Calas de Mallorca, Hotel America Review

Overall Rating

Everything about this Hotel was great. At no time did I encounter miserable staff. There were plenty of staff cleaning and serving at all times. The Children got a Hola! as they came to dinner and a Gracias and a lollipop as they left. Nothing was too much trouble. My 3 year old son learnt the Spanish polite words like Hola! Gracias and Por Favor.

The only bad point was the resort itself - this all depends on what you are expecting - Calas de Mallorca is a purpose built tourist resort and as such is culture free and contains a purpose built shopping area stuffed full of souvenir shops, travel agents, car hire kiosks and English and German orientated bars. This will suit many people, and if you have small children, makes life easy and convenient. The resort is quite large and many hotels in it are a good way from the beach, but there are cheap buses and a road train.

Hotel America is part of the Hotel Globales chain and is a 3 star hotel. It is in a good position on the cliff above the Cala Domingoes bay, having steps down to the beach. It is a 2 minute walk, if that, but if you are a wheelchair or mobility scooter user it is a bit further to get around to the beach by ramp, but it is possible. Hotel America had quite obviously been modernised in the last few years, the building being an eight floor architecturally uninteresting concrete construction, heralding from the 1970's but it was painted up nicely and all rooms look out onto the Cala Domingoes beach. Everything was light and airy and clean and well maintained.
I went in the last week of May as half terms in the UK started. The beach was lifeguarded, which meant that on two days the lifeguard closed the beach for swimming, but the hotel had two adult pools and a 60cm deep kids pool, which was also in the corner most sheltered from sea breezes. We went all inclusive, and the food was of a very high standard. The usual fare was there for the die hard chips and chicken nugget consumers, but also there were genuine fresh seafood paellas containing whole mussel shells and crab, cuttlefish and squid. This hotel also made an effort for the vegetarians with Mallorqui rice dishes and whole roasted local vegetables. I loved the beef tomato salads. Breakfasts also catered for various nationalities expectations (sausage, beans, egg, cold meats and cheeses) and there were croissants, lebuchen, toast, local honey, and the usual cereals and milk. To my 3 year old Son's delight, a refridgerated chocolate milk dispenser. On one day during my stay, it poured with rain - this would be the day for souvenir shopping, ploughing money into arcade machines etc. In my case, having a hire car, we visited an Aquarium in Palma instead.
The Hotel is also a last stop on the Glass Bottom Boat tours, so it is an hours trip by boat to Porto Cristo.
I would go again, although Calas de Mallorca is not the best base for sightseeing without a hire car, but ideal if you have no particular wish to visit anything besides the hotel and the beach.