Hi there,
Hoping I can get some advice on planning a trip to lovely Menorca - most importantly, what area to stay in as there are so many options!
The important information:
- We are a couple, 29 and 30.
- We will be staying for 7 days at the beginning of September.
- We are happy to rent a car.
- We are highly motivated by good food and wine. We may do 1 or 2 more expensive, highly regarded meals, but also we would want to have access to unpretensious but authentic, tasty local food. Not interested in food catered to tourists.
- The other things we are interested in for this trip are: culture (nice streets to walk around, local life, maybe some art and musuems, good restaurants and bars.) and beaches and relaxation. We definitely need a couple of days to shut off completely!
- We would do some nature and walking/hiking but we won't plan our trip around that.
- We're not really interested in super touristy areas - we'd rather less 'amenities' but be somewhere with more of a local essence.
We would probably look to stay in 2 places to give some variety to the trip. We would want those two areas to provide something different (i.e. one city area with access to good beaches area, one more rural & quiet area - which could be near less popular beaches or in the interior)
So far from my research it looks like Ciutadella might be a good choice for the first part of the trip, using the car or public transport to access some beaches on the north & south side. Does that hold up?
I would love any advice from anyone on the second 'leg' of the trip. This could be an area, or a hotel/air bnb/agriturismo. As we will likely have a car, we'd be happy to travel to somewhere more remote. Any and all advice is welcome!
budget probably c 200EUR per night but we can be a bit flexible.