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Jet ski in Costa Adeje, Tenerife: Puerto Colón and Las Américas

Most rides on the Adeje shore leave from one marina. Here is how a jet ski in Costa Adeje, Tenerife, works from the gate to the open sea, and which tour fits you.

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The tour this guide is about Puerto Colón: Yamaha Jet Ski Tour Along Tenerife's Coast 4.7 (246 reviews) 1 hour from$81per person Check availabilityFree cancellation up to 24 hrs before

Short answer

01The marina: Puerto Colón, in Adeje, where several rides start.¹
02Booked on this page: 1 hr from gate 9, groups up to 6, from $81.
03Riding time: 20 and 25 minutes of riding around a 5-minute stop.
04Cheaper option: 1 hr with a rescue boat alongside, from $63.
05Near the shore: No riding in buoyed bathing zones.²

Puerto Colón, the marina behind the Adeje rides

If you are staying on the Adeje coast, your ride almost certainly starts at Puerto Colón. The marina lies in Adeje, with its office in the Capitanía building on Avenida de Colón.¹ Several of the island's jet ski tours meet on its pontoons, and the one this page recommends gathers at gate 9. Arrive with time to spare, because the pontoons are long and the gates look much alike.

Right beside the marina is La Pinta, a beach where the water stays calm thanks to the breakwaters.³ It is 180 m long and 40 m wide, small enough that you can walk it before your ride.⁴ Turismo de Tenerife lists water bike outings, scuba diving and parascending among the activities there.⁵ It makes an easy place to wait for a friend who is riding the later slot, and its calm water behind the breakwaters is a pleasant place for the non-riders of the group to swim meanwhile.

Getting a jet ski from Puerto Colón out to open water follows strict rules. Inside channels and marinas the speed limit is 3 knots.⁶ Several tours take you out by speedboat first and hand over the machines away from the harbor traffic. Once you are clear, the guide sets the pace and the formation for the rest of the hour.

The hour, minute by minute

The coast tour from Puerto Colón, leg by leg

5 minutes

Safety briefing

On the pontoon, before anyone starts an engine.
5 minutes

Speedboat out

A boat takes you to the jet skis away from the harbor.
20 minutes

Along Costa Adeje

The first riding leg behind your guide.
5 minutes

Photos and a swim

A short stop to cool off and catch your breath.
25 minutes

The second leg

More riding, then the speedboat brings you back.

How the hour is split on the gate 9 tour

The tour booked on this page lasts 1 hour and keeps groups to 6 riders. It opens with a 5-minute safety briefing, then a 5-minute speedboat ride out to the jet skis. Guides speak English, French, Italian and Spanish, which helps when you want to ask a question before you set off. It starts from $81 and averages 4.65 from 246 reviews.

On the water you ride along the Costa Adeje shore for 20 minutes, stop for 5 minutes for photos and a swim, then ride another 25 minutes before the speedboat brings you back in 5 minutes. That swim stop is the moment to stretch your hands, which tire faster than you expect on choppy water. Hold the bars loosely and let your knees take the bumps. Sit slightly forward, look where you want to go rather than at the water just ahead, and use small, smooth movements of the throttle; the machine reacts quickly, and a jerky hand is what throws riders off balance.

The briefing matters even on a short tour. Spanish rules require it before anyone uses the machines, given by one of the instructors, on handling and the basic rules of navigation.⁷ Listen for the hand signals your guide will use, because the engines are loud and you will not hear much once the group is moving. If something is unclear, ask on the pontoon, not at sea.

