Balearic Islands · Spain
Where to stay in Mallorca
Mallorca is a city in Balearic Islands, Spain, home to about 949,000 people. This guide covers 6 hotels in Mallorca, with about 545 rooms between them. 3 of them carry a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 6
- Best months
- May, June and September
- Nearest airport
- PMI22 km · Palma de Mallorca Airport
- Currency
- EUReuro
- Time zone
- Europe/Madrid
- Language
- Basque, Catalan, Galician
About
About Mallorca
Mallorca, also spelled Majorca in English, is the largest of Spain's Balearic Islands, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
200 years ago this was the undiscovered Mediterranean, and Frédéric Chopin came to stay. The main thing that lay undiscovered was the whereabouts of his grand piano, which the baggage handlers lost in transit, setting the bar very high for their future colleagues. Mass tourism only took off after 1975, when Franco's death ended the Spanish dictatorship (see 20th-century Spain) and Spain presented a more friendly modern face to the world. The Balearics were within easy flying range of Britain and Germany, and were somehow just-foreign-enough.
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Mallorca
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leonardo Boutique Hotel Mallorca Port Portals - Adults Only hotel | 77 | 92/100 2,166 reviews |
| 2 | Leonardo Royal Hotel Mallorca Palmanova Bay hotel | 170 | 85/100 3,011 reviews |
| 3 | Leonardo Royal Hotel Mallorca hotel | 298 | 84/100 4,897 reviews |
3 more places to stay, without a published guest score
| Place to stay |
|---|
| Barceló Illetas Albatros - Adults Only hotel |
| Barceló Ponent Beach hotel |
| Occidental Playa de Palma hotel |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
Which part of Mallorca to stay in
Palma and the nearby coastal strip groan under the weight of tourist accommodation. This is overwhelmingly in mid-price modern chain hotels, with little in the way of small independent pensions and next-to-no camping. Most visitors are on packages, which are extremely good value: in effect you pay the standard room rate, and get your return flight from Britain or Germany free. Standards are high, as the package company reps are zealous about quality, it's their job on the line if the guests succumb to food poisoning. All the larger coastal towns have a good selection of hotels and room-only aparthotels, but there are few inland.
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When to go
The best time to visit Mallorca
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Mallorca are May, June and September. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 30 °C; October is the wettest, with about 90 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Mallorca: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI), about 22 km from the city centre in a straight line; Menorca Airport (MAH, 109 km) is also within reach.
Getting in
Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI) is the island's only commercial airport, and where most visitors arrive. It has frequent scheduled flights from Madrid, Barcelona and other Spanish cities. Flights from other countries are mostly on budget airlines / package tours, especially from Britain and Germany. These arrive every few minutes in summer but are sparse in winter. There are also flights from Menorca and Ibiza, but these are double the price of the equivalent ferries yet only save an hour. The airport is 8 km east of Palma city.
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PMI · Palma de Mallorca Airport
MAH · Menorca Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Mallorca
Eat
Mallorcan cuisine is typically Mediterranean, based on bread, vegetables and meat (especially pork), with olive oil for cooking or garnish. A simple summer meal is Pa amb Oli, bread with olive oil, tomato, and maybe cheese and tunafish. Trampó is similar but with vegetables instead of bread. Other local dishes include Frit Mallorquí (diced meat and veg) and Sopes Mallorquines (a simple dish of bread and vegetables, optionally with meat, eggs or wild mushrooms). Seafood paella is a tourist favourite yet authentically local. Sobrassada is a sausage made of pork, paprika and condiments. It's eaten plain or toasted, on a slice of bread, and it's also used in preparing other dishes.
Drink
Water from the tap is safe to drink, but tastes flat and lukewarm, as it comes from desalination. You might prefer bottled. Drinking alcohol is allowed if you are 18 or older, as in the rest of Spain. Only bars, restaurants, discos and the like may serve it after 10 pm. You are seldom more than 5 metres from a beer, but it's all imported except for a few micro-brews. San Miguel's brewery on the island has folded. Magaluf and Palma's Paseo Maritime are the main late-night strips, but even the small resorts are buzzing well after midnight.
Stay safe
Safeguard valuables, beware traffic including water traffic when swimming, and steer clear of antisocial drunks. Magaluf has the worst reputation for binge drinking and street rowdiness, and the discos thump-thump-thump into the small hours.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Mallorca
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Questions
Mallorca: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Mallorca?
By published guest score: Leonardo Boutique Hotel Mallorca Port Portals - Adults Only (92 / 100 · 2,166 reviews · www.leonardo-hotels.com (operator's own guest score)); Leonardo Royal Hotel Mallorca Palmanova Bay (85 / 100 · 3,011 reviews · www.leonardo-hotels.com (operator's own guest score)); Leonardo Royal Hotel Mallorca (84 / 100 · 4,897 reviews · www.leonardo-hotels.com (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Mallorca?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Mallorca are May, June and September. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 30 °C; October is the wettest, with about 90 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Mallorca?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI), about 22 km from the city centre in a straight line; Menorca Airport (MAH, 109 km) is also within reach.
Are there accessible hotels in Mallorca?
1 place in this guide list accessible rooms.
What currency is used in Mallorca?
euro (EUR).
Nearby
Destinations near Mallorca
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.