Belladonna
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Brilliant idea Smiddy! Make sure we have a brolly too - come rain or shine - and an ice bucket!
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lollipop
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As Sparky said,old news. The beds are on the beach most of the brolly posts are erected and EMSER seem to have enough to do without the beach as well. Beds are not chained so maybe they will allow hire of shade only.
Belladonna
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Yes, we all know that the DB is not infallible and people on the spot are the the most wonderful source of information you can possibly have on anything that is going on, but its also interesting to see what snippits the media have managed picked up even if it is a couple of days out of date.
Interesting that there are no chains though this year, although that does create the possibility of 6 beds round one brolly and other brollys standing on their lonesome just waiting for those to come along not wanting beds!
Interesting that there are no chains though this year, although that does create the possibility of 6 beds round one brolly and other brollys standing on their lonesome just waiting for those to come along not wanting beds!
Belladonna
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New beds for old!
Pollensa to get new beach material today
Pollensa.—The company which has been awarded the contract for the management of the beach in the Port of Pollensa has confirmed to the local council that the second hand sunshades and sunbeds it has set up are “just temporary” and that the public is not being charged for their use.
Gabriel Moranta, a company spokesman gave assurances that new material - between 700 and 800 new beds and shades - is arriving today.
He said that the second hand equipment had been put up as an interim measure so that tourists had somewhere to sit and shelter, but there was no charge being made for the use.
The statement comes in the wake of accusations by the previous beach managers, the Residents Association in the Port of Pollensa, who recently made an official complaint that the terms and conditions of the new management contract with F&A Beach had been broken as the wording specifically states that new beach equipment should be used. Meanwhile, the Residents’ Association is further complaining that there are posters up on the beach listing charges higher than those which have been approved by the Council.
OOOO Lovely!! New ones just in time for June!
Pollensa to get new beach material today
Pollensa.—The company which has been awarded the contract for the management of the beach in the Port of Pollensa has confirmed to the local council that the second hand sunshades and sunbeds it has set up are “just temporary” and that the public is not being charged for their use.
Gabriel Moranta, a company spokesman gave assurances that new material - between 700 and 800 new beds and shades - is arriving today.
He said that the second hand equipment had been put up as an interim measure so that tourists had somewhere to sit and shelter, but there was no charge being made for the use.
The statement comes in the wake of accusations by the previous beach managers, the Residents Association in the Port of Pollensa, who recently made an official complaint that the terms and conditions of the new management contract with F&A Beach had been broken as the wording specifically states that new beach equipment should be used. Meanwhile, the Residents’ Association is further complaining that there are posters up on the beach listing charges higher than those which have been approved by the Council.
OOOO Lovely!! New ones just in time for June!
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copper
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Oh Thank you for that ! What a saga !
Im seeing friends tonight who go next Sat so they will be pleased and we go in 3 weeks ! Great
Im seeing friends tonight who go next Sat so they will be pleased and we go in 3 weeks ! Great
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I saw a man out on the beach with tickets today!
Belladonna
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Really?!! Crikey, they don't waste time when it comes to getting money do they?!
Sparky
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Can't say i blame them really, they have already lost an awful lot .
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Belladonna
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Perhaps they will learn for next time.
Sparky
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To be fair it was not the fault of F&A Beach, they are only the company which were eventually awarded the contract and i think they have done well to get the equipment out in less than a week.
Whether the council, costas or whoever is responsible for the yearly farce, will learn for next time is another matter, which only time will tell.
Whether the council, costas or whoever is responsible for the yearly farce, will learn for next time is another matter
, which only time will tell.
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But Sparky, ask yourself, why is it that Pollensa is the only place the problems with the beach contract seem to occur. If it were all the Costas, then would not other towns have similar delays? It should be noted that the town hall's notice for the contract was published on 28 December last year, but that the final date for presentation was 18 April, which seems a long time.
