Mount Teide Night Tour

****

It was a nice experience, not as good as the one I did in New Zealand. The guide was knowledgable and the information was interesting. Very disappointed that they couldn't wait 5 minutes to turn the light back on to take a couple of photos of the stars. Luckily I already had my camera set up, so I managed to take one photo. That was one of the main reasons I took this tour and in my opinion it would be a nice thing to let people do after the talk, even just for 5 minutes (because you're not allowed to use your camera during).

****

Excellent. Highly recommend anyone interested in seeing the variety of topography on the island as well as night sky. Top three destinations to see our cosmos without light pollution.

Brilliant trip. We have never seen so many stars so clearly. Highly recommend

*****

I liked it

While I enjoyed the star and planet viewing experience at night, I am actually severely disappointed and at the time very upset about promises made that were simply not kept. The offer clearly stated that the transportation pickup (from the North) would be near my hotel. However, that location was not disclosed until after the reservation was made including full payment. Further, we made the decision to stay on Tenerife instead of Grand Canary because of the star watching opportunity. Only after we had booked our non-refundable flight from Nice, France to Tenerife did we learn that the pickup location was nowhere even remotely close to our hotel. In fact, we spent more than fifty (***) Euro in each direction to get to the pickup point from out hotel in Santa Cruz. An additional annoyance was the seating in the bus up and down the mountain was extremely cramped. I was profoundly uncomfortable with my knees pressed hard against the back of the seat in front of me. There were some odd descriptions on the website as well. For example, it said that among the things that were not included was "Toast" and "Cable Car Tickets." However, there was no explanation of what "Toast" might have been available and there never was an opportunity for a Cable Car Ride. In fairness, the actual viewing of the stars and planets was quite enjoyable. However, the "Picnic" was a sandwich, a muffin and water in a cardboard box. Overall, "Two Stars" is really quite generous. I would not recommend the experience to my friends and family or other travelers until the problems described are solved. (The most annoying by far was the very great distance from our hotel to the pickup location. It really is false advertising to say that pickup will be near the hotel.) Sincerely, ***

Note, the cable car is not included on this excursion.

Fantastic evening. Saw loads of constellations.

The program is excellent: sunset view from Teide is fascinating, and after the starry sky also. Our guide was well preapared, with interesting knowledge about the island, volcanos and also about astronomy. The timing was good: we arrived to the viewpoint in a very good time to see the sunset. After that, the dinner time and the skywatching were also very good both in timing and the experience itself. The transfer was quick and correctly planned. We really enjoyed the whole program, it absolutely worth its price!

In general I was disappointed and regret spending over 7 hours of my holiday on this tour. It all started with pick-ups, where we were driving around in bus for almost 1,5 hours and looking for people in smaller villages. Then we were bought to enjoy to some parking space to "enjoy sunset" - when we asked the tour guide in bus, what should we do here - his reply was look into the sun. During our driving he have no information whatsoever and was only discussing with the bus driver the whole day. Would been much more interesting 2,5 hours drive up in case he gave some facts etc etc. Up on Teide we were put in some room to wait - nobody understood what should we do there? For how long? Some people were eating their sandwich, but most were just looking in phones. Then the part started which was OK - why I rated 2 stars. The guide showing the stars was on good level - the jokes and the text were memorized well. ONLY PROBLEM - over half of people were really freezing outside. Why cannot you supply/rent/sell some simple blankets to keep people warm. After 15 minutes half of group was jumping and hoping to get to the bus soon again.... So it was a relief when finalized, when we could start heading back - again almost 2 hours and the guide all way speaking with the bus driver in Spanish..... I hope you get some ideas from this, how to improve your service on this tour!

Uninspiring. No cable car included or possible. Bring a sandwich.

Great excursion! Will try do this again in summer when *** Way is visible. Pity the two most interesting objects (***) weren’t visible. Very good choice of objects for telescopes (Orion nebula, Misar binary, cigar galaxy and open star cluster). Would have liked a bit more information on the telescopes used. Very good show! *** (Molecular Biologist)

I was noticed only one day before the activity that they can not luckily from my hotel. The hotel was in the pickup list when I booked the activity. The star observation location is not the best. The cliff on the side blocked 1/3 of the sky.

The pick-up was supposed to be at 4 pm initially. Then it was changed (via email) to 4:40 pm. Ultimately the bus came 45 minutes late, at 5:25. This made us miss the sunset (which was supposed to be at 6:15) on the way to the volcano. There should be less stops for the bus or instead of picking up everyone from the hotel a few meeting points in the city so that guest can walk there from the hotel and be picked up by the bus. This should make the bus be always on time. Also the goups of guests could be smaller.

The experience was just amazing. The guides were very competent and passionate, they gave the impression that they could give explanations under any sky. I loved their way of pointing to constellations with lasers and telling stories about them. The observations with the telescopes were breathtaking, I didn't expect you could see the rings of Saturn with such level of detail! And they are right when they say that the night sky on the Teide is special, you really see a lot (even with the full moon as in my case). I totally recommend the experience! (Just make sure to cover yourself because it's really cold up there.)

The overall experience was great. I just have one improvement to suggest. When the star gazing experience is over and all the lights outside are turned back on, it takes a while to adjust your vision after standing in complete darkness for about 1h. The side walk on to the teleferic is very dangerous when your sight is not fully recovered and since there are several groups doing the activity, after it's over, some people are going to the buses, others to the bathroom or the cafeteria so there is a lot of movement and people can easily bump into each other/stumble or fall off the cliff (from the left side of the road). During the day it's less dangerous but at night this is a great risk. My mother stumbled upon the sidewalk when people were moving around with their telephone lights on and if she were taller, she might have gone down the cliff. I would recommend not letting people stand over that side of the road after the experience is over. Thank you and keep up with doing this amazing activity.

I’d highly recommend going with this company. They are very friendly and professional and clearly passionate about the national park.

Amazing experience!