Lanzarote Short South Tour with Timanfaya Volcano Entrance

The tour was great! Company went out of their way for us. We’d waited at the wrong bus stop and so one of the team came and collected us in her car and drove us to the next stop.

This is a must do activity. The tour guide and driver were a lot of fun. We were on a modern air conditioned coach Antony our guide was very funny and knowledgeable as was manwell the driver. It was exceptionally well organised and a stunning experience the natural beauty of breath taking. The experiments were great to see. My obly negative is the volcano part felt a little rushed. Don't let that put you off if you come here you must do this activity.

Son wanted to see the volcano so booked the short tour rather than spend the whole day on a coach. Camel ride was great fun. We were told we would stop off to see the "experiements" so we were expecting an actual experiment with someone explaining what was happening, why it was happening etc. What we got was a guy with a shovel putting some hot gravel in your ha d, a bush being thrown in a hole, and some water poured down a hole. Total time about 5mins. No explanation, no actual experiemnt (i.e. a testing of a hypothesis) , no opportunity for questions. We were told there was limited time at this stop to allow the next coach load in. This is just bad planning on the national parks part. They should provide an actual educational element and limit the number of coaches allowed in per day through a booking process. Back on coach for the "lunar tour" which was good although the attempt at atmospheric music during the talk was terrible. Although the volcano stop was very rushed we apparently had time for a wine tasting stop which wasn't on the itinerary, but I assume this was just to give them time to sell us the camel ride photos and give the gift shop some customers. Not a child friendly trip as its mostly on the bus an the actual volcano stop and experiments is too quick.