Las Terrazas de Abama Suites in Tenerife: A family-friendly review
I owe Tenerife an apology. I’d completely underestimated it as a family holiday destination. Sunny? Obviously. But a luxury, foodie escape with one of Europe’s best kids’ clubs, incredible space, and a resort where parents can actually relax after bedtime? That hadn’t even crossed my mind. Then we checked into Las Terrazas de Abama Suites and within 24 hours I was messaging friends saying: ‘I’ve found it. This is the hotel you need to book.’ Because somehow, it manages to tick almost every family holiday box without feeling remotely like a ‘kiddie holiday’ hotel
Think heated infinity pools overlooking the Atlantic, genuinely memorable restaurants (not just ‘good for a hotel’), and apartment-style suites so spacious that bedtime doesn’t mean the adults sitting silently in the dark at 8pm. Add in one of the most impressive kids’ clubs we’ve discovered anywhere in Europe and you’ve got a pretty special family escape. Here’s our honest, first-hand review of Las Terrazas de Abama Suites
Words by Frankie Collinson
Published: 14th July 2026 | Last updated: 22nd July 2026
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Las Terrazas de Abama Suites: What Makes It So Good For Families?
Set within the wider 400-acre Abama Resort on Tenerife’s spectacular west coast, Las Terrazas occupies the lower part of the estate, surrounded by immaculate gardens and one of Spain’s most celebrated golf courses. Higher up the hill sits sister property, Los Jardines de Abama Suites, and guests can move freely between both, giving you access to multiple pools, restaurants and facilities without ever feeling like you’re staying somewhere overwhelmingly large
The accommodation is where this place immediately stands apart. Forget squeezing a travel cot between the bed and wardrobe. Every suite feels like a proper apartment, complete with full kitchen, dining area, huge lounge and oversized terrace overlooking either the Atlantic or the golf course
There are one, two and three-bedroom layouts, with the largest suites sleeping up to six guests plus a baby – making this a genuinely brilliant option for larger families of five, two-family trips or multigenerational holidays where grandparents can join without everyone feeling like they’re on top of each other (hello free babysitting – my personal favourite holiday hack). If you’ve ever spent a holiday sitting in a dark hotel bathroom after bedtime because your toddler refuses to sleep through so much as a whisper… you’ll immediately understand why these suites are worth singing from the rooftops about. Families wanting even more privacy can opt for villas with their own heated private pools
The best way I can describe Las Terrazas is that it feels less like a traditional luxury resort and more like having your own beautiful holiday home – but with all the perks of a resort on your doorstep. It’s not the ultra-polished, full-service style of somewhere like Ikos or Sani; it’s much more low-key self-service luxury. There’s no waiter bringing cocktails to your sun lounger every 20 minutes, but considering as the pool bar is about two steps away, having a full kitchen, supermarket and enormous living space was much more important to me
What’s included for Families at Las Terrazas de Abama Suites?
One of Europe’s best Kids’ Clubs: a fully supervised (chargeable) Kids Camp for children aged 4-14 years (with some potty-trained 3-year-olds accepted if you email and ask in advance), featuring science workshops, cooking classes, arts and crafts, football, gardening, a zip wire, trampoline, theatre, sensory play, and age-specific programmes. Evening sessions with dinner are available during selected holiday periods, as well as offsite excursions
A brilliant pool set-up for babies and toddlers: three heated infinity pools, including a zero-entry pool that’s perfect for little paddlers, plus a separate lifeguard-supervised toddler pool. The pools are heated to around 28°C year-round
Baby bits: cots, highchairs and other baby equipment are available on request, while the onsite gourmet supermarket stocks essentials including baby food, nappies, dairy-free milk and snacks
Flexible family dining: toddler-friendly dinner sittings from 6.30pm, dedicated children’s menus and a half-board package that allows you to choose lunch or dinner each day
What about for adults?
Championship golf on your doorstep: home to one of Spain’s most spectacular 18-hole golf courses, with panoramic Atlantic views
Professional tennis facilities: excellent tennis courts and academies offering coaching for both adults and children
Elevated dining: including Melvin, created by 12 Michelin-starred chef Martín Berasategui, alongside several other outstanding restaurants across the resort
What’s the dining set up?
Las Terrazas de Abama offers a range of dining options, with family-friendly menus and flexible choices available across the resort. The half-board option includes breakfast plus a three-course lunch or dinner each day, with the flexibility to swap between lunch and dinner depending on your plans
Restaurants include Atlántico, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner overlooking the golf course; Tágara at Los Jardines de Abama, offering modern Canarian cuisine; and Melvin, the resort’s signature restaurant from 12 Michelin-starred chef Martín Berasategui, which is included within the half-board package without an additional supplement
Families also have the option to self-cater, with every suite featuring a fully equipped kitchen and an onsite supermarket selling fresh produce, snacks, baby food and everyday essentials
Where is Las Terrazas de Abama Suites?
