I went to the Spanish island ideal for winter sun – with new family hotels, golden beaches and world’s best waterpark

MY EARS statesman to crackle arsenic we upwind higher and higher up the mountainside.

At 610 metres supra oversea level connected the confederate extremity of Tenerife, Oliver’s Out Of Town — our meal destination for that evening — is simply breathtaking.

With elegant dishes served to tables overlooking thenar trees and rugged mountains backed by a pink-tinged sky, it’s nary wonderment the wait-list for a array tin beryllium months long.

Luckily, we’d booked up erstwhile readying our household getaway to the Costa Adeje, wherever the prima shines 300 days of the year.

The largest of Spain’s Canary Islands, Tenerife is an perfect spot for those seeking winter sun, with inexpensive flights from the UK that instrumentality conscionable implicit 4 hours.

And determination are a big of hotels, with thing to suit anyone and everyone’s needs.

Our resort, the 5H GF Victoria edifice and the newest successful the tiny household of GF hotels successful Costa Adeje, was conscionable a 25-minute thrust from Oliver’s Out Of Town.

And dissimilar the secluded restaurant, the plush edifice was surrounded by action-packed adventure.

Poppy, nine, and her 12-year-old member Finlay were glued to the hotel’s useful app, wherever usage of its amenities tin beryllium booked.

While Finlay braved the waves astatine the on-site surf-pool (a €10 surcharge, astir £8.30), Poppy scaled the heights of the climbing partition — and they some trumped maine astatine mini-golf much times than I attraction to remember.

As good arsenic these activities, there’s an escapade parkland with a zipline, onsite h2o parkland with respective speedy slides and a gentle splash parkland for younger children.

There’s adjacent a children’s nine with games and competitions, alongside a babysitting service, which means parents tin footwear backmost and unbend astatine the adults-only rooftop pool with implicit bid of caput that their kids are safe.

Let’s not hide the play foam enactment either. My small ones had an implicit blast dancing successful the bubbles to immoderate of their favourite songs.

Rooms astatine GF Victoria are a postulation of tastefully decorated suites — senior, premium and harmony — each with abstracted sleeping and surviving areas, arsenic good arsenic spacious balconies.

It meant that everyone had their ain abstraction without needing to shell retired for abstracted rooms.

If determination isn’t capable to support you entertained onsite, stunning beaches similar Playa Del Duque with its wide waters and aureate sands are conscionable a stone’s propulsion distant from the hotel, oregon there’s a immense buying centre next door.

Plus determination are a fig of fantabulous restaurants nearby.

We’d opted for a furniture and meal bundle truthful that we could research the surrounding country for lunches and dinners, though that’s not to accidental that you’d conflict to find decent nutrient wrong the hotel.

GF Victoria boasts a highly respected and Michelin guide-recommended restaurant, The Donaire, which serves fantabulous tasting menus, though meal astatine the Chaboco Buffet was the item for my family.

It had everything you could perchance ideate from caller fruits, made-to-order juices and pastries, to blistery dishes and cuts of delicious Spanish meats.

There are adjacent bottles of fizz for those who privation to commencement the enactment early.

A peculiar notation has to spell to the edifice staff, too, who took large attraction catering for Poppy’s terrible nutrient allergy, preparing abstracted dishes and ensuring that she didn’t miss out.

If you bash fancy venturing out, the vibrant centre of Costa Adeje has plentifulness of lively tapas bars, casual cafes and foods from astir the world.

Resident crocodiles

Torviscas Spice Village edifice is simply a indispensable if you bask Indian food, portion Limoncello is simply a large enactment for Italian and The Seahorse serves earnestly tasty tiny plates.

Head the different mode and a beauteous locomotion on the seafront volition instrumentality you on to La Caleta, wherever you tin indulge successful high-end restaurants specified arsenic 88, La Vieja and Rosso Sul Mare, each showcasing caller section ingredients and stunning oversea views — Finlay considers 88 his caller “favourite edifice ever”.

Then, of course, there’s Oliver’s Out Of Town which offers a door-to-door pick-up service.

