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Cheap car rental in Mallorca
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What things cost in Mallorca
Cathedral entry is 10 euro, or 25 with the terraces. Train and tram together cost 40 euro return from Palma to Port de Soller. A menu del dia in Palma runs 14 to 18, an individual ensaimada 2 to 3, and an EMT city bus ride around 2. Sunbed pairs with an umbrella on the busy Calvia beaches go for 15 to 20.
What first-timers get wrong in Mallorca
Distances mislead badly here: Tramuntana roads average far below their limits and Sa Calobra takes an hour from Soller for thirty kilometres. The cathedral is shut to visitors on Sunday. Hire car queues at the airport are severe in July and August, when Palma handles some of Europe's densest holiday traffic. Many restaurants outside Palma close completely between November and March.
What's actually worth your time in Mallorca
Palma's cathedral sets Gaudi's wrought-iron canopy against Miquel Barcelo's ceramic clay wall in the Sant Pere chapel; entry is 10 euro and it closes to sightseers on Sundays, when only mass gets you inside. Bellver Castle above the city is circular, which is rare in Europe. The Sa Calobra road corkscrews through a full 270-degree loop, spectacular to drive and miserable behind a coach.
What to eat in Mallorca
An ensaimada, coiled, lard-laminated and dusted with icing sugar, is the thing people carry home in a hexagonal box. Eat pa amb oli with sobrassada, and tumbet through the summer. At Mercat de l'Olivar and the Santa Catalina market you can buy fish at a stall and have it cooked at the counter. Frit mallorqui and arros brut belong to the interior villages, not the coast.
Mallorca after dark
Palma's evening is a neighbourhood matter: Santa Catalina for small bars and vermouth, La Llotja's medieval lanes for late drinking, the Paseo Maritimo for clubs that only fill after two. That is a different country from Magaluf and s'Arenal twenty minutes away, where the resort strips run on cheap shots and shut for winter. Locals sit down to dinner at ten and take their time.
When to go to Mallorca
| Best months for cheap-cars | Avg daily high | Rain days |
|---|---|---|
| October | 24°C / 75°F | 6 days |
| February | 17°C / 63°F | 4 days |
| December | 17°C / 63°F | 6 days |
The month to avoid is July — around 33°C (91°F) with roughly 2 rain days. Prices and crowds track the weather here: October is the sweet spot, July the month most people skip.
Pack for peak season: Summer clothes, plus one light layer for air-con and evenings, Comfortable walking shoes — every guide on this site assumes you'll use them.
Where to base yourself in Mallorca
- Palma — Capital — cathedral, old town tapas bars, weekend nightlife.
- Deià — Cliffside village in the Tramuntana — artist colony, boutique hotels, the cala below.
- Sóller — Mountain valley town — Modernist square, vintage train from Palma, orange groves.