Stayed at Riu Palace for New Year. This was our fifth stay at the hotel and the standard was as good as every. Staff as as always were very attentive and couldnt do enough for you. Hotel very clean and welcoming. Food very good and varied choice.
New Year celebrations were excellent.
Lovely promendade at front of hotel with lovely stylish bars to stop and have a drink.
Met two friends Steve and Linda who hired a motorbike and went up into the mountains which they recommended highly as a day out and a way to see the island.
Overall an excellent holiday.

Anne and Graham

stayed for just 1 night on 24th december before we moved to our apartment in las americas.
Hotel beautiful inside and out, room was spacious and very clean and well presented. Had ground floor room with terrace. no complaints with room standard.
Where half board, never made breakfast. Evening meal was buffet style which was average at best, however they offered us an a la carte meal on top of the buffet (not sure if this is offered every night or x amount per stay) but my partner chose beef fillet which was cooked to perfection we couldnt complain.
Location was great, nice if you like walking and having a look about.
To be fair we paid £17 for 1 night half board (an error on thomsons web page should have been about £230 for 1 night!!) so i cant complain at all - if i'd paid £230 for the night i wouldnt have been happy about the buffet style food quality.
if you can get a good deal i'd defo recommend this hotel

We stayed here for 6 nights and was allocated a room on the 4th floor with a sea view.The room was fine except for the terrible bed, it was the most uncomfortable I have ever slept in and that includes camping! We had the sun on our balcony in the afternoon, which was nice as we could sit out and watch the sunset, usually around 6pm at this time of year.I must mention the chamber maid as she was excellent. Everywhere was spotless and little touches like the towel sculptures in the bathroom, were really nice.
I cannot fault the food at all, we found it was good quality and a nice variety, although if you were staying longer than a week I can imagine that it gets a bit repetitive.We took the option to eat at the pool bar one evening, which was Spanish themed, set menu and waiter service.It was excellent and made a nice alternative to the queues at the buffet.It was also very quiet as not many people seem to take up the option( more fool them)For breakfast you can sit outside on the terrace but be warned you have to get in first thing as the people who sit out there do not move for a least two hours!
The same can be said for the sunbeds, as the previous reviewer pointed out, you need to get up early to get a bed.It's a shame that the hotel who has a policy of no reserving sunbeds with towels, doesn't have the strength of it's convictions to enforce it. The same towels are left on beds all day with no one on them, annoying.
There is entertainment every evening, which is the usual Euro stuff, not our thing so we gave it a miss. Instead we headed out along the resort where there are some nice quiet little bars to have a drink. As you get closer to Las Americas the busier and louder it gets.This is where you need to be ,if you want full on night life, not for us.
Overall this is a nice 4 * hotel, good seafront location, nice landscaped gardens, good food and nice staff.

My wife and I have just returned from a ten-night stay at the Riu Palace Tenerife (Aug 2007). Booking was through Thomson in the UK. We stayed two years ago at the Riu Palace Maspalomas in Grand Canaria and really enjoyed the hotel, but we were looking for somewhere that had better options for walking in the evening (which was a bit lacking at Maspalomas). My parents have stayed at both hotels and recommended Tenerife due to its beach promenade, which runs along the coast of Costa De Adeje (Playa Des Americas).

The hotel layout is upside down. The reception is on floor six and the pool and grounds are accessed via floor one. This provides a very nice patio area on floor six, with views overlooking the grounds and coast where you can have breakfast or sit in the evening and have a drink.

The standard of the hotel was very good. Food: you have the option of eating in either the main or poolside restaurant in the evening. Breakfast is in the main restaurant. Breakfast is the usual options of cold meat, cheeses and then the usual hot foods. Omelettes are made to order and the standard of food and presentation is very good overall. A nice touch at the Riu Palace is the complementary sparkling wine that is available at breakfast. In the evening, you have two options in the main restaurant, the buffet or set menu that is waiter served. The poolside restaurant has three rotating set menus dependant upon day. We had no issues with the food at all. The buffet selection was very good and pretty much catered for those who like chips with everything to more traditional local dishes.

The pool area is very nice with two reasonable size pools and a children’s splash one. There is one largish bar and the poolside restaurant. There is also a small bar near to the promenade walk with clear views out to sea (our favourite). The main area around the pools and restaurants are paved but there is also a sandy area with sun loungers that is adjacent to the poolside restaurant. One thing to point out is that hotel policy is that sun loungers are not supposed to be reserved before 08:00, but the more popular areas around the pool get reserved very promptly after 0800 hrs. Coming down after breakfast (0800 until 1030 hrs) meant you had a limited selection when we stayed in August. Arriving at 1400 hrs on the first day, we were amazed that not one bed was available on the paved area around the pools. It was not a problem for us as early risers, but worth noting if you like to lie in.

This is one of the few complaints we had, the evening entertainment. It consisted of the same band playing virtually the same songs every night, except on two evenings (Friday and Sunday) when we had shows lasting an hour. If you like to be entertained in the evening, then you may be a bit disappointed.

The location we thought was excellent. The hotel grounds end at the promenade walk that effectively starts at the Sheraton and H10 Hotels that are next door to the Riu and runs along the beach line for miles to Los Cristianos. We would say the Riu had the best-unobstructed views of the sea (so long as you get the popular sun beds) than any of the other hotels, we looked at (H10, Sheraton, Bahia and Anthelia). Around the corner is also a small shop if you want a morning stroll for the newspaper or water (out the front entrance and second road on you right; about 3 min walk). Walking up to the Anthelia Hotel was very pleasant (15-20 minutes). There is also a new shopping centre adjacent to the Anthelia with designer shops and jewellers. Further past the Anthelia (heading towards Los Cristianos), it becomes very apparent that you are leaving the surroundings of the predominantly four and five star hotels.

On the room front, the standard was the same as the other Palace hotel, very comfortable and tastefully decorated. We had a ground floor terrace room. The hotel is roughly horseshoe in shape and so the rooms at the side do not have particularly great views. We were in room 362 and it worked well for us though. That side of the hotel faces onto the Sheraton (looking from the sea at the hotel it will be on your left), but our terrace had a good covering of palm trees in front so we could sit on the terrace in privacy. We also got half the terrace in the shade at about 1700 hrs onwards. Other rooms did not seem to fare to well though regarding privacy. The opposite side of the hotel has a reasonably busy path next to it (leads to/from the beach/Riu Arecas which is just behind the Palace) so walking along it you can look down onto or into most of the rooms. Also worth mentioning that the front facing sea view rooms would get very little reprieve from the Sun, ones further around the easterly side got a bit of shade if that is what you prefer. I would say room selection is a little more critical at this hotel than others I have been to if you are a bit fussy about your view and privacy.

Overall, would we recommend the Riu Palace Tenerife? The answer has to be YES. Baring the entertainment and having to sort the sun beds early the stay was excellent. Good food, nice room, nice surroundings that are well kept and a very good location.