You clear the baggage hall at 23:40 with two cases and a tired six-year-old. The rank is forty people deep and the meter hasn't started yet. This page fixes that — and tells you honestly when the €3.70 bus is the better call.
Below you'll find the real meter ranges to every resort, our fixed fares beside them, and the five bus routes that genuinely stop at the terminal door. No guesswork, no surprises at the kerb.
Fixed fare guarantee
No meter, no queue
Two numbers matter here. The meter range is what a rank taxi typically shows on tariff 1, the daytime rate. Our fixed price is what you agree at booking and pay whatever the traffic, the hour or the day does. The gap between them opens up after 22:00, on Sundays and on public holidays, when tariff 2 applies to the rank but not to you.
| Destination | Road km | Drive | Meter (tariff 1) | Our fixed price | Bus | Bus fare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Abrigos | 6 km | 8 min | €14–20 | €28 | 415 | ≈€1.50 |
| San Isidro / Las Chafiras | 8 km | 10 min | €14–20 | €22 | 10 · 415 | ≈€1.50 |
| El Médano | 8 km | 10 min | €15–22 | €22 | 415 + change | ≈€2.30 |
| Golf del Sur / San Blas | 10 km | 12 min | €18–26 | €24 | 415 | ≈€2.00 |
| Costa del Silencio / Las Galletas | 14 km | 15 min | €22–30 | €28 | 415 | ≈€2.60 |
| Los Cristianos Popular | 16 km | 15 min | €25–35 | €30 | 40 · 343 · 711 | ≈€3.20 |
| Los Cristianos ferry port | 17 km | 17 min | €26–36 | €32 | 40 + 10 min walk | ≈€3.20 |
| Playa de las Américas Popular | 19 km | 18 min | €28–38 | €33 | 40 · 343 · 711 | ≈€3.45 |
| Costa Adeje Popular | 20 km | 20 min | €30–40 | €35 | 40 · 343 · 711 | €3.70 |
| Callao Salvaje / La Caleta | 28 km | 28 min | €45–58 | €48 | 40 + 473 | ≈€5.40 |
| Los Gigantes / Puerto Santiago | 50 km | 45 min | €80–105 | €85 | 40 + 477 | ≈€8.60 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | 62 km | 50 min | €90–115 | €95 | 10 · 711 | ≈€9.45 |
| La Laguna | 70 km | 60 min | €100–125 | €105 | 10 + tram | ≈€11.00 |
| Puerto de la Cruz | 100 km | 1 h 10 | €110–140 | €120 | 343 | ≈€13.55 |
| Tenerife North Airport (TFN) Popular | 72 km | 55 min | €95–120 | €100 | 343 (non-stop) | ≈€10.10 |
About the meter figures
These are the ranges we see on the rank in daylight hours on tariff 1. Canarian taxi tariffs are set municipality by municipality and reviewed periodically, so treat every figure as a planning estimate rather than a quotation.
When tariff 2 applies
Roughly 22:00 to 06:00, plus Sundays and public holidays. The rank switches to the higher rate and adds an airport supplement and luggage charges. Our fixed price does not move.
Cheaper bus fares
Bus prices shown are standard single fares. A ten+ card cuts roughly 20% off short hops and up to 30% off the long runs north — Costa Adeje drops from €3.70 to about €2.90.
Fares reviewed . Fixed prices are per vehicle, not per person, for a standard saloon carrying up to four passengers.
Three steps, about ninety seconds. The only detail people get wrong is the flight number, and it is the one that matters most.
Give us the hotel, villa or apartment address rather than just the resort name. Costa Adeje alone stretches four kilometres, and the difference between Fañabé and La Caleta is a real one. Tell us how many cases you have — five people with five large suitcases need a minibus, not a saloon.
This is what turns a booking into a guarantee. We track the inbound flight, so a two-hour delay out of Manchester costs you nothing and nobody drives away without you. Add any child seats here too — they are free, but we need to know the ages.
The figure you see is the figure you pay, per vehicle. You get a confirmation with your driver's details and a local contact number. Cancel free up to 24 hours before pickup if plans change.
Booking a return as well?
Book both legs together and your driver builds in the right airport buffer for your departure — two hours for Schengen, closer to three for the UK.
Six realistic options, ranked by how they behave at 11pm in August rather than how they look on a comparison site. There is no seventh: Tenerife has no railway, and neither the tram nor any metro reaches the south of the island.
