This is just a short review about my recent travel through Tenerife Sur Airport and my experiences. I travelled from Belfast Int. to Tenerife Sur.

From UK:

The airport is situated right on the coast as this is basically the only flat land on Tenerife! The plane once landed was directed to park on the tarmac quickly about 500m from the airport. We left the plane down a flight of steps onto the runway and were packed onto buses and taking a short 1 min ride to the airport. The buses were packed but I wasn't complaining after sitting on a plane for nearly 5 hrs!

The arrivals building appeared to be quite new and after flashing our passports at immigration we arrived at the baggage reclaim belts. The airport was very busy and extremely hot and sticky with no air conditioning and it took about half an hour to retrieve our 3 bags of luggage but we were swiftly out of the airport.

After this we walked across the front road of the airport to our rent-a-car collection point and within 5 mins we had joined the main motorway around Tenerife and heading for our destination. I reckon it took 1 hr from landing to joining the motorway.

Marks:

4/5 : let down by wait for baggage and very sticky warm airport.


To UK:

At arrival to the airport the car was parked just outside. Signs inside the airport pointed clearly to our check in which took about 15 mins to check in. Next came a quick but well equipped security check before entering the departure lounge which contained many shops and restaurants and a large viewing gallery on the top floor with plenty of seats.

Shops

Swats
Souvenirs
T Shirts
Magazines etc.

Restaurants:

Burger King
Pizza
Sandwiches
Local Spanish food

Expect to pay quite a bit in the shops.

The upstairs of the departure area was well ventilated and cool but downstairs where all the shops etc where was extremely sticky with no air conditioning which really made you feel bad and dirty. Smoking was permitted just about anywhere in the airport which also put me off but fortunately after using the restrooms which were clean we boarded the buses again and soon took off.

Marks:

3/5: let down by very sticky warm airport and smoking.