Cheap flights to Menorca (Mahon)
Family-friendly resorts, lush green mountains, secluded coves and undoubtedly Spain’s best beaches; if it’s rest and relaxation you’re after then Menorca is just the ticket. It might not be as famous as its noisier Balearic sisters Majorca and Ibiza, but Menorca packs just as big a punch in the perfect holiday destination stakes. For one thing it has more beaches than the two of them put together. If you like your sand fine, your waters crystal clear and warm and some beautiful deserted coves, bays and rocky inlets, then this is the place for you. Menorca really is beach heaven! Tempted yet? Well you will be when we tell you that the island has also remained relatively untouched by tourism despite tempting thousands of visitors back year after year. You don’t get any neon lit high-rises here.
Menorca is a slice of traditional Spain at its best and once you’ve veered away from those beaches, if you can, you’ll find another world completely. One of small hillside villages and rolling countryside complete with smatterings of ancient Talayotic and Roman ruins – perfect walking country, if you’re up for it. Or how about visiting the dunes and wetlands of the UNESCO bioreserve of S’Albufera d’Es Grau that stretches 8 kilometres along Menorca’s east coast?
April 2013
(6 Plaça del Carme, Mahón, tel: 971 362 573) Relax with a calming cup of camomile tea from Panaderia La Mejor. This bakery sells bags of dried flowers ready to be infused, which have been picked at La Mola, on the north bank of Mahón's port.
April 2013
Menorca's salt industry was abandoned 30 years ago, but there are plans to revive production of the finest flor de sal at Ses Salines, in the bay of Fornells. See the salt pans for yourself, at Ses Salines or Addaia.
July 2012
The island's summer fiesta season means there are horses to be seen, gin to be drunk and festivities to join every single weekend across the island. Visit Es Migjorn or Sant Climent for small-scale celebrations, try Mahón's party for super-size fiestas with over 100 horses, or elsewhere for something in between.