Name: Apartamentos Rocas Marinas
Address: Paseo Maritimo Punta Grossa 2 - Arenal d'en Castell, 07811 Punta Grossa, Spain, Mercadal, Mercadal, Mercadal, 07811, Spain
Rating: 9

Smoke-free property

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Hiking

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Free Parking on Premises

Swimming pool

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Playa Arenal d'en Castell

Na Macaret Beach

Menorca Airport

Cala Macarelleta Beach

Apartamentos Rocas Marinas

Mercadal

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What a find, the owners were so helpful when choosing which apartment to choose, sending details and photos to enable you to pick the apartment with sea views to sip your sangria by. Right on the sea front and away from it all, safe and secure. We would recommend a hire car which the owner will also arrange for you at a reasonable cost. All apartments are spacious, clean and well equipped. Even though the apartments are a little remote, you have some lovely walks around the coast. There is a lovely cafe at the Romano Shopping centre along the av. d'es  arenal which looks down over the beach. From there you have a boardwalk to the other side of the beach. Lovely cove and beach. We would go again in a flash and will return when we can

Pleasant, quiet, friendly apartments

We have just returned from 2 weeks in the Rocas Marinas appartments,this is our 3rd visit to them, as usual wonderful location  beautiful sea views gardens are very tidy,pool well kept cleaner very helpful

great accomodation

In 45 years of holidaymaking I’ve never packed a suitcase without a small toolkit*. From Bruges to Bratislava, Mahe to Majorca and La Rochelle to Les Deux Alpes there has never an occasion where bacon has not been saved. Thus it was at Rocas Marinas where a shower dribbling like a hay-fevered Pinocchio was transformed to raging Niagara with 3 seconds of judicious screw-driving.
Far and away the best features of this destination are the breathtaking views of the Mediterranean - Favaritx lighthouse in the offing -  and the secluded peaceful location remote from the hurly burly of popular tourism. Surrounded by just 7  self catering apartments the pool area is shielded from all but the fiercest sea breezes and gets the sun practically all day.
The apartments are bijou rather than expansive but adequately equipped for the self catering novice and furnished in a simple style. Take morning tea on your terrace before 8am if the skies are cloudless or else risk a tan like a Sam Browne belt before breakfast. 
The rocky foreshore toward the sea would be impenetrable to Viking hordes riding Centurion tanks so that no aspect of the shining sea is sullied by strolling, vestless, blistered  paunches or shrieking children. Instead the daily visits from fishing boats hauling and laying nets provide interludes of bucolic industry while cormorants look on enviously. Beaches may be found within a mile or so as are bars, restaurants, various supermarkets and gift shops along with tacky amusements to divert the bored.
Sadly the worst feature of Rocas Marinas is the willingness to accommodate children, the parents of whom are deluded into thinking that their spawn and the relentless screaming, clapping, grizzling and playground detritus with attendant children’s potties littering the lawn are a delightful accompaniment to a relaxing holiday for anyone else. I should have been more discriminating, Menorca has a wealth of adult only apartments but none are so well situated. Thus the holiday was not benevolently enhanced. 
This area needs a car unless you are training for the marathon. Buses run from the Punta Grossa/Arenal centre. Punta Grossa is something of a peninsular and the Rocas Marinas are accessed counter-clockwise from the threshold. Local signposting is confusing so allow at least a couple of hours to find the place from Mahon airport. Don’t try it in the dark. ME7 Northwest then ME9 East. Once you get here you’ll probably forgive Google maps and the car GPS as the trek was worth it in my humble opinion. Na Macaret nearby has a cute little beach and a couple of fine restaurants including the Biosphera.  Only order the Tuna if you’re planning on feeding the five thousand. 
Favaritx lighthouse is curiously recommended as a feature of interest but nobody other than geology students would imagine it worth the hike which should be accomplished in rugged boots. The roads are generally quiet and driving standards fairly good. Menorca is much less visited than Majorca and preferred for tranquillity and rural scenery. If there’s nightlife here it’s not pervasive.
From late September to early June Menorca is pretty much closed so that most restaurants, many hotels, pharmacies, the Venta de Queso just along the road to Mahon and all ancient monuments are shut up or deserted. To compound the frustration they all blatantly insist they are open. If there was to be a Eurovision Mañana contest then surely Menorca would win hands down. Siesta is deeply ingrained into the Menorcan psyche but the vision of a somnolent Mahon leaping frantically into life at 5.30 every afternoon is a sight to behold. Little wonder the Spanish armada failed if they all slipped off for a snooze at 2pm every day.
Very much worth a visit is the superb Bodega Binifadet just by Sant Llouis. As well as a restaurant the winery does tours of the vineyard and cellars/winemaking plant with a tasting thrown in. Ubiquitously a 12 month old child was brought to join the tour! If I carried a noisy transistor radio with me or tootled on a tuneless trumpet I’d be kicked to death in moments and rightly so but how strange that the parents of wailing children are excused any sanction. Nevertheless, the best 8 Euros I spent during the entire holiday. Naturally there is an opportunity to buy wine but no pressure. Sparkling wine is unavailable since their entire production of this is presold before it ever gets into the bottle! Their olives were so startlingly delicious that we tracked down their supplier in a back street of Mahon to bring home a reserve stash.
What does the apartment lack? Coasters. Take also UK toilet paper, Spanish toilet paper is thinner than the Flat Earth Society’s election manifesto.
Waiting at the airport for our return flight we were disturbed...or would have been... to find that the cleaning staff were on strike. So the place looked just like Gatwick on a normal day. Prowling through the litter round the rubbish bins I found a baguette, unopened packet of crisps and a wrapped wedge of cheese. What a result, great holiday after all!
*Toolkit should contain:
Screwdriver with bits for pozidrive and slotted screws, Pliers, Watchmakers screwdriver set, Swiss army knife, Insulating tape, Superglue, Length of twine, Blutak, Needle/thread, Duct tape, Permanent marker pen and a spiky thing to get the milk from coconuts.

View to die for

We spent a week staying at the Rocas Marinas apartments. The position of the apartments were great for us we hired a car for the week so it was a great base.The nearest supermarket & restaurant is a 10 minute walk.
Our apartment (number 2 Azul) had 2 bedrooms with fantastic sea views overlooked by no-one also the seating area & patio & bathroom had the same, the small window in the kitchen overlooked the pool & gardens.
Kitchen had everything we needed, bathroom had a washing machine which means you can travel light, not packing so many clothes.
We requested a hairdryer before we went & it was there on arrival.
All in all we were very pleased & will go back again.
The only minus I can think of is the pillows were very hard & uncomfortable.

Stunning location at the Rocas marinas apartments

stayed once again in the Rocas marinas apartments lovely setting in nice gardens and pool a few apartments occupied even although only mid May ,cleaner and administrator very helpful and friendly never met the owners, apartments well equipped, lovely walks by the coast or round to beach

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