If you plan to get around by bus or guagua (pronounced wah-wah) in the Tenerifian dialect, you can pick up a timetable from a bus station, shops, or perhaps from your hotel or apartment complex. The bus service on the island is quite good but time consuming, there is a timetable but things can go awry if the bus is following a slow banana lorry round some bendy roads! If there is more than one of you or you plan to visit several places it will be better, and most likely cheaper, to rent a car. But if you do want to have a go, then buy the “Bono" bus card” you can get it where they display the sign like this one,

as it is a lot cheaper to pay for the fare with it than by cash, (cost about 12 euros). It can be used to pay for any number of journeys and can be used by more than one person valid until either the remaining balance (credit) is used up. If there is insufficient credit available for the final journey then the balance must be paid in cash. Typical fares range from about 2 euros for the trip from Los Cristianos to Reina Sofia Airport to about 20 euros for the journey from Los Cristianos to Puerto de La Cruz. The public bus company, TITSA, operates services throughout the island. We have reproduced the time-table for the relevant Los Gigantes buses below.

Titsa Bus Time Table

Check the local map to see where the nearest bus stops are located. The bus routes (Lineas) has a number such as 473. The same number is used for Tenerife buses running in both directions on the route. Because of one way streets or the layout of the bus routes, you can find that buses for both directions may use the same bus stops, or you may have bus stops several metres appart but on the same side of the road. Can be confusing so double check the bus destination on the front of the bus. The route number and route is displayed on the front of the bus. The route includes where the bus came from and the destination. The lower name is the destination and on some Tenerife buses the lettering is larger for the destination. If you get on the wrong bus the driver will tell you.

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