Best hotels with a view in Tenerife

Gran Hotel Taoro opened in 1890 on a terrace in Parque Taoro, about 99 metres above the sea, and the view is why it stands there: the roofs of Puerto de la Cruz below, the Atlantic beyond, and the Orotava valley climbing behind to Teide. Which part of it you see depends on the room name. The Ocean View rooms face the Atlantic over the town, and the Double Deluxe Room Panoramic View is the one Deluxe category whose page puts the Atlantic, Teide and the valley in the same window.

All four Deluxe categories are 30 square metres, so stepping up from the Garden View pays for outlook alone. At the top of the house, the 2 Bedroom Presidential Suite sits in one of the four towers, looking over the Atlantic and the mountain. Breakfast at Atlántico is on a terrace with the same sweep of town, sea and volcano.

Royal Hideaway Corales Beach stands where Costa Adeje's building stops and the coast turns to rock, square-on to the Atlantic. Every room is a junior suite of 55 to 65 square metres, and every category except the Junior Suite with Outdoor Hot Tub faces the sea, so the ladder decides how much horizon you get rather than how much room.

The Junior Suite Sea Front Panoramic View is placed on the third and fourth floors, high enough for an unbroken horizon, with a 20 square metre south-facing terrace and loungers. Higher still, the rooftop infinity pool and the Royal Heaven Maresía bar look out towards La Gomera, and guests single out the pool at sunset. El Rincón de Juan Carlos, on the fifth floor, sits forty metres above the ocean. The hotel is adults-only, and at night what you hear from the terrace is the sea.

Hacienda del Conde is the last hotel before Tenerife runs out of road, at Buenavista del Norte, with the Teno massif behind it and a golf course laid out above the sea. Every room has a furnished terrace, and every room below the suites is 55 square metres, so an upgrade buys only what the terrace faces: garden, fairways or the open Atlantic.

The two Sea View categories look out over the wild Isla Baja coast, and the Singular Junior Suite Sea View with Panoramic Terrace is the one the hotel describes as having its most privileged views. Above it, both suites face the ocean, and the larger puts a whirlpool bath out on the terrace. The hotel is adults-only and quiet to the point of silence, which suits a view like this, and the sunsets on this coast are dramatic.