Las Terrazas de Abama Suites sits on Tenerife’s wonderfully sunny south-west coast, around 30 minutes from Tenerife South Airport. The flight from most UK airports takes roughly four and a half hours, there’s no time difference to contend with, and with plenty of morning departures available, you could genuinely be eating lunch beside the pool on the same day you leave home. Despite feeling wonderfully peaceful, you’re not isolated either. The pretty fishing village of Playa San Juan is around ten minutes away if you fancy venturing out for local restaurants, while the foodie scene at nearby The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama is just a complimentary 5 minute shuttle away (and you can see our first hand family friendly review here)
Best Time To Visit Las Terrazas de Abama Suites?
We visited during October half term and enjoyed temperatures hovering around 28°C every day, warm enough for swimming from breakfast until sunset, but without the oppressive Mediterranean heat. It’s equally brilliant through winter, making it one of the closest guaranteed sunshine escapes from the UK. May half term is another particularly smart time to visit. Rates are often lower, availability is excellent and those heated pools remain blissfully warm. Even in peak summer, Tenerife’s Atlantic breeze keeps temperatures surprisingly comfortable. So in short? Every month is a fab time to visit
You’ll find our Tenerife weather forecast below:
January: Average highs of 21°
February: Average highs of 21°
March: Average highs of 22°
April: Average highs of 23°
May: Average highs of 25°
June: Average highs of 28°
July: Average highs of 30°
August: Average highs of 30°
September: Average highs of 28°
October: Average highs of 26°
November: Average highs of 24°
December: Average highs of 22°
Rooms & Suites
Europe’s best value family apartments?
If you ask me, separate bedrooms should be considered an essential parenting requirement rather than a luxury. There’s something deeply soul-destroying about spending thousands on a family holiday only to find yourself whispering in the bathroom at 7.15pm because your toddler has gone to bed and you’re scared sh*tless of waking them. Thankfully, Las Terrazas de Abama Suites completely solves that problem. Calling these ‘hotel rooms’ feels wildly misleading because they’re essentially beautifully designed apartments. We stayed in a two-bedroom. There were two spacious bedrooms, two bathrooms, a huge open-plan living and dining area, a fully equipped kitchen complete with oven, hob, fridge, coffee machine and all the cooking paraphernalia to keep hanger at bay. And if you don’t fancy arriving to an empty fridge, the team can even arrange for groceries to be stocked before you check in. Then there’s the terrace. Handily located from the living area, not the kids bedroom (the biggest pet peeve of mine)
If you’re travelling with grandparents or another family, the larger two and three-bedroom villas are particularly worth looking at. They come with their own heated private pools while still giving you access to every facility across the wider resort, and can even be booked on the hotel’s excellent half-board package. It’s a combination you don’t often find
One thing that is worth mentioning is that there is currently some construction taking place around a handful of the villas. It certainly wouldn’t stop me booking one, but I would absolutely recommend speaking to the team beforehand and requesting one positioned away from the works. They’re very honest about which villas are affected and happy to help match you with the best option
Kids Entertainment
A Kids Club to beat all others
With an entry age of 4+, my two were too young to be left at the kids club when we visited, so sadly I can’t give you the full ‘my child begged to go back’ review just yet. But I did have a proper nose around (because, I’ve always got your backs with this kind of intel), and I can confidently say it’s one of the most impressive kids’ clubs I’ve seen. It’s a fully supervised space for children aged 4+ (parents wave goodbye at the door – this isn’t a stay-and-play setup), and it’s completely tucked away in its own dedicated corner of the resort. I actually loved this, because while the Kids Camp is absolutely epic, the rest of Las Terrazas still feels calm, sophisticated and decidedly un-’kiddie’
I know for many of us kids clubs come with fairly low expectations. A few colouring pencils, a TV in the corner and maybe some face painting before your child asks to leave after twenty minutes. Abama Kids Camp couldn’t be further from that. The whole setup immediately gave me nostalgic Parent Trap vibes. Canvas tents are dotted throughout the gardens, each dedicated to something different
One minute children are making slime or erupting volcanoes during science workshops, the next they’re learning recipes in cooking classes, planting vegetables in the garden or disappearing into arts and crafts. Outside there’s a trampoline, football pitch, zip wire, theatre stage, sensory play spaces and plenty of room to run wild. I loved that there wasn’t a ‘one size fits all’ programme either. During busier periods, children are split into different age groups (typically 4-8 and 9-14), so older children aren’t stuck making finger paintings while younger siblings aren’t expected to keep up with the big kids. If your children are the adventurous type, there are also optional excursions to places like Siam Park, Aqualand, go-karting and dolphin and whale watching, while summer brings dedicated tennis camps for budding little Andy Murrays
The Kids Camp welcomes children from four years old, although if your little one is three and confidently potty trained, they may also be able to join – but you’ll need to liaise with the team before arriving to secure this. There are also evening sessions on selected nights during busier holiday periods, including dinner, which might just be the closest thing to a parenting jackpot you’ll find on holiday
