In the comfort of the cable car, travel the 1,199 metres between the base station and the upper station, located at an altitude of 3,555 metres, and walk along one of the free-access trails at the summit. Add to your return cable car ticket the Teide Legend digital audio guide to learn all about Teide National Park (with its trails and points of interest) or a guided tour to the Pico Viejo Viewpoint.
Highlights...
- Tickets to ascend Spain’s highest peak by cable car
- Enjoy spectacular views of the Teide National Park
- Choose from three spectacular trails to walk on the heights. The trail that leads to the summit requires a permit issued by the National Park.
- With your Online Ticket you won’t miss out on your seat to ascend Mt. Teide
- The Guided Tour to Pico Viejo is unsuitable for people with mobility problems and children under 5.
- Enjoy the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Teide Cable Car Visitors’ Centre (available in Spanish and English).
- By booking the ticket with audio guide, you’ll be able to use the Teide Legend digital audio guide to Teide National Park for Android and iOS, which offers general information about the park, its access routes by car, and trails on Mount Teide that can be hiked on foot at the base and top stations. It also features all the content of the “Science and Legend” exhibition, which is available in the audio guide’s 8 languages.
What's included...
- Tickets with an assigned session
- Tickets + Guided tour to the Pico Viejo viewpoint (optional - with a Spanish or English-speaking guide)
- Tickets + Teide Legend audio guide (optional - with the possibility of downloading to an Android or iOS device for a contactless experience)
- Free access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre (included in your cable car ticket)
What's not included...
- Permit to ascend the peak of Teide
- Permit to ascend or descend on foot via the trails leading to the upper station
- Spanish or English-speaking guide, or Teide Legend digital audio guide (if you book only the cable car ticket)
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
Information
Teide Cable Car Timetable
- Check Teide Cable Car opening times here.
- The stay at the upper station is limited to one hour. Those visitors who have a permit to access the crater can extend this limited time up to 2 hours to complete the activity.
Guided Tour to Pico Viejo schedule
- We offer various guided tours throughout the day. You can choose the time of your guided route when making your booking.
- The meeting point is at the cable car base station, next to the boarding area, at the time indicated on the voucher.
- Anyone not wearing footwear designed for sports or mountain walking will be refused the right to use Teide Cable Car’s service. For safety reasons, access to the cable car when wearing flip flops or sandals, shoes without a back strap, shoes with heels/wedge heels or flat-soled shoes is expressly prohibited.
- People with heart problems, pregnant women, and children under 3 are not allowed to ascend by cable car due to the risk that high altitude poses to their health. If you have any health problems, consult your doctor before planning your visit or booking your Mount Teide Cable Car tickets.
- People with diverse physical or motor functionality are not permitted to make the ascent by cable car because, due to the technical conditions that exist in the National Park, it cannot be guaranteed that they can be safely evacuated in the time allowed by the regulations.
- It is essential to bear in mind that in the event of the failure of the cable car system due to unexpected technical reasons, passengers already at the upper station will have to make their descent on foot and using steep mountain paths.
- No pets allowed, apart from guide dogs and therapy dogs.
- Anyone not having the mandatory permit for descending on foot via one of the trails that require it, i.e. PNT 07 Montaña Blanca - La Rambleta, PNT 09 Teide - Pico Viejo - Mirador de las Narices del Teide, PNT 23 Regatones Negros, PNT 28 Chafarí, will be refused the right to use the ascent-only service.
- We reserve the right to refuse admission. For more information, please check the rules for accessing the cable car.
Guided Tour to Pico Viejo restrictions
Activity unsuitable for people with mobility problems and children under 5.
You must show up at the Cable Car boarding area with your ticket, either printed or on your mobile phone, 20 minutes prior to the time slot specified on your ticket, although we recommend that you show up at the premises of the Cable Car prior to the boarding time, in order to have enough time to park, etc. If you arrive late you will lose the right to board.
Our facilities may stop operating due to adverse weather conditions. If the cable car cannot operate on the day of your visit, we will send you a notification by e-mail and/or text at approx. 8.30am. Please bear in mind, however, that if you have booked your Teide Cable Car tickets for an early-morning session, it's likely that you're already on your way when you receive our notification. In this event, and provided that the Cable Car Visitors’ Centre is open, remember that you can still visit the “Science and Legend” exhibition included with your ticket, and enjoy our shop and restaurant.
The audio guides are available in the following languages, and in both physical and digital formats: English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, Polish and Dutch.