Private car, price agreed in advance
A named driver meets you in the arrivals hall with a board, takes the cases, and the fare is whatever you agreed weeks ago. Flight tracking means a three-hour delay costs you nothing.
Best for: late arrivals, families needing car seats, groups of five or more, anywhere north of Adeje, and anyone who wants the holiday to start at the kerb.
Metered white taxi, no booking
White cars carrying the Granadilla de Abona crest queue at the eastern end of the terminal, a minute's walk from arrivals. No app, no booking, just a marshalled queue that is empty at 07:00 and brutal when four UK flights land together.
Best for: solo travellers, hand luggage only, off-peak arrivals, short hops to El Médano or Los Abrigos.
The green guaguas
Stops sit directly opposite the terminal exit on floor 0. Five routes call at the terminal itself. Around €3.20 to €3.70 to the southern resorts, roughly €9.45 to Santa Cruz, and there is a genuine overnight service on route 711.
Best for: light packers, solo and couple travellers on a budget, anyone staying within walking distance of a main-road stop.
Desks inside the terminal
Cars sit in the adjoining car park. Tenerife is one of Europe's cheapest hire markets in low season and one of its most stressful in August, when finding a Costa Adeje parking space becomes a competitive sport.
Best for: stays of five days or more with real exploring planned — Masca, Anaga, Teide at sunrise.
Tour-operator coach or shared van
Cheap per head, but you wait in the terminal until the vehicle fills, then visit four other hotels before yours. Budget 60 to 110 minutes door to door for a journey a private car does in twenty.
Best for: package holidays where it is already included, and travellers with no fixed schedule.
Uber, Bolt and Cabify
The honest answer is barely. Uber operates in a limited form in parts of the south, largely as a way to hail a licensed metered taxi or as the pricier Uber Black tier. You cannot count on a car appearing outside the terminal, and Bolt and Cabify have no meaningful presence on the island.
Best for: nobody arriving on a flight. Do not plan around it.
Canarian taxis are licensed municipality by municipality. The cars are white, carry the crest and name of their town on the door, and are metered by law with tariffs set by the local council. The system works well once you understand two quirks that catch visitors out every week.
A driver licensed in Adeje can drop a passenger anywhere on the island but may only pick up inside Adeje. So an empty Adeje taxi cruising past you in Granadilla is not being rude — it legally cannot take the fare. This is also why the airport rank is fed by a specific pool of licences, and why a driver who has just dropped off cannot simply turn around and collect you.
You can and should ask for an estimate before getting in, but on a rank taxi the meter reading at the end is the legal fare. Fixed prices exist only for pre-arranged transfers and island tours. Check the meter is running and reset as you pull away, and check the tariff number on the display matches the time of day — the night tariff should not be showing at two in the afternoon.
Baggage reclaim
Floor 0. Belts on the main level, with the lower level handling overflow at peak.
Through arrivals
If you pre-booked, your driver is standing here with a board. You can skip everything below.
Exit and turn left
Buses are straight ahead across the road. The taxi rank sits at the eastern end of the terminal.
Join the marshalled queue
Take the next car. Choosing a specific taxi is not a thing here.
Confirm before you load
Say the destination, ask the route, watch the meter start.
07:00–10:00
Quiet. Cars usually waiting for you.
11:00–16:00
Steady. Five to fifteen minutes at worst.
16:00–20:00
UK and German arrival banks. Twenty to forty minutes in summer.
After 23:00
Demand thins, but so does supply. The strongest case for pre-booking.
Sunday changeover
Worst day of the week, every week — and tariff 2 applies all day.
Tariffs
Tariff 1 daytime Monday to Saturday. Tariff 2 overnight, Sundays and public holidays, plus a small airport supplement and per-case luggage charges.
Paying
Many cars take contactless, but cash still rules and card machines fail. Carry €40 to €50 in notes if you are heading for the rank.
Capacity
Standard cars seat four with luggage. Six- and seven-seaters exist but rarely sit on the rank. Groups of five or more should book ahead or split across two cars.
Accessibility
Wheelchairs and pushchairs carry no extra charge and guide dogs travel free. Adapted PRM vehicles exist but must be arranged in advance.
Tenerife's public buses are run by TITSA and known locally as guaguas. They are green, air-conditioned, cheap and — this surprises people who expect the worst of island transport — largely punctual. The stops are directly opposite the terminal exit on floor 0, with no shuttle required.
