KWUK - what you said made me think - for the first time ever we won't be renting a car for our visit to PP. The cost of rental with a decent company just put us off. If we were staying further out, down a country road, we wouldn't have much choice but in the centre of PP...We've visited lots of places on the island during previous visits so we are going to get public transport or taxis if we get itchy feet. Thanks to you for the tip re Conde we'll be picked up from the airport etc. That's not cheap at 150 euros both ways of course but it'll be nice to just take off. I just wondered if your decision was for similar reasons. I'll come back and let you know if we miss it.

littlelamb, we've got a slightly unusual set of circumstances this year which includes being in PP for just over the usual fortnight.

So decided not to hire at airport, instead will use Conde for private transfers (late arrival on day 1) and only hire a car for middle part of our stay in PP to give some flexibility.

Overall (even with the luxury of private transfer) it works out cheaper in total than hiring car at airport (and not using it every day of the whole longer than normal holiday)

Forgive my nosiness KWUK and thanks for sharing that. Similar sums to ours, though perhaps for different reasons. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that others will be doing the same.

If staying in metropolis of Pto Pollensa (and not outside the resort) I would only consider hiring a car for the full duration of a holiday if it was off-season.During the summer there is no incentive to take to the roads. Easy enough to use the local buses for the odd trip eg to Pollensa/Cala San Vicente/Formentor.

I agree Wirral. When we first came to the island we stayed up a rickety country road, glad to have a car with young teens who went into spasms at the thought of actual exercise. We explored almost every corner of the island; that's how we discovered PP. Lots of rentals and exploring later, we had started to park the car in PP and only see it (driving over to Cala San Vicenc etc) occasionally. It was still cheaper than transfers etc so we continued but it has slowly dawned on us to ditch the car. Without it though I don't think we'd have seen so much of the island.

Similar thing here.....we have tended to get a taxi at the airport then hire a car for a week in the middle.

Always visit Valdemossa, market at the old town, Cala san V and here and there (including watching the sunset from the mountains). This year probably only doing 5 days as persuaded kids not to go to Western Water Park!

Hiper Rent a car is to be recommended, as per the first reply. You can pick up your car in the centre of Puerto Pollenca. They have a good fuel policy, i.e. you bring the car back full (petrol station is almost next door), you thereby only pay for the fuel you actually use. Book via their website, we did and, strangely enough, found that 8 days hire was cheaper than 7 days!

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