We were initially looking for a hotel in the Pollenca/Alcudia area, but found their reviews average with expensive rates. So we started looking on personal listings and stumbled across Silvio's house. We are so happy we did. It had everything to make you feel like you were still in your own home: a fully stocked kitchen, a dual washer and dryer, cleaning supplies, kids' rooms with awesome toys (our 3-year-old approves this message), a huge collection of beach toys, mats, A/C in every room, and WiFi and Internet TV. We tried not to stay home too much. But when we did it was great having options to entertain the kids while we planned our next adventure. In fact, Our 3-year-old was so comfortable here, she picked her own room and slept alone even without a nightlight, she loved it.

Silvio's daughter helped show us the house and they had everything prepared, to include a small above ground pool filled with floaties for the kids.

The house is located very close to a highway around the back of Alcudia. This makes for easy access to the main highway to Palma and allows you to skip tourist-related traffic to popular places like Old Town Alcudia, etc. Immediate highway access made it very easy for us to pick up and go.

Silvio helped us plan our trip around the island and gave us city and route info, which was great. We toured the northwest side based on his recommendations. We saw the beautiful towns of Soller, Deia and Valldemosa, all of which were sights worth seeing, making the trip one of the major highlights of our visit.

In addition to a planetarium that is only 30 minutes away by car (highly suggest you see it, Friday/Saturday are open group tours English/Spanish, other nights you have to reserve in advanced), the beach, itself, was just a few minutes away by foot. All the paths from Silvio's house leading to the beach, restaurants, and convenient stores were also all well lit.

Some restaurants we liked:

Meson Los Patos - Silvio recommended this to us and we enjoyed it thoroughly. Great Mallorcan food and the owner seated us even though we showed up an hour early for lunch. Talk about very nice people!

Smiths Bar and Grill - Near the beach, it's cheap food, burgers and the like; but the owners are very sweet and really funny. A British family runs the place.

The Gurkas - Right next door to Smiths, great Indian food and the waiters are really awesome guys. Very friendly and great with the kids.

There are plenty of other good restaurants nearby, which places the house in a great location, just outside of the main port.

If you want to stay in the Alcudia area, you should really consider renting this great house. There's lots of room, beds for many people, and it was very relaxing. I would definitely make this place your home away from home.