Re F&A Beach, this company has had experience in other towns. Alcudia, for example, it had two lots on the main beach last year and it has also operated in Muro and Can Picafort.
Re F&A Beach, this company has had experience in other towns. Alcudia, for example, it had two lots on the main beach last year and it has also operated in Muro and Can Picafort.
Belladonna
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A good point Andrew. What's your opinion on the reason?
Sparky
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Andrew,
I think you mis-understood what i was saying, which was that whether it be PP council or the Costas or whoever is being blamed ATM, F&A Beach have done well to get things out for the tourists in a week, i know everything is wonderful on the beach in Alcudia and it has been a farce here in PP.
I just wish that we could now move on and stop highlighting the negatives, there are so many good things happening in the Port and this is being overshadowed. I know you want Alcudia to thrive just as much as i want PP to, but because of your column in the DB you reach many more people than we do.
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I really don't know, Bella. I can't believe it had anything to do with the elections, which was being said, as the final date for presentation was over a month before these, and indeed all the councillors are still in situ until the new town hall make-up is finalised next week. I also find it hard to believe that it was the Costas, unless the town hall's spec didn't comply with requirements, but the spec is full of references to relevant law so it should have been. It might just all be that they are inefficient.
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Always good to hear your point of view Andrew.....keep them coming!
We will always love PP warts and all!!
We will always love PP warts and all!!
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Nice story in yesterdays DB
Fifty years of loyalty to the same hotel Pollensa.—The Hotel Illa d’Or in the Port of Pollensa has paid tribute to its most loyal clients, the Menzies family who can lay claim to 50 years of holidays at the same hotel on Majorca.
It reads like a story from a romantic novel but it happens to be true. Roy and Diana Menzies came to know one another through chance when they both took shelter from a fierce storm at the entrance to the hotel in 1975.
Roy had already been coming to the area for 14 years and when the couple came on honeymoon to the Hotel Illa d’Or the following year, it was the continuation of a long association that the family had already enjoyed with the Port.
The Menzies, now with the addition of their daughter Fiona, come once or twice every year so it was with genuine warmth that the Hotel Illa d’Or yesterday paid tribute to the family to mark the occasion of Roy’s first visit. Roy was just 15 at the time and he came accompanied by his parents who were established fans of the Illa d’Or.
A very different place “The Port of Pollensa, and Majorca in general is now a very different place from what it used to be in those early days,” reminisced Roy yesterday. “There were hardly any buildings on the seafront, only some small individual villas and goats were grazing behind the hotel!” Roy said that it was halfway through the 1980s when development started on building the properties two or three streets back from the shoreline which were to become the hub of the tourist industry in the Port.
Roy remembers leaving the Brisas bar to go straight down to the sea dodging the pine trees en route. He said that coming from the airport in those days, everything past Santa Maria was countryside.
The whole atmosphere of the Port, he recalled, was much more secluded and picturesque when he first came to the Port of Pollensa, but he added that although that is now gone, there is a much more lively atmosphere.
Tribute
Roy paid his own tribute to the friendships he and his family had struck up in the hotel, and in the area of Pollensa over the years. He claimed that the Hotel Illa d’Or had become much more like a second home for him. It is one of the oldest and most emblematic in the Port of Pollensa. Built in 1929, it has had whole generations of tourists pass through its doors, most English, some of them famous.
It is rumoured that the hotel is the setting used by English novelist Agatha Christie in her story “Problem at Pollensa” which describes a mysterious disappearance from the hotel in the early part of the 20th century.
Other well-known visitors include actors Jane Seymour, Anthony Quayle, Fernando Ochoa, Lorenzo Quinn and Elvira Lindo.
Fifty years of loyalty to the same hotel Pollensa.—The Hotel Illa d’Or in the Port of Pollensa has paid tribute to its most loyal clients, the Menzies family who can lay claim to 50 years of holidays at the same hotel on Majorca.
