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.

OK, IF you wanted to go to say America or Thailand or Egypt on holiday from Tenerife, how do you go about booking flights/hotels. Us ex-pats are used to using the internet to book these things, but the providers are mostly UK based. It seems silly to fly to the UK then fly out to a foreign destination. Much better I would have thought to fly to mainland Spain, then on to wherever. But - are there any Spanish/Canarian holiday companies that you can book with. Or am I doomed not to go on holiday

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