Las Caletillas

Travel Agent's View

Travel Agents View open quotes great day out in this resort is a trip to the Teide National Park close quotes

Las Caletillas is located on the north east coast of Tenerife. This resort is ideal if you are looking for a quiet, peaceful holiday with fantastic scenary.

Las Caletillas has its own pebble beach, but there is a sandy volcanic beach just a few kilometres away. As it is a quiet resort there is not much in the way of nightlife, but the capital, Santa Cruz is only 14km away.

Las Caletillas does have a few bars and restaurants distributed around the resort, along with some local shops and gift shops.

A great day out in this resort is a trip to the Teide National Park. Here you can enjoy a cable car ride up Spains highest mountain, Mount Teide.

The Reina Sofia Airport is approximately 50km away.

Insider's View

Tenerife Insider open quotes the resort end of Candelaria where the town's only hotels are located close quotes

open quotes It's funny how a place can change after dark and I love the way that happens in Las Caletillas. The bars and restaurants really come to life after the sun goes down close quotes

This is the resort end of Candelaria where the town's only hotels are located. It's nicely self-contained with restaurants, bars, shops and supermarkets.

There's a long, flat promenade which connects La Caletillas with Candelaria which, in the mornings, is the domain of dog walkers and joggers - well, the Tinerfeñan version of jogging which consists of wearing tracksuit bottoms and strolling along chatting.

By mid-morning many of the cafes and restaurants open, offering a mouth-watering selection of breads, cakes, pastries and ice creams. Being completely weak-willed, I'm always glad that it's quite a distance to walk to Candelaria!

There are such a brilliant selection of places to eat here that choosing is a nightmare. They do some of the best pizzas around at El Papi and at El Segoviano they travel for miles for the melt-in-the-mouth lamb and the suckling pig, not to mention their delicious meatballs (las albóndigas).

It's funny how a place can change after dark and I love the way that happens in Las Caletillas. The bars and restaurants really come to life after the sun goes down. I find them stylishly cool and they're a great place to enjoy a Belgian beer on the way out to Candelaria and a nightcap on the way home - hic.

One of the best things about Las Caletillas is that it's almost always sunny, if a bit on the breezy side. The down side for me is the lack of a decent beach and the sea here can be pretty rough, so visitors tend to stay around their hotel swimming pool.

And the must-sees? Don't miss the Basilica and the Guanche statues at Plaza de la Patrona at the far end of the promenade. Climb a few streets back from the promenade at Las Caletillas to Rambla los Menceyes to see the original, volcanic stone Guanche statues, sadly eroded from the sea air before they were replaced with the new ones in 1993.
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