The best part for you will be the Fanabe-area I think.
It is a quiet area, no discos or noisy nightlife and there you will find a lot of great complexes with nice apartments and great hotels.
The beach is very fine and also a lot of nice restaurants and bars can be found.

Try Los Cristianos
look in the Gallery link here for info.

http://www.dinastia-apartment.com/

Hi,

Perish the thought that on this forum someone may actually suggest the north of the island! (yes there is a north)

Puerto De La Cruz is in the North, which is green and lush compared to the south which is dry and baren. Puerto has many excellent spanish restaurants (no point on going on holiday if you want to eat english food all the time), has nightlife but is very quiet and mainly in the hotels, Teide is close and so is Loro Parque, you have lovely beaches although it is black sand and it has the Lido which is excellent for the children. I have not stayed in any hotels as we have our own place, but they all look very nice.

The north is refined and quiet and nowadays the weather is not much different from the south.

I have visited Tenerife on holiday many tiimes over the last 25years, staying in both the North and South of the Island, for the scenery I prefer the North though sometimes the weather has not been quite as good as the South, but without the odd showers and cool days the North would not be as green and lush as it is. I think the lack of discos and clubs in the North is a bonus. A really nice resort in the South is Los Gigantes/Puerto Santiago being much more laid back. Los Cristianos and most parts of Las Americas are too crowded and loud for me.

We holidayed at the Atlantida Apartments in Los Cristianos. it was set back from the really rowdy areas on the front and was a nice enjoyable holiday. there are planety of facilities and also plenty of cheap eating and alehouses nearby. The place was very clean and generally quiet. The staff were brill and it was a good base for us to explore the island from. The north is much greener and much qiueter, but when we were there the place had been wrecked by a massive tropical storm that brought down power lines etc. Dont recommend PDLA at all. Too much like Blackpool in the sun and no excape from the lucky lucky men! Teide is a great day out, but megga cold..take plenty of warm clothing..we also had great fun exploring little villages off the beaten track abit. Peurto de San Miguel i think was nice and quiet and somewhere not far from Los Gigantes was good too but i can't remember what it was called, nice restaurant called Casa Begonza..I am sure you will find somewhere.

We stayed at the Parque Santiago III apts last summer and I would thoroughly recommend them. They are situated in the nicest part of Play del Ingles (in my opinion), right at the beach, lots of lovely shops about.

The apartments get great reviews, my only gripe was that there were no daytime activities or evening enetertainment. We booked with First Choice.

Oops I meant to say Playa da las Americas, sorrrrry!!

Joolz, isn't Playa del Ingles on Gran Canaria?! Obviously you meant Playa de las Americas and I agree about Parque Santiago III as I went there a couple of years ago.

Sorry Val and Rob but I don't agree about PDLA being like Blackpool. I was there just after Christmas and over New Year, only a short distance from the Veronicas bars but it was very nice. My husband and I stayed at Colon II apartments and we thought it was the best place we'd stayed in. The area around the apartments was very clean (except for New Year's Day) and there were flower beds and lovely gardens outside some of the hotels and apartments. Of course, there are parts of PDLA that would be like Blackpool but it would only be at certain time of the year and certain times of the evenings when it might get rowdy. I prefer Tenerife to Lanzarote or Gran Canaria as there are some much nicer walks and shops.

Here here we too satyed at Colon II and highly recommend it.

""Rowdy"" parts in Los Cristianos perish the thought, I've never seen the like always find it a watch the world go by type of place.

Have to agree with the last couple of posts, we have been travelling to Tenerife for over 20 years and love it so much that we are in the process of buying a villa and moving there permanently. I have never seen anywhere in Tenerife that resembles Blackpool, not even Veronicas - Puerto del Carmen in Lanzarote, now that is Blackpool , Southend, Great Yarmouth and any other British Seaside resort rolled into one

Each to their own I suppose. I do think PDLA is like Blackpool but I think that sometimes it is the people that make it like that, why go on holiday to eat english food, go to english bars etc, etc....and then go and get drunk every night like you do at home, yeah great holiday!!! - not!

Oh but don't tell me you get the sun.....All that money and journey time just to get "the sun"! and if you stay in PDLA you have to travel miles to get an decent scenery as it is all baren there..... May as well go to Blackpool - ha ha......

Oh well Munchito, isint it our differences that make us interesting.

Some like to try the local delicacies and look at scenery and get off the beaten track.

Some others like to have a holiday in the sun whilst still eating familiar food and drink etc. The beauty of this site is that most of us like to help both, without criticising any!