Beaches you ride past

The Adeje shore from the water

Beach	Length	Flag	Good to know
La Pinta	180 m	-	Calm behind breakwaters
Fañabé	600 m	-	Long promenade
El Duque	390 m	Blue Flag	Linked to other beaches
Troya I & II	-	Blue Flag	Gentle waves as a rule

Lengths and flags as Turismo de Tenerife gives them; a dash means the source gives no figure.³ ⁴ ⁸ ⁹ ¹⁰

Three rides from Puerto Colón

Small group, photo package or rescue boat

Booked here

Gate 9 coast tour

Groups up to 6

Length: 1 hr
Rating: 4.65
Price: from $81

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Photo service

Tour with photos

Jetski Island sign

Length: 40 min to 1 hr
Rating: 4.71
Price: from $81

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Tenerife: Jet Ski Safari from Puerto Colón

Lower price

Office-based safari

Zodiac rescue boat

Length: 1 hr
Rating: 4.68
Price: from $63

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The gate 9 tour

Groups on that tour are limited to 6 riders.

The tour with photos

It offers a photo service as an option on the day.

The office-based safari

It lists a reception office, changing rooms and lockers.

The office-based safari

It starts from $63 for a full hour of riding.

The buoy circuit

It lasts 20 minutes around 4 buoys in a square.

The waves are calm thanks to the breakwaters and the beach's strategic location by one of the Island's main marinas: Puerto Colón, in the municipality of Adeje.

Turismo de Tenerife (webtenerife.co.uk, official tourism site)Source 3

The other rides from the same marina

A sister tour from the same gate runs 40 minutes to 1 hour and adds an optional photo service. It starts from $81 and averages 4.71 from 227 reviews. Its shared double jet ski takes up to 170 kg for driver and passenger together, so pairs should check their combined weight before booking one seat.

A third Puerto Colón operator works from its own office, with changing rooms and lockers, and wants you there 30 minutes or more before the trip. Its 1-hour safari passes beaches such as Diego Hernández and Las Vistas, pauses 3 minutes at La Caleta de Adeje, and has a rescue guide following in a Zodiac. It starts from $63 and averages 4.68 from 217 reviews.

For a short taste, a circuit next to gate 5 sends riders around 4 orange buoys laid out in a square for 20 minutes. That listing asks drivers to be 18, and passengers 6. It suits anyone who wants to feel the throttle without following a group along the coast, though it has very few reviews so far.

Map

Where the jet ski rides start and what they pass

First the south and west coast with every starting marina, then the stretch from San Miguel to Montaña Roja, the beaches of Costa Adeje, and the cliffs from Los Gigantes to Punta de Teno.

Map of south and west Tenerife with the San Miguel marina, Las Galletas, Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas, Puerto Colón, Los Gigantes, Punta de Teno and Chío — The coast

Map of the south coast with the San Miguel marina, Montaña Amarilla, Costa del Silencio, Las Galletas and Montaña Roja — San Miguel to Montaña Roja

Map of Costa Adeje with Puerto Colón, La Pinta, Fañabé and El Duque beaches, La Caleta and Playa de las Américas — Costa Adeje

Map of the west coast with the Los Gigantes marina, Puerto de Santiago and Punta de Teno — Los Gigantes

1
San Miguel marina
The safari booked here starts at this marina; you arrive 30 minutes before your time.
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2
Montaña Amarilla
A Natural Monument of 27.8 ha born of a marine eruption, on the safari route.¹¹ ¹²
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3
Costa del Silencio
Its bay is one of the named points of the safari booked here.
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4
Las Galletas
Fishing village with Marina del Sur; one safari of 1 or 2 hours leaves from here.¹³
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5
Montaña Roja
A 171 m volcano inside a Special Nature Reserve of 166 ha.¹⁴ ¹⁵
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6
Los Cristianos
Pickup point of the double ride, with a jeep transfer of 20 minutes.
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7
Playa de las Américas
One 1-hour tour from Puerto Colón runs along this stretch of coast.
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8
Puerto Colón
Marina in Adeje; several rides meet at gate 9.¹
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9
Playa La Pinta
The beach beside Puerto Colón, 180 m long and calm behind its breakwaters.³ ⁴
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10
Playa de Fañabé
A beach of 600 m in Adeje.⁸
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11
Playa El Duque
Blue Flag beach of 390 m, joined to other beaches by a promenade.⁹
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12
La Caleta
A 3-minute break on one Puerto Colón safari.
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13
Los Gigantes marina
Start of the 1-hour safari along the cliffs towards Punta de Teno.¹⁶
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14
Puerto de Santiago
The Archipengue viewpoint here gives the best land view of the cliffs.¹⁷
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15
Punta de Teno
The Los Gigantes safari heads this way; its viewpoint also shows the cliffs.¹⁷
In Google Maps ↗
16
Chío
Start of the 3-hour quad part of one jet ski and quad combo.
In Google Maps ↗

