Tenerife boat tour

Travelin’ Lady: Eco Yacht Whale & Dolphin Safari + Swim at €30 — ★4.7 from 18 890 reviews, ninety minutes out of Los Cristianos, and the largest body of feedback on the island. For a quieter deck, Los Gigantes Whale Watching Cruise by Sailboat at €75 is ★4.9 from 2 241 under sail.

From €26 for a shared ninety-minute run to about €79 for a yacht with water toys, with the food-and-drink cruises in between at €47–64. Private charters run into the hundreds and are priced per group, not per person.

Los Cristianos if you want the residents in the shortest possible trip — they sit twenty minutes out and the harbour holds 45 604 reviews across just 11 boats. Los Gigantes if you also want the cliffs. Costa Adeje for the widest choice of longer cruises with food.

Most of them, most days. Short-finned pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins are resident in the channel towards La Gomera year-round rather than migratory, which is why ninety minutes is enough and why nobody here sells a season.

On the two-hour and longer trips, yes — at an anchorage away from the animals. Swimming within five hundred metres of cetaceans is prohibited, so the swim stop is always somewhere else along the coast.

The ninety-minute trips especially: short, in the lee of the coast, and over before anyone gets restless. Minimum ages vary by operator, so check the product page for the boat you want.

Barely. One product leaves from Puerto de la Cruz. The Atlantic swell on the north coast is why the fleet lives on the south and west, and why a day trip from the north usually means a transfer south first.

Morning sailings are the calmest — the wind builds through the afternoon on this coast. The exception is the sunset cruises, which are sold on the light rather than the sea state.

A Tenerife yacht tour covers two very different things. The cheap end is Travelin’ Lady: Eco Yacht Whale & Dolphin Safari + Swim at €30 — an eco yacht with a shared deck. The other end is a private boat tour Tenerife operators price per vessel: Private Yacht Trip with Watersports and Slides is €949 for the boat, and a south Tenerife private boat tour of that kind is a group booking, not a per-person one.

Sixteen boats sail rather than motor. Los Gigantes Whale Watching Cruise by Sailboat at €75 is the best rated at ★4.9 from 2 241; a private sailing tour Tenerife operators offer starts around €55 for a three-hour charter. A Tenerife mount Teide and sailing boat day trip pairs the volcano with the water in one day.

Costa Adeje is the biggest fleet on the island, and an exclusive boat tour in Puerto Colon Tenerife means one of the boats on that harbour’s pontoons. A catamaran tour Tenerife Costa Adeje sells starts at Whale Watching Catamaran Tour with Drinks, €35, and a south coast Tenerife boat tour with drinks and snacks is the longer version of it.

Los Gigantes has eleven boats and the cliffs on the doorstep — a dolphin tour Tenerife Los Gigantes operators run costs from €28. A Santa Cruz de Tenerife boat tour is a different proposition: the capital lists three boats, all private charters, because the animals live on the other coast.

Whale Watching Catamaran Tour with Drinks at €35 is the cheapest with drinks in the price. Above it, Marine-Life Tour with Transfer, Buffet and Drinks at €63 adds a buffet, and the private charters include whatever you agree with the operator.

One, and its listing is the phrase itself — a kayak and snorkeling sightseeing tour, La Caleta, Tenerife south. An hour and a half, small group, and €60 for the boat rather than the seat, up to three people in it, so it is €20 each at three and the whole kayak at one. Five stars from three reviews — too thin a record for the table above, and the price was read on 16 September rather than in the 11 September snapshot the rest of this page quotes. The island’s kayak-and-snorkel fleet is one of its biggest, and the strongest boats run from Los Cristianos and the Palm-Mar marine reserve instead — Kayak Safari and Snorkel in a Marine Reserve alone holds 3 474 of them at €23.