Mallorca, Spain

Grand Hotel Son Net

Price per night from$1,195.52

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR1,083.80), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Well-versed hospitality

Setting

Verdant Puigpunyent Valley

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Grand Hotel Son Net is the cherry on top of – or at least set enticingly afloat in – the mountainous waves of the Puigpunyent Valley. The 17th-century castillo’s scorching blush frontage makes it easy to spot in its vast estate in the southwestern Tramuntana range. Sister stay to lavish Marbellan property Finca Cortesin, Son Net leans into its historic grandeur: rooms boldly decorated by designer Lorenzo Castillo are matched with a star-studded art collection (plus the odd suit of armour), the spa is (body-is-a) temple sized, and a sprawling vineyard keeps the Malvasia coming. And from this privileged perch, top-of-the-world Tramuntana views abound.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

31, including 16 suites.

Check–Out

12 noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

More details

Rates include à la carte breakfast, and guests get a tapas plate on arrival, welcome drink, seasonal fruit bowl and hand-cut flowers in their room. Some dates require a minimum stay of two or three nights.

Also

Common areas are accessible for guests with mobility issues and some rooms are specially adapted too.

At the hotel

Spa, vineyard and orchards, farm and kitchen garden, courtyard, private chapel, concierge, butler service on request, launderette, high-speed WiFi. In rooms: TV, minibar, air-conditioning.

Our favourite rooms

Those Puigpunyent Valley views are worth stumping up for, the suites have the best of them, and you’ll likely have original fixtures (beamed ceilings, decorative fireplaces, terracotta-tiled floors and mosaic tiling). For that dash of extra privacy, the Pool Cottage House is ensconced in the grounds, and is ideal for families and small groups.

Poolside

If the hotel’s rouged facade doesn’t catch your eye, the turquoise wink of the terrace-set 30-metre pool will for sure. Placed so the Puigpunyent Valley seems to stretch out ad infinitum, there are cosy covered cabanas from which you can pick out a hillock for that finca you’ll buy one day. And to give some gusto to those daydreams, there’s a snack bar dishing out cocktails and house wines (plus tapas) close by. And, in the spa you’ll find a peaceful pool in a Moorish-style setting, with stone arches and ochre walls.

Spa

The hotel doesn’t just rely on the sheer force of nature to instil a sense of wellbeing in you here. No, 1,000 square metres of the estate are dedicated to pampering, with a sympathetically designed complex comprising five treatment rooms, a sauna and steam room, beauty salon, pool and thermal circuit. Workouts on the Technogym machines are made all the more inspiring with mountainous views, and personal trainers can tailor regimes or take you out into the wilds to pound through leafy jogging tracks.

Packing tips

That depends, are you team ‘do sweet FA’? Or are you team ‘pump up the ‘puig’? The former, bring your swim and spa wear and cleanse your palate; the latter, bring sturdy footwear and breathable fabrics.

Also

If ‘Going to the chapel to get ma-a-a-rried’ is on your agenda then you’re in luck, Hotel Son Net has a charming private chapel for special occasions.

Children

Children will love going free-range in the grounds and lifeguard-watched pool (indoors things are a touch shush-ier), and there are plenty of interconnecting options, plus a family-size cottage. Babysitting can be arranged too.

Sustainability efforts

The hotel is extremely considerate of the environment. Building methods used in restoration and expansion have been eco friendly, water is purified through aeration filters and warmed using heat-recovery methods, energy-saving lighting is installed, and climate is controlled using aerothermal systems. The kitchen gathers much of its fruit and vegetables from the organic kitchen garden and orchards onsite (and a vineyard keeps the wine flowing), and everything else is sourced from as close by as possible, using a 0km ethos. And recycling and composting are duly done.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Did we mention the mountains?

Dress Code

You could flip-flop into Gazebo, but you’ll need to strut your stuff at Mar&Duix and the Green Bar, which have a strict no shorts policy for gentlemen.

