Loro Parque from the south of Tenerife: ticket only, ticket with the bus, or the Twin Ticket?

Loro Parque is in Puerto de la Cruz, on the north coast, and most visitors to Tenerife sleep in the south. So the ticket is only half the decision: the other half is how you cross the island. The park sells both halves itself.

A day ticket is €44 for anyone aged 12 or over and €32 for children aged 3 to 11; under 3s go free. The park’s own bus from the south costs €21 for an adult and €17 for a child as a return, and the park’s leaflet prices the two together at €65 and €49. The Twin Ticket adds a day at Siam Park for €78 an adult and €57 a child.

The table sets every combination side by side for two adults, and for a family of two adults and two children aged 3 to 11. The pattern is simple. The bus costs a couple €42 and a family €76; the park’s car park costs €7 a day. If you already have a hire car, driving is the cheaper day and the longer one. If you do not, the bus saves hiring one for the day, and somebody else does the motorway.

The park runs its own coach every day from the south coast resorts. Its leaflet lists 34 pick-up points in what it calls zone 1, from Callao Salvaje at 07:50 through Playa Paraíso, La Caleta, Costa Adeje and Playa de las Américas to Los Cristianos at 09:10. It reaches the park at about 10:30 and leaves again at 16:30. The shop’s one-line summary of the bus says arrival is from 10:00; the leaflet’s 10:30 is the time to plan on. On Tuesdays and Fridays a second route collects from El Médano and Golf del Sur between 08:20 and 08:40.

Several of the stops are hotels on this site. Bahía del Duque and Royal Garden Villas & Spa are both on the 08:20 line of the leaflet, as is a stop it names Royal Hideaway (Coral Suites), which we take to be the suites building beside Royal Hideaway Corales Beach in La Caleta; confirm it when you reserve. Royal River Luxury Hotel is not listed; Royal Garden Villas & Spa, in the same Golf Costa Adeje area, is the stop to ask about.

From the west coast there is a separate coach on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, from Los Gigantes, Puerto de Santiago and Playa de la Arena. It stops at Gran Meliá Palacio de Isora at 08:15 and arrives at about 10:00, half an hour earlier than the south bus. The prices printed on that leaflet ran out on 30 April 2026, so confirm the days and the price when you reserve. The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama is on neither list.

The bus cannot be bought for the same day: the shop showed it as unavailable for today and on sale from tomorrow. The leaflet also asks you to confirm your seat by phone once you have booked, so buy it at least a day ahead. If you would rather have the ticket and a coach in one booking with free cancellation, the Loro Parque ticket with hotel transfers on GetYourGuide is the same €65 and must be booked at least 10 hours ahead. Its listing does not say whose coach it is, so take your pick-up point and time from the booking and not from the park’s leaflet.

The island’s public bus company, TITSA, is the other way north without a car. Its website would not load for us on 13 November 2026, at two attempts, so we have no times or fares to give you and have left it out of the sums.

The park calls them presentations. There are four, each about 20 minutes long, and between them they run 14 times a day: sea lions four times, parrots five, dolphins three and orcas twice. The park advises arriving a few minutes before each one.

By car, or staying in Puerto de la Cruz, you can be through the gate at 09:30 and see all four before lunch: sea lions at 09:45, parrots at 10:25, dolphins at 11:00 and orcas at 11:55, finished at 12:15. That leaves the afternoon for Planet Penguin, the gorillas, the aquarium tunnel and the gardens, with no clock to watch.

By bus the order changes but nothing is lost. Arriving at about 10:30, go to the dolphins at 11:00, the orcas at 11:55 and the parrots at 12:30, have lunch, then see the sea lions at 13:45. All four are done by 14:05, with almost two and a half hours left before the coach leaves at 16:30. The four presentations a bus day cannot reach are the 09:45 sea lions, the 10:25 and 16:45 parrots and the 16:15 dolphins, which ends five minutes after the bus has gone. Each of those has another showing inside your hours.

