What's in the news?.

[Nick]

It is a case of the "chicken and the egg" as I've said before. However, the onus is for hotels to take a chance and open first in my opinion.

You don't need to open the whole of a hotel to cut down on cleaning and staff etc. but accommodation must be available first.

Secondly, the Spanish/Mallorcan governments must run advertising campaigns promoting winter tourism. Yes this all costs money and is a risk but that's how business works. Someone needs to take the bull by the horns!

 

[Ronnie]

How much is a flight from Scotland to London, I bet it isn't a fortune, and a night at a hotel in Gatwick is £45, not cheap but then that's why it's a holiday!
The headlines 'no winter flights' is misleading, there are flights, just not from every location there are in the summer, which of cause there should be, to encourage more winter visitors.
Our flight out from Gatwick in January was half full! So clearly when there are flights. albeit from the south, there are not the people to fill it. It's difficult to encourage more people over, but to say it's just the flights is not the whole story

Its not just the financial cost, its the fact that we need direct flights from Gla/Edi/Aber etc, et least one a week!!!!!!

 

[Nick]

I do find it strange that there are so few flights from Scotland. When I'm out in PP one of the top two or three accents I hear is a Scottish one. Odd.

 

[ragdollabbi]

I would happily travel to London if it was worthwhile and it was for a summer break but to travel to London spend an overnight perhaps, and then only in PP for a weekend is not cost or time effective. My holidays are dictated by school holidays unfortunately and that is when the flight prices are at their most expensive as we all know, so to have four flights when 2 would suffice is too time consuming and too expensive. We live midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh airports (around 30/40 mins either way) so we shouldn't really need to travel any distance. We need flights from Scotland in winter

 

[Brisbane]

Easyjet ran flights from Glasgow last winter, it couldn't have paid off for them to stop these this winter...

 

[ragdollabbi]

They did advertise them this winter Brisbane, and we booked.....only to have flights cancelled with no apparent reason given

 

[sws97sdg]

Speaking of work been carried out on the beach, UH are reporting issues with locals who are complaining that work on the beach at the pine walk is going further than just to replace the sand lost by the winter storms.

Article goes on to say "Neighbors have complained to Moll Costas what they see as a disguised artificial regeneration 'Albercuix beach, in the section between the Daina hotel and military base."
Noticias » Ultima Hora Mallorca

 

[Sparky]

I wonder if this is just "local politics" to be honest. For so many years the "opposition" have been able to complain that the beach contract has not been awarded and that it's not ready for the tourist season, now that they don't have that to moan about are they just stirring things up? .

 

[sws97sdg]

Could be, I cant see what is wrong with putting extra back to make it slightly bigger, obliviously not if it is going to affect the ecology of the bay though!

 

[Sparky]

Exactly what i think although the mayor insists that they are wrong.
Something had to be done as there was a lot of shifting of the sand during the really bad winter storms, to be honest the tourists don't care where the sand comes from but they would care if there was nosand .

 

[varsp]

Why can't they just decide if they want to attract tourists, and the revenue that generates that helps support/sustain the area, or scale down the resort altogether !

 

[sws97sdg]

It was looking very bare in places along the pine walk!! Hopefully being put right now though

 

[lollipop]

Sparky is right, the alternitiva party seem to complain about anything and everything. I expect the new tarmac will be the wrong colour next !!!

 

[sws97sdg]

Sparky is right, the alternitiva party seem to complain about anything and everything. I expect the new tarmac will be the wrong colour next !!!

They are the alternative party, their views are supposed to be different to the mainstream! As I say adding a bit extra sand is one thing if it doesn't affect the balance, but as most of the main beach has been placed there, and I would have imagined that they would have done a survey to see if it has any negative effect on the bay.

 

[Sparky]

But the point here is that all they are doing is moving the sand back to where it was before the storms shifted it. Nothing is being changed, there is no different sand, they are just maintaining the beach and this happens every year .

 

[pollensafan]

Why can't they just decide if they want to attract tourists, and the revenue that generates that helps support/sustain the area, or scale down the resort altogether !

Re Scaling down the resort. Great idea, couldn't agree more .Just enough beach for me and my better half will do nicely thanks and landscape the rest

 

[varsp]

Don't be greedy !

 

[pollensafan]

Don't be greedy !

On reflection, you're right. Don't bother with the landscaping.

 

[Sunshinedrive]

I remember last year we were there on the first week of the season and I thought the beach had massive dunes, not realising the wooden barriers had probably been taken away and just left the beach with huge mounds of sand. Only two weeks to go until we return

 

[pescador2009]

Most of the time it is just nature taking its course each winter.
Here in the UK beaches can also be stripped of thousands of tons of sand depending on prevailing winds and sea conditions. Same happened at Formentor last year and even in may / June people were complaining about the state of the beach there. As Sparky has said, the 'new' sand will only be relocated sand and I'm sure that all will be well by the time the main part of the summer season comes around. More than likely things will be back to 'normal'.