Palma, Spain

Puro Grand Hotel

Price per night from$446.68

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR399.09), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

Moorish-Mallorcan mix

Setting

La Lonja locale

It’s been a while since James I and his troops conquered ‘Medina Mayurqa’, but their Moorish legacy remains hidden in the nooks of Puro Grand Hotel and shows no signs of leaving any time soon. The hotel’s architects unearthed a bounty of beams, some inscribed with 12th-century Arabian messages and others with the royal family’s crest (replicating those found in nearby La Seu Cathedral). But it’s Catalan designer Làzaro Rosa-Violàn who’s brought the beams (and more) to life in these 16 minimalist rooms, the grand arched restaurant and laid-back living space. Throw in terracotta exteriors, hand-woven rugs and a lantern-lined staircase and Puro feels right at home in Palma’s chronicled Old Town.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

16, including three suites.

Check–Out

Noon. Check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability.

More details

Rates include an à la carte breakfast.

Also

There’s a lift that services all floors, and one of the rooms has been adapted with a wheelchair-friendly shower for those with limited mobility.

At the hotel

Courtyard, communal living room, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, and Seaskin Life bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Room 11 (one of the Essence suites) is where you’ll find the wealth of ancient Arabic engravings, but all rooms at Puro Grand Hotel have hints of these original features, warmed with gentle lighting, woven-locally tapestries and neutral tones.

Spa

There’s no spa onsite, but a few minutes’ walk away is Puro’s sister hotel, Palacio Can Marqués, and you’re more than welcome to bask in the delights of its holistic spa. Masseurs use natural Seaskin Life oils for facials, aromatherapy massages, detoxifying body wraps, and ayurvedic treatments based on the sun, moon and earth. If you’d rather stay put, in-room facials can be arranged.

Packing tips

History buffs need not bring anything but their passion; for the rest of you, a willingness to learn and a love for design.

Also

The Puro group also has two beach clubs (Purobeach Palma and Illetas) that are both a 20-minute drive away.

Pet‐friendly

Pups weighing under six kilogrammes are welcome for €25 a day. See more pet-friendly hotels in Palma.

Children

All ages are welcome. There’s no kids’ club or crèche but babysitting can be arranged for around €90 a day (subject to change).

Sustainability efforts

Environmentally friendly products replace single-use items wherever possible, meals are made from locally sourced ingredients, water waste is minimised with a regeneration system, in-room sensors control air-conditioning and heating, and the hotel encourages you to fly direct where possible to cut air miles.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Among the courtyard’s olive trees, where romance is ripe.

Dress Code

Don any designer dresses you’ve picked up along Passeig del Born.

Hotel restaurant

Where red booths line tapestried walls and pendants swing from arched entries, you’ll find chef Leon Altamiro hard at work helming Beatnik Restaurant’s open kitchen. Menus are Mediterranean-based with a Latin American and Asian-fusion twist, and if you’re struggling to conceptualise the three together, let us help. Sharing plates include lightly battered prawns with a side of spicy Japanese mayo, tuna sashimi flatbreads with truffle oil, and falafel or pulled pork tortillas dished up with homemade guacamole. There’s also a Neapolitan-style pizza oven for those craving something a little simpler.

Hotel bar

Beatnik’s bar is attached to the restaurant, but during the summer cocktails are usually taken out to the courtyard. 

Last orders

Breakfast is served daily from 8am till noon; lunch is noon to 2pm, and dinner is 7pm to 10pm. At weekends, brunch starts at 11am.

Room service

Dishes can be delivered to your door, round-the-clock.

Location

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Address
Puro Grand Hotel
Carrer del Forn de la Glòria 5
Palma
07012
Spain

Puro Grand Hotel is in La Lonja, a district in Palma’s Old Town, along Carrer de Montenegro.

Planes

Palma Airport is a 20-minute drive along the coast; the team can arrange transfers for up to three people (€70 each way).

Trains

The closest train station, Estació Intermodal, is a 10-minute drive from the hotel, and private transfers can be organised for around €15.

Automobiles

The hotel has a batch of electric bikes that are free to borrow, and Palma’s public transport system is well-established. But, if you do decide to rent a set of wheels, there’s valet parking a few minutes away for €40 a night.

Other

Ferries make their way round the Balearics and dock into Palma’s port, which is a 15-minute drive from the hotel.

Worth getting out of bed for

There are plenty of places to wander in Palma’s Old Town. Keep the history class going by heading to the Gothic La Seu Cathedral and roaming the cobblestone streets of the ancient Arabic quarter to the Palace of the Almudaina, once home to the city’s Moorish rulers. The garden-enclosed Arab Bath House also isn’t far. Shopping fiends need look no further than the designer boutiques that line Passeig del Born and beach bums can sip sangrias by the waves at Purobeach Palma or Purobeach Illetas, both a 20-minute drive from the hotel. There are plenty of tapas bars and food markets (Mercado 1930 is a fan favourite) for the gourmands, and the hotel can arrange a tour around Treurer Finca, one of the region’s famed olive-oil farms, that includes an oil and wine tasting. Otherwise, Puro has electric bikes that are free to borrow, so pedal where you please.

