After all those dumb tv reports about Mallorca on German tv I promised myself: Never Ever will I visit Mallorca.
Whenever you see those “reports” from Palma de Mallorca about the Ballermann, the drunk men etc you know what I mean ;-)
So, the original "Summer Vacation 2011" plan was to go down to South Africa, visiting my friends Doug (in Johannesburg) and Scott (in Cape Town).
Unfortunately such trip costs at the moment around EUR 3k – so a little “change” was necessary.
After some discussion with wifey, we decided to go Mallorca for a short 5 day trip.
Tried first to plan everything by myself (flight, hotel, car…) like I did in the past (eg. Thailand) – but noticed quickly that such “combine it yourself trip” down to Mallorca is at the end waste of time. Either the flight or the hotel was more expensive than those package holidays they offer via Expedia.de , Opodo.de and all the others.
At the end decided to book a 5-day-stay in the hotel PROTUR Sa Coma Playa Hotel & Spa (incl flight & car) via Opodo.de for EUR 513 per person.
The chosen hotel, located at the eastern cost of Mallorca, is a newly renovated 4-star hotel with reviews to blow away – the average review rating is 9/10 at all those “hotel review sites”, like TripdAdvisor.com etc.
Due to the fact that we will arrive at Palma airport around 7:30pm and the driving from the airport to the hotel will take another +/- 60 minutes we have at the end a total 3 full days on “Europes Vacation Island” (yes… return flight back home is alreay at 9am in the morning). So, not really much time we have…
The question now was: What to do in only 3 days?
Well… nobody of us was ever visiting Mallorca before. All I know about this place is that it is a “hotspot” in Europe when it comes to golf (thanks due to the weather conditions) and, according to several tv reports, a lot of drunken people are running around in Palma and the beach.
To make it easy I downloaded the Tripwolf app (which I already used before for a daystrip down to Strasbourg) and checked for any interesting places & spots in our area – which results in a, hopefully, nice day-trip-by-car along the eastern coast…
Größere Kartenansicht
Along this “drive around the island plan” I will go for a nice round of golf @ Pula Golf for sure – they say that this is one of the best golf courses in Mallorca. Would be a shame if I would pass the chance to play there, wouldn’t it? Wifey said she will enjoy the hotel spa during that time – especially it’s in the price included.
More To Come :-)
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