Tenerife South Airport taxi and transfers
From £40.29 fixed for a pre-booked saloon to Los Cristianos.
A taxi from Tenerife South Airport to Los Cristianos costs from £40.29 with Airport Taxi Hub, fixed when you book rather than run up on a meter. The drive is about 10.9 miles and takes around 15 minutes in normal traffic on the TF-1.
- To Los Cristianos
- from £40.29
- Journey
- 15 minutes
- Distance
- 10.9 miles
≈ €46.91 · rate checked 19 September 2026
Lowest live operator quote, checked 19 September 2026.
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What the fixed price includes
- 60 minutes free waiting after your flight lands; the rank meter charges from the moment you sit down
- a fixed price confirmed when you book, with no meter and no surge
- express pick-up at the airport's designated pick-up point
- flight tracking, so a delayed arrival moves your pick-up time
- free cancellation up to 24 hours before pick-up
What does a transfer from Tenerife South cost?
Saloon, single, pre-booked. Lowest live operator quote, checked 19 September 2026.
- Tenerife South to Costa Adeje taxi£40.29
- Tenerife South to Puerto de la Cruz taxi£136.13
- Tenerife South to Playa de las Américas taxi£40.29
- Los Cristianos£40.29
Which car, and what does each cost?
To Los Cristianos, from
Saloon
4 passengers · 4 cases
£40.29
Minibus
8 passengers · 8 cases
£58.86
Estate
4 passengers · 4 cases
£68.30
People carrier
7 passengers · 7 cases
£62.80
Executive people carrier
6 passengers · 4 cases
£84.61
16 Pax
21 passengers · 21 cases
£206.24
One price for the car, not per person. Lowest live operator quote, checked 19 September 2026.
How much is a taxi from Tenerife South Airport to Los Cristianos?
Tenerife South sits on the dry south-east coast in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona, and every resort people actually fly here for lies west of it along the TF-1. Los Cristianos is the nearest of them, which is why it is the pair we price first, but the choice between the options below is about luggage, party size and what time you land rather than about distance.
Our price is fixed when you book and does not move with traffic or with the hour of arrival. A rank taxi is not fixed: it runs on a regulated tariff whose interurban rates are set by the Canary Islands Government, and there is a separate flat interurban class that covers journeys between the municipalities and the airport.
When the rank or the guagua is the better choice: arriving in daylight, travelling alone or as a couple with hand luggage, the TITSA line that serves the resort strip costs a fraction of any car, and the regulation requires the airport ranks and their shifts to be covered every day of the year. Pre-booking earns its money on a late landing, with a family and hold luggage, with a child seat, or when the address is a villa rather than a hotel on the main road.
| Option | Cost | Journey time | Door to door? | Pre-bookable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airport Taxi Hub, pre-booked | Cost: From £40.29, fixed, including 60 minutes free waiting after your flight lands | Journey time: 15 minutes | Door to door? Yes | Pre-bookable? Yes |
| Taxi from the airport rank | Cost: Regulated tariff, not a fixed price. The Canary Islands Government sets the interurban rates, and the regulation provides a flat interurban class (T4) for runs between the municipalities and the airport, established at the municipality's request. We could not find a published amount for these municipalities, so we do not quote one | Journey time: About 17 minutes free-flow to Los Cristianos | Door to door? Yes | Pre-bookable? No |
| TITSA line 40 to Los Cristianos and Costa Adeje | Cost: 3,70 EUR for the full route on TITSA's own leaflet, in cash or with a Ten+ card | Journey time: 40 minutes end to end, about every 30 minutes, every day | Door to door? No | Pre-bookable? No |
| TITSA night line 711 | Cost: Fare not published on the line page | Journey time: Passes the airport southbound between 23:00 and 4:50, and northbound towards Santa Cruz between 22:40 and 6:55 | Door to door? No | Pre-bookable? No |
| Ride-hailing app | Cost: App pricing shown before you confirm, which varies with demand | Journey time: Same road as a taxi, subject to a car being available | Door to door? Yes | Pre-bookable? No |
Where do I meet my driver at Tenerife South?
