We just returned from the most fabulous family holiday we’ve ever taken, we went to the Canary Islands for a full week! We left on a Monday and returned home on a Sunday, it was truly the best holiday we’ve ever planned, and what is so funny is that it was also one of the easiest! Someone told my husband about this website, onthebeach.co.uk, and we checked it out knowing we were planning a family holiday sometime in the near future.
At first we were considering a Western Caribbean cruise, but the website had so many great Canary Islands holidays featured we decided to check them out and we are so glad we did! After popping around on the site for a day or two we decided to book our trip right then and there! Since we were able to book just about everything on that one site it was a one stop deal and we were on our way! Planning family trips also makes me quite anxious typically, so the fact that it was done basically for me was so much less stress!
Our hotel was on Tenerife Island so we did most of our travelling about there, but we also visited Gran Canaria. Taking the ferry between the two islands was fairly simple and we actually wound up doing it twice. The beaches were spectacular and we did quite a ton of lazing around, but we also had a great time exploring Santa Cruz, the capitol of Tenerife.
The weather was absolutely perfect the whole time we were there, which was a big draw for us because we find the weather back home a bit chilly for our liking! Quite possibly my absolute favourite thing we did on our family holiday though, was visiting Teide National Park to see the highest mountain in Spain and Mount Teide, the third largest volcano in the world! It was so breathtaking I could hardly believe it. We really did not want to leave, but I have a feeling we’ll be going back on next year’s holiday!