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 open, 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.
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 the closure of the facilities 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.
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
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 deadline has passed it will not be possible to make any changes or cancellations and no refunds will be made. All changes and cancellations of Cable Car tickets can be made comfortably via our booking management module.
Reviews about Volcano Teide cable car
As per my comment on last page
Very good organization, clean, neat and well laid out trails. Attentive and kind staff. Fantastic scenery, well highlighted.
Smooth booking process, everything worked perfectly. Worth the visit!
Not value for money. Very expensive tickets. I think it should be cheaper.
Very cool
excellent
Great trip if the weather is ok
Amazing!
Very interesting.
A unique experience.
Impresionant!
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Great service
More clear information on web site needed!
Worth the trip
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.
Excelent.
all was ok
Was well planned and caring service, unfortunately some miscommunication caused a loss of money.
Great customer service by the man who managed the queues in the morning of 13th February. Thank you!
We managed to climb Teide for the third time. In 2023 and 2024, our reservation was cancelled due to high winds and we got our deposit back. The reservation was simple, clear and fast in each case.
Everything was great!
Everything is excellent organized, staff very friendly and ready to help
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Highly recommended!!
**** COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY **** We bought three tickets online for the cable car and 1 hours footpath walk around the Mt Teide Volcano at a cost of almost 130 euros. The tourist information centre in Los Cristianos advised us to purchase these tickets and see the amazing views as we walked around the Volcano. The information sheet provided explained that 3 footpaths were open and there was a 1 hour time limit to do the walks. At no point when purchasing the tickets on the mobile app dis it say the paths were closed, and when you reached the cable car station the large illuminated sign still showed a 1 hour maximum visit to the top. No written indication or any other information was given at the bottom to say the paths were not open. We stood in a queue for 15 minutes despite having a 09:10 slot prebooked as that's the only way you can buy tickets. When reaching the top you then discover the footpath gates are closed and a sign says its due to severe weather and conditions. The viewing platform area was crammed with people who all expected to be walking and there was hardly a space to get a good view from or even take a couple of pictures. We climbed back on the next cable car to get off the Volcano and found some local photographers were already challenging the staff at the bottom to get a refund. No refunds were offered and the staff were completely ignoring the calls for signs to be displayed informing people who hadn't already gone up and could possibly get a refund. Although I understand for safety reasons the paths need to be closed, but this visitors should be better informed and the ticket price should be reduced to reflect the restriction on footpaths walks which is the main reason we wanted to visit. Overall, the experience was poor for the money and the views from the cable car summit were not much better than what we saw in the car while driving up there. SAVE YOUR MONEY AND VISIT THE NATIONAL PARK AT THE NORTH INSTEAD.
Everything is turned to business.
Closed due to little snow, are from Sweden so that snow is a joke, had to buy a expensive ticket down also, scam…
Stay at the bottom. The time and price is not a good valuef v.s. experience.
Guided tour was great, the guide gave us many interesting information. Recommended!
A good guide, very kind, with the freedom to go up, and you can return to the gondola whenever you wish. Highly recomend this tour trip and the guy G.
Well manafed
The guided tour is definitely the way to go! Our guide shared lots of great information and took us on a hike we likely wouldn't have done. Highly recommend.
👍❤️perfect
Just Amazing , Great Staff.
A great trip .............. Go early !
after 4 cancelled attempts due to too much wind we finally made it and it was worth the wait.
Please see previous comments
Book in advance
Very knowledgeable guide. He did however always spoke in Spanish and English which made for long stops. I would have preferred to have the tour in one language to avoid longe waiting times.
Very good tour,perfect introduction to Tenerife.
Buy ticket online :)
Brilliantly well organised
Booking experience and the logistics on arrival were both ok. The ascent is quite impressive. However I think the experience is very overpriced, specially when the trails to the top and down are shut as they were due to ice sheets. I wouldn’t do it again!
Booking experience and the logistics on arrival were both ok. The ascent is quite impressive. However I think the experience is very overpriced, specially when the trails to the top and down are shut as they were due to ice sheets. I wouldn’t do it again!
