Me and my girlfriend stayed at the monastery for one night and had drinks and dinner at the cafe/restaurant at the top.
Let’s start with the good, the location is just stunning and the views are amazing. The sunset is a must to catch and just relaxing at the restaurant is great. Taking a short hike downhill to one of the many smaller lookouts are also a fun activity to do if your up for the steep uphill again afterward. Overall the location is amazing and definitely worth checking out if your in the area or planing a trip to Mallorca.
The room as stated by many others are simple but serviceable. The beds are comfy and the shower had good pressure and warm water for longer showers. The view again is just amazing from the window in the room as well. There is unfortunately no air conditioning and the air ventilation is not great, but the temperature in the room was good in general so no issues sleeping. There were quite a lot of bugs in the windows when we arrived so be aware of that.
There unfortunately are some areas that we did not enjoy with our stay, the customer service was not great. Let’s start of by saying most of if not all of the staff when we visited did not speak English. This might be a small or large issue depending on your Spanish skills, but for us it felt a bit weird that waiters did often not understand our requests or seem to not be able to give an explanation on the items in the menu in English. The waiters also often just ignores you or did not engage at all when you arrive, you will need to be almost pushy for them to acknowledge your presence. The overall vibe we were left with was an unwelcoming one.
The restaurant location is great but that’s about it, both the pricing of the food and the quality was not a match. We orders some drinks and they were fine and overall good. But we can not say the same about the food, we ordered the angus burger with goat cheese, I have had some angus burgers in my time and this was not it. The meat had a weird after taste and tasted more like a sausage (was this even real angus meat?). The potato’s with the burger was not very good either, they where extremely dry and had almost no seasoning on them, it honestly tasted like the pre-cut potato boats you buy in the frozen section in the supermarket, very uninspiring. We got a feeling of everything just being frozen and reheated a bit before being served. We cannot recommend the restaurant in general except if your just going for some refreshing drinks. Again I want to add that the waiters were distracted by other things then the customers like looking at there phones or chatting away, having us wait for long periods of time to get any service, the general attitude was also negative and it often felt like tourist were not welcome.
Overall we liked the stay just because of the views and location, but everything else was lackluster and I would just recommend to do a day trip to the top, stay for a few hours, have a drink and then head to a different destination for your needs.