The route-111 trap
Plenty of guides still tell you to take the 111 from the airport. It does not call at the terminal. The 111 runs along the TF-1 motorway and stops at Enlace Aeropuerto, the airport junction, leaving you a walk of well over a kilometre along a slip road with your cases. For the terminal door, use the five lines below — these are the ones Aena and TITSA list as stopping at Floor 0, Arrivals.
Airport ↔ Los Cristianos ↔ Costa Adeje
The one most holidaymakers want. Direct to the southern resorts with intermediate stops at Magma, Llanos de Troya and El Camisón. Roughly every 30 minutes through the day, journey time 30 to 40 minutes. €3.70 to Costa Adeje, or about €2.90 with a ten+ card.
Puerto de la Cruz ↔ TFN ↔ TFS ↔ Los Cristianos
Runs non-stop between the two airports in about 50 minutes, which makes it the only sensible public option for a TFS–TFN connection. Also the route to take for the north coast, at roughly half-hourly intervals.
Santa Cruz ↔ Cruce San Isidro ↔ Airport
The daytime link to the capital, running up the east coast via the Caletillas and San Isidro junctions. About 55 minutes and roughly €9.45. Change at the Santa Cruz Intercambiador for the tram to La Laguna.
Santa Cruz ↔ Airport ↔ Los Cristianos ↔ Costa Adeje
The overnight version of the 10 and 40 combined. Departures are sparse — think a handful of services spread across the small hours — but more than most European airports manage. If your flight lands at 01:40, check the timetable before you count on it.
El Fraile ↔ Las Galletas ↔ Airport ↔ San Isidro
The local workhorse for the immediate area: Golf del Sur, Costa del Silencio, Las Chafiras, Guargacho. Cheap, frequent enough, and the right choice if you are staying within ten kilometres of the runway.
El Médano, Los Gigantes, La Caleta
None of these has a direct terminal service. For El Médano take the 415 or 10 to San Isidro and change. For Los Gigantes take the 40 to Costa Adeje then the 477. For La Caleta and Callao Salvaje, the 40 then the 473. Each change adds 20 to 40 minutes and a fair amount of luggage wrangling.
Single fares are distance-based and typically land between €1.50 and €6 for anything in the south, rising to about €13.55 for the long haul up to Puerto de la Cruz. Contactless cards, phones and watches all work on board. If you are paying cash, bring coins — drivers cannot change a note above €10.
A ten+ card costs about €2, takes a top-up from €5, and cuts roughly 20% off short journeys and up to 30% off long ones. One standard card can cover several people. Tourist passes exist at around €10 for a day and €50 for a week, worth it only if you are genuinely riding several times a day. Children under four travel free, and a same-day return on journeys over 20 km earns about 10% off.
TITSA sets a maximum bag size of roughly 100 × 60 × 25 cm, and there is no dedicated hold on most airport services — cases go in the aisle or on your lap. When a full Ryanair flight empties onto the same stop, both the seats and the floor space go quickly.
This is the single biggest reason people who planned to take the bus end up in the taxi queue instead. If you are two adults with two large cases and a pushchair, the bus is a theoretical option rather than a practical one.
If you are travelling light, arriving between roughly 07:00 and 21:00, and staying near a main-road stop in Los Cristianos, Las Américas or Costa Adeje. It is comfortably the cheapest way off the airport, and it is not the ordeal some transfer sites imply.
The moment you add a second suitcase, a pushchair, a hotel that is a fifteen-minute uphill walk from the stop, a 01:40 landing, or a group of four where the bus fares plus a connecting local taxi cost more than one car.
If you are island-hopping to La Gomera, La Palma or El Hierro, the boat leaves from Los Cristianos, about 17 km and 15 to 20 minutes from the terminal. This is the one journey on the island where being late has a hard consequence: miss the sailing and you are spending an unplanned night in Tenerife.
Baggage delivery at TFS can add 25 to 40 minutes after landing in high season. Add the 20-minute drive and the operators' advice to be at the port an hour before departure, and you want your flight landing at least two and a half hours before the sailing. Three if you are taking a vehicle across.
Fred. Olsen Express and Naviera Armas both run fast ferries from Los Cristianos. San Sebastián de La Gomera is about 50 minutes; Santa Cruz de La Palma is around two and a half hours. Sailings thin out on Sundays and local holidays, so check before you fix your flight time.