Worth to go there
Amazing views
Amazing views, perfectly organised for quick entrance.
As I have stated above.
Perfect
All worked well.
Fantastic
Я мягко говоря расстроен в 22. 02.25-го мы были на вулкане поднимались на него Подъем прошёл хорошо вопросов, нет. У меня было разрешение на Подъем дальше после подъемника, но через месяц на Март, так как раньше это разрешение на ранние более ранние даты не выдавали.Девушка оператор сказала, что мне подниматься Туда к самому кратеру. Нельзя, потому что у меня разрешение только через Месяц понятно, что через Месяц я Туда подниматься не буду так, как в следующий раз ехать Туда не планирую.
Good quality cafe and efficient cable car. Be aware that the paths at the top are very uneven and can be difficult to negotiate.
Staff excellent. Toilets difficult to enter. Caused major confusion with other visitors. Food and drink ok and fair value. Website difficult to negotiate. Was the car on or off today. Seems to be off a lot in winter. One part of website said on and another off. Would it not be possible to text to tell if on or off and save visitors unnecessary trip to Teide. Loved the cable car and excellent walks on top. Can highly recommend
All good
Audio guide not great
very nice
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
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.
Everything was great, very professional
Great day out
verry nice
We had to change the bus with the English/german customer, the bus we changed wasn’t cleaned properly and the guide was very helpful.
The whole process from initial booking to being picked up on the day was effortless, our guide Jose was a fountain of knowledge with some lighthearted humour thrown in. The same goes for our driver Carlos really couldn’t fault him the entire time a true gentleman. The total experience was beyond my wildest expectations.
The same as in answear before
Brilliant trip, very well organised and the guide and driver were exceptional! The whole trip was amazing and anyone visiting Tenerife should go and see Teide with Volcano Teide - brilliant organisation and knowledge. Plus Harry our guide was funny with it too so made for a perfect trip!
Super
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.
Highly recom
The day of the excursion was very windy, so the cable car was out of order. I was told that I would be refunded the amount I paid for the cable car on the same day or the next day, but five days later, I still haven't received anything. Overall, I would say the excursion is a bit pricey, but the guide was very nice and shared interesting facts about the Canary Islands.
What a fantastic day trip! Great value for money. Our amazing guide gave the tour in 3 languages! Very impressive! She was very knowledgeable and interesting with her facts about everywhere we visited. The stops were amazing and trying a local coffee with sweet cream was delicious! Teide was breath taking and the cable car was exciting! Definately recommend the tour to anyone who loves history and natural wonders with a fantastic tour guide and talented bus driver, ***. Thank you all for the memories xx
If you have vertigo or have breathing issues stay away .
Poor communication regarding the cable cart being open, feel *** by the service you provide directly. The tour guide never told us the cable car was closed before we set off and we felt trapped into an overpriced coach transfer to the cable car base. The man who did our coach transfer from Best Tenerife on 6th November lacked empathy and kept laughing in our faces when we expressed our discontent with the service. I got the direct coach transfer via your website as I trusted it would be a ‘sustainable service’ not that the coach would stop at cafes and gift shops to get more money out of us. The price was TOO much and the money refunded back was not enough. Based on the poor communication and the terrible lack of empathy from the guide who took us on the tour, I would only give one star and will be writing a trip advisor review to recommend people do not book with you. First, there should be the option to cancel before you get on the bus if the cable car isn’t running, so you can opt out quick and get a full refund. I will not stand for being *** which is exactly what you are doing. I’ve travelled far and wide and this is the biggest *** I have ever dealt with due to the ***. I spent ***, for a coach trip I spent *** for a very long drawn out journey which is conning tourists. You should be ashamed of the people that run the revenue strategy for your national park. There must be a much better way to maximise your profits and support the national park without making people who buy into the coach trip feel completely ***. It took me a lot of time to write back and I wonder if it will ever be read after the tour guide did not listen to our discontent without laughing. *** by the people who run the sustainable transport without an option to not travel if the cart is off.
Cable car was amazing , and the whole trip was worth every penny. Everything from bus transport to the top of Teide was fantastic .
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.
