The owners of the Royal Palm are proud of what is considered to be one of the best-maintained complexes in Tenerife. This is not just their opinion but that of the many holidaymakers who return to Royal Palm year after year.

Royal Palm has a lot to offer. If you are looking for a relaxing holiday in very comfortable accommodation, you will find it at Royal Palm. If you are looking for a lively holiday with somewhere classy to stay, you will also find it at Royal Palm. And if you are a sun-worshipper who likes the local way of life, wide sandy beaches, blue skies, blue seas, wining and dining in the shade of palm trees, then don’t look any further - Royal Palm in Los Cristianos, Tenerife is for you.

Accommodation at Royal Palm is superb. The accommodation has been designed for comfortable living. All apartments have furnished wide balconies or patios, many with sea view.

The central area of Royal Palm is the plaza planted with Bougainville, flamboyant trees, Hibiscus and to each side of this are found the two kidney shaped pools (one heated in winter) and a third small pool for children. NO CHARGE FOR SUNBEDS AND PARASOLS BY THE POOLS. A lifeguard is on duty everyday.

Linen and towels are provided for use in the apartments. Don’t forget to bring your own pool and beach towels. Apartments are cleaned prior to your holiday. Linen and towels are changed weekly. There is a self service launderette on site.

Rosies Cantina is the on-site restaurant, open every evening, serving Mexican style food. Rosies has developed a reputation for serving quality food, and people travel considerable distances to sample the culinary delights. The bar is open evenings only as well. It is available to non-diners, offers "happy hour" prices on selected drinks between 6pm and 8 pm, and is a popular meeting place for holiday-makers and residents of Royal Palm.
Although most people stroll down to the harbour area of an evening to eat and find entertainment, there are a considerable number of good bars and restaurants close to Royal Palm. Up the hill behind Royal Palm are sister resorts offering very good quality restaurants, bars and evening entertainment. Close by there are Italian and Chinese restaurants, English bars, and several small shops. If you don’t want to go into town there is no need to.

Just below Royal Palm a new residential complex with a shopping parade is under construction and nearing completion - this will provide over 150 new shops restaurants and bars. We understand this should be completed by the third quarter of 2005. Plus a new commercial centre is now complete.
"Paradise Park", a new leisure area adjacent to Royal Palm, is now open. Entry is free to our guests, but sunbeds and parasols are charged for. The leisure area has a number of swimming pools, sundecks and gardens, a Canarian restaurant and a children’s park. There is provision for live folk music, craft workshops, and other activities to show visitors something of Canarian culture.

Car Hire is not required to enjoy a holiday at Royal Palm. If you wish to see the Island, then a car would be a good idea. There is a lot to see on the island. Masca, the pirate village is only accessible by a new mountain road. Puerto de la Cruz in the north of the island, with its now famous Loro Park, Candelaria - the Spanish town that is home to the black madonna. ... and much more.

Accommodation at Royal Palm is superb. Be prepared for a stay at Royal Palm to spoil you for the future! All the apartments are privately owned and so individual in style. The apartments have been designed for living. They are not just another group of holiday apartments. This apartment has two bedrooms with a further two sofa-beds in the living area. 