The 40 gets you to Los Cristianos for about €3.20, but the bus station is not the port — allow ten minutes on foot with your cases at the far end. For a timed sailing with luggage, a car to the terminal door is the sane choice.
Catching a ferry the same day?
Tell us the sailing time when you book. We will set the pickup against your flight's actual landing time and drive to the port gate, not the bus station.
This is where the rank stops being a realistic option and most of our bookings come from. Everything below has to be arranged before you fly — none of it can be solved in a queue at midnight.
Spanish law requires an appropriate restraint for any child under 135 cm. Rank taxis almost never carry one, and the exemption drivers sometimes cite does not make a lap-held toddler on the TF-1 a good idea. We supply infant carriers, forward-facing seats and boosters at no charge — tell us ages and approximate weights at booking so the right seat is fitted before you land.
A standard Canarian taxi takes four passengers with luggage, and larger vehicles rarely sit on the rank. Five people arriving without a booking usually means splitting across two cars, paying two fares and arriving separately. A single eight-seat minibus is almost always cheaper than two saloons and always simpler. For parties above eight we run multiple vehicles on one booking so everyone leaves together.
Folding wheelchairs and pushchairs travel free in any vehicle. If you need a ramp-equipped adapted vehicle for a non-folding chair, that must be booked in advance — there is no realistic chance of finding one on the rank. Guide and assistance dogs travel free. Aena also runs a free assistance service inside the terminal, which you request through your airline before departure.
The south of the island is full of golf courses and El Médano is a windsurfing capital, so this comes up constantly. Golf bags and boards need an estate or minibus, not a saloon. Add them to the booking as items rather than assuming they will fit — a boot that takes four cases will not take four cases and two board bags.
Rank drivers can refuse an animal that is not an assistance dog, and after a long flight that is a miserable discovery. Tell us at booking and we allocate a driver who accepts pets. Carriers on the seat or in the boot, depending on size.
Our included waiting time runs to 60 minutes from your actual landing, and because we track the flight rather than the schedule a diversion or a three-hour delay does not cost you the booking. If your inbound is cancelled outright, tell us and we move the transfer rather than charging for it.
Tenerife's two airports sit at opposite ends of the island and are not connected airside in any way. If you have landed at TFS on a charter and are connecting onto a Binter or Canaryfly hop from TFN, you are making a 72 km road journey across the middle of Tenerife — and you are doing it on your own time and at your own risk.
€100 fixed
Around 55 minutes door to door on the TF-1 and TF-5. We track your inbound so the driver is there when you actually land, not when you were meant to. The only option that gives you a guaranteed departure time.
€95–120
Perfectly possible, and on tariff 1 in light traffic it can come in under the fixed price. After 22:00, on a Sunday or with four cases of luggage supplements, it usually does not. You are also joining the queue first.
≈€10.10
Non-stop between the terminals in about 50 minutes and genuinely good value. The catch is frequency: it runs roughly hourly, so a missed bus is an hour gone. Fine with a three-hour connection, reckless with ninety minutes.
How much time to leave: allow four hours between your TFS landing and your TFN departure. That covers 25 to 40 minutes for bags, an hour on the road, and the check-in and security you would want at any airport. Separate tickets mean nobody rebooks you if the first flight is late.
No — and not anywhere else on the island either. Tenerife has no railway network at all. This trips up a lot of visitors, because the island does have modern rail-style transport in the shape of the MetroTenerife tram. But the tram's two lines run entirely within the Santa Cruz and La Laguna conurbation at the far north-east, around 60 km from TFS. To reach it from the airport you would take the 10 or 711 bus into Santa Cruz first, which rather defeats the point.
A railway is genuinely planned. The Tren del Sur would run roughly 80 km from Santa Cruz to Costa Adeje with a station built into Tenerife South Airport, and an agreement with Aena has been signed to include that station in the terminal's redevelopment. The current picture, though, is a project costed at around €2.5 billion, expected to go out to tender somewhere around late 2027 to early 2028, with the first phase between San Isidro and Costa Adeje not realistically in service before the 2030s. Feasibility studies for this line began in 1997.