Hotel restaurant

Grand Hotel Son Net has two restaurants, each of them served by the onsite vegetable garden, vineyard and orchards (everything else is supplied in neighbourly fashion and – where possible – within 0km of the stay) El Gazebo is a casual poolside eatery where you could throw a kaftan on over your costume and enjoy Mediterranean dishes while ogling the peak terrain. Mar&Duix is Son Net’s showpiece diner, set in a soaring beamed room with a 17th-century olive press and a chandelier several could swing from. Or you could have your refined Mallorcan fare out on its candlelit terrace.

Hotel bar

The Green Bar has a patio lounge with yet more mountains to muse on – believe us, it doesn’t get boring – and a fireplace-warmed salon for cooler months, plus the Chimney Room, which has access to the courtyard and live music of an evening. There’s a sophisticated cocktail list, and a cellarful of the hotel’s own Malvasia wines.

Last orders

Breakfast is from 7.30am to 11.30am and dinner from 7.30pm to 10.30pm in Mar&Duix. Lunch in Gazebo is from 1pm to 4pm.

Room service

Dine in your room any time day or night.

Location

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Address
Grand Hotel Son Net
Castillo Son Net s/n
Puigpunyent
07194
Spain

Grand Hotel Son Net has a vast tract of land across the southwest Tramuntana Mountains, overlooking both Puigpunyent Valley and Puigpunyent Village.

Planes

Palma Airport is an easy 30-minute drive from the hotel. Transfers (in luxury vehicles on request) can be booked, and the drive offers tantalising glimpses of Tramuntana scenery.

Automobiles

The hotel sits on a 56,000-square-metre estate – that’s a hefty hike, so wheels will definitely come in handy. Hire at Palma airport and you can explore Mallorca’s more rural climes and swoop scenically along the coast. There’s free valet parking onsite.

Other

Ferries cross from Barcelona, Valencia and Dénia in Spain to Mallorca, but crossings can be long (at least five hours) and you’ll still need to drive from port to Puigpunyent.

Worth getting out of bed for

The unique name of the ecstatically scaled Puigpunyent Valley, which Grand Hotel Son Net rests in, and the dramatically smaller village close by, comes from a Latin phrase that roughly translates to ‘pointy mountain’. Well, those Romans were observant indeed, because all around and largely across the hotel’s 56,000-square-metre estate are the pine- and oak-whiskered peaks of the Unesco-beloved Tramuntana range. And, the point of coming here is mostly to look around at nature’s largesse. But, sometimes best laidback plans go awry, especially when there are hiking and biking routes with life-affirming scenery, an enormous stay-all-day spa, hidden beaches to sail to, and Bronze Age talaiots (megaliths) to spy enroute. The necropolis at Casat Nou further cements the area’s rep as one of the oldest settlements on Mallorca, while La Reserva Puig de Galatzó feels like a huge leap back in time with its untouched vegetation (which, at 2.5 million square metres, dwarfs even the hotel’s estate), although zip wires and an adventure circuit make it feel a little less Land Before Time. La Granja museum (around a 30-minute drive away) in Esporles is roughly as old as Son Net, and tells the history of the island through cultural objects. And, you can taste your way through the timeline with tours to the historic olive mills and vineyards dotted over the slopes – beloved Bodegas Son Puig is perhaps the best known, but there’s also Celler Son Vich de Superna and Bodega Son Artigues. For day trips, ask the hotel to arrange a classic car, and head into Palma, where you can take guided tours of the Old Town and Cathedral, or the city’s art galleries and artisan shops; or sunbathe on Soller’s cosmopolitan stretch of coast; or take in the views from hilltop Deià – which has attracted many creative sorts over the years for its old-world beauty. 

Local restaurants

In the near vicinity, the hotel’s restaurant holds court as the finest of diners. But, there are traditional treasures to be found nearby, such as Cafè Sa Plaça de Galilea, which has a visceral approach to Mallorcan cuisine, serving whole suckling pigs in a pan, be-tentacled stuffed squid and lobsters by the paella-pan load – but take a chance, they can’t bite anymore, but you can. They also happen to make the chunkiest of cakes too. Tuck into traditional dishes on the Tramuntana-framed terrace at Restaurant Sa Vinya; and Bar Restaurante Es Pont is stylishly rustic with a rambling tapas menu and hearty mains: pork tenderloin in parmesan sauce, veal stroganoff, a raft of seabass loaded with prawns. Follow up with homemade ice-creams.

