Car Rental in Santiago del Teide

Car Hire in Santiago del Teide, Tenerife

Santiago del Teide is the mountain village and the municipality above the west coast, not the seaside part. If you are actually staying by the water, you want car hire in Puerto Santiago instead. The village sits inland at around 900 m on the TF-82, about 50 minutes from Tenerife South Airport, with the coast another 15 minutes down the TF-47. Collect at TFS Arrivals or we deliver to your accommodation.

The village is the trailhead for the two big west coast drives. The TF-436 north drops into Masca through dozens of hairpins with gradients around 16 percent, and vehicles over 10 m are banned; the TF-38 east climbs through the pine forest to Chío and joins the road into Teide National Park. Both are worth doing early, before the coaches. Parking at the cemetery car park in the village is the standard place to leave a car for the Masca gorge shuttle.

These are mountain roads with long climbs and tight bends, so pick the car for the road rather than the price. SUV hire in Tenerife handles them best. Down on the coast, convertible car hire in Tenerife along the TF-47 is a different kind of day out, and cheap car rental in Tenerife is fine if you are staying put in Puerto Santiago.