Tenerife South airport to Playa de las Américas and Los Cristianos, by bus or taxi

Three TITSA lines leave the terminal for the south-west coast, and the clock decides which one is yours. (In the Canaries the bus is a 'guagua'.)

Mind the two gaps. After line 40's last departure at 21:40, the first 711 comes through at 23:00; after the 711 at 04:50, no bus leaves the terminal for Los Cristianos or Las Américas until line 40 starts again at 06:30. Land in either window and the taxi rank is your option. One detail for the 711: in this direction, TITSA's timetable says it stops at the departures terminal.

TITSA gives line 40 a running time of 40 min for the whole route, airport to Costa Adeje bus station. Line 343 comes from Puerto de la Cruz via Tenerife North airport and runs only four times a day. If you haven't booked yet, Tenerife North or South airport compares the two.

Lines 40 and 711 call at the same stops after the airport, in this order: Las Chafiras, Parque de la Reina, Guaza, Los Cristianos, El Camisón, Zentral Center, Columbus, Los Geranios, Magma and the Costa Adeje bus station.

In Los Cristianos, line 40 stops on Avenida Hermano Pedro (stop 8184) and the 711 on Avenida Juan Carlos I (stop 7140). El Camisón, Zentral Center and Columbus are the Playa de las Américas stops; Los Geranios is on Avenida Barranco del Rey, and Magma and the bus station are on Avenida de los Pueblos, already in Adeje. Line 343 skips Los Cristianos and Las Américas: from the airport it goes straight to Magma and the bus station.

Heading for Costa Adeje, line 40 calls at the intermediate stops only to let passengers off, never to pick them up. From the airport that changes nothing; it just means you can't use it to hop from Los Cristianos to Las Américas.

The clubs on this site are along this stretch of coast: Papagayo on Playa de Troya, WILD in Los Cristianos and the rest on our Tenerife South clubs page, each with its address.

You don't need to buy anything before you land. TITSA sells single tickets on board and prices them by distance; its 'Tarifas vigentes' page gives the fare for each line and pair of stops.

If you'll ride the bus a lot, TITSA's tourist cards give unlimited travel on every bus and tram line: €10 for 24 hours or €50 for seven days, counted from the first use. They load onto a Ten+ card, which costs €2, or onto the ten+ móvil app, and you can top them up at the machines in the airports. How the Ten+ card and the rest of the network work is in our guide to Tenerife's buses.

A return ticket, also sold on board, starts at €4.25, is valid on the day you buy it and comes with 10% off for trips of 20 km or more. Children up to four travel free as long as they don't take a seat.

From the airport to Los Cristianos, Las Américas or Costa Adeje, a taxi crosses municipal boundaries — the airport is in Granadilla de Abona, Los Cristianos in Arona, the Costa Adeje bus station in Adeje — so the meter runs on the Canary Islands' interurban tariff, T3. Its current amounts were set by the Canary Islands Government's Order of 14 March 2023 (BOC no. 59, 24 March 2023), the latest update we found in the official gazette:

Taxis have to display these tariffs inside the car. We haven't found an official fixed price for the run from the airport to Las Américas, so we don't quote one: you pay what the meter shows, plus the supplements in the table.

At the terminal, Aena keeps it to three points: use only the signposted rank on floor 0, arrivals; say no to drivers who offer you a ride elsewhere; and get a receipt if you plan to complain.

An early flight after a club night in the south is exactly what the 711 is for: it runs back to the airport through the night, every day. From Los Cristianos (stop 7140, Avenida Juan Carlos I), these are its times:

Line 40 runs from the Costa Adeje bus station to the airport from 05:30 to 21:40, every day. Before you head out, check your night's door time and last entry in our calendar, and keep the physical ID the doors ask for next to your boarding pass (age and ID at the door).