Loro Parque

Loro Parque opens 09:30 to 17:30, Monday to Sunday, every day of the year, according to the park's own FAQ page, and its car park costs EUR 7 per day. That is the spine of the official record for a visit, and this page sticks to it. The park sits in Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife's north coast, it shares a combined admission ticket with Siam Park down in Costa Adeje, and it draws questions that most guides answer with invention: the orcas, the trainers, the awards. Where the verified facts run out, this page says so plainly rather than filling the gap.

What Is Loro Parque Famous For?

Loro Parque is one of Tenerife's two headline parks, an animal park in Puerto de la Cruz that opens 09:30 to 17:30 every single day of the year, and it is sold alongside Siam Park in a combined admission ticket. Its fame, for most readers, rests on two things: its year-round schedule on the north coast, and the orcas, which generate more of the questions people ask about the island than any other single animal in the Canaries.

The park's own FAQ page is the source for the hours and the car park charge, EUR 7 per day, and those two figures carry most of the practical planning weight. Beyond them, the park's sister property gives it a second claim to fame by association: Loro Parque's own release states that Tripadvisor awarded Siam Park the Travellers' Choice award for the best water park in the world for a fifth consecutive year, a claim this site attributes exactly as the owner states it and dates no further than the release supports.

The questions this page was routed to answer are dominated by the orcas: whether Morgan is deaf, whether Keto is still there, whether trainers still swim with the animals. That pattern tells you what the park is famous for in the minds of people searching, and it also tells you where existing guides fail, because almost none of those questions has an answer on an official page this site's researchers have read. The honest editorial position is set out in the orca section below.

For a first-time visitor weighing the day against everything else the island offers, the practical framing is simple: a full day inside the park, on a coast that carries its own weather pattern, with a second park available on a combined ticket if the holiday stretches long enough. The rest of this page covers where the park sits, how the hours and tickets work, and what the official record does and does not say about the animals people ask about most.

Where Is Loro Parque in Tenerife?

Loro Parque is in Puerto de la Cruz, the historic resort town on Tenerife's north coast, roughly 31,137 people strong and one of the island's seven largest municipalities. The north coast is the greener, softer-weather side of the island, served by Tenerife North Airport, whose AENA figures record 7,174,977 passengers in 2025, and the park opens there every day of the year from 09:30 to 17:30.

Puerto de la Cruz is the island's original tourist town, and the park is one of its anchors alongside the seafront and the black sand of Playa Jardin. The town sits in the north, which matters for planning in two ways. First, the weather: AEMET's normals for Tenerife North Airport, the station closest in character to the north coast, record a mean daily maximum of 16 Celsius in January against 25.7 in August, and 520 mm of rain across the year on 64 days with a millimetre or more, against 132 mm on 15.2 days at the south airport. The north is wetter and greener, and a park day there is a different proposition from a beach day in Costa Adeje.

Second, the airports. TITSA's own airport pages list lines 20, 30 and 343 at Tenerife North Airport: line 20 to Santa Cruz via La Laguna, line 30 to Puerto de la Cruz, and line 343, the express, running to Los Cristianos via both airports. From Tenerife South, line 343 also serves both airports, and lines 10, 40, 711 and 415 cover Santa Cruz, Costa Adeje, the night network and El Fraile. Visitors pay for these buses: the day travelcard is EUR 10, the seven-day travelcard EUR 50, and the Ten+ card costs EUR 2, sold at airport ticket machines. The 2026 free-transport subsidy applies to resident passes only, so no visitor should plan around a free bus.

For anyone basing themselves in the south, the day trip is a real consideration, and the north Tenerife route from the south is covered elsewhere on this site. The combined ticket with Siam Park, which sits in Costa Adeje, is the one product that spans both coasts in a single purchase, and the entry ticket for the park itself is the bookable item this site carries.

Is Loro Parque Worth It?

For most visitors, yes, with two conditions the official record makes clear. The park opens every day of the year, 09:30 to 17:30, so it fits any itinerary including winter holidays, and it carries a combined ticket with Siam Park that rewards anyone staying a week or more. The conditions are the weather, the north coast is wetter than the south, and the ethics, which every reader should weigh for themselves using the park's own published material rather than second-hand claims.

The worth question splits into halves. The first is logistical, and it favours the park: a year-round schedule, a car park at EUR 7 per day, and a position inside a walkable resort town mean the day is easy to plan and easy to combine. Puerto de la Cruz also carries enough else, from Playa Jardin to the Pyramids of Guimar within reach, that a failed weather morning does not strand you.

The second half is the one no honest guide can settle for you. The questions routed to this page, about Morgan, about Keto, about trainers in the water, are ethics questions wearing factual clothing, and the fact pack this site researches from holds no official row that answers them. What the record does hold is this: the park's own FAQ and news pages are the primary source for its animal practices, and a reader who cares about those practices should read them directly rather than accept a summary written by somebody who has not. That is the editorial standard this site applies everywhere, from whale watching rules to Teide permits, and it applies with special force here.

