Tenerife · Nightlife

The south's resort nightlife runs along this seafront avenue and the streets behind it — a continuous line of bars, karaoke rooms and club doors with free or cheap admission and promoters working the pavement. Bars fill from around 23:00 and clubs run until dawn; it is the loudest and least Spanish part of the island.

Club and restaurant on the south coast running a weekly calendar of named nights from Wednesday to Sunday, with an attached Mediterranean restaurant (AWA) so you can eat there before the music starts. Table and VIP bookings go through its own site.

The bar street in the capital's old quarter: a short pedestrianised run of small bars and terraces that fills with residents rather than holidaymakers, at city prices. It is walkable from the tram and the port, and works as a normal evening out rather than a night of clubbing.

San Cristóbal de La Laguna has the island's university, and the bars around Calle Herradores and the surrounding old-town streets fill on term-time weeknights. Cheapest drinks on the island, reached by tram line 1 from Santa Cruz, and noticeably quiet in July and August once term has ended.

Concert hall on the Santa Cruz waterfront and home of the Sinfónica de Tenerife, with an opera season plus chamber music, piano, organ and jazz nights through the year. Programme and tickets are on its own site; performances start early enough to eat in the old quarter afterwards.