Abama Beach

Fantastic experience: The only problem is the parking. If you don't arrive early, you won't find any.

Fantastic experience: The beach itself is great. Parking is only possible at the top. It’s a few hundred meters down. I'm not sure, but I think there's a small tram that goes down sometimes.

Fantastic experience: One of the most beautiful beaches in Tenerife

Positive experience: Very beautiful beach, too bad about the little cleanliness of the steps you take to reach it. It is advisable to arrive early because it is difficult to find parking, being a semi-private beach for those who obviously are not part of the hotel. It is advisable to bring a sunshade given the little shade, maybe for those with children or who enjoy the sun a little at a time. The bar near the beach has a bit of everything but with outrageous prices.

Negative experience: Beach only for hotel guests...

Fantastic experience: Quite private via the Abama complex.

Positive experience: The beach itself is beautiful, with golden sand imported from the Sahara and a peaceful cove setting sheltered from the wind. It’s a popular spot where you might even spot a celebrity! However, the experience is marred by several issues. Parking is a nightmare—the lot is tiny, and competition for spaces is intense. From the parking lot, you have to tackle a long walk and dangerous stairs, which are broken, slippery, and littered with trash like cigarette butts and tissues. The Ritz-Carlton elevator to the beach hasn’t worked for years, leaving non-hotel guests no choice but to navigate the hazardous stairs. It’s disappointing that such a luxury destination doesn’t maintain its facilities better. Regular cleaning and basic repairs to the stairs would make a huge difference. For a place associated with a world-renowned luxury hotel brand, more effort is expected.

Fantastic experience: It's worth the distance to travel

Fantastic experience: The utmost of natural beauty

Fantastic experience: Nice beach with white sand. Parking is 1 km away and full during the day. If you come by car, you need to come very early. Beach is very good for small children, but arriving to the beach with small children is a challenge due to insufficient parking.

Fantastic experience: I should give one star because they stole the symbol of the rented car, which was a DR. The beach is beautiful but I advise anyone reading this review to arrive very early in the morning because there is little parking and then it gets messy to put down the car. There is a descent that can be done by car but you cannot park below. If you have heavy things or small children, you go down, unload, and then go back up to park.

Fantastic experience: It is a very well-maintained beach. If you arrive early, you find a good spot on the beach and the parking is at the top, by the hotel entrance, just before going down on foot. It is not recommended for people with reduced mobility because you have to go down stairs and the climb is tough.

Fantastic experience: Nice beach but unfortunately the access of 250 steps is difficult. No possibility to park the car near the beach.

Fantastic experience: Quiet and super clean beach!

Positive experience: The beach is very beautiful, not well-equipped if you go as a regular tourist and not a hotel guest: the cable car and beach umbrellas are for their exclusive use and you cannot use them for a fee. To get there, you have to go down a staircase along the promontory or by car, but only for dropping off passengers. There are toilets, showers, and a bar. Be careful with parking because it is really hard to find, many cars park on the edges of the surrounding streets. I recommend going early in the morning. Definitely worth a visit.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful place, incredible views!

Fantastic experience: Best beach in Tenerife.

Positive experience: Really very beautiful bathing beach. Probably the most beautiful and cleanest beach in Tenerife. Unfortunately, there are not enough parking spaces, so you have to arrive very early. The beach itself is small and therefore well visited. There is a bar and a restaurant on the beach (about €50 per person). Service, drinks, and food are very good, which is also reflected in the price. You can rent sunshades and sunbeds (4 people €90). The beach is public, but belongs to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, whose guests are preferred here. Once you have found a parking space, you still have to walk about 15 minutes and descend the cliffs. There are stairs, but the descent and ascent is still strenuous. There is an elevator for hotel guests...

Fantastic experience: White sand beach, very exclusive, sea with strong currents, large parking lot 1 km away, all downhill, 200-step staircase to get down to the beach.

Positive experience: The beach is beautiful and wonderful, but it is almost impossible to park and if you manage to do so, you have to walk a long way to get there.