Download the audio guide app to your Android or iOS device. You just need to use the booking code from your cable car + audio guide ticket to quickly and easily download the app and enjoy a
If you do not have a smartphone, you can receive a physical audio guide. In order to pick it up it is necessary to leave your passport/ID card or a deposit of €50.00 which will be returned to you when you return the audio guide. You should pick up your audio guide 30 minutes before your session at the Information Point located outside the building. Audio guides are included free of charge in the package tickets + audio guide for children. Please remember that, if you need to use a physical audio guide, these only have information about the trails at the top station.
You should be prepared for extremes in weather, both heat as well as cold, depending on the time of year in which you use your Tenerife cable car tickets.
Our recommendations:
- Wear warm clothing and proper footwear.
- Protect yourself from sunstroke.
- Due to the elevated luminosity, wear sunglasses.
- Take plenty of water on hikes.
If you are planning to descend on foot and hold an ascent-only ticket, please note that as of 29 November 2024, you must obtain a permit to descend on foot via one of the trails that require it: PNT 07 Montaña Blanca - La Rambleta, PNT 09 Teide - Pico Viejo - Mirador de las Narices del Teide, PNT 23 Regatones Negros, PNT 28 Chafarí. This can be carried out through TenerifeON. Failure to present the required permit will result in being denied access to the ascent-only service. You must also take into account the mandatory equipment required by the Island Council’s Natural Environment, Sustainability, Safety and Emergencies Department. Users, hikers and mountaineers are required to carry a minimum set of essential equipment, including appropriate footwear and warm clothing. This is in addition to other necessary basic items for potential risk situations in winter conditions on mountains at high altitude: suitable mountain footwear, warm clothes, a thermal blanket, water, a mobile phone with a charged battery and a headlamp or torch.
Teide Cable Car is located within a fragile and protected national park. Therefore we must follow a series of basic rules of civic behaviour and respect of the natural environment, such as not littering or taking rocks, plants or animals. Please remember that it is prohibited to make fire, make loud noises, stray from the signposted paths, feed the animals, or to camp.
Up to 3 date changes within a maximum of 1 year are permitted. You can change the time or date, or cancel your ticket free of charge until 6.00pm on the day prior to the reserved date. Once this period has elapsed, or if the reservation is made after 6.00pm on the previous day, changes will not be accepted, and in the event of a cancellation, customers will be charged the full cost of the booking. Check our Terms and conditions for information on other reasons for cancellation.
The price of cable car tickets fluctuates depending on demand and the time of year, both upwards and downwards. For date changes to a ticket with a lower price, the difference between the initially purchased ticket and the new requested ticket will be refunded. Otherwise, i.e., for date changes to tickets with a higher price, the booking must be cancelled and a new purchase made.
All changes and cancellations of Cable Car tickets can be made comfortably via our booking management module.
Since the operation of the Cable Car is subject to the changing weather (wind speed, temperature, etc.), on occasions, the estimated boarding time may be delayed. If a temporary service interruption due to adverse weather conditions or technical reasons causes a delay of at least 90 minutes in relation to the booked time, the full refund of the amount may be requested free of charge provided that the tickets have not been used.
The base station
The Teide Cable Car Visitor’s Centre, which is at the cable car base station, is perfectly accessible by road and is located at an altitude of 2,356 m.
Its modern facilities are equipped with two cabins that travel to the top in under 8 minutes and can hold a maximum of 44 passengers, although for the comfort of our customers, we usually do not take more than 35 people on board.
The views from the base station allow you to behold the spectacular peaks surrounding the Teide volcano.
The base station offers facilities specially designed to make your visit enjoyable: the “Science and Legend” exhibition, an official souvenir shop and a restaurant-cafeteria with a wide range of cuisine and panoramic views of the National Park. This is also the perfect place to find out about the different routes and trails you can do from the upper station.
The upper station
The Teide Cable Car upper station is the starting point of three spectacular trails at the summit of Mount Teide, which are directly accessible from a small hall from where you can walk outside. It has Wi-Fi and toilets.
Although there is not a café in the upper station, you will have vending machines at your disposal with drinks and non-perishable food such as snacks.
We recommend that you come prepared for all weather conditions since the upper station is at an altitude of 3,555 m.
Parking
Avoid the car. Choose collective transportation. It is important that together we do what we can to counteract overuse of the vehicle parking areas in the National Park. As a conservation measure, they have been kept to a small size, and they cannot be extended. If you finally decide to arrive by car, please do so after 1.00pm.
The Cable Car base station has a car park with 220 spaces. You can check the car park opening and closing times here.
Outside its opening hours, the car park is closed and the entry and exit of vehicles is not allowed.
