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Things to Do in Mallorca: 12 Experiences You Can’t Miss: What Is Actually Worth Your Time
Quick answer: This is an honest look at Mallorca: 12 Experiences You Can’t Miss: which popular attraction to think twice about, and what to do with that time instead. It also covers the transit and money moves that save the most hassle.
The Caves of Drach near Porto Cristo are the island’s headline attraction, and they are the easiest to skip. Tours move hundreds of people an hour through the chambers in groups that can swell toward 420, so you spend the visit shuffling rather than looking. Drive 40 minutes up the coast to the Coves d’Arta instead, where a daily visitor cap keeps groups closer to 20 and the cave opens dramatically toward the sea. The pace lets you see the place.
Sa Calobra gets the same treatment: tour coaches grind down the hairpins all day. The cove just before it, Cala Tuent, sits off a left-hand turn near the Sant Llorenc chapel and stays calm, with a 13th-century church above a pebbled shore that quietly discourages the sunbed crowd.
The smartest move is the vintage Soller train, running since 1912. It covers the 27 km from Palma through the Serra de Tramuntana in about an hour of wood-panelled carriages and orange groves.
- Book the combined train-and-tram return (around 40 euros) over separate one-way tickets, and ride out early before the cruise-ship arrivals fill the platform.
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John Morrison is the founder and lead travel writer at Packzup. Over the past decade he has explored destinations across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania — always self-funded, never on a press trip.