Practically, the decision moment is the ticket. The entry ticket is the bookable product, the combined ticket with Siam Park doubles the value on a longer stay, and the live listing carries the current prices, which this page does not type. Check availability through the link below, and read the hours table first: 09:30 to 17:30 means the last hour of the day is the quietest, and the car park fills earliest.

You can compare the two-park options, including the combined ticket guide, before committing to one park or both. The Siam Park page on this site carries the water park's own verified hours for comparison.

What Are the Opening Hours and Ticket Options?

Loro Parque opens 09:30 to 17:30, Monday to Sunday, every day of the year, and its own car park costs EUR 7 per day. The ticket options this site carries are the single-park entry ticket and the combined Loro Parque and Siam Park admission ticket; no gate price, child price or twin-ticket price is stated on this page, because none was confirmed on an official page, and the product cards carry the live figures.

Those hours are the park's own, from its FAQ page, and the "every day of the year" clause matters more than it looks: unlike seasonal attractions, the park does not close for winter, which makes it one of the few guaranteed anchors of a December or January itinerary. The car park charge is likewise the park's own figure, EUR 7 per day, and it applies to the park's own car park rather than street parking in Puerto de la Cruz.

The ticket picture is deliberately thin on this page. Prices for tickets sold through this site come from the product cards only, and the site's research found no official page confirming a gate price for either park. What can be stated is the structure: a single-park entry ticket, a combined ticket covering both Loro Parque in Puerto de la Cruz and Siam Park in Costa Adeje, and Siam Park's own hours, which its official page lists as 10:00 to 18:00 from 1 May to 29 October and 10:00 to 17:00 from 30 October to 30 April, open 365 days.

A planning note that follows from the hours rather than from invention: the two parks sit on opposite coasts, so doing both in one day means choosing between a rushed pair of half-days and a very long day of driving. Most itineraries on this site treat them as separate days, and the combined ticket exists precisely so you can spread them across a week without paying twice at full price.

How Does Loro Parque Compare with Siam Park?

Loro Parque is an animal park in Puerto de la Cruz open 09:30 to 17:30 year-round; Siam Park is a water park in Costa Adeje open 365 days on seasonal hours, 10:00 to 18:00 in summer and 10:00 to 17:00 in winter. They are sister properties under the same ownership, sold together on a combined admission ticket, and the choice between them usually comes down to coast, weather and the age of your party rather than quality.

The ownership link is what makes the comparison meaningful rather than arbitrary. The same organisation runs both, prices them as a pair, and publishes the claim, in its own release, that Tripadvisor awarded Siam Park the Travellers' Choice award for the best water park in the world for a fifth consecutive year. This site reports that claim as the owner states it, dates it no further than the release supports, and makes no equivalent claim for Loro Parque, because none was read on an official page. Everything else covered here is indexed on Tenerife Travel Guide.

Geography does half the deciding. If you are staying in Costa Adeje, Los Cristianos or Playa de las Americas, Siam Park is on your doorstep and Loro Parque is a cross-island trip. If you are in Puerto de la Cruz, the reverse holds. The weather does the other half: AEMET's south-airport normals record a July mean daily maximum of 27.7 Celsius against 24.7 at the north airport, and 0 mm of rain in July at both, while November flips the picture, 26 mm in the south against 81 mm at the north station. A water park day wants the reliable south; an animal park day survives a cloudy north-coast morning better than any beach does.

The combined ticket is the product that dissolves the comparison, and it suits the seven-to-ten-day holiday best. For a shorter stay, pick the one that matches your coast, and read the whale watching section below before deciding that a boat beats both parks, because the south coast's resident pilot whales are regulated by a decree whose rules are worth knowing whichever you choose.

The Orcas: Morgan, Keto and What the Official Record Says

This site's verified fact pack holds no official row answering whether Morgan is deaf, whether Keto is still at Loro Parque, or whether trainers still swim with the orcas, and an honest guide says so instead of inventing. The park's own website and its published communications are the primary sources for the current state of its animals, and readers should treat any page that states these facts without a source, including summaries like this one, with suspicion.

That is an unusual answer for a travel guide to give, and it is the correct one. The questions are among the most asked about the island, they are asked word for word in the forms listed in the FAQ below, and they deserve better than the confident invention most pages offer. What can be said from the record: the World Cetacean Alliance, the body whose Whale Heritage Area designation covers the Tenerife-La Gomera marine area, describes a unique resident population of pilot whales there, and that designation concerns the wild animals off the south-west coast, not any animal in human care. The two subjects are related in readers' minds and separate in the official record.

For the ethics itself, the primary documents are the park's own animal pages, its press releases, and the regulatory framework for cetaceans in the Canaries, Decreto 178/2000, which governs whale watching at sea and requires authorised boats to fly the Barco Azul flag. A reader weighing a visit against their own standards should read the park's material, weigh it, and decide; this page will not perform that weighing for you, because performing it would require facts nobody on this site's research team has verified.