Shops
The Teide Cable Car Visitors’ Centre facilities, located at the cable car base station, include an information centre and an official souvenir shop.
Restaurant / Café
At the Visitors’ Centre you will find our café and restaurant facility with spectacular views of the Teide National Park. The restaurant offers a wide range of cuisine, with the emphasis on locally sourced ingredients.
Toilets
There are toilets at both the base station and the upper station, which remain open during the opening hours of the facilities.
In case of discounted Mount Teide Cable Car tickets for children or local residents, a supporting document is required to prove entitlement to discount.
Book Mount Teide cable car tickets online
- Teide Cable Car return ticket with the Teide Legend digital audio guide for Android or iOS
- Official Spanish, English, German, Italian, Dutch or French-speaking guide
- Transport from the south of Tenerife to visit Mount Teide in a sustainable way
- Free access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre (included in your cable car ticket and available in 8 languages with the Teide Legend audio guide)
- Food and/or drinks (you can bring your own snack or buy it in our restaurant-snack bar)
- Permit to access the Teide crater issued by the National Park
- Guide in other language than Spanish, English, Italian, German, Dutch or French
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
- Teide Cable Car return ticket with the Teide Legend digital audio guide for Android or iOS
- Official Spanish, English, German or French-speaking guide
- Transport from the north of Tenerife to visit Mount Teide in a sustainable way
- Free access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre (included in your cable car ticket and available in 8 languages with the Teide Legend audio guide)
- Food and/or drinks (you can bring your own snack or buy it in our restaurant-snack bar)
- Permit to access the Teide crater issued by the National Park
- Guide in other language than Spanish, English or German
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
- Teide Cable Car return ticket (maximum 90 people)
- Access to the Pico Viejo viewpoint trail
- Transportation
- Astronomical observation
- Accompanying guide
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
- Access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre
- Cable Car ticket
- Guided tour to the Pico Viejo viewpoint of medium difficulty
- Spanish or English-speaking guide
- Free access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre (included in your cable car ticket)
- Permit to ascend the peak of Teide
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
- Guide in other language than Spanish or English
- Teide Cable Car return ticket with an assigned session
- Teide Legend audio guide for visiting Teide National Park (available as an Android or iOS download, or by collecting a physical audio guide device (only trails at the top station) and depositing €50)
- Free access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre (included in your cable car ticket)
- Permit to ascend the peak of Teide
- A guide
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments.
- Tickets with an assigned session
- Teide Cable Car return ticket (up & down)
- Free access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre (included in your cable car ticket)
- Permit to ascend the peak of Teide
- A guide
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
- Tickets with an assigned session
- Ticket for the ascent by cable car
- Permit to ascend the peak of Teide
- Permit to ascend or descend on foot via the trails leading to the upper station or the mandatory equipment: suitable mountain footwear, warm clothes, a thermal blanket, water, a mobile phone with a charged battery and a headlamp or torch.
- A guide
- Access for visitors with physical disabilities or motor impairments
- Access to the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre
Where to find us
Street: TF-21 motorway, km 43 - Teide National Park
Postal code: 38300 Municipality: La Orotava
Teide Cable Car is well connected by roads, and can be easily reached from any point of the island of Tenerife.
If you are in the northern part of the island
- Take the TF-21 motorway which connects La Orotava with El Portillo de la Villa and crosses the Teide National Park. The Cable Car is at km 43. (N28º 15' 17" W16º 37' 33")
If you are in the southern part of the island
- Take the TF-38 motorway from Boca de Tauce to Chío, which connects with TF-21.
- Take the TF-21 motorway from Vilaflor to Teide National Park, the route of access for the tourist areas of Playa de Américas and Los Cristianos.
If you are close to Santa Cruz or La Laguna
- Take the TF-24 motorway from La Laguna to Portillo de la Villa (La Esperanza Motorway), which connects with TF-21 that will take you to the base station of the cable car at km 43.
Distances
Mt. Teide is approximately an hour’s drive from any point on the island.
- Santa Cruz: 64 km
- La Laguna: 55 km
- Puerto de la Cruz: 45 km
- Los Gigantes: 52 km
- Los Cristianos: 47 km
FAQs
Yes. You must show up at the boarding area with your purchase confirmation, either printed or displayed on your mobile phone, 20 minutes prior to the time specified on your ticket in order to redeem it and access the boarding area to board the cabin.
On tickets for the ascent and descent, only the ascent time is reserved. The descent session is not reserved. So, once you have reached the limit of your time at the upper station, all you need to do to make the descent as included in your return ticket, is to join the queue for the descent, and descend in order of arrival.
