One of the highlights of our trip to Santa Cruz!

If you arrive early, parking should be easy enough, there is a large car park right outside the entrance. We paid at the gate, only a few euros.

The water and the pool area itself was very clean and well maintained. Much to our surprise, the day of our visit was nice and quiet, we arrived mid-morning which was brilliant and it felt as though we had the entire place to ourselves, at least for the first few hours. There are stunning views of the sea to the east with waves crashing onto the rocks. Our older two children are learning to swim and this was a great place to practice as the pool is so wide!

We visited with our 3 young children (aged 6, 5 and 2) and they had the best time and wanted to return, which we certainly will when we revisit Tenerife next time!

My only criticism would be the café/bar area and a very rude staff member working here. He was clearly annoyed with us that we did not speak fluent Spanish, despite us trying with the words and phrases we knew and trying Google translate to help us communicate. He was perfectly polite to the local/Spanish speaking clients, so he clearly had an issue with foreigners or maybe he just didn't like the look of us 😅

But would definitely recommend a visit if you have a day to spend in Santa Cruz, especially if you have young children.