Amy Adejokun
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Located in the heart of Playa de Palma, the Framissima Pamplona is a nice vacation place for those seeking social contact and animation - it is 100% French speaking. This family French speaking hotel is actually a good destination for anyone who is looking for animation or wants to enjoy the beach.
Pamplona - © Carlos Rodrigues / EASYVOYAGE
Pamplona - © Carlos Rodrigues / EASYVOYAGE
Located on Playa de Palma, a seaside resort in the south of the island, well-known for its evening entertainments, hundreds of bars, restaurants, discos and its huge beach more than 2 miles long, the hotel is located only 4 miles away from the airport and 6 miles away from Palma.
The standard rooms of the main building are spacious, but a little old when it comes to decoration. They all are new, however. The rooms offer TV, a safe with an extra fee, a refrigerator and a balcony with armchairs and a plastic table. The bathroom is very clean and it has a bathtub. Since this is a new building, the apartments are pretty fancy with a kitchen corner and a balcony from where you can get a glimpse of the sea.
Built in the 1970s, the Pampalona is a Framissima hotel that offers a total of 155 rooms for a total accommodation capacity of 350 people. The outside façade is very massive and unattractive, built on 7 levels serviced by 2 elevators, but it does however offer a nice inside space. The hallway is imposing and is all made of marble. The living rooms, comfortable and elegant, offer a room for playing cards and a TV room. Facing the main building of the hotel, a new unit offers familial rooms, studios and suites in a brand new construction with an inside swimming pool, a sport area as well as a garage for bikes. The outside pool, circled-shaped, built on a large area, doesn't leave much empty space. The animations will keep both the children and the adults busy all day long. Unfortunately, the lack of space does not allow the installation of lots of equipments. Children have a whole small house designated for them and their activities. And for their enjoyment, they will have a birdcage and a small house with a duck family.
The meals are served as buffets (copious and tasty) in the large, bright cool dining room. A nice frame to enjoy the buffets served at all the three meals. Breakfast with hot and cold dishes served on a continental or Anglo-Saxon plate. For lunch you can have mixed salads, grillings, pastas and Mediteranean specialities. Thematic dinner is offered if you want to try a different cuisine every evening as well as gambas and rock lobster with an extra fee. The food is very diversified and everybody raves about the quality and variety of the dishes offered.
Located 100 m away, the large beach of Palma bay offers clear water, fine and clean sand. As a public and popular place bordered by hotels, it is very crowded during high season and can be a little windswept in the afternoons. The hotel does not offer any specific equipment but, not far from here, you will find private companies offering sunshades, beach chairs and matresses as well as nautical activities. Here you will also find bars, restaurants, small shops, a promenade and a small train that goes along it back and forth all day.
Six to seven French speaking animators take care of the children and the teenagers and offer a large number of nocturnal activities for adults: shows every evening (outdoors artists two times a week), games, night clubs...
A nice mini-club is open for kids aged 4 to 9 and a junior club, for children aged 10 to 14.
Children are reserved a corner of the restaurant and they can eat with the animators at 7:30 pm before going to the mini-disco at 8 pm. There are also offered thematic weeks ( creative leisure, dancing, gourmet catering). Every winter, the hotel offers training with cycling professionals and has fitted out a garage where you can find all the necessary equipment for the maintenance of the bikes.
Accomodation advice:
the hotel is surrounded by other hotels, and if you want to enjoy a nice view, you should better stay close to the swimming pool.
massage, sauna, hammam, stretching, spa, Turkish bath, wellness
water skiing, gym, aqua gym, aerobics, football, beach volley, basketball, mountain bike, jet ski, dance, step, bums and tums, archery, water-polo, surfing, fitness
Florence B.
La partie résidence très agréable: la nourriture, proximité des transports en commun, piste cyclable superbe. Je crains juste que cet hôtel qui vient d'être racheté par la chaîne BG perde en simplicité, des travaux de rénovation sont prévus pour l'an prochain, l'hôtel passerait de 3 à 4 étoiles, il ne sera donc plus dans la même gamme de prix... A voir.
La nourriture, le confort de la partie résidence; la propreté et la gentillesse du personnel; la proximité de Palma et des bus.
Les groupes d'allemands qui ne viennent que pour boire; les animations FRAM le soir, très bas de gamme, voir complètement dépassées.
Corinne D.
Hotel propre, juste à côté de la plage et ses commerces. Animation française sympathique mais vraiment de style club(pas très raffinée) Si on veut s'amuser tard, l'animation se termine à une heure du matin.Ce n'est pas une grande structure. Il y a quand-même une piscine,un club enfants et une table de ping-pong. Le peu de prestations organisées en dehors de l'hôtel est chèr avec beaucoup de temps de temps de transport et assez inintéressant. Néanmoins, je ne regrette pas d'y avoir séjourné.
A trois minutes de la plage et de ses commerces.Equipe sympathique et francophone Nourriture buffet assez variée
Animation à regarder tous les soirs mais on ne participe pas, du coup: on s'ennuit. Le repas est en sous sol, quel dommage de ne pas profiter du plein air
Anonyme.
tres bien confortable.soirèes animèes.exceptionnel
acceuillant.et bonne servitudes
aucun.tout etait tres bien
Anonyme.
tres bien confortable.soirèes animèes.exceptionnel
acceuillant.et bonne servitudes
aucun.tout etait tres bien
Anonyme.
tres bien confortable.soirèes animèes.exceptionnel
acceuillant.et bonne servitudes
aucun.tout etait tres bien
Anonyme.
tres bien confortable.soirèes animèes.exceptionnel
acceuillant.et bonne servitudes
aucun.tout etait tres bien
Anonyme.
tres bien confortable.soirèes animèes.exceptionnel
acceuillant.et bonne servitudes
aucun.tout etait tres bien
Anonyme.
tres bien confortable.soirèes animèes.exceptionnel
acceuillant.et bonne servitudes
aucun.tout etait tres bien
Anonyme.
tres bien confortable.soirèes animèes.exceptionnel
acceuillant.et bonne servitudes
aucun.tout etait tres bien
Anonyme.
tres bien confortable.soirèes animèes.exceptionnel
acceuillant.et bonne servitudes
aucun.tout etait tres bien
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