If your question relates to your ticket for descent only, because you intend to make the ascent to the peak of Mount Teide on foot, in accordance with the new regulation relating to permission for access to trails PNT 7+11 “Montaña Blanca – Mirador de la Fortaleza – La Rambleta”, PNT 9 “Teide – Pico Viejo – Mirador de Las Narices del Teide” and PNT 23 “Los Regatones Negros”, as well as the section of Trail 28 (Chafarí), and in accordance with the measures implemented by the Island Council Office for the Natural Environment, Sustainability, Safety and Emergencies, a ticket for descent only can be booked once at the upper station using QR codes, and providing that the cable car is in operation. That is why it is essential to allow for the possibility that, due to adverse weather conditions, technical issues or other problems caused by force majeure, the cable car cannot operate, making it necessary to make the descent on foot, at a price of €23. If you would like to pay in cash, you can buy/purchase your descent tickets at the cable car station before making the ascent on foot.
Cable car tickets can only be used for the booked time and cabin given on the ticket. Boarding begins 20 minutes beforehand, so please head to the boarding zone with your ticket 20 minutes in advance. In the event that you do not arrive on time for your booking and cabin, you will lose your right to board. Remember that you can change the date of your reservation or cancel it free of charge until 6.00pm on the day prior to your booking by going to Manage your booking
Reviews about Volcano Teide cable car
Everything was very professional!
All was grate
a very good experience
Great but expenseve
Quick
A fantastic experience to go up in the cable car! The multimedia exhibit at the end of the ride was brilliant as well, with information in engaging formats for different age groups.
Beautiful place, great Experience
Buying tickets in advance is highly recommended, as the lines to purchase tickets at the cable car can be very long and wait times can be excessive. The experience is well worth it as there is nowhere else on the island to see such incredible views of the entire island.
I have repeated this trip many times. The images are indelible in my memory.
Excellent customer service Very professional stuff Amazing experience Toilets on both levels Brilliant place
Thank you!!! We had a great time on our journey to the past and future!!!
fantastic experience going up and down on the cable car. The paths around the top are very kept and interesting. The entire online booking process was very straightforward and the queue to get on was very well managed with almost no waiting at all.
Good experience overall
Alles super.
Great experience and nice staff
The trip ended up very nice but it is way overpriced and staff is unfriendly. Toilets are blocked to go in or out which c Doesn’t make sense.
Perfektní
Super
Nagy élmény.
See previous comment
Make sure you buy a return ticket.
Refused to return the money
OK
Great experience
Nice place, beautiful view
Please observe that the price for the cable car is ONLY ONE WAY
all great
I think it's better to do different walks in front of the Teide. It's a very expensive activity and not well organized
Tho pices of snow and no hike, ***, Money theft, an no more than that. Al the cable car experiece is to drow money no more. Not recomended.
Refusal to refund cancelled visit due to illness and despite rebooking 2 days later.
The guide that we had to the lookout point was excellent. The only reason you guys have lost 1 star is that the people at the two women at the check-in counter were the nastiest and most unfriendly people we have ever met. They were so rude when we checked in that we considered just leaving. Fortunately, we decided to stay despite them being horrible and were able to do the guided hike up to the lookout point.
Easy to book, no waiting around at bottom and guide was excellent
Will visit again
Very good
No problem
Good
Great experience
Great trip. Slick and professional and friendly and interesting
Appreciate the time saving by getting tickets online
Beautiful and mesmerising view cannot miss it
Good experience
Maybe I would work more on better user experience of the web by pinning the standard cable car ticket availability at the very top, following by all other options.
Great experience , efficient polite staff .
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We were very satisfied with our visit. All the staff were extremely friendly and helpful. The guide was amazing—both kind and entertaining. It was a fantastic experience, and we would highly recommend it to others!
A unique experience
I forgot to bring warmer clothing (i had it with me on my trip but not in the car), even though it was warm at the base station, up at near the summit it was probably 20 degrees F colder with the wind chill. The temperature for Mt teide in my weather application did not show that it was much colder. Maybe showing the outside temp within wind chill (for the summit) at the base station would help. Also, it was fairly windy, so even though i could handle the colder temp, i was not happy climbing on narrow uneven lava stairs and getting blown side to side. So i stopped half way to the crater and returned.
Fast and reliable purchase. I would love to see the website made a bit clearer, with better structure and easier navigation — especially for someone who’s not from the country and is using it for the first time. There’s a lot of text, and it’s sometimes hard to distinguish what’s essential and what’s not. Guide was interesting and informative.
Very nice. 1 hour only at the top is very short though. Can only take one of the walk paths and bot really time to use the audio guide.
