Caló d'es Pou — Attraction in Santanyí

It’s a gorgeous looking bay, and there’s areas where you can climb onto the rocks and jump from them - and there’s a little bridge as well that you can jump from. I will list the reasons for only giving three stars here: The guy you buy sun loungers from is a con-man. Or trying to be. If you don’t pay attention he will try to skim off the top of your change. It is of course possible that he’s just terrible at maths (he does use a calculator on his phone, but maybe he was never taught how to use one). He doesn’t look like the brightest spark, bless him. The sun loungers are not from this decade, or maybe even the decade before this one. They are just not very comfortable and the back-rest is completely unreliable. The restaurant is not very good. The staff are slow and the food overpriced. The staff are very friendly though, which is important. There is only one male toilet and one female toilet. The bathrooms are not attached to the restaurant so I’m not sure who’s in charge of keeping them clean, but they were giving Glastonbury vibes. Since it’s not a very big bay the water gets well crowded. Think of the last 15 minutes of the film Titanic. Mayhem. The fish bite. I’m not even joking. You won’t be losing any limbs, but it’s not comfortable.

All in all it’s an okay beach. There’s food to get, there’s sun loungers to rest on and there’s a toilet. It also looks stunning. I would...

Beautiful blue transparent water, good for snorkelling (lots of small fish in the water). The sand is not too fine like on the nearby beaches so it doesn't make the water muddy. But there is often lots of garbage on the surface (mostly natural, but still). Lots of different positive people, families with kids; pretty rare occasions of representatives of some aggressive countries. Rather busy in the middle of the day, but you can find space closer to water after 5-6 PM. There is a shower at the top (would be nice to have more of them, and dedicated ones for feet), and free toilets. So high busyness and garbage on the surface are main...

The water as long as I could see and half meter deep was full of tiny bits of plastic. In fact the entire beach is covered in plastic. I have never seen anything like this in my life. Cigarette butts extinguished in the sand and on the surrounding rocks. I felt like I was swimming in sewage water as I looked around. All nice and beautiful in the pictures and a big let down in reality. Did anyone who left 5 star review looked around or just had a cigarette and left. Oh yes and instead of trying to make any beach in mallorca smoke free let's just put portable ashtrays on the beach. How this place is going to look like in 10 years...