Where you are met
At Free parking Puerto de la Cruz, Parking Parque Taoro or the Bus Station Guaguas Puerto de la Cruz, or by city delivery to your address in the town.
Car hire from Puerto de la Cruz to Costa Adeje
Hire a car in Puerto de la Cruz, drive it down to Costa Adeje and return it at Tenerife South Airport or in the south. The one-way fee is shown with each price.
The deposit and the cancellation terms are shown on each car before you book.
For the drive from Puerto de la Cruz to Costa Adeje, the hire car can be collected on the north coast and returned at Tenerife South Airport, or at another drop-off in the south chosen in the search form. Pick-up is at Free parking Puerto de la Cruz, Parking Parque Taoro or the Bus Station Guaguas Puerto de la Cruz, or by city delivery to the address you give in the town. A one-way rental that ends in the south is booked in the same search, and the one-way fee is shown with the price on each car.
Costa Adeje is about sixty-nine minutes and sixty-six kilometres from Puerto de la Cruz without traffic, and Tenerife South Airport is about eighty-two minutes and ninety-seven kilometres. Costa Adeje has no named pick-up point: a car hired in Costa Adeje is city delivery only, brought to the address you give in the town. Check a live map on the day.
Where do I collect the car in Puerto de la Cruz?
At a named point or at your address. Puerto de la Cruz is the only town on Tenerife with named pick-up points: Free parking Puerto de la Cruz, Parking Parque Taoro and the Bus Station Guaguas Puerto de la Cruz. The car is handed over at the point chosen in the booking. With city delivery, the car is brought to the address you give in the town instead, and each car shows whether delivery is included and, where it is not, its price.
The driver brings the physical licence card, with its details in Latin script and an expiry date no earlier than the last day of the rental. Copies and electronic licences are not accepted. A physical embossed credit card in the main driver's name may be required; where a debit card is accepted instead, the booking and the voucher say so, and it too must be physical, personalised, embossed and in that name.
The minimum age and driving experience are listed on each car's page and can differ between similar models, and the rental agent may refuse the handover to a driver who does not meet them. The phone number given at booking, with the correct country code, has to be reachable on the day before pick-up and throughout the rental. Service quality claims are not accepted if the renter could not be contacted by phone or by Viber, WhatsApp or Telegram.
How long is the drive from Puerto de la Cruz to Costa Adeje?
About sixty-nine minutes and sixty-six kilometres without traffic. Tenerife South Airport is about eighty-two minutes and ninety-seven kilometres from Puerto de la Cruz. From Puerto de la Cruz, Masca village is about forty-nine minutes and forty-five kilometres. While a fire-risk alert is declared, access to the TF-436 into Masca is controlled from 09:00 to 16:00, and vehicles driven by visitors for purely recreational purposes are refused; the control is switched on and off with the risk, so check before setting off.
The drive from Santa Cruz to Costa Adeje is about fifty-five minutes and seventy-nine kilometres, and from the arrival area at Tenerife North Airport it is a little over an hour and eighty-five kilometres, both without traffic. Santa Cruz de Tenerife is city delivery only, with the car brought to an address in the capital, and it is thirty minutes and thirty-eight kilometres from Puerto de la Cruz.
Cepsa and BP have stations on the Carretera del Botanico in Puerto de la Cruz, 0.4 to 0.7 kilometres from Plaza del Charco. Rental cars may travel on paved public roads only. At the standard level of cover, damage to the wheels, the undercarriage, the windscreen and the interior is excluded, and the higher levels offered for a car are listed on that car.
Can I keep one car for a split stay, north first and then south?
Yes, as one rental: collect the car in Puerto de la Cruz on the first day and choose a drop-off in the south for the last. The minimum chargeable period is 24 hours, so a car rented from Monday morning to Tuesday afternoon is charged as two full days. Extending the rental means telling the rental agent in advance. For a car wanted only for the southern half of the stay, Costa Adeje is city delivery only, and the car is brought to the address you give in the town.
Parking in Costa Adeje uses the same kerb lines as the rest of Spain: blue for metered bays with a time limit, unmarked white for free bays, and yellow for no parking. Parking charges, fines, fuel and toll roads during the rental are the renter's to pay, and Tenerife's motorways are toll-free.
Before the car goes back, the BP at Siam Mall in Costa Adeje is open 24 hours, the DISA at San Eugenio is open from 08:00 to 17:30, and the TGAS Trebol station stands at the La Caleta and Adeje junction. The car is returned with the fuel level it had at pick-up. A lower level is charged at the rental company's rates, and a higher one is not compensated.
Can I hand the car back at Tenerife South Airport?
Yes. Choose Tenerife South Airport as the drop-off, and the car is returned in the arrival area, which is the named handover place at the airport. Between Tenerife South Airport and Puerto de la Cruz, more one-way cars are listed than for any other pairing with the airport except Tenerife North Airport and Playa de las Americas, in both directions. The one-way fee is shown with the price on each car.
Near the terminal, the Repsol on the airport access road and the BP at Carretera Atogo km 0.5 on the TF-1 are both open 24 hours, for bringing the tank back to its pick-up level. From Costa Adeje, Tenerife South Airport is about thirty minutes and twenty-two kilometres without traffic.
Tenerife North Airport, twenty-seven minutes and thirty-one kilometres from Puerto de la Cruz, is the other airport drop-off, for flying home from the north airport. The return conditions are the same everywhere. A car returned so dirty that it cannot be inspected is washed at the renter's expense. After an insured event, the rental agent must be told immediately and a police report obtained, unless otherwise agreed with the agent.
Your dates. Your starting point.
Compare the cars available for your trip, then check the payment card and deposit requirements for the one you choose.
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Free-flow driving times from Puerto de la Cruz.
Your Puerto de la Cruz drive
The deposit
Shown during booking and in the rental voucher, along with how the remaining rental cost is paid and the deposit refund timeline.
One-way
Tenerife South Airport, or another drop-off in the south, is chosen in the search form. The one-way fee is shown with the price on each car.
Where you may drive it
Paved public roads only. That excludes the unpaved tracks in Teno and in parts of Anaga.
Useful answers
A car collected in Puerto de la Cruz can be returned at Tenerife South Airport, and the one-way fee is shown with the price on each car.
How far is Costa Adeje from Puerto de la Cruz?
Sixty-six kilometres, about sixty-nine minutes without traffic. Tenerife South Airport is ninety-seven kilometres and about eighty-two minutes from Puerto de la Cruz.
How far is Costa Adeje from Santa Cruz?
From Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Costa Adeje is about fifty-five minutes and seventy-nine kilometres without traffic.
How far is Costa Adeje from Tenerife North Airport?
About eighty-five kilometres, a little over an hour without traffic. A car collected at Tenerife North Airport is handed over in its arrival area.
Is there a charge for dropping the car in the south?
Where a one-way fee applies, it is shown with the price on each car before you book.
Is there a pick-up point in Costa Adeje?
Not a named one. Costa Adeje is city delivery only, so the car is brought to the address you give in the town, and each car shows whether delivery is included.
Where do I fill up before handing the car back?
In Costa Adeje, the BP at Siam Mall is open 24 hours. Near Tenerife South Airport, the Repsol on the airport access road and the BP at Carretera Atogo km 0.5 are both open 24 hours. In Puerto de la Cruz, Cepsa and BP have stations on the Carretera del Botanico.