Globales Almirante Farragut Hotel

We visited this hotel beginning of July 2019 with family. Had a lovely sea view room. Good choice of food, deserts and drinks. My grandson was in the pool most of time, he really enjoyed. Loved the evening children's entertainment. Would recommend this hotel. Only a bus ride from Cuidedella, which has so much choice of restaurants & bars.

My partner and I stayed here with 4 teenagers and each of us thought this was a fantastic hotel, with superb cove-side location. Here are our pros, and a couple of v minor issues to be aware. Pros -The hotel was super clean and very modern, with friendly staff. The restaurant and snack bar staff worked tirelessly to clear tables away. The animation team was great - not intrusive but enthusiastic and fun for those who wanted to participate. - The bathroom was modern with a lovely big powerful shower. -The range of food available, and the times at which it was available was fantastic; unrivalled by any other all-inclusive I have stayed at (and I’ve stayed at many!) When the main restaurant service is over the snack bar provides extensive options for additional breakfast and lunch, with plenty of fruit, cakes, biscuits and pastries also available throughout the day. There are also ice cream tubs and ice lollies. There is really nothing I can fault on the food side! - I particularly appreciated the branded soft drinks, including a range of diet drinks and the fact that these, plus wine, beer and sangria were all self-service. The AI spirits weren’t branded but the local gin and cava was great! There was also a decent range of included cocktails. - By being by the pool by 9am each morning we got 6 sun loungers together in a great location. I was concerned from previous reviews about the so called “sun lounger soldiers” but we saw no evidence of this at all. I have never stayed in a hotel anywhere where you don’t expect to be up by 9am to get a decent sun lounger (in other hotels it’s always been earlier than this but here there was great availability til at least 9am and probably far later if you were only looking for 2 or 3 together). - WiFi was good. - The cove next to the hotel provides fabulous swimming and the water is deep enough to jump off the cliff side into the water - which the kids absolutely loved. There is also a much shallower part suitable for smaller children. - You can get a cheap bus straight outside the hotel to Ciutadella (E1.65 pp) which is definitely worth a visit. There’s a nice, albeit limited, night market every night on the old port steps. Cons - We had 2 rooms for the six of us and they were on the small side; the particular issue was trying to access the storage because having 3 beds in the room made things very tight. - Pool towels do not get changed unless you stay for more than a week. I wish I’d known this in advance as I’d have taken a couple of extras with me. - The main pool is deep; it’s 160-180cm so you have to be pretty tall not to be out of your depth! Fine for swimming in, but not so much for just a relaxing cool off. However, there is a much smaller shallower pool plus a kids splash pool as well. - You have to pay for the room safe which is a bit bizarre these days!

As I write this we are on our last day of 7 nights and don’t want to go home! After reading some of the previous reviews I was a little nervous before arriving but please ignore what people are saying. The food is great, super tasty, and plenty of options to try. My 5 year old tried something new every day! No problems with sun loungers and surely everyone knows about the tourist tax by now? The rooms and bright and clean with pool towels and beach bag provided, we left ours on the room floor halfway through (when we went to Ciutadella) and fresh ones were left for us. Atmosphere around the pool is great, all the staff are friendly and work so hard! Everyone must go down to the cove to swim with the fish, it’s an amazing spot to relax. Great wifi - could watch YouTube around the pool and in the room. I have only two niggles: 1. I don’t mind having to pay to rent the safety deposit box in the room (€42 with €10 returned at end of stay) but it’s annoying that it’s a key rather than a keycode, so you still have something to guard with your life and it has your room number on it too! 2. The amount of single use plastic for drinks/ice creams/lollies around the pool. We tried to reuse as much as we could but that’s not actively encouraged. We would have happily paid a refundable fee for some kind of plastic reusable picnic ware of some sort. But this definitely needs addressing in today’s global war on plastic. All in all a fabulous holiday and we hope you enjoy your stay as much as we did!