- Clear passport control if you have flown from outside the Schengen area, then collect your cases: arrivals here has two baggage reclaim halls and 14 carousels, so check the screen for yours rather than following the crowd.
- Contact your driver as soon as you land, their number is in your supplier details email. Your driver meets you at the airport's designated pick-up point, which is not the signed taxi rank at Terminal, Floor 0, Arrivals.
- Aena publishes a location for the taxi rank and information desks but no fixed meeting point for pre-booked transfers, so there is no signposted bay to walk to. Your driver names the spot when you speak to them, and their directions are the ones to follow rather than the taxi signage.
- Express pick-up is included in your fixed price. If you would rather be met inside the arrivals hall with a name board, add meet and greet at checkout as a paid extra.
- Your flight is tracked at no charge and you have 60 minutes free waiting after your flight lands, so book for the scheduled arrival rather than guessing at a delay.
Contact your driver as soon as you land, their number is in your supplier details email.
Arrivals-hall meet and greet with a name board is available as a paid extra at checkout.
Rank, ride-hail, drop-off and the facts that move the meter
The airport ranks are covered every day
Granadilla de Abona's taxi regulation makes attendance at the Tenerife Sur ranks and shifts obligatory and covered every day of the year, and requires each rank to hold a minimum number of vehicles. The regulation's 24-hour requirement is on the radio control room rather than on the ranks, and the terminal itself shuts to the public overnight, so a covered rota is not the same as a car waiting at any hour.
(Ayuntamiento de Granadilla de Abona, Reglamento Municipal del Servicio de Auto-Taxi, Boletin Oficial de la Provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife num. 141, checked 14 September 2026)A flat interurban tariff class exists for airport runs
The regulation names T4, the flat interurban tariff, as the class applied from the various municipalities to the airports and ports and back, and says the Canary Islands Government sets the interurban amounts, with flat interurban tariffs established at the municipality's request. We could not find the published figure for these municipalities, so no rank fare appears anywhere on this page. Switching tariff mid-journey without settling the first is forbidden.
(Ayuntamiento de Granadilla de Abona, Reglamento Municipal del Servicio de Auto-Taxi, Boletin Oficial de la Provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife num. 141, checked 14 September 2026)Supplements have to be in the rules
Charging a supplement that is not provided for in the regulation or in the rules in force is expressly forbidden. Tariffs run from where the passenger was picked up, except on a radio, telephone or electronic booking, where they run from the moment of booking.
(Ayuntamiento de Granadilla de Abona, Reglamento Municipal del Servicio de Auto-Taxi, Boletin Oficial de la Provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife num. 141, checked 14 September 2026)The terminal closes overnight
Between 11:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m., and when there are no flights, the terminal is closed to the public, with access limited to staff and to passengers in the hours before their flight leaves. If you are dropping someone for a dawn departure, that is the fact that decides what time you can go inside.
(Aena (Tenerife Sur Airport), checked 14 September 2026)Where the meeting points are
Aena lists the information desks and meeting points at Floor 1, in the arrivals hall and by the security control area. The taxi rank and the stop for the TITSA lines are a floor below, at Terminal, Floor 0, Arrivals.
(Aena (Tenerife Sur Airport), checked 14 September 2026)Licences are capped, and the airport counts
The number of taxi licences in Granadilla de Abona is fixed by the Ayuntamiento from residents, tourists weighted by hotel occupancy, visitors to public facilities, and passengers embarked and disembarked at the ports and airport in the municipality. The regulation is made under Canary Islands Law 13/2007 and Territorial Decree 74/2012.
(Ayuntamiento de Granadilla de Abona, Reglamento Municipal del Servicio de Auto-Taxi, Boletin Oficial de la Provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife num. 141, checked 14 September 2026)A pre-agreed price is not how a rank taxi works here
The regulation allows the meter to be left off for a price agreed in advance only where the service lasts more than three hours, and then a signed document naming the vehicle, the licence and the agreed amount must be carried. A fixed price on a 20-minute airport run is what a pre-booked private transfer is for, not something to arrange at the rank.
(Ayuntamiento de Granadilla de Abona, Reglamento Municipal del Servicio de Auto-Taxi, Boletin Oficial de la Provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife num. 141, checked 14 September 2026)Tenerife South taxi questions
How much is a taxi from Tenerife South Airport to Los Cristianos?
