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    You should book your airport transfer before you arrive in Palma Airport. My reason for suggesting this as a top tip is that upon arrival you are greeted by a welcome desk in the airport and directed to your vehicle. This ensures a hassle free arrival – something to not worry about. The guys we used are www.justtransfers.com/airports/palma.html. After booking you also receive local contact numbers should you need it. The price is really cheap and they cover all tourist resorts on Mallorca.

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    If you are a fan of this brand you will love this outlet store. It's well signposted once you are in Inca, with a large car park. The styles are generally a season behind but knock down prices are amazing. This place can get pretty busy in the summer so be prepared, but at these prices it's all worth it!

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    My top tip for Puerto Pollensa is to take a stroll along pine walk and look out for the orange flavoured ice-creams!

    Also Puerto Pollensa is a long way from Palma and we recommend booking an airport transfer - we used JustTransfers www.justtransfers.com/spain/mallorca/puertopollensa/ which was cheap and excellent.

    It’s a lovely place!

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    Bistro Santa Catalina

    Posted by karl1969 5 June 2007

    We went to Mallorca for 2 weeks and this was the best food we ate while we were there.

    It's a small restaurant, seating maybe 20 at the most - it's business card says, Bistro, Cocina de Mercado.

    The food was amazing - they have a fixed 5 course menu that changes each month for 22.50 Euros and it was just incredible: I remember mostly the caramelised pate, chicken and asparagus in filo, there was a fish dish, and a beautiful desert that had fresh strawberry or raspberry sorbet.

    Much better than the restaurant at Hotel Portixol by a coutry mile or three.

    I'm thinking of going back every month.

    15 C. Fabrica, and the phone number is 871 94 16 04

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    Pirates Adventure Show

    Posted by KatyMc 10 May 2007

    Each year my husband and I bundle our three children, Nathan, 15, Emily 12, and Oscar, 7, out to Magalluf, Majorca to stay with his parents.

    Each year we try in vain to find something that will suit all of us and fail miserably.

    This year we did our research and bought tickets for Pirates Adventure show online.

    It was a brilliant child-friendly night of entertainment; amazing acrobatics for the adults, dancing girls for Nathan and slapstick larks for Emily, Oscar and the grandparents!

    Pirates Adventure
    Carretera la Porrassa
    Magaluf
    Telephone: +34 971 130 411
    Fax: +34 971 130 083
    Web site: www.piratesadventure.com

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    A lovely hotel in Deia, a small town nestled in the north western mountains of Mallorca (the Tremuntana range). The hotel is situated ideally, the breakfast terrace overlooks the pool and is surrounded by mountains which makes you feel like you're floating.

    Deia is a beautiful place, although the presence of two five-star hotels means a lot of restaurants are pricey (although excellent). The tapas bar at the end of the road out of town is fabulous. A walk up the hill from town takes you to the cemetery where Robert Graves is buried. It's a beautiful place with spectacular views. If you need a pinch of reality, take a trip to Palma, for a day of shopping and city stuff, before taking the orange train (wooden narrow guage train, which used to transport oranges) across (and through, literally) the mountains over to Soller - a nearby port, which is quiet and friendly and a million miles from Magaluf, but just a 15 minute taxi drive back to Deia.

    www.hoteldespuig.com

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