It reads like a story from a romantic novel but it happens to be true. Roy and Diana Menzies came to know one another through chance when they both took shelter from a fierce storm at the entrance to the hotel in 1975.
Roy had already been coming to the area for 14 years and when the couple came on honeymoon to the Hotel Illa d’Or the following year, it was the continuation of a long association that the family had already enjoyed with the Port.
The Menzies, now with the addition of their daughter Fiona, come once or twice every year so it was with genuine warmth that the Hotel Illa d’Or yesterday paid tribute to the family to mark the occasion of Roy’s first visit. Roy was just 15 at the time and he came accompanied by his parents who were established fans of the Illa d’Or.
A very different place “The Port of Pollensa, and Majorca in general is now a very different place from what it used to be in those early days,” reminisced Roy yesterday. “There were hardly any buildings on the seafront, only some small individual villas and goats were grazing behind the hotel!” Roy said that it was halfway through the 1980s when development started on building the properties two or three streets back from the shoreline which were to become the hub of the tourist industry in the Port.
Roy remembers leaving the Brisas bar to go straight down to the sea dodging the pine trees en route. He said that coming from the airport in those days, everything past Santa Maria was countryside.
The whole atmosphere of the Port, he recalled, was much more secluded and picturesque when he first came to the Port of Pollensa, but he added that although that is now gone, there is a much more lively atmosphere.
Tribute
Roy paid his own tribute to the friendships he and his family had struck up in the hotel, and in the area of Pollensa over the years. He claimed that the Hotel Illa d’Or had become much more like a second home for him. It is one of the oldest and most emblematic in the Port of Pollensa. Built in 1929, it has had whole generations of tourists pass through its doors, most English, some of them famous.
It is rumoured that the hotel is the setting used by English novelist Agatha Christie in her story “Problem at Pollensa” which describes a mysterious disappearance from the hotel in the early part of the 20th century.
Other well-known visitors include actors Jane Seymour, Anthony Quayle, Fernando Ochoa, Lorenzo Quinn and Elvira Lindo.
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Wasn't sure where to post this Pollensa, please re-direct if necessary.
Just noticed this important information (especially for Mallorca) in the D.B.
UNESCO yesterday declared the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range one of its new Natural Heritage Sites.
Palma - It will come as a bitter pill to swallow but the campaign launched by the previous Council of Majorca to have the Serra de Tramuntana declared a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site proved successful yesterday with the council’s application being approved at a meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Paris.
The former President of the Council of Majorca, Francina Armengol, mounted a tough bid and managed to get the support of over 20'000 people, including many of the rich and famous who either live on or visit the island, as well as members of the Spanish royal family, who signed an online petition.
The decision, reached yesterday by UNESCO; means that the Serra de Tramuntana is considered to be of special cultural or physical significance and the Balearics will therefore receive help and assistance from UNESCOin preserving the nature and the culture of the mountain range.
The declaration that it is a World Heritage Site also guarantees the Tramuntana global publicity.
A great deal of time and funding has been invested in restoring the old stone walls, paths and old mountain cabins over the years, many of the latter are now open to the public, but continual financial backing is needed to preserve and maintain the mountain range and UNESCOwill now be able to help that.
The decision was obviously welcomed by the new Balearic government and Council of Majorca, the latter only being created yesterday, but the real credit goes to the former administration which was all but destroyed at the local and regional elections last month.
Just noticed this important information (especially for Mallorca) in the D.B.
UNESCO yesterday declared the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range one of its new Natural Heritage Sites.
Palma - It will come as a bitter pill to swallow but the campaign launched by the previous Council of Majorca to have the Serra de Tramuntana declared a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site proved successful yesterday with the council’s application being approved at a meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Paris.
The former President of the Council of Majorca, Francina Armengol, mounted a tough bid and managed to get the support of over 20'000 people, including many of the rich and famous who either live on or visit the island, as well as members of the Spanish royal family, who signed an online petition.
