How much spending money????????

[Sparky]

Probably about a 5 / 10 minute walk but the bus stop is not far from Golondrinas or Eroski, so if you have heavy shopping you would find it easier than carrying it back. I think it would only be about a € fare.

 

[whaleywanderer]

Hi, My friend said that for a cheap typical English fish and chips, the Codfather is good value.

Haven't tried myself but was told you can eat in or take and there is a 10% reduction on offer too????

Any experience here anyone?

The Codfather does cook a very nice fish and chips (comparable to any good chippy in the UK) but I wouldn't say it was cheap. From memory for fish, chips, bread & butter, cup of tea/coffee about 12€ each. You have of course got to consider their costs as they use cod/plaice and British vinegar, teabags/coffee etc. The new setting is lovely though, with the option of sitting in their open courtyard.

There is, as you say, a 10% discount on takeaways.

 

[shotokan]

There is certainly a big difference between the cost of eating out and on your own balcony.

Plenty of great value Menu Del Dia restos around and well noted elsewhere on the forum, with some good ones shown earlier in the thread.

Typically less than 20E per head, including drinks, so budget 80E for eating a MDD out at a resto. If you do this every 2nd or 3rd night and have a nice spag bol, pasta carbonara with garlic bread, cooked chicken with salad in between you'll be fine.

Living like this means you can come in off a hot beach day and just chill out, rather than rush to put on your best gear etc, which becomes less fun if you do it every night.

We always go to the big Alcampo supermarket near Palma as the prices there are a fraction of Port prices...particularly regarding wine (which we drink plenty of), but also staple things like the 5litre waters etc.

It's easy to buy drinks, snacks, sweets and ice creams on the beach, but it will cost a premium which mounts up when multiplied by 4 of a family and the length of your holiday.

If you take these points on board, you'll feel more in tune with the place and can easily manage to have a great time on less than 100E a day.

On the other hand it is easy to say "who cares?..I'll spend what I like!" - in which case you can go mad and spend £250 a day!!

Have a great holiday!

 

[CathB]

Sometimes its just the little things that can make a saving over 2 weeks...5ltr bottles of water in one of the small supermarkets like Spar are anything between 1.50 and 3 euros..a 1.5 ltr bottle 1 euro and baguettes 85cents to 1.10 - .We could go through at least one 5ltr bottle of water a day and sometimes bought 1 or 2 bottles of water for the beach every day (there were 4 of us) but this year by going to Eroski most days we were getting the 5 ltr bottles of water for 85cents and bagettes (bara) 45cents..bought a couple 1.5 ltr bottles of water for 50cents then topped them up daily for use on the beach so we were saving 3 or 4 euros a day...it doesnt sound much but over 2 weeks it soon mounts up .

 

[sunny]

We did same last year with the water, also bought bread and froze for when needed. we didn't have a car so walked to Eroski stocked up for the week and got taxi back to appartment still saved even with taxi fare.