I wish it could be summer again. If I look out of the window, the winter blues is getting me, and I start dreaming of my next escape to sunny Egypt or Tenerife, maybe a summer trip to New Zealand, at least a shopping trip to Mailand or New York.

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My hotel was located in Playa de las Americas, this is in the south of the island.

I was shocked, because my first impression of the south was like an desert. If the trees and plants don´t get water from the resorts, then nothing would grow up there. But it looks very nice.

The name of our hotel was “Los Hibiscus”, a very nice location. There you can find a swimingpool and the rooms are with balcony. The beach was only 10 minutes away from the hotel.

The beach has black sand, but at some bays they put white sand, so it looks like classic beaches. Because of historical reasons, the island arised by volcano activities, the sand has it´s black colour.

At my first night I found some cockroaches, but you have to know, they live here longer then any human and are very shy. It´s pretty normal in these warm regions to see cockroaches.

At my second day of the holdays i made a dolphin tour, and it was very nice. Included in this dolphin tour is a shipping near the stone coast at Los Gigantes a very huge (500 meters high) mountain at the coast. After some minutes we saw many dolphins. This was my highlight of the travel to tenerife island.

Of course, many people went to Tenerife because of this, but you don’t have to do this. Tenerife has many options do make your holidays. What I liked very much, was the many beach-bars in Tenerife. My holidays were about 2 weeks and I could nearly every evening, went to another bar. It was awesome! But also the landscape was very beautifully in Tenerife. Most oft the people over there, just hang around on the beach, like I said it before. But for me, it was not enough.

Tenerife hast more to give than the beaches and the sea and everyone who makes his holidays over there, have to check out the landscape in Tenerife. And also it’s so amazing, cause the flight to Tenerife and also the hotel was very cheap. I looked in the Internet at a many flight-portals and I found a lot of really cheap flights + hotels. So I would rather you to do this at the same way.

The onliest thing you have to look at, is to find the right site for that. Maybe you can make a test in the Internet and ask there for good sites. Cause a lot of this sites aren’t very seriously. But I don’t want to put a bad taste in this, cause Tenerife is really awesome and I would make my holidays over there, every time again.

Hotel Tigaiga and the garden exist since 1959. The surface area of the subtropic garden amounts more than 4.000 m². In this little paradise you can find blooming flowers in nearly all the colours, plenty of palm trees, aquatic plants and much more. The different plants have their origin as well in the Canary Islands as in nearly all other continents and countries of the world.

A guided tour through the subtropic garden is organized once a week on clients request. Don Cristobal, a graduate biologist, guides the guests through the garden and informs about origin and special characteristics of the different plants.

The hotels employees are caring about this big variety of plants and palms with a lot of love. Mrs. Ursula Talg, one of the owners of the hotel, is specially responsible for the subtropic garden. The surface with all this subtropic plants has grown over the years and nowadays it is impressioning uns with tall palm trees and blooming flowers. The Hotel Tigaiga owns more palmtrees than hotel-beds.

A visit in the subtropic garden of hotel Tigaiga is not only possible for hotelguests and everybody interested in plants can visit this garden. If you wish to visit the subtropic garden you can contact with the reception staff of Hotel Tigaiga and will shurely be attendy kindly and guided through the subtropic garden.

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You can admire wonderful landscapes of vulcanic origin and fertile, green areas abundantly covered with exotic plants.

Tenerife is an ideal tourist destination at any time of the year. The island can be reached in only four hours of flight from Germany.

Many flights arrive and leave daily at the two airports of the island.

Tenerife offers a huge supply of accomodation like for example exclusive hotels, rural hotels, country houses and appartments.

The tourist infrastructure of the island of Tenerife is ideal for all kind of holiday makers, for those who like shopping centers, beaches, restaurants, museums, hiking paths, discotheques, bars, sports facilities or wellness facilities.

Yet already the bar, cafe and restaurant owners on the island of eternal spring are asking: ‘Where are all these tourists? We can’t see them!’

The problem is that so many of the island’s hotels are signing up to the latest tourist fad – namely, the all-inclusive holiday.

Going ‘all-in’ means that you take all your meals and all your drinks within the confines of the hotel and its grounds.

Personally, I can think of nothing worse than spending an entire holiday cooped up within the confines of one establishment. But it seems that many 21st century tourists see it as the perfect holiday.

And it’s leaving many small business owners on the island ringing their hands in disbelief. Not a few of them are worried.

Recent Canarian government figures confirmed that there are some 10,000 catering establishments on Tenerife and it seems that many of them are already feeling the pinch as more and more hotels and tour operators turn over to this latest fancy.

To give an idea of how all-embracing and world-encapsulating this trend has become, simply typing in the words ‘all inclusive holidays’ into Google returned a staggering 2,660,000 results, offering all-inclusive deals in all four corners of the globe.

In reality, it’s yet another example of the march of global corporatism that threatens to make every town and city in the world a carbon copy of its neighbour.

It’s already ruined High Streets the length and breadth of the UK and now it’s beginning to threaten those places where traditionally we have been able to get away from it all.

Undoubtedly we live in a crazy world – yet it seems to be getting still crazier by the minute.

Spanish group Iberostar Hotels & Resorts has upgraded its flagship Spanish hotel, creating the company’s first five-star property in Spain.

When it re-opens next month, the Anthelia will launch a new butler service for guests staying in the suites, offering them a dedicated butler.

The refurbished hotel will also feature a water spa with thermal activity pool including jacuzzis, fountains and underwater shoots.

Located directly on the seafront, between the two main beaches of Playa del Duque and Playa de Fañabe, only the seafront promenade separates the hotel from the beach, which is around 50 metres away.

Iberostar has 36 four-star Spanish hotels including four in Tenerife.

The group has 98 hotels currently in operation worldwide and will celebrate the opening of its 100th hotel in May with the Iberostar Rose Hall in Montego Bay, Jamaica.