Small country hotels, holiday cottages, chalets and fincas offer the adequate accommodation. One can book his holiday through various tour operators or without any problems directly by the Internet.

Tenerife is not one of the cheapest holiday destinations, but with a bit of luck you can find a good bargain.

Journeys to the isle of Tenerife are particularly popular at Easter, Whitsun, Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

However, unfortunately, this boom has a very strong influence on the prices.

The island of Tenerife offers extensive possibilities to everyone who wants to practice physical activities and does not only want to lie on the beach in the sun.

Hiking, climbing, trekking, diving, windsurfing, surfing, mountainbiking and not at least golf are examples for a variety of holiday activities.

Flora and fauna have to offer a huge diversity to the visitor. The whales can be watched during a boat trip between the two islands Tenerife and La Gomera. Dolphins attract many animal enthusiasts, and can be watched as well on special organized boat trips in their natural surroundings.

The vegetation over all in the north of the island is very interessting and influences on the charming abmience.

Monarch operates flights to Tenerife South from Birmingham, Gatwick, Luton and Manchester.

Bookings can be made online at www.flymonarch.com.

All flights on all routes and all dates are discounted, with the sale offering various increases to the normal web booking discount, usually £10 off return flights.

The offer only applies to bookings made online.

The two Canary Island destinations had on-time departures of over 65 per cent and average delays of less than half and hour.

With our skies getting more and more overcrowded, however, the statistics revealed by the Civil Aviation Authority painted a less than rosy picture.

Their survey, covering the last quarter of 2006, covered ten British airports, with only one, Edinburgh, reducing delays when compared with the same period in 2005. Gatwick recorded the biggest increase in average delays, climbing from 26 to 35 minutes.

The heavy fog which caused widespread disruption to flights in the south of England between December 18-23 contributed to half of the fall in punctuality for scheduled services and all of reduction for charter flights.

A flight is deemed to have left on time if it is up to 15 minutes late.

For scheduled flights, the biggest drop in performance came at London City and Heathrow airports.

The punctuality of charter flight departures actually improved at Newcastle, Birmingham and Edinburgh but fell at the other seven. The biggest drop-off in performance was at Stansted, where on-time departures fell from 75 per cent in 2005 to 65 per cent in 2006.

At the same time the operator is doubling the number of flights from Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

It means that flights will operate daily from Glasgow and twice weekly from Edinburgh. Prices start at £69.99 one-way, including taxes.

The twice weekly flights from Aberdeen start at £79.99 one-way, with taxes.

Flights from Edinburgh and Aberdeen will operate on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Flyglobespan also operates Tenerife flights from London Stansted and Liverpool John Lennon airports.

Passengers can get up to 50 per cent off two million seats to Almeria, Malaga, Alicante, Palma, Tenerife and other locations in Spain, Portugal and the Canaries.

Travel must be completed by the end of March next year.

The discounts vary from 10 per cent to 50 per cent, depending on the fare class, and the money off applies only to fares excluding tax.

The sale tickets must be booked online through Monarch and peak periods are excluded from the offer.

Passengers looking for discounted flights will be able to find them easily – they are labelled as ‘Sale Fare’, with the total money off displayed clearly under the fare.

Monarch flies to Tenerife from London Gatwick, Manchester, Luton and Birmingham.