With beach overcrowding something of an issue in Mallorca at present, residents of Palmanova have added to it by criticising town hall beach services.
Palmanova residents critical of increased space for beach services
A new beach bar has appeared
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It must be lovely for the guests at the Zel Hotel in Palma Nova to have a graffiti covered bar to look at whilst sitting by the pool. Calvia will not have to worry about overcrowding soon as they are doing a good in deterring people from going there.
It’s the same in Playa D’Oratori, the main beach in Portals. The entire middle area behind the lifeguard used to be space for everyone, now it is completely filled with tables for the beach bar. The arrangement is also longer and thinner than previous years, placed more towards the sea… meaning the majority of public space is now behind the beds which obviously no one wants. And to cap it off, they dug such deep channels for the services and foundations for the new much larger beach bar that the same area is now full of stones that have been churned up when it used to be perfect sand.
One for you to investigate Andrew - it’s been noticed by locals that beaches around Alcúdia have suffered the same fate. Beach beds appear to have doubled in number and have been spread out to take more space. Yep, more of the beach - stolen. With locals particularly sensitive about their islands beaches being hyjacked by tourists at the moment, it’s seems totally insane to allow this to happen. Greed appears to be propelling the councils and beach authorities toward utter disaster. Perhaps they need to review this policy, before it totally blows up in their faces.