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If you’re looking to frolic in those bright Balearic blues that pepper enviable Instagram grids year-round, allow us to introduce you to Cap Menorca – a botanical bolthole set along the island’s serene south coast that was formerly an army base. Things feel more quaint-Spanish-village than hotel here, for each of the 15 suites has its own private pool and flora-filled garden, edged by natural stone walls and cobblestone paths. But it’s the restaurant’s rooftop that seals the seduction, set to woo you with wondrous wine pairings, fresh seasonal fare, and a notable sun-steeped sea view – and that’s all before you’ve even called in at the calas…
11am; check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.
Prices
Double rooms from £360.01 (€420), including tax at 10 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of €4.40 per room per night on check-out.
More details
Rates include a buffet breakfast, served daily at the restaurant. Staff can also arrange in-suite spreads, on request.
Also
One of the suites has been adapted for guests with limited mobility, however the island’s terrain is rocky, and some of the hotel’s walkways may be challenging for wheelchair users.
Hotel closed
Cap Menorca closes its doors from the end of October until early May.
At the hotel
Public beach nearby, gym, bikes to borrow, concierge, and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: air-conditioning, minibar, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, free bottled water, beach bags, hairdryer, and La Finca Menorca bath products.
Our favourite rooms
Suites are all fairly similar in style, and each has its own private saltwater pool, so you’ll be set for lulling laps wherever you decide to rest your head. If you’re after something with a little extra room, the Exclusive Suite has been designed to replicate a small, traditional home with its own private palm-fringed walkway, restored vaulted ceilings and lashings of natural light.
Poolside
You’ll find a sprawling saltwater pool (open between 8am and 10pm) hidden behind lofty palm trees, flanked with plump sunloungers and a pinch-me-please view of the shimmering Mediterranean. There are also private pools in each of the suites for more secluded soaks, and an adults-only spot a little closer to the beach.
Spa
Knots are soothed into submission at the spa, which is set in a repurposed ancient cave and fitted with a natural stone pool, steam room and sauna. If you’d rather treatments were tuned in to birdsong, ask masseurs to set up tables in your suite’s garden.
Packing tips
Bikinis for the beach baskers and a map of Menorca’s best hiking trails for the more serious striders.
Also
We’ve heard word that a hammam is in the works for 2025.
Children
Welcome; there’s no kids’ club or creche, but babysitting is available for a charge and some of the Historic suites can accommodate an extra bed.
Sustainability efforts
Cap Menorca relies entirely on renewable energy and solar panels to power its operation, rainwater is harvested and water-saving technologies make sure all the hotel’s water waste is recycled and reused, and over 15,000 flowers have been planted to revive its surroundings. You also won’t find any single-use plastic here, and all the bath products are made from eco-friendly and organic ingredients.
Most of the restaurant runs on a shared table concept, but if you’d rather dine à deux, head into the gardens or up to one of the rooftop tables. Staff can also set up a private perch around the hotel’s flower-filled grounds.
Dress Code
Keep it casual with cooling kaftans during the day and save your loveliest linens for evening.
Hotel restaurant
Cap Menorca will be unveiling their selection of dining spots soon, and the forecast looks promising. The main restaurant is set to be a minimal affair, with one central table to encourage conviviality, and contemporary interiors that cleanse the palate and open onto the gardens. Crowning it all is a sea-staring rooftop terrace that will have even the most experienced of sunset snappers ogling its view. Menus add a seasoning of modernity to traditional Mediterranean fare, devised as an island-loving ode to the Baelerics: expect plenty of freshly caught fish and new takes on caldereta de langosta (the island’s lauded lobster stew). An alfresco kitchen will be your cue for lunch under the main pool’s lofty palm trees.
Hotel bar
Sundowners are best taken on the terrace, where there’s a small lounge area to soak up the views.
Last orders
Breakfast is served from 8am to 10.30am; lunch is 12.30pm to 3.30pm, and dinner is dished between 7.30pm and 10pm.
Room service
For a homey start to the day, breakfast can be whisked to your suite (if arranged ahead). If it’s out-of-hours snacks you're after, room service is available between 11pm and 7am.
Cap Menorca sits along the Balearic island’s southern coastline, 20 minutes south of Alaior.
Planes
Most European hubs (including London, Paris and Madrid) have direct flights to Menorca’s Mahón Airport, which is a 20-minute drive from the hotel. Private transfers can be arranged from €90 each way, for up to five passengers.
Automobiles
You’ll need a car if you’re planning on exploring the island’s sugar-cast beaches and hidden bays; there are plenty of rental booths at the airport, and the hotel has free valet parking.
Other
If you’re between Balearics, ferries from neighbouring islands regularly dock into Ciutadella and Mahón.
Worth getting out of bed for
With its coastal setting and all-about-unwinding attitude, Cap Menorca is seasoned at soothing and we’d suggest getting in on it all. Stay within the spa’s walls and dip between the pool, sauna, steam and treatment rooms before taking to the mat with a guided yoga session. Staff can arrange boat trips around the island if you’re looking to see its coveted corners by sea, or drive to one of its cerulean-cast calas to spend the day snorkelling, kayaking and scuba-diving. Take your pick of vineyards to tour if you’d rather stay on dry land – family-run Bodegas Menorquines is a 20-minute drive away and your closest option for tastings.
Head northwest to Ciutadella, which is well worth the 40-minute drive for its charming cobbled Old Town, 14th-century Baroque cathedral, and Gothic city hall. Equally characterful, Mahón, which is Menorca’s second port city, is slightly nearer and on the eastern edge of the island. If you prefer your scenes a little more sweeping, take to the Cami de Cavalls trails, which wrap around the island and can be explored by horse, bike or foot. More hikes await at Monte Toro, which is one of the island’s tallest hills and long considered Menorca’s spiritual locus; those who reach its peak will also be blessed by its 17th-century monastery that sits at the summit.
Local restaurants
If you’re looking to stay close to home, stop by Es Forn de Torre Solí Nou – a 15-minute drive from the hotel, where tables are set under sun-warmed pergolas and Mediterranean dishes are cooked with local ingredients. If you’re strolling around Ciutadella and fancy a refuel, Molí des Comte Asador plates up Spanish staples under saint-worthy arched ceilings.
Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this floral finca in Spain and unpacked their sandy avarcas and Menorcan-made wines, a full account of their beachside break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Cap Menorca…
Menorca’s dreamy Mediterranean setting once primed it for naval defence, but these days it's more about kicking back at calas than casing the bay – and Cap Menorca is proving even the heaviest of histories can be repurposed to radiant effect. You may not see it at first, given the now meditative gardens and serene scenes, but this 30-hectare estate once housed the island’s army base, before becoming the sequestered south coast stay that stands today. Suites have been carefully reimagined to incorporate original vaulted ceilings, and long-abandoned cannons are painted to sculpturally stand out from the artful flora that carpet the hotel’s grounds. Leaving your suite’s private pool will be a wrench, but tear yourself away and you’ll find a rooftop restaurant that was – quite literally – made for sea-watching sundowners (with less call for high alert this time around), plus a 50-metre palm-fringed pool, and a cosseting cave of a spa. And, when you’re ready to patrol the shoreline on foot, steps from the grounds take you straight down to a hidden sandy spot. This is no place to be confined to barracks…