What do you mean exactly with the product? Tickets? Trip? Full package? It is not clear enough what exactly I have to assess
Cannot recommend this highly enough. My only issues were the confusion over audio guides and parking our vehicle. The climb up to the cable car station was quite long and uphill which caused a member of my party some difficulty.
We had a brilliant time!
Excellent experience and very well organised.
I am very satisfied with your services. The organization is top-notch and the staff is very friendly! I recommend buying tickets online, it helps to avoid queues before entering.
Amazing views and journey, but the cable car was just too cramped. Ensure you prep the audio guide before you start your journey to the volcano as most of the commentary isn’t actually for the volcano itself, but for the journey there.
everything was fine. we appreciated the management of the entrance by the employee down by the cable car. the same goes for the park employee, the information about the entrance was all understandable and ok. what annoyed us were the non-functional vending machines for food and drinks up in the hallway by the toilets - they have nothing to do there. it ruined a lot of people's day, because they don't take cards and it also took half of our coins, so we bought what we didn't want. on the other hand, we praise the restaurant - although the prices are higher, the service and quality are good. overall it was good. there are two main suggestions for improvement: I was surprised that many people find out that they can't go to the top when they get to the top - it would probably be nice to inform them more about this when buying a cable car ticket. I would also like it to be clearly written that there is no toilet on the way to the top and that the top of the mountain is not a toilet either, and travelers who need to go to the toilet should go to the top of the cable car station. otherwise, thank you for the experience, we will definitely recommend it.
Easy and convenient. Meeting point could be better marked.
Only problem was the audio app
Unique!
No comment
Hello. You ruined my mojo for yesterday. In case you don't know, people expect Teide to be THE experience on the island. We were not aware we need to book over the web days in advance, otherwise we would of done it (lesson learned rest assured). You seem to put the reservation process in front of your scope -- that is to bring being people up/down the volcano. The staff at the cablecar were friendly and told me to go online, on the spot, i tried but there was no place availability for the day/coming days. They said they're sorry but cannot do anything. Yet, we were there witnessing how cable cars go up less than mid capacity instead of "no availability". It was around 10:30AM. This was frustrating not only for us, there were other people there at your location trying to get tickets that were not available and it was easy for everyone to observe there is availability as people were not showing up. We waited there for about an hour, nobody cared, left in disappointment. My wife kept hunting for any opportunities, and at some point we managed to get the sunset ride that appeared available (11+ tickets for 17:45) about lunch time -- double the cost, whatever. As we finished hikeing Garcia Rocks we headed back to the cable car. (Around 3:30PM) The exact same story, nobody cared. A lot of people not showing up, a lot of people being rejected due to unavailability, cablecars going up almost empty in some cases. The bitter taste of your customer management will stay forever and although the sunset tour was nice i will always remember how you ruin every unfortunate tourist day for no reason, just to maintain a reservation system that is far from being efficient and not flexible at all. It is the perfect failure of process over scope. We also heard about other bad practices like no refunds for people late more than 20min. I can relate to some point but since our tour started 18:20+ instead of 17:45, that would entitle us for a refund right? Kidding. ;)
10/10
Fantastic tour!!! Amazing
We bought two tickets for the volcano sunset tour, which we wanted to return, which according to the website, is possible until 6 pm the day before. We were three minutes late due to a bad internet connection, but the system allowed and accepted the redemption, however, citing the expired deadline, they do not want to refund the money. In the end, we bought two new tickets for this program, which started at 18:10 instead of the announced 17:30 departure, and instead of the promised two hours, it was just over an hour, including the lift time.
Poor & disappointing. Not good value for money.
Would have been better if we could have gone to the end of the trail for the sunset
The guide was amazing. The top of the volcano itself is incredibly beautiful
nice view (+) tour shorter than anounced (-)
It was amazing and unbelievable
Very nice experience
We loved the sunset but for us its not a real tour and for just the cablecar tickets €*** is a little too expensive. Plus the group was too big for our taste. Other than that we enjoyed the views.
Breathtaking views! One of the loveliest sunsets I've been lucky to witness. Our guide, *** (for French & German), was very friendly and funny. I'd definitely recommend catching either the sunset or the sunrise from there. It's quite windy and it gets cold pretty quickly, so bring a jumper and a jacket and even gloves, if you intend to take a lot of pictures (you will). My only problem with the location is that the toilets are closed by the time the people with sunset tickets arrive and by the time they open again, too many people are waiting in line and there's not much time left until the tour starts. If you didn't book the star gazing tour, there are quite a few parking spots around that are still dark enough so you can park your car and do your own stargazing, albeit without tue equipment.