Negative experience: No parking rude to visitor, Spain make this beach public and they act like it's private. I recommend to visit and take as much place on the beach as possible. Take what is yours nature cannot be privatized.

Fantastic experience: One of the very few blond sandy beaches, very clean water and sand. Access is easy if you accept to walk for 15 minutes through the Ritz Carlton hotel, descent 220+ steps. It is worth the effort.

Positive experience: Beautiful beach but services for the rich

Fantastic experience: Nice small beach with a few steps, possibility to do some jumps.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful sandy beach, the only really crazy thing is the way to get there. There is public parking by the hotel. From here it's about a 15-minute walk down, just before there are stairs, steep ones.

Positive experience: Very beautiful beach but difficult to access. There is hardly any parking and then it's a long walk to the beach.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful cove, although very crowded.

Positive experience: The beach itself, sand and water, is beautiful and very nice; but it is too small for all the people who go there, in the end, there is a lot of noise, many children, a lot of music, and a lot of revelry, and on the weekend if you rent the loungers it costs you 20 € each, a lot of money. We will not return.

Positive experience: Great beach, you have to be careful of a few stones that you could hurt yourself on in the water. I don't know how much the sunbeds cost, but when the guy at the bar asked me for €50, I felt a bit scammed ^^ you can also find a nice spot without a sunbed.

Fantastic experience: A place of the heart, absolutely the most magical moment of the entire stay in Tenerife. A private beach (but free) discovered a bit by chance, returning home after a long day at the sea. The parking is outside the private resort, so it is necessarily a 20-minute walk to reach the beach. It was almost evening and I intended to park inside, which was absolutely forbidden, and this triggered a big argument with my girlfriend. But once I got there, everything stopped: I RECOMMEND ARRIVING AROUND SUNSET TIME, maybe take a nice swim without any tourists nearby and enjoy this place that seemed out of this world.

Fantastic experience: I went on a Sunday and it was extremely crowded, horrible; by mid-afternoon the water was super dirty.

Positive experience: Beach with difficult parking and access. You have to go down a slope and several stairs to get there. Most of the beach is taken up by paid sunbeds. Quite dirty, both the sand and the sea. The people who visit it are young, filling the beach with cigarette butts and not respecting others, playing music very loudly and throwing balls from one side to another. There are much prettier beaches in Tenerife with better access. I wouldn't come back.

Fantastic experience: Very good place

Positive experience: The beach is undoubtedly spectacular, but it seems that the hotel charges you to use its facilities. How is it possible that sun loungers cost €50 and a cocktail costs €17? If they included the transfer, at least it would balance it out. You have to be prepared with everything to enjoy it, and there's not much parking space.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach. In my opinion, this is number one in Tenerife. A unique place that I happily returned to during my stay in Tenerife.

Fantastic experience: One of the most beautiful beaches in Tenerife. Absolutely worth seeing. I recommend bringing food from home, although there is a very good gourmet restaurant down on the beach, it depends on your needs. The parking is located above the Abama hotel and you have to walk down to the beach. Absolutely worth seeing.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach! Although perhaps a bit difficult to reach, especially for elderly people.. you have to climb many steep steps.. unless you stay at the hotel, which offers guests shuttles that go straight to the beach.

Fantastic experience: Hidden and semi-private beach, but it is accessible to everyone by parking far away and walking for 10 minutes along the Abama resort and then a descent of another 10 minutes or so. It has a nice view, fine sand, clean and calm water (usual breakwater in front) but you have to go early or else it fills up and there are no parking spots. Next to it, there is a small natural pool and rocks for diving, continuing the walk there is another cove with nice spots for photos and to admire the typical large red crabs.

Positive experience: Parking impossible below, you have to park up and go down the large stairs or towards the road. 15 minutes walk. Superb beach.

Fantastic experience: The difficult part is parking the car

Fantastic experience: A spectacular place!

Positive experience: Beautiful beach, but it's very difficult to find parking.