Plan for the island as it is: taxi, bus or hire car. If a booking site offers you a "train transfer" from TFS, it is selling you a bus.
| Trains at TFS | None. No station, no line. |
|---|---|
| Island rail network | None. |
| Tram | Two lines, Santa Cruz to La Laguna only. About 60 km from the airport. |
| Nearest rail-ish link | Bus 10 to Santa Cruz Intercambiador, then tram line 1. |
| Tren del Sur | Planned. Airport station agreed with Aena. Tender expected 2027–28, opening well into the 2030s. |
| Takeaway | Road transport is the only transport. |
One terminal, three floors, red brick — architecturally unlike any other big Spanish airport, and refreshingly simple to navigate once you know which level does what.
Everything that matters: all check-in desks, service counters, security, the departure waiting areas, arrivals and the main baggage belts. The bus stops and taxi rank are both reached from here. If you are arriving or departing, this is where you will be.
Offices and transit corridors. Not a passenger destination in its own right.
Additional baggage belts, used to spread the load when several wide-bodies land together.
The departures area has around 40 boarding gates but only about ten air bridges. The rest are bus gates, which is why "gate open" at TFS often means a walk downstairs, a wait, and a short coach ride to a remote stand. Build fifteen extra minutes into your gate timing, especially on low-cost carriers.
Two hours for Schengen departures. Two and a half to three for the UK and anything else outside Schengen, where passport control adds a genuinely unpredictable queue. Peak departure banks are mid-morning and late afternoon.
The arrivals hall and the short-stay car park are the usual meeting points. Watch the arrivals board rather than the scheduled time — baggage delivery at TFS can add 25 to 40 minutes after landing in high season.
| Service | What to expect |
|---|---|
| Wi-Fi | Free public Wi-Fi throughout the terminal. |
| Car hire | Desks inside the terminal, vehicles in the adjoining car park. |
| Parking | Short-stay directly outside, long-stay a short shuttle away. Book ahead in February and August. |
| Food | Thin airside after the last evening wave. Eat before security on a late flight. |
| Bus stops | Directly opposite the terminal exit on floor 0. No shuttle needed. |
| Taxi rank | Eastern end of the terminal, beside the arrivals exit. Staffed at peak. |
| Assistance (PRM) | Free Aena service, requested through your airline at least 48 hours before you fly. |
| Bus information | TITSA, +34 922 531 300, 08:00–20:00. |
TFS handled just under 14 million passengers in 2025, making it the second-busiest airport in the Canary Islands after Gran Canaria. Around 40 airlines connect it to roughly 125 destinations, overwhelmingly European leisure traffic. That matters for your transfer: leisure traffic arrives in banks, and banks are what empty a taxi rank.
Ryanair is the largest by departures, with easyJet second. Both lean heavily on bus gates, so allow the extra fifteen minutes on the way out.
Binter Canarias and Canaryfly run the short hops to Gran Canaria, La Palma, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. For mainland Spain it is Iberia Express, Air Europa and Vueling. The busiest single route is TFS to Las Palmas.
Note that many inter-island services run from Tenerife North rather than the south, which is why the cross-island transfer comes up so often.
The UK dominates. Manchester and London Gatwick lead, followed by London Stansted, Birmingham, East Midlands and Heathrow, then Dublin, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Zurich. If you are arriving from any of these you are landing inside a bank of flights, which is precisely when the rank backs up.
TFS is not a long-haul hub, but the transatlantic picture is shifting. United flew a Newark service between 2022 and 2025. Air Canada has seasonal Toronto and Montréal services scheduled from late 2026, which would make Toronto the airport's longest route at close to nine hours. Air Serbia adds Belgrade from September 2026.
By European standards, no — and by Canary Islands standards it is competitive. The airport carries no passenger-facing entry cost, and the things visitors actually pay for sit at or below the Spanish average.
Where TFS feels expensive is in the gap between expectation and geography. The airport sits in Granadilla de Abona on the arid south-east coast, not in the resorts. Almost every visitor has a 15 to 25 kilometre journey ahead of them, and a party of four heading to Costa Adeje will spend two to three times more getting from the terminal to the hotel than the same four would spend on bus tickets.
Airport terminal
No entry or facility fee for passengers.
Taxi to southern resorts
Roughly €25–40 on the meter in daylight.
Taxi to the north coast
€90–140. This is where costs bite.
Bus to southern resorts
About €3.20–3.70 per person.
Hire car
Among Europe's cheaper markets off-season. Sharp climb in July, August and over Carnival.
