Santa Cruz and Las Palmas bases, one ferry connection and carefully chosen outdoor days.
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Check whether your flight uses Tenerife North TFN or Tenerife South TFS; their journeys to Santa Cruz are different. Use the current TITSA connection or an arranged transfer for your arrival hour. Keep one Santa Cruz base for three nights, with La Laguna as an optional tram outing without changing rooms.
€115 for one whole private room, €48 for meals, €7 for local travel and €10 for extras. These are chosen allowances. Add excursions, paid visits, inter-island tickets and airport journeys separately; replace the room or bed line with your full booking.
Estimated day spending: €180.00
Arrange the complete excursion from Santa Cruz before setting out; the high plateau is not a short local city-bus ride. A viewpoints day, a cable-car ride and a summit walk are different plans. PNT10 summit access needs a Tenerife ON reservation with its applicable fee, separate from the cable-car ticket. Check current weather, trail rules and required equipment.
€115 for one whole private room, €48 for meals, €7 for local travel and €10 for extras. These are chosen allowances. Add excursions, paid visits, inter-island tickets and airport journeys separately; replace the room or bed line with your full booking.
Estimated day spending: €180.00
Use the official Tenerife ON route information to select a walk you can reach and leave with your transport. Some protected paths, including El Pijaral, need advance authorization. A visitor-centre stop and a short permitted walk can be enough; do not treat every forest path as an open, easy loop. Return to Santa Cruz tonight.
€115 for one whole private room, €48 for meals, €7 for local travel and €10 for extras. These are chosen allowances. Add excursions, paid visits, inter-island tickets and airport journeys separately; replace the room or bed line with your full booking.
Estimated day spending: €180.00
Fred. Olsen’s fast crossing from Santa Cruz reaches Agaete in about 80 minutes. Agaete is not Las Palmas port: reserve the relevant FerryBus connection or arrange the onward road journey to your Las Palmas room. Include boarding and both port transfers. You stay on Gran Canaria from tonight.
€115 for one whole private room, €48 for meals, €7 for local travel and €10 for extras. These are chosen allowances. Add excursions, paid visits, inter-island tickets and airport journeys separately; replace the room or bed line with your full booking.
Estimated day spending: €180.00
Walk through a compact part of Vegueta and choose a museum or cathedral visit if its hours fit. Casa de Colón is a museum choice, not proof that Columbus stayed in that exact building. Later, continue towards Las Canteras using local transport if needed; the two areas are not one short continuous old-town walk.
€115 for one whole private room, €48 for meals, €7 for local travel and €10 for extras. These are chosen allowances. Add excursions, paid visits, inter-island tickets and airport journeys separately; replace the room or bed line with your full booking.
Estimated day spending: €180.00
Check the Global bus connection from Las Palmas and the return before leaving. Maspalomas is on the south of Gran Canaria, so this is a substantial island outing. Use the marked visitor paths around the protected dunes, follow beach flags and take water. Return to the same Las Palmas room tonight.
€115 for one whole private room, €48 for meals, €7 for local travel and €10 for extras. These are chosen allowances. Add excursions, paid visits, inter-island tickets and airport journeys separately; replace the room or bed line with your full booking.
Estimated day spending: €180.00
Use the current Global airport connection or an arranged transfer from your Las Palmas address. Confirm LPA on the flight booking and allow the airline’s required margin. Include the local airport journey in the final day’s spending.
No overnight stay; €48 for meals, €7 for local travel and €10 for extras. These are chosen allowances. Add excursions, paid visits, inter-island tickets and airport journeys separately; replace the room or bed line with your full booking.
Estimated day spending: €65.00
Spend three nights in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and three in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The suggested fast ferry arrives at Agaete, with a road connection to Las Palmas. Check TFN versus TFS on arrival and LPA on departure; include the local journey on each island.
Book the Santa Cruz–Agaete ferry with the correct onward road connection. Use TITSA on Tenerife and Global for Gran Canaria journeys. Teide’s PNT10 summit reservation is separate from the cable-car ticket and has applicable fees. Tenerife ON lists trail permissions and conditions, including protected Anaga routes.
Stay on one island if the outdoor days are the priority. Choose a base close to your excursions and avoid spending a short trip repeatedly crossing an island just to reach the starting point.
The day figures add up to €1,145.00 for one traveller before paid visits and extra journeys. A private-room line buys the whole room; divide only that part when sharing. These are chosen spending allowances, not available room offers or measured averages. Replace the stay amount with the full booking cost, including taxes and cleaning.
Add paid visits, excursions, intercity or inter-island tickets and airport journeys. The day notes separate accommodation, meals, local travel and small extras. The final day has no extra overnight allowance. The city budget cards are an alternative plan, so do not add them on top of this subtotal.
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How to get from one stop to the next. Journey times are approximate; use the ticket and timetable links to choose a departure for your travel date.
Ferry · About 80 minutes by ferry, plus the road connection
Take the Santa Cruz de Tenerife–Agaete ferry, then the separately arranged FerryBus or another road transfer to Las Palmas. Agaete is not Las Palmas port. Include boarding, port access and the final journey to your room.
Stay on one island if the outdoor days are the priority. Choose a base close to your excursions and avoid spending a short trip repeatedly crossing an island just to reach the starting point.
Compare your room and daily spending choices in the cost calculator. Check each journey fare, including local transfers, and count tickets covered by a pass only once.
Change the days in each city, leave out stops, and update the estimate without changing the published itinerary.