Local bars

Cool off with a frozen daiquiri at Restaurante Ca'n Jordi.

Reviews

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Holly Clark

Anonymous review

By Holly Clark, Scene snapper

‘Good Afternoon Miss Clark, and a very warm welcome to Son Net. We are delighted to have you with us. Please allow me to take care of your luggage and our bartender will create any kind of welcome drink you desire. Just relax. We want your stay with us to be nothing short of exceptional.’

After a non-stop few weeks feeling like my feet hadn’t touched the ground, these words were like music to my ears as my shoulders visibly dropped a few inches. I already had some expectations having read only excellent things since Son Net was lavishly reborn in May 2023 after a major overhaul, and within seconds, it was everything I had anticipated and much more.

And with that, I sank into my sun filled armchair, took a deep breath and started to drink in the view of the surrounding Tramuntana hills worthy of their world heritage protection. I was also handed the ‘house rules’ – this was slightly unexpected in such a relaxed environment – but refraining from taking phone calls in public and dressing-up in the evenings was absolutely fine by me.

From touching down in Palma to this moment, everything seemed to have happened seamlessly quickly. Just 30 minutes from the airport and 15 minutes from Palma Old Town, Son Net is a spectacularly peaceful sanctuary, abundant with refined Spanish charm.

The interiors need a review all of their own. Designed by the legendary maximalist maestro Lorenzo Castillo, they are truly out. of. this. world. I can’t even begin to imagine where one would start with such a surreal brief but my oh my did he nail the more-is-more approach. Mixing the old 16th-century heritage with the new so effortlessly, every unique room perfectly reflects the rich tapestry of this former private palace’s journey. It’s all so wonderfully exuberant and busy, yet completely calming, having struck the perfect harmony between all the interesting layers of fabric, furniture, lighting, art and historic features.

It’s always the biggest treat to unwind and have completely undefined days leaning into the dreamy slowness of it all; Son Net offers the perfect location to do just that. Starting with private cabanas around the pool: none of them are assigned and there’s no rush before breakfast here, so choose at your leisure. The bedrooms themselves, all individually designed, are the epitome of sumptuous Pinterest-board dreams. We were staying in one of five Galilea Suites on the top floor with a high-vaulted ceiling and sunrise views that took my breath away each morning. If you love blue and white toile as much as me, then ask for room 33. You’ll be in heaven.

The chefs at Son Net are equally as creative with their art and craft. Breakfast, lunch and dinner menus were brimming with options using produce from the hotel’s vegetable garden – and you can really taste it. Everything slows down at Son Net (perhaps including the cooking), but embracing the sedate nature of our stay, we were happy to wait a little longer than usual and soak up every second. It was always worth it – especially when your dinner has been slow cooking for 14 hours (not that we waited that long!) and just melts in your mouth. Live music every night sets the perfect scene under the moonlit tables.

The gym required some additional motivation but as the short walk there was lined with thousands of roses, this pretty spectacular and fragrant meander provided all the inducement needed. Equally, on our second morning, the hills around the hotel beckoned with numerous hiking trails for an invigorating start and more breathtaking vistas.

The spa (cleverly designed and almost hidden in the surrounding landscape) is due to open imminently [now open, as of summer 2024] and having had a sneak peak, it will be one for the books. Son Net is actually one of the few Mallorcan hotels open all year round and as someone who loves log fires, cosy evenings and long scenic walks, I’d be equally happy here during the cooler months too.

I used to feel a little guilty for not doing a whole lot on breaks but I’ve come to realise that every so often, it’s not only needed, but crucial. Finding the right location for this is key though, and I’m very happy to have found it in Son Net.

There are places you may visit for a few days, have a great time and never think of too much again; then there are places that feel like a home (an upgraded version!) that you want to return to again and again. It became clear from day one that Son Net is no ordinary luxury hotel, with no ordinary team. It’s a true gem in a very special, protected part of the world with many a great adventure on its doorstep. A great hotel for any season or reason!

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