Hop on Hop off Sightseeing Tour through Santa Cruz, Tenerife

Price overview

• Discovery Tour Santa Cruz by bus and train - for adult (from 14 years) 22.-€
• Discovery Tour Santa Cruz by bus and train - for children (6-13 years) 11.-€

Booking option: Santa Cruz city tour by bus and train

The city tour of Santa Cruz starts at Plaza de España. On the Sightseeing Route you can get on and off at 15 stations to discover some of the most important sights of the capital of Tenerife on foot. The open-deck double-decker bus offers the best panoramic view of Santa Cruz. The ticket for the Hop-on Hop-off bus is also valid for the tourist train Tenerife with its 8 stations and entitles you to a guided tour (German, English, Spanish) of the old town. If you present your ticket, you can visit the military history museum as well as the palmetum free of charge.

Overview

• Duration: 1 tour about 40 minutes
• Hours: 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
• Frequency: from 01.09. to 31.05. every 20 minutes / from 01.06. to 31.08. every 30 minutes
• Days: daily
• Months: possible all-year
• Languages: German, English, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Portuguese, Japanese
• Pick-up not included
• Starting points: Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Included

• Visit: Military History Museum, Palmetum, Carnival House & Old Town Tour (daily at 12:00 noon from Plaza de España)
• Audio guide

Detailed description

Sightseeing tour by bus and train in Santa Cruz, Tenerife

Discover the capital of Tenerife by hop-on-hop-off bus or train from Santa Cruz. The route leads to the most important sights of the city. During the trip in the double-decker bus you follow the pictures of the city and the audio guide, which informs in 14 languages about history, culture and present. The Santa Cruz city tour begins at Plaza de España. You can get on and off at 15 stops and then walk to the points of interest. A tour lasts about 40 minutes. The 24-ticket for the Hop-on Hop-off Sightseeing Bus also includes the possibility to take the tourist train, which stops at 8 stops between the Botanical Gardens of Santa Cruz and the port.

The ticket price for the tourist bus includes a visit to the Military History Museum (stop 4). From there you can quickly get to the port or to the cruise ship mooring. There is also a stop at Garcia Sanabria Park (stop 5). Parque García Sanabria is a 6.7 ha park in the northern part of the city centre. The tour continues via Plaza Pedro Schwartz to the auditorium. The concert hall, which opened in 2003 and was designed by the internationally renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, is located approx. 1.5 km south of the city centre in the Los Llanos district directly by the sea.

The tour takes you to the "Mercado Nuestra Señora de Africa" (stop 13), which was built after the Second World War so that the inhabitants could feed themselves better. On the upper level, the building is divided into three "courtyards" (Spanish: "patio"): Today, the Patio Central also has a children's playground and various special events take place here. The "Patio del Poniente" also has market stalls in its centre in contrast to the "Patio del Naciente" where there is a fountain and a café in the centre of the square. The basement also houses the fish market, which has a direct entrance to the Avenida San Sebastian (Rambla Azul).

Stops Sightseeing bus Santa Cruz

• Plaza de España
• Puerto Cruceros
• Avenida Francisco La Roche
• Museo Histórico Military
• Parque García Sanabria
• Méndez Núñez
• Plaza de los Patos
• Plaza de Pedro Schwartz
• Avda. Tres de Mayo
• Palmetum / Auditorio
• El Corte Inglés
• Intercambiador Transports
• Mercado Nuestra Sra. De África
• Iglesia de la Concepción/Museos
• Casa del Carnaval

Stops Sightseeing train Santa Cruz

• Plaza de España
• Puerto Cruceros
• Intercambiador Transports
• auditorium
• palmetum
• Mercado Nuestra Sra. De África
• Casa del Carnaval