The popular town of Los Cristianos is the second largest holiday resort in the south of Tenerife, the largest being its next door neighbour Playa de Las Americas. Despite their close proximity to one another there is a distinct difference in the atmosphere of the two, especially at night.
One of the main differences you will notice is that in Los Cristianos, unlike in Las Americas, the town has a history pre-dating its transformation into a tourist resort. Prior to undergoing major development in recent years, Los Cristianos existed as a small fishing village. It has an old town centre, complete with Catholic Church, stretching from the port up to the main shopping street Avenida de Suecia. This grid-like centre is entirely pedestrianised, which is great news of course for tourists and a welcome change from dodging mad taxi drivers in Las Americas. This older area consists of houses in which much of the town's local Canarian population still lives. In the port, which itself has been extended, you'll find a still active fleet of small fishing boats. Depending on the time of year you can see international yachts of all shapes and sizes (and prices!) waiting to set sail for the Caribbean. It is from Los Cristianos' port also that the ferry and hydrofoil depart daily to the islands of La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro - the three islands which, together with Tenerife, make up the autonomous Spanish province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (the other province of the Canary Islands is Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, comprising the islands of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Graciosa and four other uninhabited islets).
These days you will find it difficult to determine where Los Cristianos finishes and Las Americas begins. Both towns have been built up and augmented to the extent that the boundaries between the two become blurred, especially around the seafront area known as San Telmo, where you will find the excellent and newly completed beach Playa de las Vistas. This is in fact, still a part of Los Cristianos, while the neighbouring Compostela Beach area, only a short walk away along the seafront, is in Playa de Las Américas. In reality what happened is that Las Americas kept expanding eastwards until it reached Los Cristianos and couldn't go any further! (Now the ongoing development of Las Americas is concentrated on its western end, in the area known as Costa Adeje.)
Los Cristianos boasts an expanse of beaches along its entire seafront; the aforementioned Playa de las Vistas, which was completed in 1997 using sand imported from the Sahara, is the best in town. Next to the port, right amid the hustle and bustle of the town centre, is another good and popular stretch of beach with many bars, restaurants and shops all around. While Los Cristianos does offer beaches almost along its entire seafront expanse, the quality in these other areas can vary. All of the towns beaches are kept clean and well maintained by the local council.
As with much of Playa de Las Americas, you'll find many of Los Cristianos' newer holiday complexes a little further away from the beaches and town centre. When the town first began to realise its potential to cater to larger numbers of tourists, the first area to be developed was obviously around the town centre/seafront area. But this was as much as 30 years ago, when architecture was more functional than aesthetic, so some of the available accommodation in this central area is not tremendously inspiring (which is not to imply that the quality is necessarily any less). The newer resorts further inland, many built within the last ten years, show that much more attention has been paid to appearance and style. While I'm talking about resorts 'further inland', perhaps I should put the distances involved in perspective; even the resorts further from the sea, in the Oasis del Sur area for example, where construction still continues to date, are little more than ten minutes walk from the beach. Admittedly it might take longer coming home as the return journey is uphill, but that's Tenerife for you: wherever you go you're either going up a hill - or down one! On the subject of hills, Los Cristianos (and Las Americas for that matter) is not generally so steep, for the most part, as to pose undue problems, except perhaps for visitors with severely limited mobility. If this is a consideration for you or someone in your family, it is certainly worth checking that the location of your hotel or apartment won't cause unforeseen problems.
Many visitors to Tenerife rent a car while they are here, and driving on the island is nothing if not a 'memorable' experience. In the centre of Los Cristianos parking can be a problem and you should be wary of double-parked cars and delivery vans half blocking the road. If you find yourself blocked in such a way, just sit in the car and hoot the horn - the culprit will usually arrive fairly quickly and move his vehicle. The town centre is often slow to negotiate due to the narrow roads and volume of traffic so if you are heading for the town by car from the motorway we'd recommend that as you come down the hill (the new golf course will be on your right) you take a left fork at the bottom and head for the seafront that way - it's only a short walk to the centre and parking is much easier just outside the town centre. If, instead of taking the left, you go straight, then you'll be heading straight for the town centre and may have a problem finding a parking space. The local council has recently begun a policy of towing away illegally parked cars. There is an underground car park being constructed in the town centre.
Los Cristianos is a match for Las Americas in the quality and variety of restaurants available for your lunch or evening meal. Everything you could wish for is here somewhere - Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Spanish and Canarian of course, to name but a few. And of course the ubiquitous 'English Breakfast' abounds in both Los Cristianos and Las Americas. And for the holidaymaker partial to a drop of liquid refreshment, there is no shortage of bars and pubs in which to unwind and take the weight off your feet. Thanks to the relaxed licensing laws here you'll never be stuck for somewhere to sample the local brew, day or night, whenever the fancy takes you.
One area, however, in which Los Cristianos does not compare with Las Americas is that of nightlife - nightclubs, discos, 'fun pubs' - that type of thing. While you can, to some extent of course, find all of the above in Los Cristianos, it is really in Las Américas that you'll find the unadulterated, no-holds-barred, downright crazy nightlife, particularly in the areas known as 'Veronicas' and 'The Patch', where drinking and partying until 6a.m. is the norm. There are two observations about this. Firstly, this is not everyone's cup of tea and many visitors will surely be glad to be far away from there for this very reason! Secondly, if this is your idea of fun but you find yourself staying in Los Cristianos rather than Las Americas, don't forget you're only five minutes and a few Euros away by taxi, so it's not a big problem - taxis are plentiful at any hour.
So to summarise, Los Cristianos to the uninitiated in a few words, I'd say the following: it's a fairly small town with a lively town centre but with spacious and relaxed 'suburbs', it has some fine beaches, usually good weather, an international clientele, all the shops and restaurants you could wish for, is in some ways more attractive, perhaps even more 'exclusive' than Las Americas but lacks the night time 'edge' of the latter which some, particularly families and older visitors, may see as a blessing, while others might find it a bit 'quiet' at night.
 

