Both run a free kids' club. Four Seasons Resort Mallorca at Formentor, from about 1,830 euros, if the beach is the holiday: nearly a kilometre of sand below the garden steps and a family pool. Cap Vermell Grand Hotel, from about 500, if you would rather have a valley resort with a spa and junior suites of 53 square metres, with Canyamel beach four minutes away by car.
The Hotel Formentor of 1929, rebuilt from the ground up and now run by Four Seasons, at the head of nearly a kilometre of pine-shaded sand at Mallorca's northern tip.
€€€€From about €1,830 a night
Choose Four Seasons Resort Mallorca at Formentor if
Families with young children
A stay-put beach week
Milestone birthdays and anniversaries
Swimmers and paddleboarders
The catch
The building is new: the 1929 hotel was gutted in 2021, its last walls came down in 2022 and it was rebuilt to look from the bay much as it did, so the history is in the name, the site and the old garden steps rather than the rooms.
Both run a free kids' club. Four Seasons Resort Mallorca at Formentor, from about 1,830 euros, if the beach is the holiday: nearly a kilometre of sand below the garden steps and a family pool. Cap Vermell Grand Hotel, from about 500, if you would rather have a valley resort with a spa and junior suites of 53 square metres, with Canyamel beach four minutes away by car.
Good questions about Four Seasons Resort Mallorca at Formentor vs Cap Vermell Grand Hotel
Four Seasons Resort Mallorca at Formentor or Cap Vermell Grand Hotel?
Both run a free kids' club. Four Seasons Resort Mallorca at Formentor, from about 1,830 euros, if the beach is the holiday: nearly a kilometre of sand below the garden steps and a family pool. Cap Vermell Grand Hotel, from about 500, if you would rather have a valley resort with a spa and junior suites of 53 square metres, with Canyamel beach four minutes away by car.
Is Four Seasons Resort Mallorca at Formentor worth it?
The Formentor name, the sand and Four Seasons service in one place, at a price that leaves no room for half measures. Pay for the Grand Sea-View Room and plan to stay put. A stay-put beach resort on the site of the old Hotel Formentor: the sand, the pools and a free kids' club on the Formentor peninsula, run to Four Seasons standards. The building is a 2024 rebuild, and the entry room runs to about 1,830 euros on a May night.
Does Four Seasons Resort Mallorca at Formentor have a pool or a beach?
It has an outdoor pool. It has its own beach club.
Is Cap Vermell Grand Hotel worth it?
Come for Voro and stay for the quiet valley, the space and the spa. Book the table first, then the Junior Suite Valley View. A resort you choose for dinner: the Balearics' only two-star kitchen sits on its square, with big suites, a spa and a kids' club around it. It is remote, expensive and a drive from the sand.
Does Cap Vermell Grand Hotel have a pool or a beach?
It has an outdoor pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
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