbathing. For these reasons, we decided to leave the mainland and fly to the island of Tenerife. In Natalie-tour, they made several offers to us, but my wife immediately laid eyes on Jardin. Painfully, he reminded her of the eastern palace from the old children's film about Aladdin.

The hotel is located near the town of Costa Adeje, twenty kilometers from the airport, so having arrived and picked up the luggage, we reached the place in about 20 minutes. The hotel is really impressive, the architects did their best by erecting this sugary Moorish fairy tale against the backdrop of a tall sky and sea. Looks cooler than on the brochures.

Stayed in a room overlooking the beach. The room is spacious, well furnished, a TV with a Russian channel (but we only turned it on upon arrival), a solid bath with all kinds of cosmetics, etc. In general, the European level, we lived all ten days in comfort.

About nutrition. Breakfasts are standard for Spanish hotels - the basis of all kinds of egg dishes, cereals, fruit and vegetable salads, three or four types of cheeses, sausages (my favorite jamon appeared periodically), rather mediocre coffee in jugs was brought by the waiter (but we quickly figured out that in the corner there is a good coffee machine, and our mood has improved), five types of juices (plus orange fresh on request), sour milk, buns, cakes, etc. In general, despite the fact that the morning menu did not change almost, a huge assortment made it possible to diversify breakfast. And the quality of everything is very high, except that the sausages are rather inedible, soy is soy. Our tour included only breakfast.
But in the morning we refueled so much that we did without lunch, well, except for throwing ourselves a sandwich with tuna or shrimp with beer in some cafe. By the way, the Spanish Cruzcampo is a very decent service, I recommend it, but on the island it is mainly Dorada and Tropical for sale, which is also very, very. We ate quite late. The freshest grilled seabass or breaded red mullet, super-cooked beef steak, mussels, shrimp, etc. Despite the simplicity of the dishes, it is impossible to break away. And olives of all kinds and sizes. Some establishments serve olives for free as a compliment. All this was washed down with malvasia and sherry, my favorite Madrid rioja was practically not found on the menu.

As for the main purpose of the trip, the beach seems to be endless, sixty meters wide, in some places very wide. Fine sand, good entry into the sea, you don’t have to cripple your feet on corals.

The water is wonderful, often a good wave, on which it is pleasant to swing and dive (that's why we love the Atlantic). The economy is all, of course, municipal, therefore they clean the beach well, but there is no special equipment, but we didn’t need it. One day there was a strong wave, the sand and water stirred up, I had to step into the pool, but by the next morning everything had subsided. We didn’t use the sunbeds much, we preferred taking a towel and water and walking along the edge of the surf, periodically stopping to take a dip. For a day, it happened, they walked ten kilometers. And it is useful, and tan lays down more evenly. In general, Spain - 5, the island - 5, the hotel too - 5.