Dear Sir, We and our friends visit Puerto Pollensa every year for holidays, we love your island, in fact this year we have visited 3 times, most times we stay at Club Pollensa on the bay.
We rely on the buses into Pollensa very much and previous years have been very good, but this year have been absolutely disgusting !! All our friends and passengers travelling on the buses all agree, the drivers have allowed too many people on one bus to the extent that serious accidents could happen.
I am not sure if you have health and safety regulations in Majorca on this issue, but it certainly would not be allowed to occur in the UK..
We also witnessed bus drivers not stopping for passengers and on one occassion stopping and letting a young Mum and family with a baby and push chair ready to get on the bus, then drove off leaving them astounded and stranded.
I also ran for a bus reached the bus stop the driver opened the door then closed it, I asked him `please will you open the door` and his response was to say `NO` !! and drove off.
Other incidents occured with holiday makers and were not complimentary.
This is happening a lot, not only to us but to other passengers, it needs some serious sorting out before someone gets hurt. and tourist will stop coming .
Your bus drivers now have a bad reputation and I feel sure in your own interest you would not want this to happen in such a perfect area of Majorca. I feel very strongly that you should know about this and hopefully will take some action.
Ann Ralph
Puerto Pollensa
Dear Sir,
It is heartwarming to see so many of your correspondents taking up their pens in support of better access to Majorca during the winter months.
The tour companies seem to think that the only people who come to the Med are those who want to lie in the sun all day. Ergo - if the weather is cooler no one will want to come.
Wrong ! There is a huge market waiting to be tapped in Northern Europe consisting of the over 50's who have time and money (and often property on Majorca) who come for the walking, the scenery and all that the island has to offer.
They are accustomed to the odd rainy day and are equipped to cope. Our best holidays in Majorca have been in the winter months and we cannot be alone in this.
The Majorcan tourist authorities need to tap into this market, create some imaginative packages and the flights to support them. I can almost guarantee that they will be a success.
Phil Bland
Ilkley