So Next Season: Playa de las Americas, Tenerife

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Sabrina Wolfe, Senior Site Editor

Where will you be? Tenerife

Why? Tenerife is a great island to visit for many reasons. It’s got fantastic weather all year round (the tourist website boasts that it has the “lowest temperature difference between summer and winter for anywhere in the world”); the famed black sand beaches; and a stunning landscape which includes volcanoes, mountains, deserts and a “lunar” peaks.

But, more than all this, Tenerife is also the only place in Europe where you can go BOB diving.

What’s on offer? BOB diving is a new type of diving for, well, those who don’t really like the normal sort. Always wanted to see the underwater world, but never fancied all that swimming around and getting your hair wet? Then BOB diving is perfect.

B.O.B. is short for “breathing observation bubble,” a sort of underwater jet-ski type affair, with a big air bubble helmet for your head. You can breathe normally, sit upright on the BOB – letting it do all the hard work of getting around – and you only need to get your hair wet momentarily as you get in place.

Best way to spend an hour? If you’re in Playa de las Americas and have had enough of cosying up on the carpet of towels on the man made beach, head down to pier number four at Puerto Colon for a trip out on a BOB. The trip lasts two hours, 25 minutes of which is spent diving. There are two trips a day, one leaving at 10am, the other at 1pm. For more information or to book online have a look at the Bob website.

Top tips? BOB diving is perfect for those who don't like all the swimming and clunky apparatus strapped to them involved in normal diving. An extra boon, however, is for glasses or contact lens wearers. As your head is completely enclosed by the air bubble, you can take a dive still wearing them. So don't leave them in the hotel...

So Next Season - an occasional series of interviews - offers tips from the Cheapflights team about the next big travel hotspot. Covering everything from the must-stay hotel of next year, to the beach resort that nobody else knows about yet, So Next Season is the place to watch for travellers who want to be in the know...

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So Next Season - an occasional series of interviews - offers tips from the Cheapflights team about the next big travel hotspot. Covering everything from the must-stay hotel of next year, to the beach resort that nobody else knows about yet, So Next Season is the place to watch for travellers who want to be in the know...