Moderate-to-challenging walking on more rugged terrain with significant ascents / descents on most days. Compass skills may be required (check the individual holiday).
The season for this holiday is:
01 January 2022 - 31 May 2022
01 September 2022 - 31 December 2022
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| °C | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 22 | 20 | 18 |
| mm | 65 | 55 | 41 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 40 | 73 | 74 |
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7 nights: 01 January 2022 - 31 May 2022 & 01 September 2022 - 31 December 2022
Start any day | End by latest date(s) shown above
| Starting | Price | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 1 - 31 Jan 2022 | £975 | £220 |
| 1 Feb - 8 Apr 2022 | £995 | £225 |
| 9 - 14 Apr 2022 | £1015 | £225 |
| 15 - 24 Apr 2022 | £995 | £225 |
| 25 Apr - 24 May 2022 | £940 | £205 |
| 1 Sep - 31 Oct 2022 | £1015 | £245 |
| 1 - 30 Nov 2022 | £985 | £235 |
| 1 - 9 Dec 2022 | £965 | £230 |
| 10 - 24 Dec 2022 # | £1015 | £245 |
| 3rd & 4th person discount | -£70 | |
| Single traveller supplement | £70 |
Includes accommodation, meals and services integral to the holiday as described, plus walking notes and maps, but no travel from the UK, nor any connecting travel from the airport unless stated below.
If your flight arrives after the latest arrival time shown in the 'connecting travel' section below, you will spend your first night on Tenerife instead (on a bed-and-breakfast basis) and transfer to El Hierro the following morning. There is no additional cost for this EXCEPT during the Tenerife Carnival, which is on request – please call for details.
Included travel: return flight between Tenerife North and El Hierro and transfer to first hotel and from last hotel on El Hierro
Not included: transfer from Tenerife South to Tenerife North airport or, if spending first night on Tenerife, from Tenerife South to Santa Cruz (in both cases, pay locally for taxi or bus – call for details)
Book your flights through us and we'll find the best route and times to suit you. Please contact us to find out more about our flight booking service. We can also book connecting travel - see below.
Extra nights (£ per person per night) in a double or single room
| Balneario Pozo de La Salud, Sabinosa (with dinner) | Double room | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Jan - 31 May 2022 | £62 | £92 |
| 01 Sep - 31 Dec 2022 | £66 | £96 |
| Parador de El Hierro, Las Playas (with dinner) | Double room | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Jan - 06 Jan 2022 | £138 | £178 |
| 07 Jan - 14 Apr 2022 | £122 | £156 |
| 15 Apr - 20 Apr 2022 | £138 | £178 |
| 21 Apr - 30 Apr 2022 | £122 | £156 |
| 01 May - 31 May 2022 | £116 | £148 |
| 01 Sep - 31 Oct 2022 | £130 | £180 |
| 01 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 | £134 | £188 |
| 18 Dec - 31 Dec 2022 # | £145 | £204 |
Travelling from the UK
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | TUI |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Belfast Intl. - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | easyJet, jet2 |
| Belfast Intl. - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | Ryanair |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Exeter - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | TUI |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Glasgow Prestwick - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | Ryanair |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Liverpool - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | Ryanair |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Gatwick - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | British Airways, easyJet, TUI |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Heathrow - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | British Airways |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Manchester - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | easyJet, jet2, Ryanair, TUI, Vueling |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Norwich - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | TUI |
This list of flight options should be used as a guide only, and you should check each airline’s website for current routes, frequency and schedules. Not all flights operate daily, and may not run for the entire season. You should also heed the latest flight arrival time and earliest flight departure time stated in the connecting travel section, as it may not be possible to arrange connecting travel outside these times. Please do not book your flights until we have confirmed your accommodation to you. Alternatively, our expert reservations team will be happy to offer advice and to make flight bookings for you for any of the options listed above except those operated by Ryanair. We charge £35 per person for our flight booking service. Your flights are then covered by our package-booking conditions, which give you greater protection in the event of delay or cancellation, as well as providing ATOL cover.
Connecting travel options - flying via Tenerife South
| Outward route | Price per person |
Latest flight arrival time |
|---|---|---|
| bus or taxi Tenerife South to Tenerife North (1h, pay locally), Binter flight Tenerife North to El Hierro (1h check-in + 0h40 in air), taxi El Hierro airport to hotel (0h20) | included | 1200 Mon, Wed, Thu & Sun; 1000 Tue, Fri & Sat |
| Homeward route | Price per person |
Earliest flight departure time |
|---|---|---|
| taxi hotel to El Hierro airport (0h20), Binter flight El Hierro to Tenerife North (0h40 check-in + 0h40 in air), bus or taxi Tenerife North to Tenerife South (1h, pay locally) | included | 1400 |
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We enjoyed El Hierro very much, it is unspoilt, very quiet and has some spectacular scenery. Take walking poles!
