My wife and I stayed at the Hotel Nixe Palace for our honeymoon and had a wonderful time. We had a sea view room with a terrace and the hotel staff was very good to us. You can't beat the view. There isn't much in the area around the hotel but you can easily take the bus into Palma for more bars and restaurants. I was very nervous after reading some of the negative reviews but I would disregard them because those people clearly have standards that will never be met.

As a group of 6 people, we stayed in this hotel for 4-10 nights(some of us the whole period and the rest for 4 nights) and we were very disapointed. Location/Premises: Located on a beautiful beach, but the beach is public and somewhat dirty-broken glass and cigarets and the first 5 days there were no sunbeds or umbrellas available to rent although the weather was good. Pool is very small but there-small children section too. Pool/beach showers are cold but the spa is very nice but small. Rooms: We stayed either in a seaview DR, which was very nice or in an apartment (one of the most expensive rooms, right next to the beach Euro 595/night ) which was damp and at the end it had rained so much that the roof started leaking water. We had to move and were given a credit of 210 Euros for the hazel+ an upgrade on one dinner. A nice gesture that we were happy with. We were moved to a suite which was lovely but the rates are way too expensive since the hotel is no way near a 5 star. Rooms are perhaps but the rest is clearly NOT. Staff: Most of them were really unpolite and ennoyed if spoken to. Maybe it is a language barrier but we never got what we ordered. The pool staff and the staff in the halfboard restaurant were really nice and friendly. The managers in the same restos were less service-minded and even unfriendly. Food: The breakfast is really lovely and you can sit outside but here it stops. We were on halfboard but the food was inedible both in the pool resto and the bar resto and in the halfboard resto. We really tried to like it but ended up having the same things every day + skip lunch in the hotel. It both looks and sounds nice but it simply taste bad. The vegetables, salads and fish were not at all fresh which is a really bad thing. As an example, we were given a bowl of "fresh" fruits as a compensation for having to move and when turning he fruit it was rotten and had long past its "eat before x date". As you can imagine, we will never return. We have earlier stayed in La Residencia as well as Grand Hotel Son Net which are truely five star and Nixe Palace is not even close.

This was our second visit to Mallorca in as many years. We booked the Nixe Palace as it was said to be one of the few 5* hotels on the island and supposedly within a few minutes of Palma which it is on a motorcycle. The hotel itself was OK, very much business orientated but trying to fill the rooms with tourists. We had a sea view room on the 8th floor which was clean and tidy with modern decoration/style. The balcony was fine though didn’t get any sun at all and you also had to put up with wafts of second hand smoke from neighbouring rooms – the no smoking room policy obviously does not extend to the outdoors. Breakfast was OK but thought the matre de was a little rude and unhelpful (we asked for a cereal bowl and got growled at for disturbing him – not my job attitude). We thought breakfast was a little expensive at 42 euros for the two of us. The really disappointing part was the hotel location. A good 1hr walk into central Palma (the Cathedral). We are not averse to walking but that is somewhat contrary to the “close to Palma” description given by the hotel. The hotel is situated in Playa Major which has the feel of an area that may have been popular about 15 years ago. Being honest it was scruffy, litter on the streets, dog dirt on the pavements, derelict properties, building work nearby, etc. We really struggled to find anywhere decent to eat. CalaNova restaurant on the little harbour was probably the best option but on a 7 night vacation you can’t do it every day – twice a day!! There was a restaurant opposite the hotel Casa Tauro which offered average food but hospitality from the owner that was second to none and more than made up for what was on the plate. If you like Italian food, kebabs and burgers then you’ll be spoilt for choice (we’ve never seen so many Italian restaurants in such a small place as this). We wanted TAPAS and Paella, we did find Paella but nowhere that offered TAPAS – odd considering you’re in Spain? Overall 4* max hotel, 1* location. Last year we went to Cala d’Or (Sol Melia Boutique Hotel) which was fantastic and would highly recommend that hotel and area. We hired a motorcycle and went across to Cala d’Or to escape the Nixe for the day and reconfirmed that Cala d’Or is far nicer and much more to offer two people that like long lazy lunches and good friendly service.