Fantastic experience: Fine sand beach but you can't park down there, the tow truck comes.

Fantastic experience: One of my favorites in the South of the Island

Fantastic experience: Very beautiful beach. I recommend driving down to leave towels, umbrella, and other heavy things, then going back up to park and walking down without being loaded. The parking at the top is free, and you can walk to the beach in 10 minutes via the stairs. The beach bar, restaurant, and sunbeds are very expensive. 2 sunbeds and an umbrella cost €50. I find that insulting.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach, for me one of the best in Tenerife. It may be a bit difficult to park, and even to access the beach if you are not a hotel guest, you would have to go down many stairs anyway to come back, as the elevator is only for those who are staying. It is worth visiting and you can eat at the hotel (you need to reserve) you can also enjoy delicious and refreshing drinks and food in the beach area.

Fantastic experience: Luxurious beach without vendors. Beds are expensive, but you are perfectly taken care of. Lifeguards are constantly alert, which is nice with children. The current in the water is very strong, so be careful in that regard!

Positive experience: Nice beach, a bit difficult to reach because you can't park there. We were dropped off by a shuttle bus from the hotel. Quiet spot with beach loungers (not free) and a small restaurant where you can order food. You get towels if you rent a lounger, which is ideal. There are also taps/outdoor showers to rinse off.

Fantastic experience: Nice, slightly small beach. Since stones fall from the rock above the beach, part of the beach is fenced off and you can't lie there. Lifeguard. Toilets. Restaurant. Elevator for hotel guests. The staircase to the beach is very well built, it's pleasant to walk up it. Parking is complicated, we parked on the road because the parking lot in front of the hotel was full.

Fantastic experience: One of the beautiful beaches in Tenerife. Right next to it, there's a natural pool and a spot with a ladder as well as a cliff to jump into the water.

Positive experience: Beautiful beach with golden sand, the café works until 16:45, the funicular is only for those staying at the hotel, to get to the beach you have to go down steep stairs and back up as well. Behind the beach is incredibly beautiful, cliffs and clear water… it’s worth seeing, we walked from the parking lot for about 20 minutes ❤️ 4⭐️ because it’s difficult to walk long with kids, but along the way there are beautiful banana plantations and hotel ❤️

Positive experience: A small beach between the mountains. Too bad there were some algae in the water. To get there you have to walk a bit and there is a nice staircase. The beach is equipped with a lido and a small bar.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach with soft sand and crystal clear water. Unfortunately, you can only park up top, and it's worth going early because the parking lot fills up quickly. From there, it's about a 10-minute walk to the beach, but the path is also very nice next to the hotel here. We didn't try the sunbeds and the bar since everyone here said they are very expensive.

Positive experience: I went and enjoyed the beach and the food at the hotel, everything was good.

Fantastic experience: The best beach in Tenerife, I visited all the beaches

Fantastic experience: Small beach, good waves and good sand to play for kids, small parking on top, not much for snorkle, lifeguards, can jump from cliffs 2-3 m high, by foot takes few min on stairs. Very lovely

Positive experience: It's difficult to get to the hotel, but the sunset on the beach is beautiful

Positive experience: Super bright beach, but can only be reached via a very long stone staircase. Also, finding parking in advance is difficult.

Fantastic experience: The most beautiful beach in South Tenerife in my opinion, however, you have to walk 2km to get down via stairs or road, the beautiful view is earned (for the eternal dissatisfied) :)…

Positive experience: Crowded. You have to walk about 1.5 km to the beach, first down, and then very steeply down the stairs. The return is obviously the opposite. It’s hard to find a parking spot. The beach is a cove, with sand brought in from the Sahara. I won't be going back there.

Negative experience: THERE IS NO PARKING. IT'S A PRIVATE BEACH. There is no way to access it other than walking 25 minutes uphill to the beach (imagine the climb back). Basically, they have blocked parking on the hill so that only hotel guests with their own transport or with an elevator can access it. An absolute shame that public land is privatized like this. Turn around and go elsewhere. ------- If you are not German and a millionaire, forget about this cove. Impossible.

