My husband, 7 yo daughter and I have just arrived back from a week in this beautiful peaceful Villa. The communication with Sean pre-holiday was great, he was very prompt, helpful and informative. We arrived very late due to a delayed flight - villa was easy to find, and found the fridge was stocked with milk, water, eggs, butter, bread, beers and wine which was a lovely touch. Comfy beds in air-conditioned rooms (no ac, but large fan in bunk bed room) Towels could be bigger!?
Sarah, who manages the property was very helpful as the Wifi wasn't working (had my husband not needed to do some work while we were away this wouldn't have bothered us at all)
We used the pool every day, it was clean and warm and big enough to have a proper swim. Cleaned once in the week. Couldn't get the TV to work - but thats no big deal! Had a BBQ every other night.
Mahon is a 10 minute drive away - we used the supermarkets there and ate at a place in town Punt7 - which was delicious. Roads were so empty so driving was easy.
We got bread and yummy pastries from the Es Grau supermarket which is 5 mins drive.
We were so excited about the prospect of seeing a wild tortoise and we saw two, along with eagles, lizards, gecko's, so many lovely yellow butterflies, a peacock and her baby! loads of birds, rabbits and a hedgehog! We didn't explore the nature reserve really as it was so hot, but would love to come back at a different time of year to do so.
We went to Cala Galdana for the day but it was too busy and it wasn't even the school holidays yet - I had previously been there 23 years ago and it had changed a lot. However, we LOVED Arenal de Son Saura beach at Son Parc - my daughter loved jumping in the waves on the sandbank, we went on a very windy day and the yellow flag was up and still had loads of fun jumping in the waves, although too windy for her to properly swim.
Es Castell is lovely, you must go, we found this on our 6th day (wish we'd found it earlier)
As our flight home was a late one (11.30pm) and we had to check out at 10am, Sarah was really helpful and found us a different villa to spend our last day which was amazing, and meant we could enjoy ourselves right up until the last minute.
There is a mexican/burger/cocktail bar on the port front in Mahon called Paput where we had dinner before going to the airport - well worth a visit.
Would love to come back.