Coffee airside
Comparable to a mainland Spanish airport, cheaper than most UK ones.
Night surcharge
Applies overnight, Sundays and public holidays — the main reason meter and fixed price diverge after dark.
Luggage supplements
Per-case charges apply on the rank and are easy to forget when comparing to a fixed quote.
TFS is fifteen minutes from a water park regularly voted the best in the world and eighty minutes from the highest peak in Spain. Here is what is genuinely near, and how to reach it.
The Thai-themed water park on the TF-1 at Costa Adeje, with its own motorway exit. Closer to the airport than most people's hotels, and the same journey as Costa Adeje in every practical sense.
The island's windsurfing and kitesurfing capital, on a wide dark-sand beach beneath the Montaña Roja volcanic cone. The nearest genuinely interesting place to the airport and a good first-night base.
Spain's highest point at 3,715 m, reached by a climb through pine forest into a lunar caldera. Doable as a private transfer with waiting time. The public bus route to Teide runs from Costa Adeje, not the airport.
Six-hundred-metre cliffs dropping straight into the Atlantic, and the departure point for whale and dolphin trips into one of Europe's most reliable cetacean corridors.
The green, cloudier north. Loro Parque, the Botanical Garden and the Lago Martiánez lido. A long taxi run, and the classic case for either the 343 bus or a pre-agreed fixed fare.
The capital's Calatrava auditorium and covered market, and the UNESCO-listed colonial grid of La Laguna. The one part of the island where the tram is useful once you arrive.
Certain dates turn a fifteen-minute transfer into a fifty-minute one and empty the taxi rank entirely. If you are travelling on any of these, book the car before you book dinner.
One of the largest street carnivals on earth, running roughly six weeks from mid-January to late February, peaking with the Coso Apoteosis parade and the Burial of the Sardine. Transfers to the capital sell out, and a late-night return south is the single hardest journey of the year to arrange on the day.
The south's own carnival, a few weeks after the capital's. Smaller, warmer and far easier to reach from the airport.
A classical programme across the islands, anchored in Tenerife at the Auditorio Adán Martín on the Santa Cruz waterfront.
Traditional pilgrimages with Canarian dress, ox carts, food and wine. Valle San Lorenzo and Guía de Isora are among the southern ones.
Bonfires and midnight swimming on the beaches of Adeje, Los Cristianos and El Médano. Resort roads close late, so build extra time into any departure transfer that night.
Tenerife Music Festival in June, Canarias Jazz and stadium concerts through July, Sunblast in August, Phe Festival in early September and Peñón Fest in October. Most take place in the south or the capital, and August collides with peak season anyway.
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Everything people ask us before they book, answered plainly.
A metered taxi from TFS to Costa Adeje, about 20 km, typically runs €30–40 on tariff 1 in daylight, and more after 22:00, on Sundays and on public holidays. Our fixed price is €35 per vehicle for up to four passengers, and it does not change with the hour or the traffic. The drive takes 20 to 25 minutes.
Playa de las Américas is about 19 km from the terminal. Expect €28–38 on the meter during the day. Our fixed price is €33 per vehicle, not per person, and the journey takes 18 to 22 minutes.
Los Cristianos is 16 km and around 15 minutes away. The meter usually reads €25–35 in daylight hours. Our fixed price is €30 to the town, or €32 if you need the ferry port gate rather than the bus station.
This is the long one: 100 km across the island, about an hour and ten minutes. The meter typically lands between €110 and €140. Our fixed price is €120. If you are travelling light, the 343 bus does the same journey for roughly €13.55 and is a genuinely reasonable alternative.
At the eastern end of the terminal on floor 0, roughly a 60-second walk from the arrivals exit. Follow the signs for "Taxis" as you come out. It is a single shared rank serving the whole terminal, marshalled at peak times, and it operates 24 hours a day.
Not strictly — the rank is usually well supplied. But pre-booking is strongly recommended for night arrivals, groups of five or more, anyone needing a child seat, and any journey north. You get a fixed price, a driver holding your name, and free cancellation up to 24 hours before pickup.
Not in any form you should plan around. Uber operates in a limited way in parts of southern Tenerife, mostly as a way to hail a licensed metered taxi or through the pricier Uber Black tier, and there is no reliable supply of cars at the terminal. Bolt and Cabify have no meaningful presence on the island. Treat the rank or a pre-booked transfer as your two real options.