The people were all very friendly and helpful, though English isn't widely spoken.
Really enjoyable week on this beautiful island which has such varied scenery. High mountain pastures edged with lichen-clad dry stone walls, dense pine forests, enchanted laurel silva forests, lava fields, volcanic cones, waves crashing through arches carved out of the lava and abundant flowers - stunning.
El Hierro was delightfully quiet. We often spent the whole day without encountering anyone. The walks are quite tough but the views rewarding. The picnics were enormous!
We enjoyed El Hierro very much, it is unspoilt, very quiet and has some spectacular scenery. Take walking poles!
The people were all very friendly and helpful, though English isn't widely spoken.
Really enjoyable week on this beautiful island which has such varied scenery. High mountain pastures edged with lichen-clad dry stone walls, dense pine forests, enchanted laurel silva forests, lava fields, volcanic cones, waves crashing through arches carved out of the lava and abundant flowers - stunning.
El Hierro was delightfully quiet. We often spent the whole day without encountering anyone. The walks are quite tough but the views rewarding. The picnics were enormous!
We enjoyed our holiday on El Hierro very much and the weather, though often cloudy at high levels, was very good for walking. We loved El Hierro - very unspoiled by mass tourism. The islanders were most welcoming and friendly, very pleased to have visitors. As others have commented, there isn't a lot of English spoken on the island but we easily managed to get by with our very rusty Spanish and we had some fun conversations.
The walking routes were easy to follow with very good notes and many signposts. The Outdoor Active App proved useful from time to time but (somewhat sadly!) it did make the maps redundant for us. We rarely saw any other walkers.
The walks involve plenty of long stiff ascents and long steep descents. While not big mileages, we had to take them slowly and keep our eyes on our feet as the terrain was often tricky.
The accommodation was generally very good and we enjoyed the included meals though not sophisticated they were wholesome and freshly prepared with local produce.
We enjoyed a meal at Casa Pucho/Don Din 2, the bar/restaurant closest to the apartment at Frontera. No menu! The chef came out to tell us what he had available. Great fun! Main meals available from 7pm and pizzas throughout the day.
The Mirador de la Pena serves excellent coffee with a fabulous view.
The Inntravel arrangements including the taxi transfers all worked perfectly.
p105, descent is indeed "inexorable" (9th bullet point): might be worth emphasising somewhere that the descent does go on rather and that it is hard and slow going given the uneven and rocky nature of the path (which is much easier to follow than the notes suggest).
Overall I greatly enjoyed the holiday and found your arrangements and organisation excellent
A holiday combining 'Lanzarote and La Graciosa' and 'El Hierro, The Last Outpost'.
Lanzarote and La Graciosa
Yaiza is a quiet and useful base for the holiday, away from the crowds. The room was comfortable, but had no kettle or fridge - we were glad of our travel kettle as you can't get drinks during the day, other than at breakfast, lunch or dinner times. The restaurant we found to be excellent. The walks are varied and interesting. We particularly enjoyed our day trip to La Graciosa. Make time to watch the sunset from El Golfo and to visit Manrique's house. The Sunday market at Tinajo was also interesting, especially the stalls that sold locally made crafts and produce. It is definitely worth doing the bus trip around Timanfaya national park. We are glad we added a couple of days to the planned week so that we could fit everything in. Beware the Femes walk if you suffer from vertigo. It's a fabulous walk but the section right at the end of it could be challenging for some. Definitely worth getting a more detailed map as the one supplied relates to a Discovery Walking Guide not included. We were initially confused by the numbered walks on the maps provided - they relate to specific walks in the Walking Guide and not the walks in your Inntravel pack. Other than that a thoroughly enjoyable week and a bit before our transfer to El Hierro as the Calima started!
