Where to go 2008

Acorncup · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject:

We went last year, and are booked to go again in September!

We are more familiar with the top end of PP near the Pine Walk (we stay at Puerto Azul). There has been a lot more building "behind" the Pine Walk, the other side of the main road, but surprisingly this doesn't seem to have made the difference we thought it might. Yes it is limited to 3 storey buildings, most of them are private apartments rather than hotels (there is one Thomson superfamily block, the Playa Mar), they are quite well hidden by the trees, and most of the Boquer woods have been preserved.

There has also been a school built behind the Puerto Azul. This was closed for the summer last time we went, don;t know what sort of noise it will produce in term time

but heck the local kids need a school.....

The biggest change has been the building of the bypass, this is a dual carriageway cut behind the town and coming out on the Formentor Road behind the Playa Mar (if you have got Google Earth on your computer, you can see it all

). The bypass is a big help to the traffic in the town, and although it is an eyesore to the view from puerto Azul

there is not really all that much traffic, so it is not noisy at the northern end anyway.

When we first arrived in 1995, at about 10.30pm, we sat on our balcony and watched and heard goats which had escaped from the Boquer farm, maa-ing and clanking along in the scrub behind the hotel looking for wild figs and any grass, .......
Still, things always change.....

yes the Daina is still there, I expect you know the prom all along from the taxi rank to the Pine Walk is pedestrianised now? sadly there were some bad storms a few years ago, and several of the larg pine trees along the walk were destroyed by it, which has left some huge gaps......
some of the old villas have been pulled down and new ones squeezed in, but many of the charming ones are still there, and the PW is still a haunt for peaceful holidaymakers of many nationalities, including Spanish, who love the relaxed atmosphere there

Don't know the villa concha, but I'm sure it is still there

When did you visit?

we have got friendly with the head waitress at Puerto Azul now, and always meet up and go for a meal out when we are there (on her day off!!) she has 2 young children now. When we first met, she told my hubby off for wearing shorts to dinner.....nowadays they have to allow this, she was nealry attacked by a guest over the subject once

but we now respect the Spanish tradition of being smart for the evening meal and trying to make an occasion of it, because they work hard to try to make it special for us

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I have posted my 2007 holiday photos here...see below for the link.....but as you are a new member you might not have access to this private section yet......we have had some trouble with new members in the past, and so you have to be a member for a while before you are "allowed in" and I don't know if you are yet......

http://holidaychat.myfreeforum.org/about17027.html

If not, please pm a mod and ask to be let in

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costapacket · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject:

We first stayed there in 1987 and stayed at the Diana. In subsequent years as the family grew we looked for an apartment as hotels do not take 3 children in the room with you. The Villa Concha was in a quieter area. As you walk away from Pine Walk along the coast in the direction of Alcudia you cross a bridge (where you can see the big fish) and it is just past there, set back one road from the front. Way before the Hotel Pollensa. I don't know the place you stay but many thanks for the update. We must try and get back there as it is a really lovely place. Have a great holiday - well I know you will