http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/ Welcome to Been there. Your tips on the places you know - that you love, live in or have just visited - are what make this guide. http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/34564 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/34564 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/34561 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/34561 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/34034 It has two beach bars, completely different in style and ambience but both special in their own way. They serve excellent meals, cold beers and good wine.
One is very modern with moulded chairs and tables, lobster evenings, and food and (sometimes live) music 'till late.
The other is more traditional in style, serving lunches, snacks, cervezas, coffees, pollo and fritas.
Both overloook a tranquil secluded bay beneath the Caves of Arta and Cap Vermell and have the feel of old Mallorca about them.
You can sit late into a warm summer's evening listening to the waves on the shore and watching the lights go out on the villas high up on the cliffs which shelter the bay, while eating lobster or locally caught fish.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/34034 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/23537
The place to stay is the friendly, family-run Hostal Dragonera. It has double rooms from 57 euros in high season which come with ample buffet breakfast served in a dining room overlooking the gorgeous, sheltered bay. There is a sun terrace with free sunbeds from where steps lead down to what is essentially a private sandy beach seperated by rocks from the village's main strand.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/23537 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/13097
It is accessible by road and then a short walk and just along the coast from Porto Petro. Busy with families but not packed and set in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

Fantastic, safe swimming/snorkeling - it gets deep quickly but very sheltered and only a short walk along the rocky path (from which you can dive in several places) to another beautiful and much quieter little beach.

Facilities include two restaurants/ bars with great reasonably-priced food and also showers. We all loved it (11 of us, ages 5- 62). We've been back there each year for the last four and never tire of it.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/13097 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12303
This is the modern, spruced up side of Palma and the restaurant menus reflect that – scrambled egg and sea urchin caviar with truffles was on the menu when I went to Minimar. If you want patatas bravas and gambas you’ll have to head back into central Palma.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12303 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12289 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12289 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12288 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12288 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12267 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12267