Positive experience: really beautiful beach and protected from the wind, recommended to stay until sunset for some amazing photos

Positive experience: The beach of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel promises an exclusive experience, but access requires some planning. After a short 10-minute walk, past a road exclusively reserved for hotel guests that offers a shuttle bus and a lift, you reach the breathtaking beach area. For €20 per sunbed, you can relax on comfortable loungers while being pampered by first-class service. Additional costs for sun umbrellas can be expected, but the luxury and comfort are worth it. A towel is also provided to guests at the sunbed. Along the beach, there is a high-quality restaurant and bar that indulge you with refreshing drinks and delicious food. The service at the sunbed completes the exclusive experience. While this beach paradise is undoubtedly a dream for hotel guests, the costs for other visitors may be off-putting. However, for those who want to indulge in luxury, the Ritz-Carlton beach is an unforgettable experience.

Fantastic experience: The parking situation up top is unfortunately a disaster. I had to park on the highway after searching for 15 minutes. Down on the highway, there is a banana plantation on the right side (which you can also visit). Behind that, take the road on the right and then park to the left by the wall. The walk to the beach is about 20 minutes on foot. Once there, you still have to go down the stairs, but you will be rewarded for the effort. Great beach in a small cove. The water is calm due to the breakwater, and you can even swim lanes from left to right. There is also a beach bar. And with all the black beaches, it's nice to see a 'normal' sandy beach again. The sunbeds and the second bar, as well as the gondola down to the beach, are reserved for guests of the Ritz-Carlton. However, the few steps don’t hurt anyone's fitness.

Fantastic experience: Wonderful beach. One of the very few sandy beaches in Tenerife. Clear water. The only comment and warning... due to the fact that the beach is located in a canyon between the rocks, there is no wind flow and it is very hot. From the parking lot, which is quite hard to find a spot in, it is 900 meters to the beach. The beach is by the Ritz-Carlton hotel.

Negative experience: I have no idea why this beach is rated so high. It's nothing special, and it was as full of people as the other beaches nearby, if not more. It's not necessarily more beautiful nor clean, and it's far away from everything; difficult to access and tucked at the very end of a private road owned by a high-end hotel complex, under 30 flights of stairs. There is a lift, but it can only be used by hotel guests (if it's not broken, which is quite frequent). I would understand going through the ordeal to get there and difficult logistics if it were an amazing place to be, but it seriously falls short of that.

Positive experience: One of the best beaches on the island. Although it belongs to a hotel, you can access it for free. You have to park about 15 minutes from the beach and then go down some stairs, but it's worth it. The beach has blonde sand and clear waters. Be careful with the waves; even though it seems calm, there is a current.

Positive experience: Artificial beach with light sand, difficult access as parking is only allowed right at the entrance of the hotel at the very top, and with a little train and funicular reserved for the guests of the Abama Ritz. The walk to the shore is lined with the hotel's beautiful gardens. It ends with about 200 steps or a winding road where it's impossible to park as you would block the hotel's little train... clear waters, sunbeds at a high cost, and a beach bar.

Positive experience: Beautiful sandy beach, but access is a bit complicated. There are no parking spaces for cars below, so you have to park openly and walk all the way down. Unfortunately, I have to reduce my rating from 5 to 3 stars. It's actually a very nice beach, but it feels more like a private beach for guests of the Ritz Carlton Hotel. If you haven't booked accommodation here, you feel out of place at the beach. As mentioned, access to the beach is difficult. However, guests of the Ritz Carlton have a train that goes up and down regularly to pick them up, but you are not allowed to use it. The cable car is also only for guests. Even if you would pay for it, it cannot be used. This means you have to bring your family down in your private car, go back up, and walk to the beach. It's the same when you leave; it feels quite exhausting :)

Negative experience: Dear people, be careful. We drove to the beach today by car and the hotel had our car towed while we were at the beach. For the €180, you’d better go eat somewhere else delicious.

