The Other Side of the Mountain: The Tenerife Planning Kit
Twenty-six and sunny in Los Cristianos tells you nothing at all about Puerto de la Cruz.
There's a wall of rock down the middle of this island over three and a half thousand metres high. The wind hits it, can't get over it, and stacks up as a flat grey lid on the northern slopes. Twenty minutes away, on the other side of the ridge, the sky is completely clear.
Which is why people who've been coming here for fifteen years still lose days. They check a forecast for "Tenerife" as though that means something, then sit under cloud wondering what went wrong.
This kit fixes that one problem, and a good many others with it.
Who this is for
- Repeat visitors who book the same fortnight every year and want all of it back
- Winter long-stayers deciding where to base themselves
- Anyone who's been to Tenerife and quietly suspects they've only seen the strip
- People weighing up a longer stay or a move
What you get
- The main guide, written for people who already know the island a bit
- Printable Which Side Today cards, one per cloud and wind pattern, with where to go, where to park, and the fallback if it's closed in
- Teide without the queue: permits, the cable car cap, the buses, and the refuge
- Anaga, Masca and Garachico, with the caps and permits explained plainly
- Guachinches, what they are and when the season opens
- The long stay and movers workbook
- Free updates for life
From Chapter Three
You're never checking the weather for Tenerife. You're checking which side of the mountain to be on that morning, and the answer is usually visible from the road if you know where to look.
What this isn't
Not a listings guide, not a top ten, and not a brochure. Where the island is under strain, it says so plainly rather than pretending otherwise.
Instant download. Read it on a phone, a tablet or printed out. If it's not what you hoped for, email us and we'll refund you, no argument.