INNSIDE PALMA BOSQUE.(ex.SOL INNSIDE PALMA BOSQUE)

Overall, we had a pleasant stay at the Melia Palma Bosque. The hotel is modern, very clean, and the breakfast offered a good variety and was enjoyable each morning. However, there are a couple of things future guests should be aware of. We stayed in rooms 313, 314, and 315, which are directly underneath the breakfast restaurant. From as soon as breakfast service started each morning, the noise of chairs and furniture being dragged across the floor above was extremely loud. It woke us up every day and made it impossible to get back to sleep. If you value a quiet morning, I’d strongly recommend avoiding these rooms. Personally, I can generally sleep through noise but this was impossible. We were travelling as a group and paid an additional fee to check in early so that we could have our rooms together. While we appreciated having adjacent rooms, it felt unusual to be charged for early check-in when the rooms were already ready on arrival. (We hadn’t arranged this prior) Most hotels we’ve stayed at would simply allow guests to check in if the rooms are available. Given that we paid extra, being allocated some of the noisiest rooms in the hotel was particularly disappointing. The pool area was another slight let-down. Considering the size of the hotel, there aren’t enough sunbeds, and the pool receives very little sunlight for much of the day. Despite these issues, the hotel itself is clean, the staff were pleasant, and the breakfast was very good. With better room allocation and improvements to the pool area, it would have been an better stay.

Beautiful, clean and comfortable rooms! The breakfast included with the room package is excellent! Nice relaxing sundeck and helpful, responsive staff. Loved it!!

Great hotel, clean room, odd room layout and good pool view.

I booked this hotel for a short break for my husband’s 40th birthday. Hotel is a 20 minute taxi trip from the airport, costing around €26. We arrived around 10.30am, and was greeted by a lovely lady on reception. Our room wasn’t ready to check into until 3pm, so we put our luggage in the luggage room and headed to the pool area. Overall the grounds of the hotel are lovely and clean. Plenty of sun loungers around the pool and also a roof top area above the indoor pool where you can get the sun all day. You can reserve the loungers as the lifeguard will remove your towels, but wasn’t a problem as there were so many. The outdoor pool is cold, but bearable once you’re in. The indoor pool is warmer and sun loungers available inside too. Most guests used this on our last day as the weather wasn’t great. Pool bar reasonably priced with cider and non alcoholic beer available which is what we were drinking. Food menu looked tasty, and a fair few choices if you don’t want to leave your sun-bed to go to the restaurant for lunch. We didn’t eat in the restaurant, but had a couple of drinks within the bar area which is stylish and has comfortable seating areas. Quick service at the bar and very friendly staff. Rooms are spacious and cleaned daily, again the cleaners were friendly. The management team arranged a bottle of bubbly to be delivered to our room as a birthday gesture for my husband, which was a nice touch. Mini bar restocked daily with a couple of waters, juices and beers. Two deck chairs on the balcony where we got the morning sun which was nice. All rooms look out onto the pool area which is great for people watching. Outside the hotel there are a few restaurants, most being very quiet, but there was a restaurant - La Pergola, a 5 minute walk from the hotel which was always busy with locals. We made a reservation for our last night, the food and service were excellent, so understand why it was always so busy. Further up from the restaurant is a supermarket and a small cafe that offers breakfast and lunch. A 15 minute walk to the harbour which again had a few restaurants, and a 25 minute walk into Palma. Overall a lovely stay at this hotel and would definitely stay here again for a short break as an adult only get away.