Torre Vella Fontenille Menorca

Style

One-to-watch tower

Setting

Bucolic Balaeric

You get two stays in one with this Menorcan escape: Former watchtower Torre Vella Fontenille, which has elegant rustic decor, 200-hectare grounds stretching to the coast and gastronomy gleaned from the fertile kitchen garden, and 18th-century finca Santa Ponsa (just an eight-minute drive away) with its Moorish gardens and so-dreamy spa. Enhance your exercising with a training circuit along cliff edges, spend sun-dappled days soaking in the pool and enjoy an alfresco massage in a pretty farmyard setting. Lofty and luxurious, the Torre sets a high bar for boutique stays.

Facilities

Rooms

17.

Checkout

Noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in 4pm.

More Details

Rates include a buffet breakfast of fresh juices and local island specialities such as Menorcan cheeses, sobrassada sausage and sweet pastissets cakes.

Also

One of the Torre Vella Classique rooms is wheelchair-accessible.

Hotel Closed

The hotel is closed from 8 November until Easter. Torre Vella reopens on 1 April.

Free Internet Access

Pet Friendly

Pool

Room Service

At the Hotel

Farm animals and acres of olive trees, alfresco massage tables, yoga classes, and free WiFi. In rooms: Susanne Kaufmann bath products, a minibar, free bottled water, a TV, and tea- and coffee-making facilities.

Our Favourite Rooms

The Torre Vella Pool Suite – set in an old boyera (stables) – is ever-so-slightly more luxurious than when the farm’s former residents bedded down here, with an indoor lounge, outdoor terrace and a private plunge pool.

Poolside

The unheated outdoor pool overlooks the olive groves and farmland. It’s surrounded by day-beds and parasols and, if you fancy a nighttime dip, it’s open round the clock.

Spa

Relaxing won’t be an issue in this perfectly peaceful spot, but should you have an errant knot, get it kneaded out on one of the alfresco massage tables in the prettiest farmyard settings. For facials, essential-oil massages, reflexology, or spells in a hammam or sauna, toddle over to Santa Ponsa’s spa, in Torre Vella’s sister hotel.

Packing Tips

Stash whatever active gear you have in your suitcase: you’ll need it for yoga sessions, coastal rambles and other heart-pumping pastimes.

Also

The French-accented group that owns Fontenille Menorca are old hands at creating daydream-worthy stays, they also own Smith stablemates Domaine de Fontenille in Provence.

Children

All ages welcome. Extra beds are €60 a night and baby cots can be added to rooms on request. Children are also welcome in the restaurants at all times, with high-chairs available. Chefs are happy to adapt dishes to suit little Smiths’ tastes.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

At Torre Vella, the restaurant spills out into the hotel’s centrepiece courtyard – where the hotel’s titular tower stands – creating the perfect backdrop for balmy Balearic nights.

Dress Code

Light and airy just like the hotel’s Balearic interiors.

Hotel Restaurant

Chef Didac Egea brings the hotel’s distinctive blend of Spanish and French influences to your plate. At Torre Vella, restaurant Siempre Viva focuses on a healthy-minded menu of up-styled Spanish sharing plates, such as Cantabrian anchovies with wild fennel and Menorquín squid stuffed with vegetables and sobrassada sausage. And, the hotel’s abundance of home-grown vegetables and fruit means that vegetarians will have plenty to pick from here. What’s more, each Wednesday and Friday there’s a dinner out in the hotel’s vineyard.

Hotel Bar

The bar (open noon to 1pm) is beachy and Balearic in style, with a touch of Ibiza in its whitewashed walls, cappuccino-coloured couches and statement lighting. Order a pomada (a Menorcan staple made with fresh lemonade and gin) and settle in like a local. Aperitivo is particularly picturesque on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, when the hotel offers guests a sunset aperitif on the cliffs overlooking the Med.

Last Orders

Breakfast is served from 8am to 11am, lunch from 1pm to 3pm; and dinner from 8pm to 10pm.

Planes

Menorca Airport is just a 20-minute drive from the hotel; the hotel can arrange transfers for €80 one-way.

Automobiles

There’s just one main road running through Menorca, but we recommend that you take it. You can hire some wheels at the airport and the island – from Mahón in the east to westernmost Ciutadella – only takes 45 minutes to cross from end to end. Parking is free onsite at the hotel.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

Recently Menorca has evolved from a humble agricultural isle and lesser-known beauty spot into the belle of the Balearics as travellers have cottoned on to its revivified fincas, bijou beaches and farm-to-table expertise. Fontenille Menorca puts you in position to tick all of those off. At Torre Vella, take an outdoor massage, get acquainted with the farm’s furrier residents, splash about in the pool and tromp through olive and citrus groves. Its cliffside location puts you in reach of the south coast’s Caribbean-like waters: Son Bou and Santo Tomas beaches are two nearby options (but, with 15 beaches within reach of both buildings, you’re spoilt for choice). A training circuit meanders through the grounds, but you could also explore the island on foot, walking sections of the Camí de Cavalls – a circular trail that loops around the entire coast. Yoga sessions are held at the top of the Med-cleaving cliffs, and Santa Ponsa’s spa is a short free shuttle ride away.

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This Mr & Mrs Smith hotel participates in the World of Hyatt loyalty program. As a member, you can earn and redeem points and enjoy exclusive benefits for qualifying nights. .