One of these restaurants, Portofino, was also open for lunch and this was again a buffet style meal. Each hotel has a large restaurant which serves buffet-style food at breakfast, lunch and dinner, and in the Grand Palladium Palace there were three other a la carte restaurants for dinner service. all your drinks and food is included (yes, including alcoholic beverages!). This was because there was enough for us to do in the grounds of Grand Palladium Palace, including enough places to eat.īoth resorts share restaurants so you can eat at any of them, and everyone staying in both hotels in the Grand Palladium Resort is there on an all-inclusive basis, i.e. I say this tentatively because believe it or not we didn't actually make it over to the White Island part of the resort during our five days there.
Grand Palladium White Island had at least another swimming pool and another kids' area. We stayed in the former, which itself had two large swimming pool areas and a separate kids' swimming and play area. Grand Palladium Resort & Spa is actually spread out across two hotels that share facilities Grand Palladium Palace and Grand Palladium White Island. Our son was handed a balloon, we were given (non-alcoholic) fruit cocktails as the layout and set-up of the resort was explained, and everyone smiled as we walked through the resort to our room. Of course, if you're not travelling with young children, you may have an alternative view on the noise of planes taking off very close by (it happened maybe once or twice an hour during busy times, a a little less at other times of the day).īesides, the welcome at Grand Palladium Palace, even after such a short transfer from Ibiza airport was very warm. They were so close that I even had a chance to (try!) teach him some of the aircraft liveries we saw "That one's British Airways so flying back to where your grandparents live!", and "That one's flying back to Amsterdam! Say hi to all our friends!". If anything, it was another thing to enjoy with my boy searching for the planes taking off as they roared into the sky. I knew there would be a lot of air traffic - and I was right - but I can honestly say it didn't bother me.
Personally, I'd had mixed feelings about picking a resort so close to the airport.
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The resort was busy but didn't feel full to capacity, and we really couldn't argue with how close it was from the airport - a ten minute, €10 taxi ride away - which was a real treat with a toddler who was itching to get in a swimming pool after the flight from Amsterdam. The weather in mid-June was perfect (around 25-26 Celsius every day with some cloud coverage but no rain). If you followed my Instagram during our five-day trip to Ibiza you'll know that we had a wonderful time. So, I want to apologise for them not being quite the same standard as in other posts.įURTHER READING: All my Luxury Family Travel posts are here / Best Airlines for Flying with Kids / Tips for the Maldives with a toddler / The best luxury resorts for families, all over the world / The Best Airlines for Flying with Kids / Phuket's best luxury resorts, many of which are great for children and families! And if you ended up here by mistake and don't have any kids, you may be interested in finding out the best Maldives liveaboard holidays.Īlso, if you're heading to Ibiza for a less toddler-focused holiday and want to know what to wear on this famous party-island, here's an Ibiza style guide you can check out! And if you fancy touring around the Balearic islands from Ibiza you can get a ferry to nextdoor Mallorca (or Majorca), a beautiful island which is well worth visiting, as demonstrated by this guide to Mallorca, and this post about road-tripping around Majorca. They were all taken on my phone because I forgot my camera (a rookie mistake, I know!) and because my phone ( which is this one by the way) was only a day old I hadn't quite figured out the settings on it. I make a small commission off any purchases made but they don't cost you anything extra, and often I do a lot of research to find you the best possible deal in the link - yay!īefore we go any further, I feel the need to apologise for the photos in this review. So, we did some research and narrowed down a short-list of family-friendly hotels in Ibiza to just one, which seemed to offer the best value for money Grand Palladium Palace, on Playa d"en Bossa beach, near Ibiza Town.ĭISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links.
It's a place he's always wanted to go and it's somewhere I was keen to return to with my nearly three-year-old.
In an effort to squeeze in as many trips as possible before the arrival of our second child, my partner and I had been thinking about a short holiday in Ibiza for some time.
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