Local restaurants

Set in the Plaza de la Reina, a two-minute walk away, Ombu has you covered for tapas and cocktails. For a menu filled with modern Med classics (fried courgette flowers topped with goat’s cheese, salted cod fritters, grilled octopus with homemade mojo rojo…) and perfect wine pairings, El Camino has you covered. Or, if you’d rather a casual beachside bite, head to Assaona.

Local cafés

Set within its namesake shop, Café Rialto cooks up daily changing dishes for breakfast and lunch, all made with locally sourced ingredients and paired with fresh smoothies and hand-pressed coffee. During the afternoon and into the early evening, it also has a wine list with bottles from the family’s vineyards.

Local bars

Inspired by New Orleans’ famed blues bars and topped by a glass ceiling made of 3,000 vintage bottles, Brassclub serves custom cocktails and salty snacks in a sultry setting along Palma’s bustling Passeig de Mallorca. 

Reviews

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Gemma Askham

Anonymous review

By Gemma Askham, Roaming writer

Sensible cap on, there are many rational reasons to pick Puro Grand. It’s only a seven-minute stroll to Palma’s majestic La Seu cathedral, and just a few steps more to the beach. It’s pet-friendly. And it’s tucked down a serene Mediterranean side street, where wrong-footed holidaymakers waltz back and forth to the rhythm of an online map discombobulated by ancient, 5G-resistant walls. 

But where’s the fun in picking a hotel for sensible reasons? 

So, here’s the truth: I booked Puro Grand for its ceiling. 

I’m of an age where ceiling beams will do that to a girl (middle-aged woman). However, this is no predictable high point – even for Puro Grand’s architects. They knew the 15th-century palace had good bones, as gaze-lifting sandstone arches in the lobby attest to. But it was during the hotel’s 2022 metamorphosis that builders, then archaeologists, discovered something far above the expected: beams, as old as the 12th century, painted with the crest of the royal family and inscribed with messages in Arabic. In other words, a step up from stripping your bedroom wallpaper and unearthing a phallic symbol from the Nineties. 

Like most treasures made more precious by their scarcity, only one room offers the full reveal and that’s the first-floor Essence Suite. It’s worth limbering up with a few cat-cow stretches to get your neck accustomed to scrolling up, not down. On entering, that journey spans five whole metres: from the plush geometric rug at wooden-floor level, past trendy stainless-steel side tables, the bed’s giant Arabic-style headboard and a three-tier chandelier, until you reach the summit. Here, cocoa-rich woodwork, hand-painted with exotic decorative motifs, summons you to lie back and think of anywhere but England. 

Mr Smith, suspicious that it wasn’t just good luck that bagged us a room with such blatant Instagram fodder, would have shot me an ‘I’m onto you’ eye-roll had he not been too busy manspreading into the headspace. As a six-foot-three-er with an unfortunate natural magnetism for attic rooms with sloping ceilings, our suite proved a collective no-brainer. 

The most decadent viewing deck lies chin-deep in bubbles in the freestanding tub. The bathroom, modestly described as enormous, runs along one end of the suite and makes a strong bid for being a statement feature in its own right. It has a signature scent (the exquisite Dr. Vranjes Firenze, whose olfactory notes always say luxury); a duo of stone sinks that beckon you to tease your fingertips along them; a balcony-hugging window bench from where to survey your kingdom; and finally, what we’ll call (un-fact-checked) Mallorca’s tallest waterfall shower. 

Such characterful details make you forget that Puro Grand isn’t an independent address at all, but part of Puro – a brand famous for sleek and scene-y beach clubs that usually exude more of a Marbella vibe than a Moorish one. There are perks to being part of an extended family, though. Adjoining the property is the cool-kid Puro Hotel Oasis Urbano: all Ibizan whites and Kentia palms, it has a pool-topped roof deck that you can scoot up for nosy glimpses into neighbouring apartments (I mean, ocean views). Turn left down the street and Palacio Can Marqués, the glamorous older aunt, boasts a spa. 

Yet the vibe inside Puro Grand is all about the individual. For starters, you are elevated from strangers to WhatsApp buddies at check-in. Unlike with your real friends, you’ll actually want to read these notifications: such as being tipped off the second your room is ready ahead of the standard check-in time, or asking them to kindly sort your restaurant reservations without a hint of a pass-agg response. In fact, the staff are impressively cheerful. We’re here in November, following a long, hot summer of being nice to people, and still: wide, authentic, happy-to-see-us* smiles. (*OK, mainly our dog.)  

As far as workplace toil goes, Puro Grand is one of those spaces where I imagine you catch yourself grinning. It is a looker. More than that, it’s atmospheric. There’s an art-gallery or decor-store vibe – minus the pretensions – where warm light pours through Crittall windows, original stone floors and pillars ground you in the past, and inventive design details bounce you into the present. There are more vases of flowers than people, which is always a favourite metric. Another? That the breakfast spread runs over two rooms.    

Puro Grand is a hotel packed with art and artefacts, yet your gaze will still gravitate all the way upwards. Its palatial proportions are a welcome novelty compared to the head-bumping budget airline you likely swore under your breath at on the way over. But its walls are a history lesson, too; Mallorca’s Moorish roots enticingly flashed above you. In an age where the generic often trumps the authentic, that to me is sealing – or should I say, ceiling – the deal.

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