Gato Azul Coliving

Gato Azul is a place where you will feel right at home. You can find everything you need to work or just to relax..like the beautiful roof terrace. Whether indoors or outdoors, the house offers plenty of space to work or spend evenings together having dinner outside. The hosts are very friendly, helpful and available for any questions you may have. They will also give you the best local advice to explore this beautiful island. A great coliving and coworking space for digital nomads in search of nature and adventures!

In short; we spent 2 weeks here and don’t recommend. It’s overpriced and the website is pure false advertising. Long story; extremely overpriced crowded house. As the other reviewer stated extremely noisy. Our room was close to the kitchen which ment loud music a lot of the time and little sleep. If there is no music it’s just incredible loud. Had no to little rest time. The website is 100% false advertising, it doesn’t look like that. Sauna was 'broken' but no attempts were made to fix it. Basic breakfast is taken literally; cheapest lidl cereals and Nutella. I think in general you feel that this co-living is not setup to create a nice experience for digital nomads but to make (a lot of) money. It is about 30% more expensive than other co-livings in the surrounding. Some of those have pools and jaccuzi's. You have to pay to do your laundry which also seems a bit off. The workplaces are crowded and feel crammed, which ment often you have to work next to the kitchen which makes concentrating hard. Two space to do private calls which are of course almost always taken. Desks in rooms are to small to set up ergonomic workspace. Ended up working from bed a lot. No yoga was done during our stay. If it would be 50% of the pricing it would’ve made sense, this was an overpriced hostel disguised as a co-living.

Phenomenal experience. My 3-week stay at Gato was really amazing. If you're looking for a familiar, kind, warm place, Gato Azul is the right place. The 300 year old house is a gem and has been beautifully refurbished with lots of details. The coworking spaces are what I needed. The beds are super comfortable and the place is always clean. Will definitely come back!

The biggest problem I had with Gato Azul is a lack of communal space, which should be a core part of any thing that calls itself a coliving space. Apart from a little corner in one of the kitchens, there is no space where you can just sit down and relax. The coworking part is not much better. There is one room where you're supposed to work, but it has space for 6 people and its full most of the time, so you end up working from your room. The other small "meeting room" has no internet connectivity. I didn't manage to have a simple voice call inside. When me and my girlfriend had calls at the same time, one of us had to go to the bathroom (not kidding) in order to continue the call, because there was no other silent space in the whole house. The house on its own is really beautiful, but it doesn't help because the walls are so thin and you can hear every single thing in the house and need headphones just to fall asleep. It almost seems like the owners jumped on the after covid bandwagon and renamed a hostel into a coliving/coworking space.

Very nice place to stay for Coworking and for young people, super clean, Ingolf the owner made sure everything was great. Very good location in La Orotava. There are 3-4 areas where you can work in the house and also outside on the rooftop terrace and in the garden which is beautiful! Great breakfast is provided, with home made kefir and fruits grown in the garden. Highly recommended to stay here!