Hello Fayth
Have you tried Thomson accommodation only?I just tried and put dates in for mid August and that is coming up just under £800 for Beach club or just over £900 for the Hotel all inclusive.This is how we booked for when we go in July that saved us £800 on package price, I enquired at the time of booking if kids would still be allowed to use kids club if I booked accommodation only and they said yes.

Hi cathliamluke - what date do you arrive in July?

Hi Micknmill
We arrive 4th July and we are staying for 10 days.Will you be there at this time?
Really looking forward to it.

We arrive 29th June for two weeks, so see you there. I'll let you buy me a drink for all the advive we've given you. Only joking. 129 days to go!!!!

........and counting!!!!
Will be good to meet up.We will hopefully be arriving around lunchtime on the Wednesday so if you see the hubby struggling with all those suitcases that I have packed come over and give us a hand!!!!
We are coming with another family so there will be 8 of us in total.
Heard a lot in the reviews about this 'Boogie night' do they do this weekly or fortnightly??Is it generally on a certain night cos I am hoping that we will be able to experience it for ourselves but as we are only going for 10 nights I am hoping not to miss it.

The famous boogie nights has been on a Thursday for the last 3 years that we've been going, so unless it's changed you should be ok. We fly in and out on a Friday this year and leave quite early on the Friday morning, so hoping it will be during our first week as I don't fancy travelling home with a hangover, a 6 & 4 year old moaning that they don't want to go home and the inevitable delays.
See you there. Anyone else going the first two weeks of July?

We're going out on the 16th to the 30th June.

just wondering is there a good chinese or other resturants not to far away from the san miguel,when we fancy a change from ai.
thanks tracey

Hi Tracey,
There is a chinese restaurant just across the road from the beach club entrance that is quite good, - personally I think it's better than the chinese in the hotel. Also there is a really good sea food restaurant, by the side of the beach next to the small supermarket. It also does a nice bit of steak. Both are reasonably priced.
The Happy Friar pub (run by an English couple) also do nice food, - apparently their Sunday roast is really good and their draught beer makes a nice change from the AI beer. Beer prices about the same as here.

thanks micknmill,
really looking foward now to august,hope the kids enjoy the san miguel as youngest wanted to go back to tunisia(but hubby and i didn't rate it to highly).anymore info you have regarding things to do/see outside of hotel will be much appreciated.
oh by the way ment to ask what are the closest resorts to puerto san miguel and how easy to get there and back again.
thanks tracey

We didn't like tunisia when we went either, but then we came to san miguel and we are now going for our 4th time My kids love it, especially my younger son. As for things to do outside of the hotel, it depends how far you want to go and what you want to do. You can go to the beach and canoe, windsurf etc, or you can go further to Playa Den Bossa and the waterpark 'Aguamar' Thomson can always organise this for you!As for resorts near by, the only one we have ever visited is Portinatx, which is beautiful. You can get to this by the mini train that runs to and from their through the day at specific times. Hope this helps a little bit more, but feel free to ask anything else

Does Portinatx have a better choice of shops than San Miguel? And more importantly, is there a cash machine in Portinatx?
I stayed in Portinatx way back in 1977 when i was a little girl, I remember it being very beautiful, but very quiet and hardly any shops there. It would be worth a ride on the mini-train one day to go back and see it again, as long as there's something to see...

Tracey
Micknmill is right the Chinese across the road is better than the Hotel one, though the hotel was OK for free but its nice to get away out of the hotel for a change. The seafood place looks really excellent and we are gonna try that this year (our third time at the SM) and if you go up the trail to the right hand side of the seafood place it takes you to a great little cove which is usually very peaceful with a tiny bar that does decent food and a great fresh seafood BBQ in the evenings. I liked to wander to the cove in the afternoons with my five year old son and have an ice cold beer as the spanish music plays gently in the background, my favourite place
Oh yeah Happy Friar, I am told by all its good and the owners very nice, they had footie on a lot when I was there but I am not a footie fan so I never went over but I never heard a bad word about it and the Thomson reps usually went there last year, Dan the main man last year often looked rough due to the Friar
But over all the SM is a good family place, quiet, safe, the kids love it, I never ever thought I would say such things about IBIZA of all places but its just not anything like people see on TV. If I won the lotto or premium bonds I would move there. I just hope the weather is gonna be OK for the first few weeks in May cos I usually go in Sept. Anyone else going in May?
John

Hi John,
This will be our 4th year at SM and I've never been round to the cove. How long does it take to get round there and is rocky and hilly along the footpath? I'll have my 4 year old daughter with me who tends to fall over her own shadow.
Cheers,
Mick

Hi Mick!
4 times at the SM it's amazing just how many people return to it year after year.
The cove.. its really only five minutes once your on that little trail, a four or five year old will stop a few times to look at lizards, the ruined cottage etc on the way so it may run to a very slow paced ten minutes, you can take a little folding pushchair on it no problem. My five year old son and his pal Harry from Milton Keynes whom we met up with the last two years saw the walk as a bit of an adventure to the "pirates cove" the beach at it is sandy and the water clearer and calmer than the main beach. Once your there and at the bar its very quiet and you would not even know the hotel was there as it cannot be seen or heard at all. You can get a nice beer in a frozen glass and your daughter can get pop or an ice lolly.
The problem with the cove, no toilets, I asked the owner were the toilets were and he pointed at the sea
John

Hi

according to an Ibiza Sun news article, money has been raised to make the path into a proper track, with pathing and fencing. Last time we went we took a toddler up to the bar/cove, and coped ok, apart from the last desent down!! which I went down on my bum!!!!

the cove (cala des multons) is the main reason we'd go there;)

i tried to put up an image but have been denied - the cove piccy is here

ibizaa-z dot com/images/stories/cards/cala-des-multons .jpg

Well if they have made a decent little path to that cove then thats great, I wonder if they made the path go further than the bar/cove as I often saw people wandering in the hills on trails behind it.
Next time I am there (5th May) I will shoot some video on my mobile phone and stick it on Youtube which is very easy to do, I have some on my computer from last September but it was a bit breezy and does not show the cove at its best. Anyone ever checked youtube for footage of the SM area? Now that I have thought of it am off to check .
later

John

How busy does the beach get around the cove and are there sunbeds and umbrellas there?