Line 40 is the direct one, running from the terminal to Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas and Costa Adeje station roughly every 30 minutes for €3.70. The 343 and the overnight 711 also serve the same corridor. Do not use the 111 — it runs on the TF-1 and stops at the airport junction, not the terminal.
Single fares run from about €1.50 for the nearest villages to €3.70 for Costa Adeje, €9.45 for Santa Cruz and €13.55 for Puerto de la Cruz. A ten+ card cuts roughly 20 to 30% off. Cash, cards and phones all work on board, but drivers cannot change a note above €10.
No. Tenerife has no railway anywhere on the island. The MetroTenerife tram runs only between Santa Cruz and La Laguna in the far north-east, about 60 km away. Your options from TFS are taxi, bus, hire car or a pre-booked transfer.
Typical drive times: 10 minutes to El Médano, 15 to Los Cristianos, 18 to Playa de las Américas, 20 to Costa Adeje, 45 to Los Gigantes, 50 to Santa Cruz and 70 to Puerto de la Cruz. Traffic on the TF-1 can add 10 to 15 minutes in peak season.
Rank taxis are metered by law, so the fare moves with distance, time of day and traffic, plus an airport supplement and per-case luggage charges. Fixed prices exist only on pre-arranged transfers. With us the price is agreed at booking and night, weekend and holiday journeys cost exactly the same.
Yes, the rank runs 24/7. But after 23:00 the supply of drivers thins out at the same time as tariff 2 pushes the fare up, so a late landing is exactly the arrival where a queue is most likely and most expensive. Pre-booking guarantees a driver waiting with your name at any hour.
Rank taxis almost never carry them. Spanish law requires an appropriate restraint for any child under 135 cm, so pre-booking is the only reliable way to travel legally and safely with young children. We supply infant, toddler and booster seats at no extra cost — just give us the ages when you book.
Because Canarian taxis are licensed municipality by municipality. A taxi licensed in Adeje may drop off anywhere on the island but can only pick up within Adeje or at a rank it is entitled to work. So an empty car passing you in Granadilla is not ignoring you — it legally cannot take the fare.
It is a 72 km road journey of about 55 minutes via the TF-1 and TF-5. A metered taxi runs roughly €95–120. Our fixed price is €100, with your connecting flight tracked. The 343 bus does the same trip non-stop in about 50 minutes for around €10.10, but it runs roughly hourly, so leave four hours between landing at TFS and departing from TFN.
It is about 17 km and 15 to 20 minutes by road, with a fixed price of €32. The 40 bus reaches Los Cristianos for around €3.20 but stops at the bus station, leaving a ten-minute walk to the port with your luggage. Because baggage delivery at TFS can add 25 to 40 minutes in high season, allow at least two and a half hours between landing and your sailing.
Nothing you have to pay for. We track your flight number rather than the scheduled time, so the driver arrives when your aircraft actually lands. Waiting time of 60 minutes from touchdown is included, which covers the slowest baggage hall at TFS. If the flight is cancelled, contact us and we move the booking.
Pre-booked transfers are paid online or to the driver by arrangement, so this is a non-issue. On the rank it is less certain: many cars have a terminal, but machines fail and some drivers prefer cash. If you are heading for the queue, carry €40 to €50 in notes.
Two hours for a Schengen departure, two and a half to three for the UK and anything else outside Schengen, where passport control is unpredictable. Add 30 to 60 minutes in July, August and over Christmas. Also remember most gates at TFS are bus gates, so "boarding" can mean another fifteen minutes before you reach the aircraft.
No. TFS is mid-priced by European standards, and a taxi to Costa Adeje at €30–40 is cheaper than many Mediterranean airports. Where costs add up is the distance to the northern resorts, and that is exactly where a fixed price usually beats the meter.
Yes. Licensed taxis are white, carry their municipality's crest on the door and run a calibrated meter, and the airport rank is marshalled at busy times. Two habits protect you: never accept a ride from anyone who approaches you inside the terminal, and check the tariff number showing on the meter matches the time of day before you pull away.
One price, agreed at booking. A driver with your name on a board. And no meter ticking while you find out how far Costa Adeje really is.
Get a fixed price for my transferTaxi tariffs in the Canary Islands are set by each municipality and revised periodically, and bus timetables change seasonally. Every figure on this page is a planning estimate rather than a quotation. For a binding price, get a quote for your exact address and party size.