We did the sunset tour. An absolutely brilliant experience led by the wonderfully knowledgable ***. I can highly recommend this, we will definitely do this again.
Meeting time was 17:15, start was a hour letter. It like to long 😒
It is definetely worth it to go there and see vulcano view
We enjoyed are trip
Lovely trip with excellent guide and views
Well it was such a great privilige to be able to see and participate on this adventure loved it.staff were friendly and helpfull with any questions i had to ask polite and well mannered.very happy indeed no complaints at all.
Very enjoyable with excellent driver and guide. Destination , Teide mountain was beautiful.
.Well worth the experience if you follow the guidelines with dress and appropriate hiking boots.
Très bien organisé depuis le départ de l'hôtel. Le parcours est bien pensé, il n'y a qu'à savourer
Good session. My other half was ill (food poisoning) on the day so we didn’t do much more than the cable car to the top but it looked amazing.
We had Sandra as guide for the activity and she was great ! Would totally recommend her.
Enjoyed it very much
Outstanding trip. Breathtaking views
The tour was wonderful! We were lucky to have blue skies and a great tour guide, Ari whose English was lovely! Mount Teide was incredible and the tour was professional and enabled us to see the highlights of the national park with a passionate guide.
Easy to find pickup location. With a knowledgeable, funny, guide, and comfortable driver
Excellent value for money and extremely enjoyable
my wife bought a t-shirt with the blues bird on it, quality/price raito ok
Nice half day out to the mountains.
All went well, well organised, pick up right outside our hotel.
Excelente guía. Excursión con humor
We waited for 15 minutes for the bus to show up at the pick up point in the morning and we didn't get enough time at the top of the mountain to enjoy the views.
Amazing day, stunning views
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We had a lovely trip to Teide. The small coach was perfect for the trip and Maria our guide was very knowledgeable, imparting lots of helpful geological information as well as covering some of the background to the myths and legends of the island. Sadly the cable car was cancelled due to high winds, but a refund for this was swiftly processed. For us, this was not a problem at all, as we got to explore more of the interesting sights on the slopes of Teide, with a chance to have a bit of a walk at each of the stops, and a chance to look at interesting flora and fauna. Ironically, the stop at Teide base station was the shortest part of the trip, as we only had just enough time to order and eat lunch from the lovely cafe, and then buy a gift from the shop before getting back on to the coach. The last part of the tour was a bit of a boneshaker, as we descended back down to the coast via a different route, which involved a lot of speed bumps! It meant we got to see a lot more areas away from the motorway, but being last off the coach made for a longer journey with less to see as time went by. Would definitely recommend this tour.
Very interesting trip. Extremely good value for money. Thoroughly enjoyed the trip, the pick up was from Los Abrigos, put your address into the "comments" and then there is a conformation the day before for a time. The coach was spotlessly clean and comfortable, the driver was kind and considerate. Our first stop was at Vilaflor, lovely place. I'd like to explore that area now. Then up to El Teide, what a place! Actually above the clouds. The formations, colours were amazing. The cable car to the summit was a right treat to the senses. If you get a chance to go, do it. Brilliant day out.
Great trip. Would definitely recommend.
Great trip, nice and detailed information about the island and the volcano-mountain on our way to it. Only thing I would change - having bigger tour logos on the buses as the pick-up location had many buses for different tours and there was nearly always at least 3 different buses at the stop picking people up for different tours..
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.Guide and tour was perfect. Only the 2 hours were not enough to get up with cable car, take one of these pathes (11 or 12) and get down. Time should be at least 2,5 or 3 hours. Thanks a lot!
An amazing trip to Teide volcano and national park!
Highly recommend this trip
TLDR: Take the car if you can. The tour duration is 7h, four of which is spent to pick up people from all over the island and only three is dedicated to the trip itself. Pick up location was far from the hotel we chose on the website. The duration of the stops were very short, barely enough to take pictures / enjoy the views. The time on the mountain itself is very limited, not enough to do anything besides go up and down, which means additional activities that you pay for - museum and cafe come at expense of the mountain time. The guide is limited to bus, no information is provided on the mountain itself, you are left with the mobile app that does not work well. Overall I’d rate the experience as unsatisfactory and would not recommend the guided tour unless you have no rental car. Take the car and go by yourself.
If you have to settle for not reaching the top this trip is good.
Description of the ticket
Description
Go up Mount Teide by Cable Car
Enjoy the quickest way to go up Mount Teide.
When you get off the cable car, you will be at an altitude of 3,555 m, and will have various choices on how to take in the stunning views of the largest national park in the Canary Islands.
