Princess 62 Cruise Report Video: Cabrera Islands and East Coast Mallorca

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Hello All,

Here is a video of our last week of the summer onboard our Princess 62 in Mallorca, cruising the Cabrera Islands and the east coast from our home berth in Puerto Portals. It's been a fantastic summer: cruising the west coast in June, encountering storms up in Soller, then scorching temperatures in July and beautiful weather last week. Am now bereft at the thought of winter....

Our itinerary for the trip in the video was Puerto Portals, Cabrera, Portopetro, Cala Mondrago, Cala d'Or, Porto Colom and then a dawn cruise all the way home to Portals.

 
Great vid Scubaboy. I recognised a few of those anchorages from our time in Majorca. How do you like the P62?
 
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Great vid Scubaboy. I recognised a few of those anchorages from our time in Majorca. How do you like the P62?
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Thank you! Yes we're loving our time exploring Mallorca. The east coast is my favourite in terms of anchorages but compared to the Bay of Palma, there always seems so much more swell and wind on the east coast. I guess because the prevailing wind is from the east. We love the P62 - on the fairly rough passage from Cabrera to Portopetro she just barrels through any waves. Whilst she can sleep 8 (10 if you include the crew cabin) we find that is far too many guests onboard. We own her as part of a syndicate, so thinking to the future of having our own boat, I think we'd probably go with the P50/P54 and do away with the bunk cabin and have the advantage of a slightly smaller boat to run in terms of costs.
 
Scubaboy79 said:
Thank you! Yes we're loving our time exploring Mallorca. The east coast is my favourite in terms of anchorages but compared to the Bay of Palma, there always seems so much more swell and wind on the east coast. I guess because the prevailing wind is from the east. We love the P62 - on the fairly rough passage from Cabrera to Portopetro she just barrels through any waves. Whilst she can sleep 8 (10 if you include the crew cabin) we find that is far too many guests onboard. We own her as part of a syndicate, so thinking to the future of having our own boat, I think we'd probably go with the P50/P54 and do away with the bunk cabin and have the advantage of a slightly smaller boat to run in terms of costs.
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Yup the east side of Majorca can get lumpy but the anchorages are indeed stunning. Have you been around to the west side ie Andraitx, Soller, Sa Colobra? Very different scenery

Not sure I'd want to downsize from such a lovely boat as the P62 to something smaller even if I owned all of it;)
 
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Yup the east side of Majorca can get lumpy but the anchorages are indeed stunning. Have you been around to the west side ie Andraitx, Soller, Sa Colobra? Very different scenery

Not sure I'd want to downsize from such a lovely boat as the P62 to something smaller even if I owned all of it;)
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Yes - we did the west side last summer. And was in Soller in June, but had unseasonably bad weather and ended up getting stuck there an extra night in huge thunderstorms. I think it's been an odd weather year in the Med. The scenery around there and, as you say, Sa Calobra is stunning. Tramontana Marina in Soller is eye-waveringly expensive though, even factoring in the free glass of sangria at the bar....

Hehe - well my theory is that the bigger boat just gives you more cabins, the core of the Princess boats at that kind of size are all very similar in my opinion. And having spent days with lots of guests onboard and the constant stacking and unloading of the dishwasher, I'm happy to be less.....hospitable. :-)

A plan for the future though, so we'll see. If only the P56 would depreciate just a little more...
 
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Tramontana Marina in Soller is eye-waveringly expensive though, even factoring in the free glass of sangria at the bar....
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Yeah but its worth it! Where else can you take a tram to eat dinner which trundles through peoples' back gardens!
 
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