Need to know
Rooms
22.
Check–Out
Noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in 4pm.
More details
Rates typically include a buffet breakfast of fresh juices and local island specialities such as Menorcan cheeses, sobrasada sausage and sweet pastissets cakes.
Hotel closed
The hotel closes from 8 November until Easter; Santa Ponsa reopens on 1 April 2020.
At the hotel
Moorish-style fruit and vegetable gardens stitched across the 250-acre estate, a spa with a sauna and hammam, free WiFi. Torre Vella – a short shuttle ride away – has alfresco massage tables, a sprawling farm with animals and clifftop yoga. In rooms: beach bag, Ren bath products, a minibar, free bottled water and a TV.
Our favourite rooms
At Santa Ponsa, all rooms are different, but we loved the Superior Deluxe (especially room four), with its arched windows, dark hues and aged mirrors adding to the overall Arabian Nights theme.
Poolside
Santa Ponsa has an unheated outdoor pool that’s open 24 hours a day and a second at the spa, carved into a dramatic 18th-century cistern.
Spa
Santa Ponsa’s impressive spa has three treatment rooms, a hammam, a sauna, Nordic baths and an underground pool in a centuries-old cistern. Alfresco treatments are available in the grounds too, using organic products extracted from the estate. There are also yoga classes on the calendar several times a week.
Packing tips
A walking guide to the Camí de Cavalls trail. Once on the island, pick up a parasol in towns such as Alaior ready to explore the north coast’s virgin beaches. You’ll need water, sun cream and towels, too, as many have no facilities – but that’s part of the allure.
Also
The owners had the foresight to landscape the grounds three years before opening, employing a 20-strong team of agricultural pros and gardeners to nurture the vines, aromatic plants, olive groves, orange, lemon and pomegranate trees.
Pet‐friendly
Very. The hotel allow dogs in any bedroom for €20 per night and provides beds and bowls for canine companions. However, they must be kept on leads and are not allowed near the spa or pools. See more pet-friendly hotels in Menorca.
Children
All ages welcome. Cots (€20 a night) can be added to rooms on request. Children are also allowed in the restaurants at all times, with high chairs available. There’s no specific menu, but chefs are happy to adapt dishes to their most-discerning customers.
Sustainability efforts
As an agricultural island, Menorca is deeply wedded to the environment and this hotel-cum-agriturismo reflects that closeness with nature. Food is either grown on site (the kitchen-garden and fruit trees at Santa Ponsa are especially impressive) or sourced from the island’s proud producers. The hotel also composts for the gardens and recycles waste water for irrigation purposes.