To go on holidays to Tenerife is something that everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime. It’s not because it has the best beaches, the best hotels, the best food or the best people. I bet you could find any island or tourist destination that offers something better in at least one of those departments. But a Tenerife holiday season has something that nothing else has: the best mix of all of those aspects.

Surely you can go to Thailand and experience amazing beaches and an incredible landscape. But good luck with the food there, and finding helpful people. And you can go to Ibiza and there are some incredible hotels there also. But the people that spend their holidays there have one thing in mind: partying. And partying is a synonym for noise, which is not a synonym for a relaxed holiday. You can also go, for example, to Hawaii, where you’ll find that everything is almost perfect. Until you sit down to eat and realize that practically everything has been streamlined to taste like normal, western / American food and there’s nothing new to it.

To go to the Canaries is to go on a slightly bigger adventure than any other of these travel destinations. Because, quite simply, it retained a lot of its original identity and it clings on to it. Which may not be the best thing for a retired tourist who only likes the things he or she knows, but for people with a bit of sense of adventure and an appetite for the unknown, it’s just perfect.

The Canary Islands have been called a “little continent” before, and that’s just what they are. You can find a lot of different flora and fauna in the archipelago and several different kinds of weather too. Not to mention terrain that goes from huge plains and long sandy beaches to high peaks and volcanic coastlines.

You can find some really cheap Canaries Holidays from OnTheBeach, if you’re interested. I know a lot of people plug their favorite travel website or travel agency and they always find it best, but this is honestly the best one for me. Because, quite simply, it lets me take control of my holidays. I have the option of letting them find me a package holiday or I can make my own. They have a wide choice of travel destinations and hotels that are proven to be good.