Puerto Pollensa - Excellent for young families

Advantages: Great beach, very attractive, good shopping
Disadvantages: Poor for sight seeing, long transfer, no trendy nightlife

...Puerta Pollensa is about 75 minutes transfer from the airport and is located in the extreme north east of Majorca. The town itself is notable for its extensive harbour with lots of local fishing boats, holiday boats and some bigger cruisers. It also has an excellent beach stretching towards Alcudia. The beach is clean and sandy. It has hamacas and parasols all the way along (2000 charge was 1300 ptas for two hamacas and a parasol per day. You can of course use the beach free of charge. The sea at PP is excellent because the resort is sheltered and therefore the sea is quite calm. It also gets a good breeze which means it is often the coolest place in the resort. For swimming and for childrens safety the whole seafront is very good. The beach also has resources for hobie cats, wind surfing, and the banana. From the harbour boats are...

pmiller 08.08.2000 · Read review
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Review of Puerto de Pollensa, Majorca

Puerto Pollensa - Family Destination

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...If you are considering Puerto Pollensa as a family holiday destination do not hesitate. Having just come back from two glorious weeks I heartily recommend it. Puerto Pollensa is a quiet resort in the north of Majorca. It is situated in a beautiful bay and as a good beach and a wide variety of good restaurants. The accommodation that we stayed in was very good (Habitat apartments). It had 3 swimming pools, nightly entertainment and children?s activities during the day. Whether you enjoy beach/pool holidays or want to travel Puerto Pollensa is a great place. The bus service is very good. You can visit busy Alcudia or if you like something even quieter and idyllic Cala San Vicente. A 15-minute bus ride gets you to Cala San Vicente, which is possibly the most beautiful place on the Island. Even so Cala San Vicente is amazingly quiet. It has...

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Review of Puerto de Pollensa, Majorca

Puerto de Pollensa

Advantages: Peaceful
Disadvantages: Distance from airport

...If you are of the opinion, (which I was I must admit), that Majorca was a place frequented by only the young and noisy then think again. On the northern part of the island is a resort called Puerto Pollensa which bears no resemblance to the lively southern part of the island. It is heaven on earth. A lovely, peaceful resort which has not seen that much development and retains a very spanish feel to it. Set on a beautiful long, white, sandy beach with the clear blue water on one side and mountains on the other, it truly gives a diferent perspective to Majorca. No discos, just friendly little restaurants, bars and cafes. Ideal for families with younger children and for couples looking for a romantic spot.!! Downside is that it is an hour's drive from the airport and with many of the island's 'tourist' attractions situated in...

pumpkin1 30.07.2000 · Read review
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  Food for the Soul.

Advantages: Beach, sea, food, relaxation, more food
Disadvantages: A busy road - be careful out there.

...A quick guide to Puerto Pollensa I'm no great traveller and I'm even less of a travel-writer. This may hit the spot, it may not. Let's see shall we? I've been visiting Puerto Pollensa on the north-eastern tip of Mallorca for 25 years now and I can quite categorically say, it's my favourite part of the world. Many a wonderful holiday has been spent there and each time I go, a flood of happy memories come to me like the gentle lapping of the water on the golden beaches. In all that time, I've seen a few changes but the essence of the place has remained unchanged. Thanks to frugal town-planning where only old buildings can give way to new, Puerto Pollensa has retained the charm that so enticed us in the summer of '82 and just about every year since. First of all though, if you're reading this hoping to get an idea for your...

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Great apartments - great location

Advantages: Value for money, lovely location
Disadvantages: Slightly noisy plumbing, basicness of kitchen area

...Great apartments - great location! Our first time to Majorca, Puerto Pollensa and the Don Miguel apartments and after reading other reviews we were a little worried about the quality of the apartments to say the least but we were very pleasantly surprised! Our Apartment As other people have said the apartments are quite basic but at the end of the day they are only 2 star so we weren't expecting luxury and were quite pleased with what we got! Our apartment was one bedroomed. It was apartment 2A and we were in the apartment block that ajoins the Panorama Hotel. We were on the 2nd floor and had 2 fabulously large balconies, one that overlooked the pool area and another off the bedroom, which really we never used. There were 2 single beds and ample wardrobe space there was also a bed settee in the lounge with further wardrobe space...

rachpoppy 02.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of Apartamentos Don Miguel, Puerto de Pollensa

Ocean World, Puerto Plata.....more than just dolphins!

