What time should you go to Papagayo?
Go between the doors at 22:00 and the last entry on your ticket at 01:00. The club's website gives the first time and the ticket pages list the night from 23:00; we publish both because they don't match.
After 01:00 you can still get in, the ticket page says, by paying the difference at the door. Beyond that, the hour decides how much night you get: arriving at last entry leaves two hours on a Wednesday or Sunday and four on a Friday or Saturday.
On a Wednesday, go early: the club itself says that room fills up from the start. Thursday it describes as a night that keeps building.
Which night is on each day, and when does it close?
Papagayo runs five nights, Wednesday to Sunday, and stays closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Each has its own sound and closing time, published date by date on its website.
On 24 December and 31 December, both Thursdays, the programme swaps Follow for other parties; that last night's hours are in New Year's Eve in Tenerife. The published programme runs to 31 December, and the 2027 dates haven't been published. The three house nights are compared in where house music lives in Tenerife and the others in Papagayo's reggaeton and hits nights.
| Day | Main room | Sound, as the club describes it | Closes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday | Move On | Familiar hits | 03:00 |
| Thursday | Follow | Latin tech and afro house | 04:00 |
| Friday | La Loka | Reggaeton, latin and hits | 05:00 |
| Saturday | Essence | Dark tech house in long sets | 05:00 |
| Sunday | Freak & Chic, sold as Piknik | House, disco and funk with live percussion | 03:00 |
Which room does your ticket open?
Only one. Papagayo has the main room and El Nido, which is smaller and has its own programme, and a ticket for one won't get you into the other. For both rooms you need two tickets.
El Nido opens its doors later, at 23:00. Its Sunday party, Glow Night, shuts the door at 00:30, and on Thursdays to Saturdays it has other parties of its own.
Can you buy a Papagayo ticket on the door?
Yes, once the night has started, with two catches the club spells out: it costs more than on its website, and if the date sells out online there are none on the door either.
There are no guest lists or free tickets, not even through third parties, and the ticket doesn't include a drink.
What do you need to get into Papagayo?
Be over 18, carry a physical document and dress casually. The age limit has no exceptions: not with an adult, not with a wristband, not with a special permit.
The document must be a physical DNI, NIE or passport; a photo or a scan on your phone won't do. There's more in age and ID at Tenerife's clubs.
Shorts are fine if they're smart. Cargo trousers, tracksuit bottoms and football shirts stay out, and the rest is in what to wear on a night out.
What is Papagayo like?
By day it's an open-air terrace on the seafront; by night, a two-room club. The terrace runs from 12:00 to 22:00, with DJs at a volume you can talk over, and you sit wherever there's space, no booking needed.
The club warns that there's no pool and there are no sunbeds, and that the beach in front isn't really for swimming. Under-18s are allowed on the terrace and in the restaurant during the day, but never in the club.
Its floor plan puts the dancefloor in the middle, with The Terrace around it and The Seafront as the outer line towards the water, both outdoors. AWA, the restaurant, is on the top floor by the main entrance.
Does dinner at AWA get you into the club?
Yes, if you spend at least €50 per person on dinner at Restaurante AWA; below that, entry is paid separately.
AWA serves Mediterranean food from Wednesday to Sunday, 13:00 to 16:00 and 19:00 to 00:00, with last orders at 23:00. Dinner must be booked in advance, and the club quotes €20 to €60 per person.
How do you get to Papagayo and back at night?
By night bus or by taxi, depending on when you leave. The address is Av. Rafael Puig y Lluvina, 2, 38660.
TITSA's 711 runs every day: it leaves Estación Costa Adeje from 22:10 to 04:00 and passes Los Cristianos from 22:20 to 04:10, heading for the airport and Santa Cruz. The next one then leaves Costa Adeje at 05:55. So a 03:00 closing still has buses, while a 05:00 closing leaves you that dawn bus or a taxi.
Between those two places its stops include El Camisón, Zentral Center, Columbus and Magma. None is named after the avenue and TITSA gives no walking time, so look yours up on its Tu próxima guagua page. From 21:00 to 05:30 you pay the exact fare; the rest is in our bus guide.
A taxi that changes municipality charges the official interurban tariff, T3: at night and on Sundays and holidays, a minimum of €4.25 covering the first 1,500 m, then €1.55 per kilometre. We found no official fixed fare for this trip, so you pay what the meter says.
