Alcudia the holiday resort!

Advantages: Good weather, nice beach
Disadvantages: smells bad at night, quite crowded

...I went to Alcudia for my honeymoon, which I wouldn't really recommend. We found there was a limited amount to do for couples, unless you like staying on a beach or shopping for your entire holiday. The jouney from the airport to Alcudia usually takes 1/2 hour, but due to extensive road works our journey took an hour. I was quite disappointed with the scenery, it was very bland, yellow grass, a couple of trees, roadworks and the odd derilict house. The driver wasn't too careful with his driving either. Once there we did find people very friendly and enjoyed the pubs. We were told by an english bar worker the ice cubes in bars are only ok, if the bar has a white fridge. All ice cubes/water from a white fridge is imported so is safe, he told us where ever we go look for a white fridge if the place doesn't have one don't touch...

alienmartian 25.04.2006 · Read review
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Review of Alcudia, Majorca

Alcudia

Advantages: Weather, beach, entertainment
Disadvantages: over pricing at beach, gets crowded peak season

...Alcudia is a well known holiday destination for the british public, it is situated about 1 hours drive away from the airport on a peninsula to the north of the island of Mallorca. Alcudia itself is split into three parts, The old town where they have a market on a wednesday, the port which is quite pretty with a large number of boutiques, bars and shops, and the sea front which consists of a main street about 5 miles long set back from the sea edged by hotels, restaurants, shops and bars. The beach is huge and pure white sand, its about 6 or 7 miles long with sun beds and shades for hire. The shops and bars nearest the beach are over priced, walk 200yards in land and you will pay a lot less for your product. (A twister lolly 350.00 pesetas on the beach, 145.00 pesetas in land). Entertainment wise there is a lot going on as each...

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Review of Alcudia, Majorca

Alcudia - ideal for young families

Advantages: Quiet resort, fantastic beaches, lovely old town with market
Disadvantages: High kerbs are difficult for those with pushchairs

...We had an excellent holiday in Alcudia in May this year, with our 2 and 4 year old boys. I can't comment on the resort in mid-Summer, but in May we had a very enjoyable time. Alcudia is a quiet town in comparison to other more developed parts of Majorca and mainland Spain. All the hotels are fairly modern and well maintained. The streets are clean, although steep kerbs make it tough for those with pushchairs. The old town of Alcudia is beautiful and traditional, with lots of nice tapas restaurants. The highlight of the old town is the twice-weekly market, held just outside the ancient walls - only problem was that none of the vendors were willing to haggle, prices seemed to be set in stone. But lots of good quality leather goods and other items. Beaches are large, with powdery sand and plenty of loungers and parasols for a small fee...

brianbadger 19.07.2007 · Read review
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Lagomonte Hotel, Alcudia................

Advantages: A brill place for kids and familys.............
Disadvantages: none......

...This hotel is very nice, set at the back of Alcudia away from the hustle bustle of the pubs in the centre. They have there own boating lake with an island in the middle where you can sunbathe in peace, it also has a bar on the island, this is across the road from the Hotel. There is a bridge across the lake to it. They have an outside bar and where you can get food aswell as a stage where entertainment goes on, and nearby is the outside swimming pool. There is plenty of dry and wet entertainment through the day and night. There is a very good childrens club that interacts with the self catering complex down the road The Bellvue apartments. They go out on trips with their reps to a local childrens bar on a sunday, where all the clubs in Alcudia bring the kids for lunch and to play games and watch films. The kids are so...

moonlightmist 31.08.2000 · Read review
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Review of Lagomonte Hotel, Alcudia, Majorca

SIESTA 1 HOTEL, ALCUDIA - 'If you like food with heads on ....'

Advantages: Family friendly, great kids club and lots of things for children to do.
Disadvantages: little food to choose from at meal times and rooms were basic

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Review of Siesta 1 Apartments, Alcudia

Cheap and most certainly cheerful!

