Heaven in Majorca

Advantages: Quiet location, lovely hotel, brilliant food, private beach.
Disadvantages: Quite expensive and could be a bit quiet.

...the towns of Magaluf and Palma are a short bus/taxi ride away, the cultural town of Santa Ponsa is just 10 minutes away and there's also large golf courses nearby. Prices at the hotel range from £75 to £100 a night for 2 adults sharing a room during the summer months. We booked through Sovereign Premium Holidays (www.sovereign.com) and it cost us £2700 for the 4 of us, flights included, for a weeks all inclusive stay at the Riu Palace Bonanza Playa. Prices start at £629 for one person staying on a half board basis for 2006 summer season and at £739 for the all inclusive option. I had a lovely time staying in Majorca, we visited in July 2005 so the temperatures were fairly high and we were lucky enough to have sunshine every single day. The hotel itself was beautiful with the rooms and facilities being decorated and maintained to a high...

blonde_girl774 30.10.2005 · Read review
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Majorca the Magnificent

Advantages: Short flight, English widely spoken, beautiful beaches, great nightlife, I could go on forever
Disadvantages: You have to come home

...I have been to Majorca twice in the last three years. On the first occasion, I went with my husband and our two children who were 4 and 2 at the time. We chose Majorca because of the relatively short flight time of two hours. We stayed in Alcudia at the Marte Hotel which is in an all inclusive complex which also includes the hotels Jupiter and Saturno. We went in the second and third weeks of May. The first week was very unsettled, rainy and windy, but the second week was beautiful and the temperature got warmer by the day. The resort of Alcudia is very busy but geared more for families rather than singles. The beach is sandy and very clean. We hired a car locally for a week and I think this was probably one of the best decisions we made. Car hire is very cheap. We paid about the same amount for a whole week's car hire as...

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Lagotel hotel, Playa de Muro-Alcudia- Majorca

Advantages: Good 3* family hotel
Disadvantages: Bit of a walk into Alcudia

...Lagotel Hotel- Alcudia, Majorca Flight 2 hours from Cardiff to Palma, with first choice passed by quickly thank-goodness not a flyer! Transfer This took approx 50 minutes. Resort On arrival check-in was efficient and staff polite but a little stern looking. The hotel is outside Alcudia in Playa De Muro but the buses are regular and cheap to the strip. The hotel as a courtesy bus to the beach, which is lovely, shallow and white sand and ample sun beds and umbrellas. Hotel On arrival check-in was efficient and staff polite but a little stern looking. Lobby was quite spacious with ample seating and also Internet facilities, with Reps desks at the end. Off the lobby was a large bar with satellite TV and games machines for the children to waste their money on. This is also where they held the entertainment in the evening...

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Best place in Majorca

Advantages: Great beaches, assortment of restaurants
Disadvantages: None

...more expensive than the rest of Majorca. Accomodation in the port area is usually very good with plenty choice of food, there are many and varied types of restaurants along the port front all serving very nice food. A few Chinese restaurants and the usual burger bar for fast food. There are about 6 british type bars which are good and friendly. The beach is the best beach I've ever seen. It spreads for apout 6 miles so there's plenty of room and there are a few bars spread along the beach....

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Magaluf, Majorca a great fun holiday

Advantages: Lots to do, BCMs, Pirates
Disadvantages: Food can be expensive

...This holiday was my first without my parents in July 2006. I was with my boyfriend and we were staying in the Majorca Beach Hotel in Magaluf. 1.The Hotel - Majorca Beach Hotel Plain from outside, but rooms were of a good standard. We were self-catering, so didn't experience the food but we were told my other holiday makers it was good. The hotel was in a good location, near enough to the strip that you could stumble home, but far enough away so that you could get some sleep! Right next to the beach too! There were two pools, an adults and kids pool. Very cold and lovely in the sun but boring and square and quite deep. The hotel 'apparently' made sure no one reserved sun loungers near the pool, but every morning nearly all the sun loungers were taken, so best bet was to get up early and stick a towel on a couple. The hotel had...