The decision, reached yesterday by UNESCO; means that the Serra de Tramuntana is considered to be of special cultural or physical significance and the Balearics will therefore receive help and assistance from UNESCOin preserving the nature and the culture of the mountain range.
The declaration that it is a World Heritage Site also guarantees the Tramuntana global publicity.
A great deal of time and funding has been invested in restoring the old stone walls, paths and old mountain cabins over the years, many of the latter are now open to the public, but continual financial backing is needed to preserve and maintain the mountain range and UNESCOwill now be able to help that.
The decision was obviously welcomed by the new Balearic government and Council of Majorca, the latter only being created yesterday, but the real credit goes to the former administration which was all but destroyed at the local and regional elections last month.
Gommar Goffer
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New government set to root out illegal tourist businessesPalma.—Throughout July and August, a specially empowered inspectorate of the regional Tourist ministry is launching a campaign to track down tourist businesses who have failed to register with local authorities.
The purpose is two-fold. Firstly, illegal tourist activity, whether it be hotels, self-catering accommodation or other services means that the businesses are not paying tax to the government.Secondly, the government needs to ensure that the public are being provided with set minimum standards and that proper health and safety measures are applied.
The inspectorate’s coordination director Jaime Martinez, said that all means by which such businesses might advertise themselves are going to be looked at, not just the internet. “By that,”he said “we mean looking at brochures which tour operators might produce, along with travel agency and estate agency magazines.” He explained that if illegal activity is allowed to flourish in tourist resorts, it could mean that the quality image of Majorca which the government is anxious to promote as its advantage over other tourist destinations may be tarnished.
Second homes
Martinez said that in recent campaigns of this nature, some 1'000 illegally operating businesses had been unearthed, many of them run by people who have had second homes on the island and who rented the properties out to holiday-makers.
Already this season, he said, 20 businesses have been earmarked for investigation. Martinez furthered that an important part of the work of the investigation team will be to revisit those businesses which have registered in previous years to see if they are up to scratch in meeting current standards laid down by the minimum standards law.
The regional hoteliers’ associations are reportedly backing the campaign one hundred percent. “It must be the case that all business, and not just some, should be subject to taxation and controls,”a spokesman said.
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The purpose is two-fold. Firstly, illegal tourist activity, whether it be hotels, self-catering accommodation or other services means that the businesses are not paying tax to the government.Secondly, the government needs to ensure that the public are being provided with set minimum standards and that proper health and safety measures are applied.
The inspectorate’s coordination director Jaime Martinez, said that all means by which such businesses might advertise themselves are going to be looked at, not just the internet. “By that,”he said “we mean looking at brochures which tour operators might produce, along with travel agency and estate agency magazines.” He explained that if illegal activity is allowed to flourish in tourist resorts, it could mean that the quality image of Majorca which the government is anxious to promote as its advantage over other tourist destinations may be tarnished.
Second homes
Martinez said that in recent campaigns of this nature, some 1'000 illegally operating businesses had been unearthed, many of them run by people who have had second homes on the island and who rented the properties out to holiday-makers.
Already this season, he said, 20 businesses have been earmarked for investigation. Martinez furthered that an important part of the work of the investigation team will be to revisit those businesses which have registered in previous years to see if they are up to scratch in meeting current standards laid down by the minimum standards law.
The regional hoteliers’ associations are reportedly backing the campaign one hundred percent. “It must be the case that all business, and not just some, should be subject to taxation and controls,”a spokesman said.
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Tonsyl
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I seem to remember going down this road before and it didn't go anywhere then. Like the parking tickets in the port car parks, in times of hardship the council / government will do anything to raise revenue and the tourist industry (or parts thereof) are easy targets. My guess is that it will go away again when someone works out that by possibly forcing down the number of bed nights available, the number of tourists will drop and the taxes paid by the local leisure industry who depend on said tourists will drop too.
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