Advantages: Cheap, friendly and fun
Disadvantages: Basic

...We decided to treat ourselves to a foreign holiday this year, it's been seven years since our last and much has changed since then! We now have a four year old to consider, so our holiday requirements were very different to last time. As this was Oakleys first holiday we decided to take just one week early on in the year, incase he didn't like the heat, decided not to go all inclusive incase he didn't like the food and we ended up living on cheese sandwiches and also needed somewhere family friendly, with a kids club and entertainment. Another important factor for us was the price. We are also having our loft converted so the holiday had to be cheap! Anyway, the very helpful lady helped us book the Mariner Club which is in Alcudia, Mallorca through Thompsons. So, early evening on 11th May we flew with no problems from a scorching...

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Review of Mariner Club, Alcudia

Hotels from another Planet?

Advantages: Facilities are amazing
Disadvantages: The rooms could do with an upgrade

...The Holiday we went for and how we come across it??? Early June of this year, me and my very close friend Sarah decided we wanted to book a holiday. We wanted to go within the next few days, so last minute deals were not hard to find, especially on the teletext or internet which was our normal method of finding a holiday bargain. Although Teletext seemed to be coming up with the most bargains at this point so we stuck with them. Me and Sarah always liked Majorca, and knew that this was the area we would like to visit again, but maybe this time in a different resort rather than Palma or Magaluf which we had stayed at many times recently. After half a days browsing through the different holidays on Teletext, the resort of Alcudia seemed to be the most viable option for us. We phoned First Choice, which were the company...

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Review of Hotels Jupiter and Saturno, Alcudia

Bellevue apartments alcudia

Advantages: good entertainment,
Disadvantages: noise, lack of cleanliness

...A few years back we where undecided as to where we should go for our summer hols. So I drew the short straw and off I set to the travel agents. The girl in Thomas Cook was very helpful, and suggested Majorca, we had never been there before and she made it sound so nice I decided this was to be our destination. She recommended the Bellevue apartments in Alcudia, from the brochure these apartments sounded very appealing, 3 star, up to eight swimming pools to chose from, plenty of entertainment they sounded right for a family of four. Our flight from Belfast was at midnight, which really gets the hols of to a good start (I don't think so!) especially after a 2 hour delay, but anyway. When we got to the complex we where surprised by the number of apartment blocks on the one site, from memory I think there are about 10 different...

veramck 25.12.2001 · Read review
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Best place in Majorca

Advantages: Great beaches, assortment of restaurants
Disadvantages: None

...I've been going to Alcudia for 5 years now. I always go for 29th june which is the Festival of St. Peter the patron saint of fishermen. This starts with a 3 week build up of events for the locals, mainly for children. It culminates on 29th june with a parade and marching band from Alcudia old town to the small church in Alcudia port area. The whole length of the road from Alcudia old town to the port is covered in what looks like olive leaves behind the parade. Miraculously these leaves are all cleared away by the next morning. At 7-30 pm all the boats in the harbour sail out a small distance to the sea where they are all blessed by a priest and at midnight there is the best pyrotechnics display you will ever see. Then the locals all start to celebrate. Alcudia itself is spread over 3 main areas. The old town, the port area and Belle...

barry42 17.09.2006 · Read review
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Loved the location

Advantages: The location of the hotel on the beach
Disadvantages: A little secluded without a car as buses are always full and often don't stop.

...Spent two weeks at the Alcudia Pins 2 adults, 3 kids age 6, 11 and 12. August 08 Positives -Location superb, direct access to clean sandy, safe beach with turquoise clear water. Taps available to wash feet before returning to hotel. -Kids spent hours entertaining themselves on the slide and go-karts. They also made lots of friends. -Half board great, lots of variety, barbecue restaurant in beer garden also worth a visit. -My 6 year old daughter loved the kids club and explained to me that you had to be 'patient' when playing games as the rules had to be explained in 4 different languages! Negatives - Hotel cannot cope with demand at peak time, hence on going 'sun bed saga' and continuous overbooking with irate people being turned away at reception. We booked a 2 bed apartment 12 months ago but were told on arrival that it was not...

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