Rooftop tour across Madrid’s Gran Via

Discover Madrid from the heights is amazing. You can enjoy your breakfast from the heights while you see the city rush below. You will feel as a king and admire the beautiful rooftops of Madrid:  small, scratched and full of parabolic antennas with no sign...some others are impressive and majestic reflecting power, finance and politics. The rooftop tour across Madrid’s Gran Via offers all these and much more.  

These rooftops were not popular some time ago, but now are the place to be in Madrid. They are usually full of people and you must book in advance your table if you want to have breakfast in some of them.

Vincci The Mint's Rooftop in Gran Vía, Madrid

The most popular rooftops in Madrid’s Gran Via are:

• Emperador Hotel: with a pool at the rooftop terrace.
• IBEROSTAR Las Letras Hotel: with a chill out area and a bar.
• Circulo de Bellas Artes: emblematic rooftop offering cultural activities.
• The Principal: rooftop terrace with a nice boardwalk.

Gran Via rooftops allow us to admire some of the most iconic buildings in Madrid. However, there are other rooftops in different areas of Madrid which are also worth a visit (like terraces at La Latina neighbourhood). Gran Via rooftops are unique and perfectly identified with the destination, making them popular tourist attractions.

Most of the rooftops are designed as leisure and restaurant areas. They usually have a bar, cafe or cocktail bar. For example, Vincci The Mint rooftop (the new hotel in Gran Via by Vincci Hotels)  with a New York style food truck where to have a snack or a refreshing drink.

If you are staying at any of Las Letras hotel rooms in Gran Via, you will know why the hotel rooftop is a popular meeting point in Madrid. It’s the perfect place where to have breakfast or go after work. This 1917 building is always lively and full of tourists, locals and onlookers from around the world.

You should visit all of them and make a short tour in the evening (when you can admire Madrid’s lights), enjoying a nice dinner with snacks and some drinks. You should check the events calendar if you want to join any party -specially in spring and summer-.

Choose the perfect hotel, the key of the holidays in Punta Cana

When talking about travelling and discovering the world, many people confirm “planning in advance” makes you live great experiences on your travel. Therefore, it’s important to take a map and a pen and analyse the destination calmly before traveling there. Why? Because we avoid blank moments due to unplanned travels.

Despite the information above is really important, the key factor in destinations like Punta Cana is the hotel choice. The hotel should meet all our needs and our travel motivations. So we should clearly know them in order to make a better choice.

What if we want to enjoy a relaxing holiday apart from admiring the Dominican Caribbean landscapes? In this case, Catalonia Punta Cana hotel is the perfect choice for your holidays.  

A jewel in Playa Bavaro

Catalonia Punta Cana has been considered a hotel with unique rooms in Playa Bavaro. It has been designed to reflect the destination, Punta Cana, which apart from its Caribbean nature has an amazing natural beauty with large sandy beaches and crystal waters.  

Moreover, the Catalonia Bavaro Resort Catalonia Punta Cana takes great care to offer excellent services and delicate decorations. It also offers a wide range of activities like golf courses of 18 holes and themed restaurants, pools, casinos, kids clubs or gift shops.

Traditions and nature

It’s located within 20 kilometres from Punta Cana International Airport and it has direct access to Playa Bavaro beach. It´s 711 villas are surrounded by amazing tropical gardens.

Punta Cana and particularly Playa Bavaro, clearly show the essence of the Dominican Caribbean we all have in mind. It’s a unique destination in the world with a wonderful natural environment for those who want to get lost in any of its multiple ecological reserves.

Discover northern Majorca, the perfect plan for your holidays

Majorca is full of spots that will surprise you due to their beauty and what they offer you such as Serra de Tramuntana, the paradise beach of Es Trenc, salinas or Drach Caves. These places made the island to be one of the top destinations in the world raking.

Despite many people thinks southern Majorca has the best beaches and routes, there’s not a significant difference between the “north and the south” of Majorca. Moreover, northern and southern Majorca are both equally beautiful. So, why not choosing the highest area in Majorca to enjoy an alternative holiday, different from the traditional one? If you choose this option, you should stay at a hotel in Playa de Muro y ¡listo! ¡A disfrutar de la otra orilla de Mallorca!

