BJ Bei Juan Hostal

The hotel is a mere 100 m away from the sea and a few minutes' walk from a great number of bars and restaurants. The town itself can be reached by the direct airport bus, which you can't say about everywhere in Mallorca, especially not on the East coast of the island. Our breakfast was in the nearby Playa Blanca Hotel and we had a view of the pool. We had car parking for free in and around the disused mini golf course in the back. It was very reasonably priced rates for mid July high season, including breakfast. The only downside was the check-in process - we did NOT know that we were meant to go to the nearby Playa Blanca hotel to check in, so when you arrive at 2.30am (our flight was nearly 3 hours late) you could be a bit puzzled as to what to do and where to go. You live, you learn.

The hotel was meh. I read a lot of the reviews about the hotel before I booked it and they were mostly negative, however for the price I’d say it probably lives up to it, maybe a tad expensive. This is not a luxury hotel but it doesn’t advertise being one either so I don’t know what you expect. If all you need is a bed to sleep and a shower this will do fine, however sleeping was a nightmare due to the heat. We had a fan in the room that did next to nothing, so we had some sleepless nights because of that. There’s also ALOT of noise, there was a bar right under us across the street, and in the morning there was heavy traffic and just constant noise. I believe there’s several hotels in this chain so you have to check in at the “main” hotel and get the key and then you can go to your building. Breakfast was nothing fancy, usual stuff, egg, bacon, croissants, baguettes, ham, cheese and some fruit. We ended up eating out for breakfast a few times because it’s very mediocre. Location was nice, just a 5 minute walk to the beach and also 5 minutes to a second beach in Sa Coma, a lot of great restaurants nearby. It’s also easy access to buss if you want to travel to nearby towns, the bus stop is almost right next to the hotel. Overall I probably won’t stay here again solely because there’s no air conditioning making it impossible to sleep, but again, if all you need is a bed to sleep and a shower it works fine.

Super !