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Taxi from Playa de las Américas to El Molino Blanco without overpaying

The official interurban fare (checked in September 2026), what counts as a fair price, how to spot an Adeje taxi and what to do if you're overcharged.

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The entrance to El Molino Blanco from the street, by day: the white windmill, the sign above the wine barrels and the palm trees
The entrance on Avenida de Austria. You can see the windmill from the roundabout.

How much is a taxi from Playa de las Américas?

From the centre of Playa de las Américas to El Molino Blanco (Av. de Austria 5, San Eugenio Alto, Costa Adeje) it's about 2.5 kilometres by road. On the meter, at the official fare, the trip comes to about €5.20 by day and about €5.75 at night. If you book the taxi by phone and there's traffic on the motorway, it can go up to €7 or €8. If it's more than that and there's no traffic jam, there's no reason for it.

The prices are approximate because the meter counts the actual distance and the time spent stopped. We worked them out from the Canary Islands Government's T3 interurban tariff, which applies to any taxi that starts in Adeje or crosses from one municipality to another. We checked it in September 2026 and again on 10 November 2026: it hasn't changed since March 2023.

To give you a rough idea from other places in the south, by day and at night:

  • Costa Adeje (Siam Park, Puerto Colón): about €3.85 and €4.25.
  • Playa de las Américas: about €5.20 and €5.75.
  • Los Cristianos: about €10.60 and €12.00.
  • Adeje town: about €10.90 and €12.30.
  • Tenerife South Airport: about €30 and €34.

How the official fare works

The T3 tariff has only a few parts, and all of them are published in the Canary Islands Official Gazette (Boletín Oficial de Canarias). This is how it works:

  • Pick-up charge, which already covers the first 1,500 metres: €3.85 on working days from 6am to 10pm. Saturday counts as a working day. At night and on Sundays and public holidays: €4.25.
  • Each extra kilometre: €1.35 by day and €1.55 at night.
  • If the car is crawling or stopped (a traffic jam, a long red light), the meter switches to time: €18.50 an hour.
  • Permitted supplements: €0.60 if the taxi is booked by phone and €2.10 if it starts from the airport or the port. Nothing else. The rules forbid charging any supplement that isn't in them.
  • Luggage: free up to 50 kilos in a four-seater car.
  • The nights of 24 and 31 December and 5 January, from 10pm: a pick-up charge of €6.54.

The fare is the same for every car, whether it's a saloon or a minibus. You don't pay for the empty taxi's trip back.

How to spot an Adeje taxi

In Tenerife taxis are white and have the meter where you can see it. A taxi licensed in Adeje also has:

  • The Adeje town council's coat of arms on both front doors, with “Auto Taxi” above it and “Villa de Adeje” below, and next to it the letters L.M. with the licence number.
  • At the back, “Villa de Adeje” again and the licence number.
  • A light on the roof that shows whether it's free and which fare it's on.
  • Inside, on display: the driver's card, the fares and the passenger's rights. It must also carry complaint forms.

One thing that catches people out: Playa de las Américas is split between Adeje and Arona. If you get in on the Arona side, you'll usually be picked up by a taxi licensed in Arona, without the Adeje coat of arms. It's just as legal, and because the trip crosses from one municipality to another, it also runs on the T3 fare.

Private hire cars with a driver (VTC) are a different thing. In Tenerife they carry two dark blue stickers with the letters TF, one at the top right of the windscreen and one at the bottom left of the rear window. They have no meter: the price is agreed before you set off. If a car has neither the coat of arms and a meter nor the TF stickers, don't get in.

What to do if you're overcharged

At the time, without arguing:

  • Ask for a receipt. The driver has to give you one, but only if you ask.
  • Take a photo of the meter and note down the licence number (L.M.), the number plate, the time and where you got in and out.

Afterwards, in this order:

  • First, to the taxi service. For Adeje taxis, the official service handles complaints at quejas@taxiadeje.com. This step isn't a mere courtesy: without it, the official complaint may not be accepted.
  • If they don't reply within a month, or you're not happy with the answer, fill in the official complaint form (hoja de reclamaciones). In Adeje it goes to the Municipal Consumer Information Office (OMIC): Calle Tinerfe El Grande 32, phone 922 756 200, Monday to Thursday mornings.
  • At the same time you can make a complaint to Adeje town council, which issues the taxi licences.

With the receipt and the licence number, your complaint has something to stand on. Without them, it's your word against the driver's.

The simplest way not to think about any of this

Adeje town council's official taxi service runs 24 hours a day on 922 979 293 and on its website, where you can ask for a driver who speaks English, German or Russian, or for a child seat.

To get back, ask us for a taxi in the dining room. We call Adeje's official taxi line and tell you the approximate fare before you get in.

If you'd rather take the bus, TITSA bus 424 runs through Playa de las Américas and stops a few steps from the windmill, at the Vistamar stop. But it stops running before dinner is over, so for the trip home a taxi is the practical choice. And if you're coming by car, we have our own free car park, with limited spaces: on the busiest nights a taxi is easier. Everything else, with a map, is in How to get here.

Where this comes from

If anything here has changed, tell us at the table or on +34 620 77 00 72 and we'll put it right, with the source in front of us.

If you'd rather, we'll call your taxi home

From your table we call Adeje's official taxi line and tell you the approximate fare before you get in.

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