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Checklist

For a ride from Puerto Colón

On the day

Arrive early and find your gate
Swimsuit on under your clothes
Ask about hand signals on the pontoon

On the water

Hold the line your guide sets
Keep your life jacket fastened
Loose hands, soft knees on the chop

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A jet ski safari tour off Las Américas

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Riding a jet ski at Playa de las Américas

Las Américas sits just south of Puerto Colón, and the shore between them is lined with hotels and beaches. If you search for a jet ski at Playa de las Américas, you will find that the rides there start from the same marina or are collected by transfer. One 1-hour tour from Puerto Colón runs along the Las Américas coast, from $139.

Another route works the other way along the shore. A 1-hour double ride from Costa Adeje heads either to Playa San Juan or to Los Cristianos, and you reach the instructor by boat. It starts from $63. A pricier safari picks you up in Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas or Costa Adeje and rides for 1 hour, from $168.

The beaches you pass are some of the island's best known. Troya I and II are two of the longest established tourist beaches of Costa Adeje, and they hold the Blue Flag.¹⁸ ¹⁰ Fañabé stretches for 600 m, and El Duque, also a Blue Flag beach, runs for 390 m along a promenade that links it with at least 8 other beaches.⁸ ⁹

Rules close to the beaches of Adeje

This is a busy coast, and the rules keep riders well away from swimmers. Personal watercraft may not enter buoyed bathing zones at all, and use marked launch channels at the ends of beaches at no more than 3 knots.² Where a stretch of coast has no buoyed zone, riding is banned in the 200 m strip nearest the shore.¹⁹ The beach you see from the water is closer than it looks.

Every craft carries a safety plate that forbids coming closer than 50 m to another jet ski, a floating device, a ship or a boat.²⁰ Riding is allowed only in daylight, from 1 hour after sunrise to 1 hour before sunset.²¹ You will not be judging these distances alone: the guide sets the line and the spacing, and your job is to hold it.

Out at sea you are near the Teno-Rasca marine strip, a Special Area of Conservation of 69,489.68 ha that washes the coasts of Adeje and Arona, among others.²² Loggerhead and green turtles are regularly present in its waters.²³ Spanish rules set an exclusion zone of at least 60 m around any whale or dolphin, and a craft that finds one closer puts its engine in neutral.²⁴ ²⁵

Getting there and planning your morning

From most hotels in Costa Adeje or Las Américas, Puerto Colón is a short walk or taxi ride along the seafront. Plan to arrive early: one operator asks for 30 minutes before the trip, and finding the right gate takes a moment. Wear your swimsuit under your clothes and bring a towel for afterwards.

Book the slot that suits your day. A morning ride leaves the afternoon free for the beach, and the briefing is easier to follow before the sun gets strong. Keep the evening in mind too, since riding stops 1 hour before sunset.²¹ If the sea is rough, the harbour master can change riding zones or stop riding altogether for a while.²⁶

Pick the tour by what you want from the hour. The gate 9 tour gives you a small group and a swim stop; the office-based ride gives you changing rooms and a rescue boat at a lower starting price. If you would rather see cliffs than hotels, our Los Gigantes page shows the ride on the west coast instead. And if you are torn between them, remember that Puerto Colón is the easier morning: no long drive, a beach next to the gate, and lunch on the seafront afterwards.

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