To be surprised Tenerife is overrun with tourists?

You clearly went to the wrong place!!!!

I lived in a beautiful village in Tenerife for 8 years before returning 18 years ago.

They are parts I'd avoid now and did mostly back then. But you can't blame the tourists for taking what's on offer to them.

There issue isn't actually the tourists anyway. It's the fact that all the locals are priced out due to air b and b etc.

Exactly what resident's from seaside tourist towns in the UK (rightly) have an issue with.

Just back from a week in the Gran Melia, it was lovely.

Don’t think it was built 20 years ago. Things do change, OP

Frankly, I'd rather let Boris Johnson have a bowel movement on my face than go on holiday somewhere that's infested with pissed-up Brits.

Going to Tenerife 20 years ago and judging it by one experience - it sounds like you were in a popular, “English breakfast” type resort - is like someone coming to the UK for a week in Blackpool and 20 years later saying the UK is an awful place - why would anyone want to go there?

If you want the full cultural destination experience you need to look beyond this type of resort and other posters have suggested some gorgeous parts of the island where you can avoid mass tourism.

(Also, sweeping generalisations never look good.)

Perhaps the rude locals were refecting your behaviour.

Just goes to show we’re all different doesn’t it. Been to Tenerife plenty of times for a bit of winter sun and really enjoyed it.
Loved the people in Cape Verde but overall didn’t enjoy my experience of the place so wouldn’t go back.

I've never been to Tenerife. But it isn't difficult to imagine why it's popular, given its a short flight, there's year round decent weather and there's lots of British influence in restaurants, bars etc

I find a lot of people in hospitality in Cornwall and Pembrokeshire incredibly rude, but they're both very popular with tourists.

I’ve never been to Tenerife but I can confidently say that Cape Verde is the most soulless place I’ve ever been.

We clearly don't go to the same Tenerife 😂 Parts of it are absolutely beautiful, lovely clean beaches, beautiful food - and Siam park and Lorro Park for the children! We haven't been for a few years but I remember it very fondly.

British tourists do behave appalling TBF. I live in a UK tourism hotspot and in the last few years shitting on the beaches seems to have become a thing.

You went 20 yrs ago and by that you assume it's terrible. You sound insufferable.

Went in February, took my mum because at 82 she needs a mobility scooter, and Tenerife has them easily available to hire because it's riddled with elderly brits enjoying life, that means plenty of Elvis impersonators, food establishments serving "English breakfast" and more importantly it has the sun. Never encountered any ill treatment or nastiness, quite the opposite.

No way am I recommending this place to a group of 24yr olds looking for a good time but for my 82 yr old mum and aunt it's heaven.

by all means stay in Cape Verde.

Teide

May be I should give it another go as I do hear good things but back in the 90s all I remember is huge hotel complexes, black sand and baron countryside and lots of police driving around. Probably because I was in the resort known for partying. I went three times.
Then I discovered kavos and felt 100 times safer.
But as I child I did go with my parents once and remember a great day out driving up mount tid and building a small snowman on the car bonnet at the top,

Tenerife is ok. I mean it’s fine for an AI holiday. What I’m most surprised about is the recommendation of Cape Verde? Now that is one of the worst places ive ever been. Absolutely nothing to do. So windy you can’t sit out without getting sandblasted and miserable if the weather is bad.
I’ve never heard a single person say they’d go back

I went in 2019 and loved it, hired a car and explored inland and the coast, did plenty of walking, the locals were lovely and friendly
Going back in May and can't wait.

Thats a fair point and most likely it's different now to my experience then. But the fact is it put me off ever going again. We went to Greece the following year and had a totally different experience and been going back every year since. Like I said, I know plenty of people who go back to Tenerife year after year.

Stupid comments, 'I went there 20 yers ago' etc

Places change you know 🙄

The protests are against an outdated tourism model, not tourists per se.

😅

I was wondering the same thing.

Barcelo Royal corales is one of the nicest hotels we've been to.

La caleta is super child friendly, the restaurants were all delicious and faiy priced and the locals all love kids and are super sweet with them.

There are lpads of outdoor and water activities and siam water park is absolutely amazing....

If that sort of holiday is your cup of tea I guess you are more or less guaranteed good weather all year around so I can see why people would opt for Tenerife rather than the balearics or Costa brava.

I've been a few times (part work and part leisure) and haven't loved it, but went again recently with DH and we hired a car and explored further afield than the typical south coast resorts, this time it was much better.

If you go two weeks all-inclusive in a high rise hotel in Las Americas I imagine it can be utterly bleak, but make the effort to get out to see Santa Cruz and La Laguna and Masca and Mount Teide and it's much better.

Is this sponsored by the Cape Verde tourist board? 😂

i went in the 1980s

a holiday like that is really not my holiday of choice nowadays but i never blame people who want a sun sea holiday

Should people rethink booking there for the summer, I mean how bad are the protests? Don't want to go somewhere I'm not wanted!