Tenerife information tips and legal tricks with Titsa Bonocard.

Tenerife Information with special tips should help to understand Titsa bus transport better and how to get it often much cheaper.

I often had arguments with foreigners about it which proves that very few of them know all legal tricks. If a good local friend hadn't told me I would never have known.

How much could you save?

You will travel by Titsa from Puerto de la Cruz to South airport Reine Sofia for EU (euros) 6,20 one way with bonobus card.
It costs you like double when you pay cash. That price was given to me at information Titsa counter Puerto Cruz in May 2008. It will be about the same or slightly less from Costa Adeje, Los Christianos or Playa Las Americas to Puerto Cruz.

The interurban tariff for short distance is EU 0,95 by bonobus card. I was charged EU 0,10 the other day in June 08 for a short stretch from Puerto to la Paz within Puerto. I should have traveled for free because I continued on a interurban circuit, I thought.
But, no...

The bus driver first confused me greatly telling me I shouldn't go to El Botanico with bus line 102 which goes out of the circuit. He kept on saying I should take a line within the circuit. In that case the machine wouldn't have debited 10 Cents.

For some saving 10Cents means to save money. It can add up over time.

Little details like that are not part of Tenerife Information Titsa counter. Unless you would know to ask the right question...
Impossible...

A Google map may also be consulted.

The photo is a little blurred on purpose as I don't know if people would like to be recognized by their faces.

Living in Tenerife
most of the time one cannot run the risk that they might mind.

The most common Tenerife information service on Titsa will tell you the following:

• Titsa Bonobus is valid for bus as well as for electric trams.
• You cannot buy the card from the bus driver.
• You will get it at bus station counters, in nearby kiosks, in some
  stationary shops as well as in estancos(specialized stationary shops.
• You travel at half price with a Tajeta Bonobus (Bonobus card).
• It's transferable and valid for 1 year.
  After that it may sometimes be changed at the station office or, counter for a new one.


• Price: EU 12 or EU 30.


• To use the same card for longer distances works out cheaper
  than using more than one card.


• You will have to pay the bus driver the rest in cash when your credit on the card is too low for the whole fare.

• Once, you have received the additional cash slip which you must keep until getting off the bus you cannot use the card when changing buses, however.

The information which very few people have is:

Pensioners may apply for a reduced bus fare card
but this is only granted to retirees over 65 years of age having below minimum pension which used to be EU 250/month until March 2008.

One can apply for it in La Orotava, for example. Hence, I assume that one can apply in other towns, also.

Tenerife information on buses is, of course, not of the same detailed standard in La Orotava station but, generally sufficient.

The townhouse information desk or, Social Services of the townhouse
should be able to give the right address for where ever a person is living.
Registration for the EU card must of course be done first.

Information hot tips on Circumvalisación or, free returns on a bus within 2 hours by Bonobus card:

When you go to from point A with a specific bus number to point B within a set circle using Titsa bus transport within 2 hours you must travel back with a different bus number to get the ride for free. Unfortunately, this saving has been history for a while in 2011. You will be lucky to catch a free bus back of so called circumvalización when you drop off a child in school in the morning. That's what a lady in my road told me.

That means for example that you may travel with different bus numbers from Los Realejos to Puerto de la Cruz and from there on even to La Orotava and back again with a different route (hence different bus number) without having to pay for return. This does not work when you pay cash for your bus fares.

Click for Tenerife information on how to plan your own straight routes to the Teide and some other areas by bus.

Bus services are good for the island, except in the early morning hours and on holidays.

Update on my last 'circumvalisacion' information:

Oh my...

He said that two hours to return for the same price as mentioned above is or was going to be a thing of the past, very shortly.

Now it's only 1 and a half hour.

I am affrayed that it might be implemented already.

This is fairly new because I remember that one could save money by going back when shopping in Puerto Cruz for the same price.

Elderly pensioners who don't have a bono bus pensioner card will find the new rule for circumvalisación within 1,5 hours inconvenient and tough.

Please, go from Tenerife information on Titsa bono bus tips to guide on Tenerife transport regarding Titsa bus and trams for search on time tables and general tips on route selections.

Or return to Tenerife page here...

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