Choose the viewpoint of La Rambleta to behold the views of the Siete Cañadas and the Ucanca Valley. From here, you can just imagine the enormous size of the old volcano that stood atop the island 150,000 years ago, and which was known as the Cañadas edifice, at a time when Mount Teide did not yet exist. In front of you stretches the Las Cañadas cirque, which has its highest point on Montaña Guajara. These are the remains of a great volcano whose own weight caused it to slide towards the northern coast in no more than a few minutes.
Its remains, millions of tons of volcanic rock, lie scattered over hundreds of kilometres in the depths of the ocean. In the huge tunnel left by the collapse of the volcano, new eruptions began immediately, and began to fill it. One of these eruptions was the origin of Mount Teide.
Over a long period of time, eruption followed eruption, forming the huge volcano from which you are now looking out at the surrounding landscape.
If you prefer to gaze at spectacular views of La Gomera, El Hierro and La Palma with an impressive crater at your feet, (which once upon a time was a lake of lava), choose the path to the Pico Viejo Viewpoint, another colossal volcano over 3,000 m high, the second highest peak in the archipelago, crowned by a crater 800 m in diameter. Pico Viejo forms part of the same volcanic edifice as Mount Teide, and at its base lie the Narices del Teide [literally: the nostrils of Mount Teide], the two mouths of historic eruptions, including the last one recorded within the bounds of the National Park.
You can take this tour of great scenic and volcanic interest with a guide, by booking the guided tour to the Pico Viejo viewpoint with a cable car ticket included.
Choose the La Fortaleza trail if you’d like to enjoy fantastic views of northern Tenerife: the outstanding valley of La Orotava, with Puerto de la Cruz on the ocean shore, although for most of the year, the valley is shrouded in clouds borne by the trade winds from the north east. As they collide with the island’s northern slopes, these winds rise up, and the moisture carried along by them condenses, until it forms a spectacular sea of cloud, which is vital to sustain Tenerife’s forests. You may also like to take this trail if you want to make your descent via Montaña Blanca.
And if you are one of those people who won’t leave Tenerife without having reached the summit of Mt. Teide, choose the Telesforo Bravo trail to the peak of Teide and shout ‘I am the King of the world’ from an altitude of 3 718 m.
But remember that for the trail that leads to the crater, you will need a special free permit, issued by administration of the Teide National Park, which you must apply for months in advance. Would you like a guide for this option? Read all the information on our ascent to the peak with a cable car ticket.
Use the Teide Cable Car Online Tickets and take advantage of their benefits
Guarantee your seat by purchasing your Mount Teide Cable Car tickets online. You will enjoy tickets with an assigned session. It is as simple as booking a time slot for a specific date. You must show up at the Cable Car boarding area with your Online Ticket, either printed or displayed on your mobile phone, 20 minutes prior to the time specified on your Mount Teide Cable Car ticket in order to redeem it and access the boarding area to board the cabin afterwards.
If you arrive by private vehicle, which you will need to park, we recommend that you show up at the premises of the Cable Car prior to the time indicated on your Mount Teide Cable Car tickets, although we recommend that you avoid driving and choose collective transportation instead because it is important that together we do what we can to counteract overuse of the vehicle parking areas in the National Park. In addition, this represents your personal commitment to reduce greenhouse gases and to the conservation of the National Park. As a conservation measure, they have been kept to a small size, and they cannot be extended.
Which is why we offer you our tour to Mount Teide with cable car tickets included. If you finally arrive by car, it is best that you book your Mount Teide Cable Car tickets for a time slot after 1.00pm.
If for whatever reason you arrive too late for your session, you will lose the right to board.
Tickets + Guided tour to the Pico Viejo viewpoint
Would you like to ascend by cable car and also walk some of the trails with a guide? You got it! By booking this guided tour you will be able to discover all of the volcanic wonders that surround the impressive trail to the Pico Viejo viewpoint. Our guide will explain everything to you in Spanish or English.
Please bear in mind that this activity is not suitable for people with mobility problems and children under 5.
Tickets + ‘Teide Legend’ digital audio guide to Teide National Park or physical audio guide to the trails
The perfect option if you’re travelling to Teide with your own vehicle and you prefer to discover the landscape and find out about it under your own steam with the help of our Teide Legend audio guide (available in English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, Polish and Dutch for download on Android and iOS devices).
The audio guide included in this ticket is actually a full audio-guided tour of Teide National Park.
The Teide Legend audio guide included with your cable car + audio guide ticket is an audio-guided tour to Mount Teide. It reveals the natural and cultural heritage of Tenerife and different points of interest in Teide National Park, depending on the access road you take to reach our facilities.