Fantastic experience: The beach itself is very beautiful, but practically private for the Abama hotel. If you are driving, you have to park just before the hotel because there are no more parking spaces further along and there are stop signs. So unfortunately, if you want to get here, you have to walk about 1.5 km down to the beach.

Fantastic experience: This is a private beach, but other tourists can access it too. The beach is very clean and thanks to the groynes in the water, you can easily swim. Parking spaces are limited and if you’re not staying at the hotel, you have to walk 15-20 minutes, but it’s worth it, the scenery is superb.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach, and not as small as various reviews say. You need to park up where the Abama hotel is (a fully red hotel) and take a long walk, but we were lucky to find a gentleman who accompanied us down and came back to pick us up to go back up. However, even if that were not the case, it is worth the walk because the water is beautiful and the beach is very clean. In any case, you can drive all the way down (there is space where the hotel shuttles turn around) and perhaps drop off people and/or your things, then one person can go back to park the car and walk back down. I recommend not to arrive too late, otherwise it’s normal not to find a parking spot... just like at all beaches in the world.

Negative experience: It's a beautiful beach... it's a shame that it is 'de facto' privatized. To begin with, there are no parking spaces nearby, not even for small motorcycles; and this despite having more than enough space to set one up. On the other hand, from my personal experience today, around 12 noon, while I was walking down the ramp (the only pedestrian access from where you park), a man with a gray van (an employee of Hotel Abama), despite seeing me perfectly walking on one side of the road, accelerated at an excessive speed and honked at me (in a way that made it seem like I had crossed in front of him on the highway), to which I indicated that he should calm down, 'can't you see there are no sidewalks?' and without hesitation he replied, 'if you want I can make you one'... It's a pity that we give such an external image to visitors; especially with uniformed staff from a hotel, and on a predominantly public beach; and this, despite some forgetting...

Negative experience: Complicated access and inadequate parking. Two hundred stairs to go down and an exclusive elevator from the five-star hotel on site to get to the beach. Lack of accessibility for people with reduced mobility. Scarce public parking. Improvements needed for a positive experience.

Positive experience: Great view and white sand but small and crowded

Negative experience: The beach is beautiful. The problem: it seems destined for exclusive use by the 5-star hotel. The public parking is very small, and while hotel guests can use the elevator, others have to go down and up about 170 steps... that private elevator, in my opinion, goes against coastal law. It should be public. Down on the beach, the best spot is also occupied by the hotel's sunbeds.

Fantastic experience: Great beach. Just that. A bit of a long way down from the parking spots, but besides that definitely worth the walk.

Fantastic experience: We loved spending the day at Abama beach with a 5 year old. It is a 10-minute walk from parking outside of the hotel (there is not much) then you need to take several flights of stairs down from there. Totally doable for us and a little one, with a couple breaks on the way back up. The beach chairs and umbrellas can be paid for if you’re not a guest, but when we arrived they must have been busy because they did not allow us to until after peak time 3/4pm. Either way the water was clear and refreshing. No water shoes needed since the sand is soft. We grabbed some lunch to eat at our towel from the restaurant where the options were limited and pricey (expected for a Ritz Carlton) but the food was good. I would definitely return if we come back to Tenerife, and maybe even consider staying at the resort to make use of the train and cable car to the beach.

Fantastic experience: One of the most beautiful beaches in Tenerife, but it is enjoying increasing popularity, which is why it is often quite full and parking is a problem

Fantastic experience: beautiful beach. parking at the ritz hotel and a 1 km walk via the road or with some steps. a paradise.

Fantastic experience: One of the more comfortable and beautiful beaches we visited. Note, do not drive all the way to the beach because parking is not allowed there; you should leave your car before the hotel and walk down the stairs to the bottom. The bar is expensive, and the sun loungers are pricey, discouraging the common folk from using the amenities for hotel guests.