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Ca's Puers, Soller, Majorca

Advantages: Luxurious hotel and good family beach
Disadvantages: Perphaps a bit too posh for a young family, no pool

...This is really a review of a stay at a specific hotel called Ca's Puers in Soller, Majorca. http://www.caspuers.com/ We booked the hotel direct (they speak good English) and bought flights / car hire separately. Ca's Puers is in Soller in the North of the island. There are two bits to Soller, Port de Soller which (as you've guessed) is on the coast and Soller itself which is about ten minutes drive or ten minutes in the tourist train from the beach. Once you're on the coast , the bay is enclosed from the rest of the Med and is therefore very calm, making it perfect for young children. We stayed for eleven nights in September 2000 paying Ptsa 250,000 (about £100) a night for the room which was certainly big enough for the two of us and our daughter, plus £111 each return air fare (no discount for the nipper) plus car hire...

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Belle View Appartments in Alcudia, Majorca

Advantages: Nice views and hot sun
Disadvantages: Smelly and noisy

...you have to pay for). The selection of food was very good, ranging from cold fresh salad to carved chicken, fish, pasta, a good selection of vegetables and sweet selection. The dining area was fully air conditioned, which was great in the hot evenings. Overall We had a good time while we were away. We went prepared with insect repellent, plenty of money and a good thick book. Like all the reviews here, these are our views but I have tried to be honest and give good and bad points. Majorca is a nice place and the best way to appreciate it is to visit it. If you go – have a nice time!...

terry.barker 27.09.2002 · Read review
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mediauk.com

Advantages: A decent media website...
Disadvantages: ...but no better than that

...Anyone looking for a job in the media, or even an insight into the big wide world of it, could do much worse than look here to begin with - mediauk.com. Operating since 1994, it lists current available jobs in radio, tv and print media, recent news articles on all these forms of media and a discussion board. Now being a graduate in a degree of this field of work, the jobs board has been an interest to me for quite a while...but don't expect to find work instantly. Anything but. Copious numbers of people view these adverts (you can see how many exactly in the job listings), but don't let that deter you of course - if you're good and experienced enough then you'll come across the job for you eventually. The jobs listed usually just contain a small job description and contact details for where to send your cover letter and CV, but...

carl.mcqueen 14.10.2009 · Read review
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dictionary.com

Advantages: Good free service
Disadvantages: Too many adverts & pop-ups

...Dictionary.com?! Dictionary.com?! Seriously?! Why, yes, something that seems so simply and basic has it's place on the World Wide Web (yes, I'm aware of the irony!), but fear not...it's not as basic as it seems! Rather than just typing in a word to discover its definition, dictionary.com does provide a far greater service. Since it's launch way back in 1995 (were websites even around then?!), it's one of the world's most popular services, as naturally many people will just type in 'dictionary.com' into their browser if they need to find the definition of a word...even if they don't know the website exists, it makes sense to have a crack at it! The website does provide a thesaurus option, translator and encyclopaedia...for anyone even contemplating steering away from Wikipedia, God forbid! But there are other quirks to the website...

carl.mcqueen 15.10.2009 · Read review
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gumtree.com

Advantages: Very detailed
Disadvantages: Open to fraud

...Many will remember a time when the classified section of a local newspaper was all there was if you wanted to look for second-hand goods, or look for a place to live without going to an estate agent?but not anymore. Goodbye the classified section; hello Gumtree.com To quote the frontpage of the website, Gumtree advertises ?Homes, jobs, cars, sofas, vintage records? anything, really??and they?re not wrong! It lists it?s good in cities across the country. And not just the capital cities of the UK, but anywhere from Brighton to Nottingham, from Oxford to Aberdeen. This handy tool can help you look for exactly what you?re after without having to sift through adverts from cities hundreds of miles from you. Now, to indicate the scale of the website, in the London section, the ?Flats and Houses? adverts totals 124,174!! That seems a bit...

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