Buses La Palma has rather good public transport. For example, there’s a bus from Santa Cruz (the capital) to the airport via Los Cancajos every half hour. The buses across the centre of the island between the two main town are half-hourly too, and one goes past the Princess hotel into Los Canarios every two hours. If you want to see glorious scenery, I recommend the bus around the north,…
La Palma has rather good public transport. For example, there’s a bus from Santa Cruz (the capital) to the airport via Los Cancajos every half hour. The buses across the centre of the island between the two main town are half-hourly too, and one goes past the Princess hotel into Los Canarios every two hours. If you want to see glorious scenery, I recommend the bus around the north, from…
La Palma’s new airport terminal finally opened today, and so far it’s gone really well. All flights were on time, and the passenger flow was absolutely normal. The old terminal officially closed last night, although a few businesses are still moving out. The airport code is still SPC. Just make sure you don’t wind up in Palma de Majorca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria or Santa Cruz de Tenerife by…
The taxis on La Palma have their own website in English and Spanish (with German coming shortly). It lists all their various services. Obviously you can call a normal taxi for a single trip, but they also have 8-seater taxis for bigger groups, and at least one taxi which can take a wheelchair. They have a series of standard tours, which are great if you want to see more than…
Perhaps surprisingly, flights are not necessarily the fastest way to travel between islands. Certainly they are if you want to go to Santa Cruz de Tenerife: there are 17 flights a day, and they take about 30 minutes. But if you want to go from one small island to another, say La Palma to El Hierro, then that means two flights. By the time you’ve checked in, flown to Tenerife,…
La Palma has a rather good bus service. You can get the timetable, plus links to the ferry operators and airlines on my main site at https://sheilacrosby.com/lapalmaisland/buses/transport.php