Playa de Las Americas - Where's the sodding beach?

[BliarOut]

I walked through Playa last week and couldn't help noticing that the beach has... Gone Now either I'm going senile (possibly) or it really has gone. Anyone know where it's gone and why? My guess is it's at the bottom of the Atlantic somewhere.

Oh, and isn't Veronicas a tip these days

[Shay HTFC]

Veronicas was such a fking tip when I went a few years back. It was like a bad version of any British 'full of st bars' high street.

Being raped every 3 metres by someone wanting to give you free shots gets a bit boring after a while too.

[BliarOut]

The whole of Playa seems to have been radically redeveloped since I was last in Tenerife, it's almost as if a bunch of blokes sat in a smoke filled room and went... "I know, it's called Las Americas, let's make it like America"

We almost ran screaming back to Los Cristianos

[sleep envy]

the locals are playing a GAME of hide and seek with it

[ali_kat]

Never been a lot of beach there? Always been more there than at LC

Starts at Veronicas, and goes along for @ 2 miles ish - to the bottom of the walkway by the posh hotel that has the pool one side of the walkway overlooking the ocean.

[BliarOut]

sleep envy said:

the locals are playing a GAME of hide and seek with it

bd, I was gonna text you then turn my phone off for a week

Ali, I know there used to be a beach starting at Veronicas all the way to LC, I walked it twenty odd years ago. At the moment though there's literally nothing, just black rocks.

Edited by BliarOut on Wednesday 7th April 13:55

[ali_kat]

It was there last July!

[whitechief]

Global warming has eaten it!!

[TonyHetherington]

You're back then

did you ring matey-boy?

which beach are you talking about - this one? http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=tenerife...

[ali_kat]

Tony - I couldn't manage to do that

[BliarOut]

We're back... Didn't ring matey as we couldn't move from the rooftop pool

That's the beach... At least it would have been if it was still there. I *think* it got washed away earlier in the year when they had storms but I wondered why they hadn't reinstated it. It really made Playa look a bit scuzzy.

[TonyHetherington]

Ah right - we did walk along past all that buy I honestly can't recall if it was there or not!! We went on the bits we went on (which was to the west, either side of the harbour) which were great fun, not too busy either.

[DonkeyApple]

It's under there somewhere:

[BliarOut]

:Shudder:

Wish I had taken some pics now...

[TonyHetherington]

I took this picture of the beach that wasn't there;

[BliarOut]

Yup, that's it... Over there --->

[TonyHetherington]

Gotcha

Hotel was nice though, huh?!

[BliarOut]

Very, PH recommendation and a few hundred on Trip Advisor can't be wrong.

Gatwick baggage handlers are s to a man though. Two fking crews to unload eight aircraft at 01:30? I *may* have used the odd choice expletive or two in a bile riddled e-mail composed and sent while waiting.

[louiebaby]

TonyHetherington said:

I took this picture of the beach that wasn't there;

You mean the tide was in???

[Benzman]

DonkeyApple said:

It's under there somewhere:

I wouldn't like to be in the pool when this lot jump in, the word Tsunami springs to mind

Edited by Benzman on Thursday 8th April 15:46

Edited by Benzman on Thursday 8th April 15:47