The park’s restaurants serve from 11:00 to 16:30 and its kiosks all day. You may also bring your own food: the park’s FAQ says so, and there are picnic areas along the paths.

The Twin Ticket is one ticket for both of the group’s parks: Loro Parque in the north and Siam Park, the water park above Playa de las Américas. It costs €78 for an adult against €88 for two single tickets, the €10 saving the park itself advertises. For a child aged 3 to 11 it is €57, which is €7 less than two child tickets at €32 each, the price both parks charge. Two adults save €20 and a family of four saves €34.

You have 15 days from the first visit to use the second park. For anyone staying in the south that makes an easy pair: Siam Park is a short ride from the Costa Adeje hotels, so only the Loro Parque day needs the coach or the car. Add the park’s bus to that day and the total is €99 an adult, the price of the Twin Ticket with transfer on GetYourGuide.

The saving is modest, so let the parks decide and not the discount. If you were going to do both anyway, take it. If the water park is the only one you are sure of, buy that on its own: our Siam Park tickets guide covers its tickets, the Fast Pass and the days to go, and we have not repeated it here.

From the six hotels in our edit on the south and west coasts, the routed drive to the park entrance on Avenida Loro Parque is 60 to 66 minutes: 60 from Gran Meliá Palacio de Isora, 62 from Royal Garden Villas & Spa, 63 from Royal River Luxury Hotel and The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama, 65 from Bahía del Duque and 66 from Royal Hideaway Corales Beach. Leave at about 08:15 and you are at the gate for opening at 09:30 and in your seat for the sea lions at 09:45.

The park has its own car park at €7 a day. It cannot be reserved, which is one more reason to arrive for opening. You can leave the park and come back in the same day with a stamp from the ticket office, useful if you want lunch in Puerto de la Cruz.

The car earns its keep on the way home. The bus leaves at 16:30 whatever you are doing; with a car you can stay for the 16:45 parrots, the last presentation of the day, and walk out at closing. If you have not hired one yet, our Tenerife car hire page has the detail.

The price is the same wherever you buy. The park’s shop charged €44 and so did the Loro Parque ticket on GetYourGuide, which is the park’s own ticket and is rated 4.8 from 15,181 reviews. The park recommends buying ahead on its website but also sells at the ticket office on the day.

The difference is what happens if your plans change. The park’s FAQ is clear that it does not refund tickets, though they stay valid and can be used at any time in the future. The GetYourGuide ticket is listed with free cancellation, which matters on an island where the north can be under cloud while the south is in sun. Canary Islands residents, groups of 20 or more and visitors with a recognised disability of more than 60% have their own rates, the last sold only at the ticket office.

Two upgrades are sold on the park’s shop for those who want the day arranged. Diamond, at €127 an adult and €79 a child when read on 13 November 2026 for a visit on 17 November, adds a guided tour, reserved seats at every presentation and a set lunch at Brunelli’s Steakhouse, served from 13:00 to 15:30. All Inclusive was €132 a person for the same date, with the tour, VIP seats and unlimited food and drink at selected restaurants. The park recommends arriving before 09:45 for Diamond, so it suits a car day or a stay in Puerto de la Cruz, not the bus.

Every ticket includes the orca and dolphin presentations. Our Loro Parque page sets out that debate; nobody has to attend them, and the rest of the park fills a day without them.

The simplest way to do Loro Parque is not to cross the island at all. Two hotels in our edit are in Puerto de la Cruz, each a routed seven minute drive from the gate: Hotel Botánico & The Oriental Spa Garden, which belongs to the same group as the park, and Gran Hotel Taoro, in the park above the town.

From either you can use the park’s free train. It leaves Plaza de los Reyes Católicos every 20 minutes from 09:30 to 16:30 and runs back from the park from 10:15 to 17:30. The square is a routed 11 minute walk from Gran Hotel Taoro and 16 minutes from Hotel Botánico & The Oriental Spa Garden.

A night or two in the north also puts the Orotava valley and the old town of Puerto de la Cruz on the doorstep. Our guide to choosing between the north and south of Tenerife has the weather and the trade-offs.