Monarch Airlines will be increasing its number of flights to popular holiday destinations, including Tenerife, Spain, Portugal and Cyprus in April.

This follows the increased demand for these destinations, including very high demand for cheap Flights to Tenerife.  Monarch will also be bringing forward its plans to start new scheduled flights to Paphos, which were originally slated to begin during May of this year.

The additional flights will leave from London Gatwick and Manchester to Tenerife.

The Asturias princess, Princess Letizia, (who, incidentally is Spain's future Queen) will arrive in Tenerife today to present grants totalling over 10 million euros form the Spanish Cancer Society.

Princess Letizia is the honorary president of the society, and will be at the ceremony from 18:30 onwards, which is being held in the Santa Cruz auditorium.

Lidl, the giant German discount chain of supermarket stores, announced yesterday that it has plans for 12 of it's supermarkets to open in the Canary Islands.  Five of these will be located in Tenerife, at La Laguna, Puerto de la Cruz, Granadilla, San Miguel, and Adeje. (more...)

Iberostar, a large Spanish Hotel chain, with a wealth of Hotels within Tenerife itself, have outdone themselves with their latest offer.

If you book into one of their hotels before the end of March, and stay over the Easter Holiday period - for every single day of bad weather you have while you are on Holiday, they will give you one free days stay at ANY Iberostar Hotel!  The offer is valid for any of their 35 hotels, located in Andalusia, Majorca, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuertaventura and Lanzarote.

The one caveat is that your free days cannot be taken during the Christmas period.  Visit their website for more information.