Positive experience: Rather small beach, nice with white sand. Unique because it is almost privatized by a hotel that you walk along / cross (it's worth seeing the hotel) to access the beach. Then a descent of 250 steps to get there, while hotel residents go down in a funicular, crazy!! Difficult to park.

Fantastic experience: One of my favorites in the southern area, exclusive. Parking is problematic, leave the car before entering the hotel.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful, well-equipped... the 'beautiful' beach of Tenerife.. perhaps too much, do not approach the Bar if you do not stay at the mega resort… prices for millionaires. Private funicular only for resort guests.. but a couple of stairs are worth it from there. I believe it is one of the most sheltered and with the warmest water… I swam on December 30, 2023.

Fantastic experience: Surely one of the most beautiful beaches in Tenerife. To get there, you have to walk 2km and go down a steep staircase. Arrive early to find a parking spot; otherwise, it's possible to park the car along a banana cultivation cooperative, counting on a 20-minute walk to the beach. On-site, fine sand and crystal clear water. A beach restaurant owned by the 5-star hotel with exorbitant prices. Not many people on the beach, a more exclusive place, so quieter.

Fantastic experience: Very nice beach located next to a large hotel. The beach is sandy, there are plenty of places to spread out a blanket or rent sun loungers. There is a bar and a toilet here. The entry into the water is very gentle and it is quite shallow. You have to leave your car outside the hotel area and walk (at the end of the hotel road, there are stairs).

Fantastic experience: Must visit! One of the best places I have ever visited. The downside is that there is no parking for cars. 20 minutes walk to the beach. I also didn't like the service at the bar: expensive and poor service. But the place itself is just magical!

Fantastic experience: My favorite beach in Tenerife. Wind protected from 3 sides with wave breaker. Toilets on the beach. Free parking with few minutes walking distance. Nice views. To go down you need to use stairs, elevator is for hotel guests only (next to the beach is Ritz Carlton hotel)

Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach, not too crowded and with fine sand. The descent is a bit of a hassle if you're carrying things, but it's worth it.

Positive experience: The beach is perfect but it is very difficult to access by car.

Positive experience: Nice beach, nice eating, location a little difficult to reach, but I do recommend

Fantastic experience: Really nice place to visit. Clean water and amazing view.

Positive experience: The service at the Ritz for loungers and attention is very good. And the restaurant as well. The beach is well maintained, but it's too small for my taste.

Fantastic experience: You have to leave the car up in the parking lot in front of the hotel parking lot. Then you can't park down there!!! The beach is spectacular: fine sand and crystal clear waters. There is a beach club at the hotel that we haven't tried, but the landscape and the beach are spectacular. A 20-minute walk, quite easy, to the beach.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful beach, sheltered from the wind. Reachable on foot. It's better if you arrive organized for lunch. The onsite restaurant is not at a good price.

Positive experience: Beautiful... unfortunately, it's not an easy way to get there, as the Ritz-Carlton has taken over the beach and parking is highly contested plus it's quite a walk. Food on site is unfortunately only available through the beach bar. The price-performance ratio here is zero. A Baraquito for 13,-... but there are toilets available and it is really a great sandy beach with a view of Gomera. Perfect for a sundowner.

Negative experience: Beautiful beach, no doubt about it. But small and unreachable unless you're a guest of the mega resort a bit higher up that even offers a train service to get there. Public parking is very far away, and the beach can be reached on foot with a long descent that will then be a nice challenging climb on the way back. Crystal clear water, one of the few spots in Tenerife where it's so clear but practically privatized by the resort. What a shame.

Positive experience: Very beautiful beach with orange sand. There are showers, toilets, a cafe, and you can rent sunbeds with umbrellas (20€ per person). The downsides: it's not so easy to get there, difficulties with parking, a cafe with bad reviews, and besides the expensive umbrellas, there's no shade.

Negative experience: Surely a beautiful beach with golden pink sand but very small and practically 'privatized' in a way I don't know how legal by the enormous hotel built right on the beach. Accessible only on foot via a really steep road with very distant and truly rare free parking spots.