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Gran Hotel Taoro Returns: A Historic Tenerife Landmark Reborn for a New Luxury Era
- Style Essentials Edit Team
- Dec 7, 2025
- 3 min read
High above Puerto de la Cruz, on a hill that has watched over the north of Tenerife for more than a century, the Gran Hotel Taoro has opened its doors once again. For locals, the silhouette of the building has always carried a sense of nostalgia. For travellers, it has been a name whispered in the island’s early tourism history — the first grand hotel in the region, a jewel from 1890 that shaped how the world once imagined holidays in the Canary Islands.
Now, after a meticulous three-year restoration, the hotel steps back into the conversation not as a relic revived but as a property that understands its past and uses it to shape something relevant, contemporary, and quietly confident.
Walking through the restored interiors, it’s easy to sense how carefully the team has worked to preserve the building’s original dignity. The sweeping corridors, high ceilings, and soft symmetry of the architecture remain, but the palette is lighter, the details cleaner, and the atmosphere more relaxed than stately — an important shift for a building that once defined formality. Today, it feels open to the landscape rather than enclosed by its heritage.
The hotel now houses 199 rooms and suites, including four expansive presidential suites that frame Tenerife from different angles — the Atlantic, the subtropical gardens, and the volcanic presence of Mount Teide. Many of these rooms capture the island’s changing light through large windows, allowing the colours of the north — blue, green, ash, gold — to become part of the interior language.
Food, as always in Tenerife, plays its own role in shaping the identity of a place. At Gran Hotel Taoro, dining becomes a way of reading the island. The hotel now hosts six venues, each distinct in personality. OKA brings a refined Japanese vocabulary to the Canary archipelago, while LAVA, an intimate chef’s counter with limited seats, offers a more experimental, close-to-the-flame experience. The bistro Amular grounds itself in the textures and flavours of Tenerife’s terrain — volcanic, coastal, herbal — without turning the island’s culinary traditions into pastiche. Taken together, these venues position the hotel not just as a place to stay, but as a gastronomic stop in its own right.
Wellness is treated with the same sense of intention. The Sandára Wellness Centre — developed with the expertise of French skincare house Anne Semonin — focuses on slow restoration rather than spectacle. Treatments draw from the island’s natural rhythms, and the centre sits in dialogue with three heated pools, a well-equipped fitness space, and terraces that welcome the mild climate of northern Tenerife. The impression is of a property that wants guests to feel unhurried, surrounded by enough space to breathe.
Perhaps the most thoughtful addition to the reopening is the X-Plora concierge service, which approaches the island as something to be understood rather than consumed. Instead of generic tours, it offers curated, small-scale experiences that emphasise Tenerife’s northern spirit — its volcanic paths, its quiet villages, its unexpected pockets of culture and ecology. It’s an attempt to bring back a kind of tourism rooted in curiosity rather than spectacle.
Gran Hotel Taoro’s return is not simply another luxury opening. It is a restoration of memory — the revival of a building that once shaped the region’s identity and now reclaims its place, not as a museum piece, but as a modern landmark. In a landscape that has long balanced exuberant nature with a gentle pace of life, the hotel reminds visitors that luxury can feel grounded, historic, and deeply connected to its surroundings.
For travellers drawn to heritage, design, gastronomy, and the promise of Tenerife’s quiet north, the reopening marks a compelling moment. Gran Hotel Taoro stands once again on its hill — not repeating its past, but reinterpreting it for a new generation.
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