Calas De Mallorca 2025

I mentioned in my last post that at the time of publishing it, we were on holiday in Majorca. We arrived home on the 4th having had a wonderful time.

The weather has been fabulous, blue skies and not a cloud to see, until our last day when it was a little breezy but that was rather nice actually as it had been so hot all week.

We stayed in Calas de Mallorca, a purposely built resort with three sandy coves. It's not a busy area, there isn't very much to do here, but we've stayed in this part of Majorca before so we knew what it was like before we arrived. We'd gone all-inclusive so we knew we'd be hanging out around the hotel, it's exactly what we wanted, a relaxing holiday without having to move far. This photo was taken one evening, the beach was still quite busy.

The hotel was spotlessly clean and the staff very helpful. There was an entertainment programme which ran throughout the day with poolside games, sports, quizzes, dancing, cooking demonstrations etc. You could be as involved as much or as little as you liked. The evening entertainment was a mixture of singers, dancers, a disco one evening, karaoke etc. Eleanor even got up on karaoke night and gave us her rendition of Somebody to Love which attracted a rousing reception.

The food was okay. Nothing really to write home about but it was adequate, you'd have to be very very fussy to not find something you could eat. Pizza and pasta was available every night as well as different meat, fish, vegetables, salad, cold meat, cheese etc. The cakes and desserts were very good, this is just a small selection of what was on offer. As we were all-inclusive, breakfast, lunch and dinner was included as well as snacks throughout the day. These consisted of burgers, hot-dogs, pastries, cakes, cookies, crepes, crisps, nuts etc. There were also packets of sandwiches and tubs of ice-cream available.

We were in and out of the pool, it was nice to take a dip to cool off. There were some water slides at one end which Daniel especially enjoyed. Yes, he's thirty, but do they every really grow up! You can just see Eleanor, Jacob and Jack in the background here. My family are real water babies so they also went snorkelling in the sea and saw lots of fish. I'm not a water baby, I can swim well enough and I enjoy a dip, but I can take it or leave it so I stayed back at the hotel looking after Jack.

It was Jack's first holiday abroad and he loved it. Here he is with his Auntie Jasmine, another water baby in the family.

It's been so lovely to spend the week with all my family, especially as it wasn't something we'd planned, the holiday was only booked the week before we went. So many precious memories made. I'm glad we all enjoyed this carefree time together as unfortunately, on the day we arrived home Jasmine was informed that she's being made redundant. She's got eight weeks until her job will end and she will only receive statutory redundancy pay so she'll now be job hunting in earnest.

Not the greatest end to such a lovely week together.