Santa Ponsa Holiday Reviews

Santa Ponsa is lovely.

Santa Ponsa itself was nice lovely beach loads of shops bars and restaurants. We found ricki's very reasonable and very nice for English food, and kelly's on the corner was also nice but abit more expensive.

Santa Ponsa is a lovely place, with a lovely clean beach and plenty of bars and restaurants. We were on half board at our hotel but ate out one night at Crocodillos, it was excellent, highly reccommended, do go there!

fantastic beach,with lovely views, resort quite busy especially the end with all the bars but someting to walk round every night. Beach bars very expensive almost 3 times price of local supermarkets or street bars. Also check out the parakeets in the trees next to the beach area they are facinating to watch.

The resort takes about 20 minutes to walk to and there are various shops to look in, on the way. There is a large Irish part to Santa Ponsa, which is very lively but means that the resort is dominated by Irish people. There are plenty of things to see at night in the centre such as artists, living statues etc. For entertainment go to the square which is 5 minutes away from the hotel. Here you can sit and watch various acts such as tribute bands(Westlife, Abba, Elvis etc) and also some international acts such as the excellent Beijing acrobats. All in all we enjoyed the holiday, a very good hotel but not quite enough in the resort to make us go again.

Santa Ponsa is one of those resorts where if you want it quiet you can have just that, but if you want it abit rowdy then you can have that as well. The beach is excellent, the sea like a pond sunbeds and sunshades 3 euros each and Kennedy the sunbed man ,is a cabaret act always laughing and happy. Night life is good try the square tribute acts every night, and do not miss Dylan Cassidy he is Rod Stewarts double, and he is fantastic,for a quiet drink try the beach bar oposite Burger King, yes you are actually on the beach with a stunning view across the bay.

Santa Ponsa ....is a family orientated place. Lots of restaurants to choose from. Stay clear of the 1's with the views of the sea as the prices are over inflated and the food bad...you pay for the view. Crodilloes was by far the best place to eat and was packed within 30 minutes of opening and had queues.

There are lots of street entertainers of an evening on the main strip, and most are very good.

I will say that we were there for 2 weeks and half way through the second week the town was getting boring. Defo not for youngsters who want nightlife.

Santa Ponsa is excellent for families. If you go to "The Square" in the evenings there is free entertainment (mainly tribute bands ABBA, Bee Gees, Drifters, etc), comfortable seating and kids having a 'whale of time'. The resort attracts mainly Irish & Scottish holiday makers and part of Santa Ponsa is saturated with 'The Swinging Haggis bar', 'Mother Murphy's Kitchen', etc. The beach is cleaned every morning and if you look hard enough there are some very good restaurants. Easily reached from the airport and a good setting off point for the west coast mountains and coves which are magnificent.

Resort - The resort was quite divided. One part was quite brash, lots of scottish/irish bars which attracted the younger end. There was an area called " The Square" which catered for families, had nightly entertainment which everyone seemed to enjoy. The other part of the town had more quieter bars which overloooked the harbour - beautiful views of the bay!

Santa Ponsa has a beautiful, clean beach. No rubbish, obviously well maintained.

Really enjoyed this lovely resort. Bars and areas to suit all tastes and moods from young to old.

No worries here, the resort was buzzing with football on every available TV for the European Championships. Very good atmosphere at night with plently of places to have a drink. The kids also loved rumaging through the souvenir shops.

Eating out was a challenge with young kids as they would be limited to burgers or sausages and chips for the entire holiday in most locations. The food quality in most was poor. I had to return an entire meal in Mrs Murphy's Kitchen as the meat appeared uncooked in the middle.

However, one place outshone all the rest. 'Amigos' Mexican Restaurant. Excellent food, excellent service, excellent beer, you can't go wrong here even with the kids meals and extra starters and a round of beers and soft drinks and ice creams at around €70 all in.

Generally a good atmosphere around the town even till the early hours.

The resort is very pleasant.

Santa Ponsa is a lovely resort very family orientated, far removed from the hustle & bustle of MAGULLUF, Jardin Del Mar is located about 3 minutes away from 'SQUARE DEL JARDIN' where there a nightly shows, tribute bands & acts for kids & adults alike - remember to bring those pennies as 2 drinks is around 10 euros in current climate which is more expensive that city centre back home. Eating out in resort doesn't seemed too bad average cost 50-60 euro for family of four.

Beach goregous & Santa Ponsa had many coves.

A peaceful sedate resort, with plenty of shops & restaurants. There was a noisier area for children( the square) and a bar/club area for young adults. We steered clear of both of these, finding our "Shirley Valentine" corner, which was amazingly quiet. Keep walking along the prom as if you were going to the jetty to get a mini cruise - more on it later - and it is under a hotel at the end of the beach. We drank Colorado Peach cocktails as our night caps every evening. Protect yourself against the mosquitoes. Captain Birds-Eye has a stand just opposite the hotel. Make sure you book on the 5/6 hour cruise with paella & sangria included: excellent value at 22 euros. Do it before you go on any other trips. It is wonderful. Put on plenty of sunblock and keep topping it up even if you are brown already. We organised our own trip to Soller & the Port of Soller - if you watch the Majorca programme on Sky, it shows the little open window train that you go on. We had to go from Santa Ponsa to Palma by taxi, because the buses were full by the time they reached us. With 4 people it only cost 23 euros altogether, each way. It worked out slightly cheaper than the organised trip 44, instead of 60 euros, but we did not do the boat trip - it is probably worth going on the organised one. Beware the free blanket promotion trip unless you just want to see more of the island. It is supposed to be a half day, but finishes at 4.30.

The half day Andratx and Port of Andratx is worth going on, but the boat trip calls in at the Port anyway.

If you like healthy eating - like salads and no bread there is nowhere to get them except at the hotel.

Santa Ponsa is a good base, it is near the airport but not very typical Spanish and had no charm about it. A few good Irish bars which were fun.