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Ca'an Picafort - Majorca

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Janbo25 · 16/07/2005 11:20

Hi we are off to viva family village ca'an picafort in 5 weeks time, I have a 6 month old son and was wondering what things i need to take and what things i can get over there and also any useful or handy tips would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

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Janbo25 · 19/07/2005 08:22

Please help as anyone been to majorca with a baby??

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zippy539 · 19/07/2005 08:41

Janbo - haven't been to Majorca with a baby but I reckon you could buy most things. Someone who is better informed will probably be along soon.

Are you breast feeding or formula? If formula we always took the formula in individual sachets when travelling (it was expensive relative to the tin but much more portable). A friend used to take disposable bottles but I always took a bottle of Milton's sterilising stuff for bottles/teats etc. If you're staying somewhere with a microwave you don't have to bother - just bung them in a big bowl with a bit of water and steam them in the microwave. Re food - if you're using a particular brand of baby food it's worth googling to see whether it's available in Spain.

Have a lovely, lovely holiday. I always worked myself into a complete lather about what to take but dh always just shrugged and said 'people in other countries have babies too' and assumed we could get hold of whatever we needed!

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Janbo25 · 19/07/2005 08:53

hi many thanks, luckily we get a lot of things included like a sterilser, buggy, hughvhair etc. with regards babyfood i do all my own at home so have never used jars so not sure what to give him??

i am formula feeding and he has cow & gate what do you mean by individual sachets??

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peckarollover · 19/07/2005 09:14

Hi Janbo

I went to Viva Family Village in Can Picafort two weeks ago!

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Janbo25 · 19/07/2005 09:20

excellent would you mind telling me more, if you prefer you could email me [email protected]

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tatt · 19/07/2005 14:26

its very british, you'll probably get most things there. Nice place - keep quiet about it

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Janbo25 · 19/07/2005 16:31

I've heard it's full of germans??

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tatt · 20/07/2005 06:02

the menus outside the many restauants are printed in English and German so they obviously get lots of both. However when we were there we saw far more English than German. That was out of season, may be different peak time. We didn't have a baby with us so I can't be sure about baby items but there were lots of shops.

If you're hiring a car the mountains are impressive and will allow you to cool down.

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Janbo25 · 20/07/2005 08:12

where abouts did you stay tatt?? we are getting a car so will go to the mountains is there anywhere else worthy of recomendation??

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tatt · 21/07/2005 09:11

would have to look up name of hotel. Don't think I want to name it as I may want to go again and don't want it becoming impossible to book But we were about two thirds the way along the beach towards the harbour. We used to stroll there for the rock pools (not especially good pools but if there is one anywhere around we've pestered into visiting it). I've seen far prettier harbours. As the hotel had an excellent kids club we just lazed around most of the time, went shopping or visited a park and just hired a car to visit the mountains. We did make a trip to the nature reserve but that might not be your sort of thing. It has some birds you won't see in this country.

katierocket · 21/07/2005 09:14

mallorca is fine with a baby. You can get nappies, baby food, formula if you need it.

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Janbo25 · 22/07/2005 08:55

where did you stay katie???

tatt did you stay in caan picafort?

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tatt · 22/07/2005 15:38

yes - in caan picafort but not the village you're staying at.

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Janbo25 · 22/07/2005 15:48

would you mind telling me more about the resort and any good restuarants etc??

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tatt · 22/07/2005 15:52

read about it here, spelt c'an picafort instead. we really didn't see masses of germans

www.majorca-mallorca.co.uk/can_picafort.htm

tatt · 22/07/2005 15:54

and some comments about the place you're visiting. Hope you like them

www.holidaytruths.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=14265&start=500

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Janbo25 · 22/07/2005 16:01

many thanks, have you got any personal comments about places?

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Janbo25 · 30/07/2005 23:21

anyone else got any info they can add we go in 3 weeks!

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Janbo25 · 01/08/2005 15:50

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Janbo25 · 03/08/2005 09:48

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SalD · 28/06/2006 11:45

Be warned: if you use SMA you cannot buy it anywhere in Majorca. Somewhere where we were staying contacted SMA before they went and said there are no stockists. Wish we'd have done that; we just assumed they would have it. From memory, I think most of the baby stuff is Nestle. They have some jars, but much less choice than we get here. And when we looked last year, there were no organic babyfood jars.

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