Golfers heading to Mallorca’s number-one golf destination, Son Gual, this summer, will welcome news that Jet2.com and Jet2holidays has increased its capacity to the holiday island. The leading leisure airline and package-holiday specialist, which serves Mallorca from nine of its UK airports, has more than one million seats on sale this summer – an increase […]
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Jet2 picks up Mallorca mantle
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Index shows Spanish property prices rose by 1% in 2015
Nationally residential property prices in Spain increased by 1% last year with the market having bottomed out and now on the way to recovery, new index figures suggest. The data from appraisal company Tinsa shows that the overall rise in prices was boosted by an increase of 2% in the regions of Catalonia, Madrid, and […]
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Celeb spotting in Mallorca
From the super yachts bobbing about off the coast to the luxury pads tucked away in the hills, Mallorca is a playground to the rich and famous. Many A-listers call the island home and many more delight in visiting it for their holidays. Models, actresses, sporting heroes, royalty… all have been wooed by the balmy […]
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Personalise that property perfectly with an off-plan purchase
With the Spanish property market beginning to look healthy once more (home buyers spent 23% more in 2014 on Spanish property than they did in 2013, according to the Ministry of Development), buyers are becoming more choosy about what they buy and where. Marc Pritchard, Sales and Marketing Director of leading Spanish homebuilder Taylor Wimpey […]
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Ryanair’s network re-invention at Brussels Airport
Ryanair has opened its second Belgian base at Brussels Zaventem with four aircraft set to offer ten new routes, delivering up to 1.5 million passengers per year. The low cost carrier revealed the move will result in sustaining 1,500 “on-site” jobs at Brussels Zaventem Airport with 200 weekly flights. The decision to start flying out […]
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VAT hikes will not hit Mallorca as hard as feared
Proposed hikes in VAT have caused an uproar in Mallorca and all across the Balearics recently. A government plan to hike VAT from 8% to 18% this Friday when the new budget is announced had led many spokespeople and workers within the tourism industry to complain, saying that tourism in Majorca and the other Balearic […]
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The wait is over ….
Mallorca Rocks is back with its most exciting bill to date; a truly incredible array of the most in-demand festival headliners, music pioneers and best breakthrough artists set to take over the Balearics every Tuesday during the 16 week-long, sun-drenched series of open-air gigs at the Mallorca Rocks Hotel. Opening with the incredible Ed Sheeran in June and closing […]
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Mallorca tops Spain for nights spent in hotels
MALLORCA was the Spanish tourist resort which registered the highest number of overnight hotel stays last year, with 41.6 million, new National Statistics Institute estimates reveal. Almost six and a half million tourists visited the island during 2011, of which 5.5 million were foreign residents. Regionally the Balearics were only topped by the Canary Islands. […]
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The Jazz Voyeur Festival
The eighth Jazz Voyeur Festival will be taking place on the 23rdof November in the city of Palma and is a wonderful event for music lovers and, in particular fans, of Jazz. The event gives visitors and residents of Mallorca a great chance to catch some of top artists and bands of the genre. From its inception […]
