This review will help you to plan your trip to Teide National park based on my trip today:

First of all you need a car and you should know how to drive good because almost 50 minutes of the way up to Teide is curvy and the experience with car is very nice because you can stop in many places the way up to Teide area to take pictures. We rented a car from Cicar ( fiat 2008 ) and it was perfect for 38 Euro per day.

I saw many reviews about the permit but it’s not needed for visiting Teide area but not the Teide mountine it self and the cable car. All what you see in the pictures uploaded here doesn’t need any booking or permit or anything.

I preferred to go at 4 pm so it usually takes like 60 minutes to go up but with some stops in the way might takes like two hours

As soon as you see the sign or Google maps takes you to Teide national park don’t stop just continue until you reach the sign Teide mountine or the cable car over there after you reach it at the left side you will find a three stars hotel ( it’s the only one there ) where you can park your car and have a rest in the hotel or eat something.

We preferred to start out trip late so we avoid the crowed as soon as we arrived to the hotel parking on the opposite side we find many people do hiking and we found a nice route of 40 minutes which we made between the mountine but keep in mind somethings, you need more water than normal, I don’t know why but I had to pie many times :D, you might feel a bit dizzy after you finish the hike and then you can relax it the hotel, don’t get a big meal before going up.

The sunset there was amazing and the stars at night if you feel worry to drive at night as we did ( it was completely fine ) you may can drive during the sunset and enjoy the view in your way back.

To reach to top of Teide you need to book like three months before and you should be lucky that this day is ok and they didn’t close the cable car because of bad weather.

Keep in mind it’s cold over there something like 7/8 degrees.