La Laguna Gran Hotel

La Laguna Gran Hotel is a four-star hotel with 123 rooms that joins an 18th-century noble house to a modern annex, on Calle Nava y Grimón, on the edge of La Laguna's historic centre. What sets it apart is the fourth-floor roof: a 22-metre pool, gym and terrace with a view over the city's rooftops. The pool opens seasonally; pool and gym run from 9:00 to 21:00.

The 1776 house and the tobacco factory

In the lobby the year 1776 is still engraved beside the name Guerra y Hoyo: it was the house of Fernando Guerra y Hoyo Solórzano, an enlightened nobleman who held gatherings there. Later it was a teacher-training school and, in the mid-20th century, the Don Álvaro tobacco factory; a small museum beside reception remembers those who worked in it. It opened as a hotel in 2017, after the house and its patios were restored.

From the Noble to the Royal Suite

The rooms range from 25 to 60 m². The Deluxe, at 26 m², are of contemporary design and almost all have a bath; the Deluxe with Terrace add a landscaped terrace with table and chairs. The Noble, at 25 m², keep the character of the old house, with pine ceilings and floors and classic furniture. For three people there is the Executive, at 35 m², with a sofa bed. Above that are Junior Suites with a terrace, Noble Suites with hipped wooden ceilings and two large suites, the Iconic, with an outdoor bath on its terrace, and the Royal, at 60 m². All have wifi, air conditioning, safe, minibar, kettle with coffee and tea, desk and access to the pool and gym.

Breakfast, Verodes and Nómada

Breakfast is a buffet in the Verodes restaurant, from 7:30 to 10:30 every day; if you leave early for the mountains, they provide a takeaway breakfast. Verodes serves lunch from 13:00 to 16:00 and dinner from 19:30 to 23:00 with modern Canarian cooking, and the market restaurant Nómada has a street entrance and opens on Sunday at midday. There is also a café in the patio, a wine bar and brunch.

Bikes, luggage and families

24-hour reception, room service, a pillow menu, laundry with a minimum of 48 hours and free luggage storage before check-in and after check-out. It has the Cycling Friendly label, with bike racks, a workshop with tools and an area for washing bikes and charging electric ones, useful if you come to cycle the Anaga roads. There are adapted rooms, a free cot for under-twos and transfers to Tenerife North and South airports on request. Pets are not allowed. The website does not give check-in and check-out times or say whether there is its own parking: ask when booking.

25 minutes from Cruz del Carmen

It is a good base if you want to alternate city and mountains: Cruz del Carmen is about 25 minutes by car via Las Mercedes, and the La Laguna interchange, with buses to Cruz del Carmen, Afur and El Bailadero, is a walk away. The tram takes you to Santa Cruz.