Our fixed price is quoted live on this page before you book and does not change afterwards. A rank taxi is different: it runs on a regulated tariff, and the interurban rates are set by the Canary Islands Government rather than by the airport or the driver. The regulation also names a flat interurban class, T4, for journeys between the municipalities and the airports.
Is there a taxi rank at Tenerife South Airport?
Yes. Aena puts it at Terminal, Floor 0, Arrivals, and tells passengers to always take a taxi from the signed rank at the terminal, to avoid drivers offering services from other areas, and to ask for a receipt if anything goes wrong.
Is there a bus from Tenerife South Airport to Los Cristianos and Costa Adeje?
Yes, TITSA line 40. It calls at Estacion Costa Adeje, Magma, Llanos de Troya, Columbus, Zentral Center, El Camison, Los Cristianos and Aeropuerto Sur, at 3,70 EUR for the full route in cash or with a Ten+ travel card. The line page runs it every day, about every 30 minutes, 40 minutes end to end, with departures from the airport from 6:30 to 21:40.
What is the last bus from Tenerife South Airport at night?
Line 40's last departure from the airport is 21:40 and its first is 6:30. After that the night service is line 711, which passes the airport southbound towards Los Cristianos and Costa Adeje between 23:00 and 4:50, every day. From 4:50 there is nothing scheduled towards Los Cristianos, Playa de las Americas or Costa Adeje until line 40 restarts at 6:30. Line 415 does call in that window, at 5:55, 6:00, 6:25 and 6:30 on working days, but it runs inland between El Fraile and San Isidro.
How long does the drive from Tenerife South Airport to Los Cristianos take?
About 17 minutes with an empty road, over roughly 17.7 km, or 11.0 miles. That is a free-flow figure with no traffic model in it, so treat it as the best case. Turismo de Tenerife gives 18 kilometres for the same pair and 20 kilometres to Costa Adeje.
Is Uber available at Tenerife South Airport?
Uber lists Adeje, Arona, Granadilla de Abona and Santa Cruz de Tenerife among its Canary Islands cities, and on its Adeje page says you cannot request a taxi there through the app, only UberX, priced upfront rather than on the regulated meter. Whether a car is actually available at the terminal at the hour you land is a different question from whether the app covers the area, and we would not plan an early departure around it.
Where do I meet my driver at Tenerife South Airport?
At the pick-up point your driver names when you reach them by phone on landing. Aena publishes the taxi rank location at Terminal, Floor 0, Arrivals but no fixed meeting point for pre-booked transfers, so there is no signposted bay to head for and the rank is not it. Express pick-up is what the fixed price includes; a name board in the arrivals hall is meet and greet, a paid extra.
Can I be met inside the terminal with a name board?
Yes, as meet and greet, which is a paid extra you choose at checkout. Express pick-up is what your fixed price includes as standard: the driver waits at the airport's designated pick-up point and you reach them by phone. Aena's own information desks and meeting points are on Floor 1, in the arrivals hall and by the security control area.
Can you collect for a flight that leaves before dawn?
Yes, and the amount does not rise because of the hour. Bear in mind that between 11:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m., and when there are no flights, the terminal is closed to the public, with access limited to staff and to passengers in the hours before their flight departs, so plan the drop-off around your check-in rather than around an early wait inside.
Do you provide child seats, and how much luggage fits?
Child seats are available on request when you book. A saloon takes up to 3 passengers and 3 standard suitcases, an estate takes a fourth passenger with the same 3 cases, a people carrier takes up to 5 and an eight-seat van up to 8. Tell us the buggy or the golf clubs at booking rather than at the kerb.
What happens if my flight is delayed?
We track the inbound flight at no charge and move the pick-up to the real landing time. The free waiting window included in your fare starts when your flight lands, which is what matters when passport control and 14 baggage carousels are between you and the door.
Can I cancel, and how do I pay?
Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before travel; inside 24 hours the booking is charged in full. Prices are per vehicle, fixed when you book and paid online by card, so there is nothing to settle with the driver at the end of the journey.
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