The north side of the island hides many must-visit places like the popular Port Alcudia (where you should taste a delicious Majorcan-style fish) or the Natural Park of Albufera, the largest wetland in the island where to admire the amazing fauna and flora of this Mediterranean destination. There are different walking tours you can do in northern Majorca, and the park is one of the most recommended ones for families.

You should visit Pollensa and specially its port. Its vintage style and the small houses on the seashore make Port Pollensa an interesting place to visit. Would you also like to know Majorcan traditions? You should then visit its weekly market on Saturdays, where you can buy local fresh food (fruits, vegetables and cheeses).

Pollensa, Majorca

Our last stop in northern Majorca is Playa de Muro, the perfect place to enjoy a relaxing holiday and the spectacular crystal waters. 

Apart from the many seafood restaurants and beach bars offering great food in the area (for example La Ponderosa beach bar), we can find great hotels in Playa de Muro like the ones by Garden Hotels, designed for travelers looking for the best accommodation. Which is our favourite hotel? Obviously, Playa Garden Selection Hotel & Spa.

This hotel has the perfect location (within a few steps from one of the most beautiful beaches in Majorca) and is perfectly connected with the most interesting points of the island. It has excellent spa services (one of the biggest ones in the island), gourmet restaurants or medical services among others.

Grand Hotel El Mirador, an Andalusian architectonical jewel in the Canary Islands

Grand Hotel El Mirador is one of the most important architectonic Arabic style monuments in Tenerife. It has been recognized as a 5-star Grand Luxury hotel in Costa Adeje, with beautiful balustrades, gantries, arcs and magnificent building wings, allowing visitors to discover the traditional construction of the ancient Al Andalus.

Boutique hotels are mainly built on emblematic buildings completely restored, so staying at these hotels is like being in another social era.

Architecture and design are the main attributes of boutique hotels. In order to renew this ancient buildings and convert them into hotels requires important investments, so it’s important to make big profits.

Rooms of Grand Hotel El Mirador

In reference to Grand Hotel El Mirador, it’s an amazing Adults Only resort in front of Playa del Duque in the south of the island with big spaces: 22.000 m2 of Arabic and tropical gardens full of varied plants only found in the Canary Islands, more than 1.000 m2 of spa areas… We can see Al Andalus touches in the middle of this volcanic landscape in Tenerife:

• Seawalls with panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean made with stone and natural high quality pieces.
• Big terraces open to gardens under a covered porch with typical Arabic arches. The resort is surrounded by flowers, trees and design paths.
• Inner Yards where you can relax and enjoy the natural environment.

The interior architecture and design is influenced by the ancient Al Andalus combined with cutting-edge technology and modern spaces designed for guests to relax during their stay. This Adults Only hotel in Costa Adeje has big and comfortable suites with colonial decorations, very bright and with spectacular views of the Atlantic Ocean.

The hotel pools, jacuzzis, private bath areas and ponds in the gardens allow guests to feel the relaxing atmosphere influenced by Al Andalus style combined with the textures and colours of the colonial era.

It has been considered as one of the few Grand Luxury hotel in the Canary Islands - recognized after a recent restoration which convert it into a 5-star Adults Only hotel- and an architectonical icon in Costa Adeje.

If you want to visit this Andalusian and Canarian style magnificent building in Tenerife, write down the hotel address:

Avda. Bruselas s/n

38660, Costa Adeje - Tenerife, Spain

Phone: 922716868

E-mail: grand.hotel.el.mirador@iberostar.com

ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS IN THE CATALAN COAST

Catalonia hides an amazing Mediterranean paradise with more than 200 beaches, perfect for your family holidays. Paradise beaches, unspoiled natural areas, relaxing coasts, adventurous water parks for kids...a great tourist destination for families.

More than 200 beaches make it the perfect children friendly destination

The Catalan coast has become a great family destination where to travel with kids, thanks to the effort of entrepreneurs.

It’s difficult to choose a particular beach, but some of them are better for kids due to its facilities, comfort, entertaining areas and kids’ clubs, not to  mention its fabulous safety: as the hotels located at the beach shoreline of Calella, the perfect environment for the children. 

Fergus Espanya Hotel

The next stop of family tourism is in Catalonia

Catalonia is full of attractions for all ages and particularly for children. Beach activities are great in beaches like Malgrat de Mar, with places where to relax and enjoy with your family the quiet Mediterranean waters. Children will have fun at Parc Francesc Macia, where they will play, run and enjoy the kids’s club, beach-libraries and entertaining activities.