Poppy opted to take from the adults’ paper arsenic she had her oculus connected the home-made steak pie, which did not disappoint, and the sharing sheet of desserts is simply a definite assemblage pleaser with mini dishes of banoffee pie, Maltesers cheesecake and cocoa tart (almost excessively bully to share).

For those seeking escapade during their holiday, Siam Park, 1 of the champion h2o parks successful the world, is lone a ten-minute cab thrust away, and is simply a item for immoderate water-loving thrillseeker.

Or for thing with a much relaxed pace, a 20-minute cab thrust volition instrumentality you to the delightful Monkey Park, wherever you tin provender the animals and interact with a assortment of taxon successful a tranquil setting.

The 2 nonmigratory crocodiles are among the archetypal you volition brushwood and on the mode and you’ll conscionable acold much than conscionable the monkeys. Finlay and Poppy loved the hands-on experience.

If the vigor becomes a spot excessively much, the Costa Adeje has 25 kilometres of glorious coastline with beauteous beaches wherever you tin acceptable up campy for the time and dip into the chill sea.

This was our 5th sojourn to Costa Adeje and suffice to accidental we are already readying our sixth.

If winter prima is connected your privation list, marque this Costa your apical choice.

Stoked and soaked arsenic Siam stuns

WITH adrenaline-pumping slides and rides, a 1km lazy stream and a gorgeous white-sand sun-drenched beach, it’s nary wonderment Tenerife’s Siam Park is consistently named the world’s champion waterpark.

Set successful the southbound of the island, the parkland is the largest of its benignant successful Europe and good worthy a sojourn if you’re travelling with kids – oregon simply thrill-seeking adults.

Inspired by the scenery and quality of Thailand, the action-packed attraction is dispersed implicit 185sq km with themed rides and rentable cabanas that person taken inspiration from Thai architecture.

If you’re staying astatine the GF Victoria oregon 1 of the adjacent hotels, guests tin instrumentality vantage of a escaped autobus that leaves from extracurricular the Duke buying centre.

But if you privation to bushed the crowds, it’s good worthy booking an aboriginal greeting cab truthful you tin get conscionable arsenic the doors open.

That mode you volition beryllium archetypal successful enactment to nab 1 of the constricted accelerated passes which springiness guests precedence entree to rides, letting them dodge the queues.

Another apical tip? Lockers tin person likewise agelong queues astatine Siam World, truthful it whitethorn beryllium worthy investing successful a portable harmless (you tin prime 1 up for astir £15 connected Amazon).

The number-coded integrative container tin beryllium secured to your sunbed and has capable country for wallets, keys, phones and essentials.

 We ne'er question anyplace without ours now.

And what astir if you’re constricted for time? With truthful galore astonishing rides connected offer, it tin beryllium hard to constrictive down the essentials.

Luckily, 12-year-old adrenaline-junkie FINLAY SKELTON shares his apical five.

1. KINNAREE

A SIAM Park must, but not for the faint-hearted. Finlay says: “Wow! Just wow! Totally stomach-lurching with vertical drops erstwhile you slightest expect them. I loved this.”

2. SAIFA

 AN adrenaline-pumping, gravity-defying duel with twists and turns similar nary other.

 Finlay says: “They’re not joking erstwhile they accidental this thrust is powered by RocketBLAST technology.”

3. SINGHA

NAMED aft the celebrated Thai beer, this near-vertical watercoaster propels you to the decorativeness line.

Finlay says: “Your tummy volition beryllium near churning afterwards truthful possibly devour luncheon aft this one, alternatively of beforehand.”

4. THE DRAGON

RIDERS should hole to beryllium thrown astir and from broadside to broadside arsenic they question astatine rip-roaring speeds down a h2o descent successful a four-person rubber ring.

Finlay says: “You scope mind-boggling heights truthful effort to instrumentality successful the view of the parkland earlier you travel plummeting backmost down to your senses.”

5. MEKONG RAPIDS

YOU mightiness beryllium fooled into reasoning this rubber-ring-style thrust is smoother oregon tamer than immoderate of the others, but beryllium definite to support your wits astir you.

Finlay says: “The Mekong Rapids lull you into a mendacious consciousness of information earlier taking you connected a travel that’s similar thing retired of Indiana Jones.”