Telde Holidays

Travel Agent's View

Situated on the north east of the island, Telde is an ideal choice for families and couples seeking a relaxing holiday close to a good range of amenities.

The area boasts the widest coastal strip on the north eastern coast with many beaches and coves for visitors to enjoy; Salinetas is one of the most popular beaches due to its sandy beach safe for children to play and the long promenade with a variety of bars and restaurants close by for refreshments. The area is also popular for those who enjoy surfing and other water sports.

The area offers many restaurants offering a variety of local and international menus, there is also a selection of bars and pavement cafes.

There are many attractions in the area, including churches, museum and pretty plaza's.

Telde is located approx 12 km from the airport.

Insider's View

Telde can't seem to make its mind up whether to be industrial or commercial. The outskirts of the town are clogged with large
warehouses along side great big commercial shopping zones.

Because of the surge in residential housing construction in the area hardware stores are springing up like mould on old bread. You can get a set of screwdrivers for next to nothing if you shop around a bit and isn't that the all encompassing holiday related info you really wanted to know!

Telde isn't a holiday place, but it does have one of Gran Canaria's best golf courses, El Cortijo. Because of it's north-easterly geographical position the climate is kinder and the greens are, well actually green.

Around and about the town are some delightfully minute gatherings of houses, with too few homes to be classed as villages, but with grill restaurants out of this world. El Pancotta, on the road to Santa Brigida is a wonderful terraced and balconied house to restaurant conversion with an Italian flavoured menu and beautiful gardens where it's a pleasure to dine-out.

El Terderetté, on the motorway side of Telde, holds some of the more typical Canarian musical evenings. These are special nights where huge men strum miniature guitars and wail laments of loves long past. The common name for these family orientated get-together's is Tenderetté. It left me wondering if the restaurant name holds any sort of hidden meaning, but I baulked at asking in case just a bit of the sign had dropped off.

There's a tiny patch of sandy beach fairly close to Telde, in fact right behind the colossal new shopping centre of Las Terrazas, which has an amazing view over the ocean to the city of Las Palmas. It's a good spot, not only for dropping your towel and soaking up a few rays, but for watching the kite-surfers race across the waves. Insider Sig