The island of Tenerife is situated in the Atlantic ocean about 200 miles off the West African coast at just over 2000 square kilometres it is the largest of the seven main Canary Islands. Although small in size it has as many different climatic zones as a continent, you’ll see many different types of agriculture from potatoes to orange trees. The most important part of the island is of course mount Teide, its sheer size and height dominate the landscape for miles around. Mention was made of 'El Teide' and its snow mantled, fiery cone by Christopher Columbus as well as many other early explorers, some experts claim that even as recently as Columbus's time Teide was much higher and that since he first passed the mountain has imploded and lost a lot of its height. At three thousand seven hundred and eighteen meters it's still an impressive sight and features in the repertoire of any Tenerife guide giving information about Tenerife.

 

For all year round holidays in the sun of south Tenerife. Royal Palm is built in the style of an Andalusian village, nestled in the hillside overlooking Los Cristianos with magnificent views across the sparkling blue Atlantic Ocean The location of Royal Palm is excellent, only 4 hours flying time from the Uk and a 15 minute drive from the southern airport and you can be sitting on your spacious terrace enjoying that first glass of chilled Rioja wine.

The apartment comprises 7 bedrooms in total; 7 twin. . This gives room for up to 6 people. Bed linen and towels are provided for your use.

The apartment has 1 bathrooms and 1 WCs for your party's use.

The apartment has television satellite/cable.

There is room for 6 in the living room and 6 in the dining room. To prepare food you will find a cooker, an oven, a microwave, a fridge, a kettle. The owner has also provided cutlery, crockery, glassware, cooking utensils.

This is a non-smoking apartment

Pets are not welcome 

Not suitable for wheelchairs 

The apartment is in a quiet area but you may hear occasional noise. It has access to a shared swimming pool, a south facing garden, a south facing balcony. If you are driving there is private parking.

The apartment is right beside swimming, a restaurant.

Close to the apartment you will find a beach, sailing, water skiing, boat hire, wind surfing, fishing, golf, scuba diving, shopping areas, a food shop.

Within easy reach of the apartment you will find walking.

The apartment is....

14 km from Reina Sofia airport.
50 min from Los Gigantes.
60 min from Puerto Cruz.
7 min from Playas de las Americas.
75 min from Island of Gomera.

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Fabio says: "Beatiful complex and lovely area; the apartment (number 151) was very clean and very well equipped. The apartment has lovely sea view. The only 2 bad things about this apartment: - there isn't the fan in the bedroom, but also in the dinner room; - in the evening there is a little pong at the entrance of the apartment. In Los Cristianos there are some lovely restaurants, we recommend the Italian (PORTOFINO). We had a fantasic holiday. "

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