Two of our own reviews mention working from the apartment without being asked to. One guest called the internet “impeccable” and said it mattered because they worked from here for the week; another described it as their base for a “workation” — focused hours during the day, the coast on evenings and weekends. That is the honest pitch for remote work at Oceanview 5: not a coworking brand or a nomad-visa gimmick, just an apartment that happens to work.
The desk
There is a dedicated desk with an external monitor in the main living space, positioned for the ocean view rather than against it — you work facing the balcony, not a wall. 500 Mbps mesh Wi-Fi covers the whole apartment, not just near one router, so a call holds up whether you’re at the desk, on the balcony, or in the second bedroom.
That second bedroom has its own kitchenette and its own balcony, which is the detail that matters if two people are working here at once. It isn’t a shared open-plan setup with someone’s video call bleeding into someone else’s — it’s genuinely two separate rooms, each with its own light and its own view.
The clock
Tenerife and the rest of the Canary Islands run on WET, UTC+0 — the same time as London, and one hour behind mainland Spain, Germany, France and the rest of Central European Time. If your calendar is full of UK meetings, nothing changes. If it’s full of European mainland ones, everything on your calendar happens an hour earlier in your actual day than the invite implies — worth building into the first week rather than discovering live.
What isn’t here
We’d rather say this plainly than have you find out on arrival: there is no coworking space in San Marcos or Icod de los Vinos. If the desk and the balcony aren’t enough of a change of scenery for a full week, or you specifically want a space with other people working around you, the nearest options are in Puerto de la Cruz — about 35 minutes by car — where a genuine small coworking scene has grown up, with day passes as well as monthly desks.
Locally, Club Náutico’s cafeteria in San Marcos is open to everyone and a five-minute walk away, if you just want a coffee and a change of view rather than a workspace. We wouldn’t call it a coworking option — it isn’t marketed or set up as one — but it’s there.
Practicalities
For everything else — Wi-Fi resilience during weather, mobile data, and the rules around working remotely here as a non-EU visitor — see Internet and remote-work practicalities on Tenerife.