It’s worth knowing this isn’t a resort designed around constant children’s entertainment. You won’t find playgrounds dotted around every corner or evening shows keeping little ones busy after dinner. Instead, the appeal is the freedom to enjoy a beautiful resort that happens to be incredibly family-friendly – with one of the cleverest pool set-ups we’ve come across and an exceptional kids’ club for when children are old enough to use it
Swimming Pools
Smart swim set ups
Usually, my family holidays involve either me or my husband being permanently assigned to ‘human lifeguard’ duties, standing waist-deep in freezing water that my waterbabies refuse to get out of. Las Terrazas, thankfully, had other ideas. Out of the resort’s three heated infinity pools, the zero-entry pool was an absolute game changer for us. Instead of spending all day bent double holding tiny hands, my little ones could happily splash around in the gently sloping shallows while I supervised comfortably from a nearby sun lounger
The rest of the pool offering is equally impressive. There are two breathtaking infinity pools with postcard-worthy views across the golf course and Atlantic, a separate lifeguard-supervised toddler pool for your tiniest water babies, and the glorious Sunway Pool Bar serving cocktails, smoothies and light lunches just metres from the water. While the third infinity pool, perched beside the spa at the top of the resort, has a much more peaceful feel – ideal if your other half is on lifeguard duty and you’ve negotiated half an hour with your book
And the heating deserves a special mention because, after years of resorts promising ‘heated pools’ that turn out to mean ‘technically warmer than freezing’, these genuinely delivered. The pools sit at around 28°C, and I actually had to drag my children out at the end of the day, and there wasn’t a single blue lip in sight. As someone who is very much a cold-water wimp, I did still enjoy escaping back onto a sunny lounger between swims, but the difference compared to other ‘heated pools’ I’ve swum in was huge
The free shuttle down to the beach is another lovely bonus. It’s not the kind of dramatic, white-sand beach you might find in Greece or Mallorca, but it’s a calm little cove that’s perfect sandcastle fodder
Wining & Dining
Family foodie flexibility
One of the things that genuinely surprised me about Las Terrazas was how brilliantly it balances serious foodie credentials with the realities of travelling with children. Usually, family-friendly dining and genuinely exciting food don’t exactly go hand in hand – but here they really do. I’d wholeheartedly recommend the half-board package. It’s exceptional value, including breakfast plus a flexible three-course lunch or dinner each day, which is surprisingly rare and a total game-changer when travelling with little ones. Even more impressively, Melvin, the resort’s signature restaurant created by 12 Michelin-starred chef Martín Berasategui, is included without any supplement. That’s almost unheard of. We enjoyed beautifully executed Basque-inspired dishes while my picky eaters happily tucked into much more familiar favourites from the dedicated children’s menu. There are plenty of other dining options too. Atlántico, overlooking the golf course, has a wonderfully relaxed feel from breakfast through to dinner (with a special mention for the freshly carved Iberico ham every morning), while Tágara, perched at the top of the resort, celebrates modern Canarian cooking
And if you fancy exploring further, guests can also enjoy the wider restaurant collection at the neighbouring Ritz-Carlton, Tenerife Abama, just a complimentary shuttle ride away
The practical family touches are where Las Terrazas really shines. Dinner starts from 6.30pm, which might sound like a small detail, but any parent who has attempted a ‘relaxed’ restaurant meal with a tired toddler knows it’s actually a holiday-changing one. And for those evenings when everyone has reached their limit and it’s very much an ‘F it, we’re eating in’ kind of night, the apartment-style suites come into their own. Every suite has a fully equipped kitchen, while the onsite gourmet supermarket is one of the best-stocked hotel shops I’ve come across, selling everything from fresh fruit, meat and pasta to impressive crisps and dips, baby food, nappies and dairy-free milk. It’s also a brilliant way to keep costs down if you wish – pairing the excellent half-board offering with the occasional relaxed lunch or dinner back in your apartment
Our verdict
What surprised us most about Las Terrazas de Abama wasn’t just how beautiful it is – it was how much family holiday you get for your money. Having visited a lot of family hotels, I don’t say this lightly: it’s genuinely rare to find this level of space, service and facilities without a price tag that makes you wonder whether the children really need to come along
This is a luxury family resort in Tenerife that gets the balance just right. It feels polished without feeling pretentious, sophisticated without making children feel like an inconvenience, and thoughtfully designed around how families actually travel. During our October half-term stay, we enjoyed sunshine in the high twenties every day, properly heated pools (the kind where children don’t emerge with blue lips!), no time difference from the UK and a wonderfully easy journey from home. From huge apartment-style suites perfect for families of five or multigenerational trips, fully equipped kitchens and exceptional dining to one of Europe’s best kids’ clubs and world-class golf and tennis facilities, Las Terrazas delivers far more than you’d expect
What I love most is that it doesn’t feel like a resort built entirely around children – and that’s exactly why it works. Kids have an incredible space to enjoy when they want it, while parents still get beautiful surroundings, genuinely good food and the feeling of being somewhere special