If you want to immerse yourself in nature and let your children discover the ecologism, Pineda del Mar is the perfect place with amazing parks, forests, gardens and a large sandy beach that you will surely recommend your friends and family.

Santa Susanna, is another destination in the Catalan coast perfect for children and family tourism. One of the best family accommodations is offered by Fergus Hotels with excellent services, fabulous complementary offer, personalized services and great facilities in order you to have a memorable holiday.

In Santa Susanna you will enjoy magnificent beach excursions, horse riding, wave pools and big slides, visits to theme parks and museums, charming spots and dolphinariums which will surprise your children and make them remember these holidays in Catalonia forever.

Discover Zaragoza with Vincci Zaragoza Zentro

You don’t have to wait until the 12th October –Our Lady of Pilar bank holiday- to visit Zaragoza, as there are many reasons to visit this city.

Stay at one of the best hotels in the city, Vincci Zaragoza Zentro, and enjoy one of the most important tourist cities in Spain. The hotel facilities are excellent and prices are great if you book through its official website.

Vincci Zaragoza Zentro invites us to Zaragoza

This hotel offers rooms in the centre of Zaragoza with free WiFi, which are the perfect place to plan your stay while you relax and have breakfast.

It’s near three of the most important squares in the city: Pilar, Plaza de España and Aragon square in Coso 86, and it’s the first hotel of the chain Vincci Hotels in this Aragonese city.

It’s close to important places like the old town of Zaragoza, Our Lady of Pilar Basilica and Ebro river, the most important one in the city.

A perfectly designed hotel to evoke this iconic city’s history.

Discover Zaragoza!

As you leave the hotel in the centre of Zaragoza, you will access easily any interesting point of the city by public transport.

Zaragoza has a high Roman influence. The Roman emperor Caesar Augustus gave the name to this city. If you want to visit Zaragoza, you should start exploring its old town and walk across the charming streets, popular neighbourhoods like Magdalena and Gancho including Roman amphitheatre, monuments…

One of the most emblematic monument is the Basilique of the Lady of Pilar which construction started in 1681 and finished in 1961.

You should also visit Aljaferia Palace, an Islamic palace with Arabic style, which is the only remaining monument of Taifas era.

If you are travelling with friends or family, you should walk across the city and take a picture on every bridge of the city. First, Pilar Bridge or Piedra Bridge and at the end Almozara Bridge. There are 12 bridges totally.  

FOTOS HOTEL VINCCI ZARAGOZA ZENTRO

Amazing Stories: Sol Katmandu Park

My name is Gustavo. My family and I have always lived in Seville, and we recently decided to go on holidays. We usually planned holidays 2 or 3 months in advance but at the end we travelled anywhere. This time we plan and organize everything perfectly to achieve our goal: Majorca!

Our hotel choice

Yolanda (my wife) and I have 3 children. 2 girls (aged 12 and 10), and an almost 2 years old baby, so we had to choose the best hotel for them: children friendly hotel where they can have fun. It’s not easy as there are many results when you look for “hotels in Majorca”, but finally we could find an amazing hotel where my wife and I had also lots of fun. We had a great memorable experience at Sol Katmandu Park Resort.

What we liked the most at the hotel in Majorca

We could explain our visits to Drach caves, popular monuments, tours or leisure activities, but what we really should stand out is our experience at Sol Katmandu Park Resort by Sol Hotels, Melia subsidiary.

●      First, the prices. Despite being one of the best family hotels in Majorca, prices are really affordable for this type of hotel. It offers great promotions as the entrance to the amusement park for free, which Fabian (2 year old baby) enjoyed to the fullest.

●      They always offer the Play Pass including up to 4 family members free entrance to several park attractions until 6pm. I recommend you to visit Zombies!

●      Fabian could enter to Kamp Katakidu park, specially designed for babies.

The hotel service

Sol Katmandu Park Resort is a themed park with rooms where you rest and have fun as well. We must stand out the hotel customer care and guest services. The hotel staff is really friendly and you feel like being in another country as you arrive at the hotel reception, where the girls dress typical clothes from Nepal. Just amazing! They always tried to help us if we didn’t know where to take the bus or how to reach some places. They even booked for us an affordable transport to go to Drach Caves.

Of course, I highly recommend it!