El Hierro
We landed in a very strong wind and were transferred to the hotel in Mocanal. Very little English is spoken on the island so brush up on your Spanish. The first thing to emphasise very strongly is to follow the advice tucked away in the instructions to check on the weather in advance of your plans. Use the aemet.es site as recommended as this provides hourly forecasts and warnings. We had a yellow warning on our first day of walking and an orange on the second, due to the calima and rain forecast. We decided, sensibly, not to do the first two walks, one from Valverde and back to Mocanal and the other the transfer walk from Mocanal to Frontera. We were able to cancel one of the taxis and to transfer with the luggage as the owner could let us have the apartment earlier than would usually be possible. We were, however, able to fit in two shorter walks as the weather improved. The apartment at Fontera was so well stocked we decided to get a few more bits and pieces and ate in for a couple of nights. We enjoyed both walks around Frontera and the Eco-museum at Guinea is fascinating. The walk from Frontera to Sabinosa is a bit of a heave up but well worth it for the views. The descent, while not narrow, was interesting when we can to a point just above Sabinosa where the path has almost disappeared in a landslip. It is passable but there is 20m section where you are walking through moving scree to get back on the path - sticks a must! [Inntravel note: path since stabilised by the local authorities.] The hotel at Pozo de la Salud was a delight although the restaurant lacks atmosphere - food good though. We opted not to do the six and a half hour walk the next day and opted to do the more gentle Malpais circuit. This was one of our favourite walks along the coast, taking in all the shapes that have been made in the lava by the sea and watching the waves crashing through the arches formed by the weathering. The final walk, starting at 1300m at the Mirador de la Llania was fabulous. We had a very clear day so the views were magnificent. After walking alongside fields on the Camino de la Virgen, almost like being in north Wales, you turn off for an attractive descent down to Timirijaque. We arrived at 2.30 pm and called the taxi to pick us up earlier. It was lovely ending the trip in the Parador, but strange to be surrounded by people speaking English again. Beware! If you order a gin and tonic here it is extremely strong - literally four or five measures. Too much for me.
All in all a fascinating holiday taking in three islands. El Hierro is an undiscovered gem and one for hikers. The paths here are very well marked and it was a breath of fresh air to have to make the effort to converse in Spanish.
El Hierro is certainly a pleasant break for a winter walk, with warm temperatures, some good routes and plenty of sunshine. Although the island is less geared to travellers than the main Canaries destinations, the compensation is the quietness of the settlements and the walks, with only a few travellers around and no large scale tourist installations. Not the most luxurious outing, but an ideal getaway to escape the xmas madness.
Basically variety of walks and taking in most of the island were excellent.
All good. Recommend gloves to be taken, and stress high winds on the western side, and perhaps also that there are 3 steep descents of about 3000feet (which are OK but would put off those with poor head for heights), and another less steep of over 3000feet.
This holiday provides an amazing number of different types of walking terrain. Being an island with a central spine of mountains/volcanoes, the views are always different at every turn and often breath-taking due to the ascents; volcanic rock, coastal pools, different woodlands and forest. Literally walking through and above the clouds on a couple of occassions was exhilarating. The climate is changeable which adds additional challenge and a wide variety of experiences. The history of the island picked up along the caminos used is interesting. Start each day early to not only avoid the heat but also to allow for many photographic stops! The start to our holiday was interestingly interrupted by a sandstorm from the Sahara so flights from Tenerife to El Hierro were cancelled. Inntravel's team quickly rearranged the route to the island via a ferry and kept us well-informed of options throughout.
Highlights were the deserted pathways, over beautiful terrain and the crashing sea on the north shore
Very challenging walks, especially the long descents but a wonderful holiday in a relatively unspoilt island with few tourists. One can walk for miles without meeting anyone else.
El Hierro is a simply excellent destination. It is so peaceful, and the landscape and walking was a varied delight. The volcanic rock and the accompanying views are brilliant - and then parts of the island are like walking in the Pennines/Dales. The people are really friendly (as an example we were presented with five oranges by a villager returning from his orange trees near Valverde) and we were made to feel welcome throughout. This is off the beaten track - and all the better for it. It does however mean that English speakers are few and far between. Bring your Spanish phrase book!
Thanks for a great, well organised holiday to Tenerife and El Hierro which we enjoyed enormously. I’d like to provide a few items of feedback that I hope will be useful and enable you to improve the notes for the trip.
Our first Christmas abroad and loved El Hierro, the walks, hotels and food. The Christmas meal at the Parador was fabulous food, service and wine, after a day climbing Malpaso! Fantastic sea view room. The sight and sound of the waves on the rocks from the Balneario hotel were awesome too. A real walking retreat.
Personal highlights - the scenery at Mount Teide, The scenery on the 1st 2 big walks in El Hierro; Feeling clean, well fed and catered for in both Paradors.
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers booked a short stay at the Parador on Tenerife prior to the El Hierro walking week.