This audio-guided tour shows you the best viewpoints and hiking trails near the cable car base and top stations, plus restaurants, local shops, cultural centres, etc.
Characters from the “Legend of Guayota” will be your guides on this tour, and you’ll learn about the volcanology, anthropology, and history of the National Park, while you’ll be also introduced to the indigenous Guanches, Tenerife’s earliest inhabitants who worshipped the Teide volcano, and who believed its eruptions to be the expressions of the fury of the gods.
The section on trails at the top station offers detailed and essential information about the three emblematic trails that leave from Teide Cable Car top station and follow different routes across the volcano’s slopes. You can hike the trails at the same time as you learn about the most important and characteristic parts of the volcano.
The audio guide is fun and easy to use! You just need to use the booking code from your cable car + audio guide ticket to quickly and easily download the app and enjoy a complete contactless experience.
Want to know how the audio guide app works? We explain in this video. Follow the instructions to get the most from your visit to Mount Teide.
If you do not have a smartphone, you can receive a physical audio guide. In order to pick it up it is necessary to leave your passport/ID card or a deposit of €50.00 which will be returned to you when you return the audio guide. It’s important to remember that, by choosing this option, you’ll only have the audio guide to the trails at the top station.
Live the Teide Legend at the Teide “Science and Legend” exhibition!
The cable car ticket (except for the ticket for the ascent and the Cable Car at Sunset activity) includes free admission to the “Science and Legend” exhibition, which you will find at the Teide Cable Car Visitors’ Centre.
You will learn about Mount Teide’s last major eruption (around 1,000 years ago) which the indigenous Guanches probably interpreted as a fight between mythological deities—an explanation far removed from that which science now attributes to volcanic eruptions.
The characters of the legend of Guayota, both gods and humans, will show you their vision of the stages of the eruption that took place back then, and which formed the pylon at the summit of Mount Teide, known locally as “el tapón del Teide” [the Teide cap]. A magical story in which good and evil join in an epic battle. Along with the legend, you will be shown reliable data to illustrate the scientific interpretation of the eruption. Although the two perspectives may seem diametrically opposed, they are in fact closely connected.
In addition, you can have a great time at our Visitors’ Centre, where you can find brilliant mementoes of your visit to the legend of the Teide National Park at our official souvenir shop. And you can relax and enjoy a culinary experience with panoramic views of the National Park in Spain’s highest restaurant and snack bar, whose badge of identity is the distinctly Canary Island character of its food and drink.
If you book the cable car + audio guide ticket, the Teide Legend app is included with your purchase, and it features detailed audio recordings so you can enjoy the exhibition in any of the audio guide’s 8 languages.
Teide Tour: the most rewarding excursion to ascend Mount Teide by cable car
If you wish to contribute to the conservation and care of the Teide National Park, the best way to visit is using group transport—and a guide! This will help to reduce atmospheric pollution, and we can fight climate change together; at the same time, you will get to know more about this jewel of the natural world, thanks to the explanations given by our guides.
On this guided visit to the Teide National Park (available every day, and with pick-ups in the north and south of the island, and the metropolitan area of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Candelaria), you will ascend to an altitude of 3,555 metres by cable car. Once there, you can enjoy free access to the trails leading to wonderful viewing points, where you can marvel at northern Tenerife’s characteristic ‘sea of clouds’—or at the spectacular views of Pico Viejo, southern Tenerife, and some of the neighbouring islands on the horizon. It also includes a free digital audio guide to the trails at the cable car top station and entry to the “Science and Legend” exhibition.
So, are you coming with us on our Teide excursion? Then click on the following link:
Enjoy this experience at sunset
Would you like to ascend by Cable Car outside the usual hours of operation and with our staff to behold the sunset from an altitude of 3,555 m? No problem! Just select the product Cable Car at Sunset.
Enjoy this experience in the company of a maximum of 90 other participants. Prepare to be astounded by the show of Teide’s shadow cast onto the sea and take in the sunset from the Pico Viejo viewpoint, with the islands of La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro on the horizon, to bid farewell to the day from the heights.
Mount Teide Cable Car booking management system
Do you want to modify your Teide Cable Car tickets reservation quickly and comfortably, or cancel your booking because the cable car is closed?
No charges apply to changes or cancellations of Mount Teide Cable Car tickets which are caused by the closure of the Teide Cable Car’s facilities due to adverse weather conditions, so access «Manage your booking» to cancel or modify your Mount Teide Cable Car booking by entering your booking locator and the e-mail address provided at the time of booking.