Advantages: Wonderful Experience - A must visit
Disadvantages: Absolutely none

...I had the good fortune to visit Ocean World, located in Puerto Plata on the lovely island of Domincan Republic last year. It was my birthday while we were away, so my fiance and I decided to book the day trip with our travel rep, the idea being that on my birthday I would be swimming with dolphins! I was so excited as this is something that I had always wanted to do, but never got the opportunity until now... Ocean World Having driven through the man-made waterfall we had entered Ocean World Adventure Park. First impressions... were very impressive. Ocean World is home to one of the largest dolphin t man made dolphin habitats and its amazing...... Dolphins I had always wanted to swim with dolphins for as long as I can remember and now was my chance. After 'showering down' to make sure any perfumes, suncreams etc were...

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Aparthotel Playa Mar, Puerto Pollensa

Advantages: Clean, Friendly and Beautifully presented
Disadvantages: Quite a walk to the centre of town

...just a 2 minute walk to the sea front, however it is about another 10-15 minutes to walk in to the centre of Pollensa which is reached by walking along the beach front, palm tree lined, Pine Walk. The hotel has a shop attached to it which is small but well equipped, it is useful for those who are self-catering. My only criticism would be if you are looking for a child free, peaceful hotel this isn't the one for you as it attracts quite a few families with young children, but this won't be too much of a problem if you went outside of the school holidays. Overall it is a fun, friendly, clean and good quality hotel to stay at and I would recommend it to anyone from families to young couples....

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Breezes Hotel Puerto Plata

Advantages: Clean, nice food and lots to do
Disadvantages: Not much night life, book early at resturaunts

...I stayed at this 3+ star hotel for 2 weeks last March and overall i was pretty impressed. This hotel located at Puerto Plata was beautifully decorated and very clean and well kept, it seemed more like a 4 star hotel that a 3 star. We paid a little under £2,000 for two weeks all inclusive and this was for a double room with sea views. The hotel is right on the beach so the views were absolutely amazing.. We found most of the staff friendly and we got checked in within 15 minutes. On arrival our bags were collected and taken straight away so we could go straight to the reception to check in. This hotel is ideal for keen golfers and watersports fans as the hotel is right on the beach and has a large golf course to the side of the hotel. We were amazed at how nice and 'grand' the hotel looked when we got there. This hotel...

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Review of Breezes Puerto Plata, Puerto Plata

The New Adventures of Old Vallarta

Advantages: Lovely promenade and old town, great weather
Disadvantages: Not many restaurants in the hotel zone

...we were leaving to come home, we found the airport had a very good selection of shops and restaurants to kill time before a delayed-as-expected flight. The airport is located near the Marina, in-between the resorts of Puerto Vallarta and Nuevo Vallarta. The only taxi service available is the extortionate 'authorised-airport-taxi' set-up, which cost us 195 pesos (just under £10) to our hotel in the hotel zone. That may not sound too bad, but coming back we picked up a taxi right outside the hotel and it cost 50 pesos (£2.50) for the same journey in reverse. There are 3 main parts to Vallarta, and we explored all of them. PUERTO VALLARTA includes the old town and the hotel zone. We stayed on the edge of this and it was an hour's walk along an uninspired road to reach the proper old town. Alternatively, busses run this route too...

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Great apartments in Puerto Del Carmen

Advantages: Clean, friendly apartments
Disadvantages: Steep hills

...We stayed in these apartments in late Septemder and thiught they were great. They are in the centre of Puerto del Carmen and are rally close to the beach just 200 metres and the main strip of bars, pubs and restaurants. There are supermarkets located at each end of the street. Use the hill beside the spar as it is not as steep as the one on the left which they call cadiac hill. The apartments we stayed in were opposite reception they are 1 and 2 storied in three different locations - oppsite reception and pool and to either side of the pool. The apartments are spacious and have large a living/kitchen area, bathroom and bedroom. There is a tv in the room with some English Channels however you can pay at reception to get more channels like movies. We found them extremely clean and the maid cleaned every day. We always had fresh...

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