Re: re: writing as a new member
Well done bee66 for getting me off my backside and joining the forum after years of reading and not putting anything back in.
But firstly may I thank POLLENSA for having the great idea of putting it all on the net for us all to see as often as we like.
We too, have been visiting the port and surrounding area for almost twenty years. We've stayed in villas in the Pollensa hills and on the old road to pollensa from llenire, as well as hotels and apartments in the port itself and have loved them all( well, almost all)
The first time we stayed we booked via Travel club of Upminster and they put us in the Illa d'or apartments and because it was out of season we had breakfast in the hotel thrown in free. What a lovely hotel with great characters too...and that's just the guests! We liked it so much that we stayed there quite a few times, booking direct on the phone and sorting our flights out ourselves.
We used to do the same when we stayed in a villa. In the old days when Mallorca Farmhouses brochure used to advertise special offers in big flash villas if you booked with less than a week to go before the holiday, you got to stay in these lovely big places with pool etc. for next to nothing(relatively). When offspring would ask where we were staying we would reply 'near the beach, or maybe on it '.
One day the Sunday Times travel section outed the Illa D'or as the place to be and I said to my partner that we'd never be able to book direct again; and I was wrong... but only just.I still remember fondly, once the outside bar had been erected for the summer months, by the pier on the waters edge, sitting looking over the bay at the boats, Pinkers & Tonic (heavy on the ice, two slices of lime) in hand, when this nutter appeared in an aeroplane pretending he was Harrison Ford in some bloody feature film. They want to stop that...it looks bloody dangerous.
Anyway once the newspaper had effectively evicted us we had to find somewhere else to lay our hat so we had a look at the good old Miramar. What a spot! Much more eclectic mix of folk passing by; maybe not quite so many panamas' as the Illa D'or, but a sight more Rangers tops and shell suits to gladden the eye and remind one of home.
What a great town, what great people. it would be a worse place if we were all the same!
Seven weeks and counting.
alan.