What the page can do is point at the rest of the island, because Tenerife is unusually rich in wild alternatives. The whale watching fleet out of Los Cristianos and Costa Adeje operates under the decree's distances: no approach within 60 metres, at most three boats within 500 metres, four knots within 500 metres, and no swimming within 500 metres. The eco-focused trips below are the bookable versions of that experience, and the whale and dolphin watching tours category page on this site carries the full range.

What Else Is Within Reach of Puerto de la Cruz?

A day at Loro Parque slots into a north-coast itinerary that includes the black sand of Playa Jardin in Puerto de la Cruz itself, the Icod dragon tree inland, the Pyramids of Guimar on the east coast, and the Teide Observatory on the island's high ridge, all of which have their own pages on this site. The park's 09:30 to 17:30 hours leave a summer evening long enough for a second stop, and the town's seafront is the natural end-of-day walk.

The north coast is where the island's older, greener character survives, and the park is its most visited single site. Playa Jardin sits in the town, its black sand at the foot of a cliff on the tourist board's own description, and it is the obvious after-park hour. Inland, the dragon tree at Icod de los Vinos carries the most carefully hedged age claim in this site's files: Icod council attributes an age of approximately 1,000 years to it, the tourist board says over 800, and this site writes "800 to 1,000 years" and calls it an estimate, because two official sources disagree and neither is a measurement.

Further out, the Pyramids of Guimar open daily 10:00 to 18:00 except 1 January and 25 December, with the full ticket including an audioguide at EUR 26.00, on the park's own page. And above everything, the Teide Observatory runs guided visits by prior reservation only, with the reservation page the only way in. These are the four stops that pair most naturally with the park on a multi-day north-coast stay, and each has a full page in this site's attractions coverage.

The weather planning for that itinerary comes from AEMET's normals, and the table below is the honest version: the north coast is several degrees cooler and substantially wetter than the south, in every month, and the park's all-year schedule is what makes it weatherproof in a way a beach day is not.

For the water-inclined, the south coast's surf beaches are the counterpart to the north's greenery, and the lesson product below is the bookable version of a beginner's day at Playa de las Americas. It is a different coast and a different day, but it is the other half of what most visitors mean by "Tenerife".

How Do You Plan the Day Around the 09:30 to 17:30 Hours?

The park's single daily session, 09:30 to 17:30, rewards an early arrival and punishes a late one, because the car park at EUR 7 per day and the town's own streets both fill from mid-morning in high season. The official record supports no "best time" claim beyond the hours themselves, so the planning advice here is arithmetic: arrive for the opening hour, take the last hour slowly, and use the town for the evening.

The arithmetic is simple and the sources are the park's own. Eight hours of opening, a car park that charges by the day rather than the hour, and a resort town outside the gates. ISTAC's monthly series shows the visitor peaks: 675,573 tourists arrived by air in March 2025 and 671,202 in December 2025, so the two shoulder peaks around Easter and the festive season are when the gates are busiest, and the summer months, 542,881 by air in June 2025, are comparatively softer on the north coast even as the south fills.

Getting there without a car uses the same TITSA network covered above, and the same visitor fares: the EUR 10 day travelcard covers a day of buses, which is enough for a round trip from Santa Cruz or La Laguna and a stop in town afterwards. No visitor travels free, the resident subsidy is for residents, and the tram does not serve either airport, so the bus or a taxi, white and metered from the start of the trip per the tourist board's own page, are the options.

What About the Rest of the Island?

Loro Parque is one anchor of a north-coast day, and this site's coverage pairs it with the volcano, the whale grounds and the water parks that make up the rest of a Tenerife week: Teide National Park in the island's centre, the whale watching grounds off the south-west, and Siam Park on the southern tip. The combined ticket exists because most visitors want two of those four, and a seven-day stay wants all of them.

The volcano is the island's other year-round certainty. Teide National Park recorded 5,242,653 visitors in 2024, the most visited park in Spain's national park network, and driving through it needs no booking on any page this site read. The summit trail does: PNT 10 Telesforo Bravo takes a personal reservation on Tenerife ON, released every Monday at 07:00 Canary time with 56 days always bookable, and since Monday 19 January 2026 the 09:00 to 17:00 slots cost EUR 15 for visitors, EUR 6 for residents of the other Canary Islands, and nothing for Tenerife residents and children. The Teide National Park and Teide cable car pages carry the full detail.

The whale grounds are the other certainty, and the decree that regulates them is worth reading before booking any boat. No approach within 60 metres, no more than three boats within 500 metres, four knots within 500 metres, no swimming within 500 metres, and no feeding, chasing or circling, with authorised boats flying the Barco Azul flag. The Los Gigantes cliffs, which the tourist board describes as towering up to 600 m, frame that coast, and the Anaga Rural Park in the far north-east is the third of the island's great landscapes, its laurel forest under a reservation system of its own.

If the week stretches long, the second tour band below is the shortlist this site carries for the experiences that pair with a park day: the entry ticket itself, the eco yacht whale trip, and the surf lesson. Each card carries its live price and rating, and each fits a different day of a seven-day stay.

Common Questions About Loro Parque