Tenerife is a holiday island with some 5 million tourists visiting annually. With so many holidaymakers looking for a good night out, it is small wonder that nightlife in Tenerife is so diverse. When the sun goes down, Tenerife nightlife doesn't stop until it comes up again.
Staying up late is quite normal for most people on holiday and few go straight to bed directly after supper. A holiday is also a time that many holidaymakers will have saved up for so they can go out and have a good time. When there are so many visitors with cash at the ready raring for a good time, it is no wonder that Tenerife's nightlife is thriving.
Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas are the core of the island's nightlife in the south. This where the maximum concentration of hotels and tourist apartments in Tenerife is based. Whether it is a weekday or a Saturday, crowds of visitors cascade out of their hotels to experience the warm Tenerife night and all its pleasures.
With such a sizable volume of holidaymakers from so many different backgrounds, it is hardly a shock that there is such a broad variety of bars and nightclubs in Playa de las americas. There are German, French, Dutch, Belgian... nearly every country has a bar where visitors can keep up with the tv and sports from home . While the most common bars in Tenerife are Spanish, in the holiday areas you could be deceived into thinking that most bar is British because they are so prevalent.
With the greatest density of top class hotels in Spain, there are also several trendy, chic and elegant bars. Nightlife in Tenerife peaks in the early hours, and most of thse bars only begin to fill up at midnight. Residents are liable to also drink and mingle at these bars, particularly through the weekends and fiestas. Monkey Beach Bar, B.U.D.A., Magic, Divine and OMM are most likely the most well-liked in Tenerife.
At the other end of the pecking order, cheap drinks and karaoke are prolific. If you like a cabaret with your drink then there are also lots of bars with live bands and other acts. A lot of these bars welcome children if it is not too late.
It doesn't take a football game to fill fun pubs and sports bars such as Linekers but when there is one, they can be jam-packed. These bars are generally loud with DJs and drinking competitions to get the crowd in the mood. They are a favorite with stag and hen nights.
Tenerife's nightclubs do not start filling up until 2am or three . Though most tourists would have heard of Tramps, this tends to be where only the younger crowd go clubbing. Tramps is based in the Veronicas / Starco neck of the woods which which has various other late night clubs. Though this used to be hub of Tenerife's nightlife, all of the most recently opened and trendier clubs are not in this area.
If you are hunting for where visiting celebrities experience a night out, then the vip side of Tenerife nightlife can be located at TIBU. One footstep through the threshold of this night-spot and you know you are somewhere special, with exclusive VIP areas and rich decor. Waiters dodge through the crowd with massive bottles of Belvedere and magnums of Cristal festooned with fireworks, bound for for some exclusive niche of the club. Whether you reserve a VIP table and bottle service or just have a few drinks at the bar, its a first-rate night out with some potential celebrity spotting as well.
At about six in the morning, the nightclubs start closing just as the cafes are starting a new day. Its time for a nourishing breakfast and then a day by the sea as you sleep it off and recharge for one more night out in Tenerife.
