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We would like to announce our 15% special loyalty offer that we are awarding to our regular hotel guests.

The 15% discount is available during the months of March and April 2012.  The offer is subject to availability and is our way of saying thank you for being such valued guests.

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We hope you will be able to take advantage of this special offer and look forward to welcoming you back to The Sis Pins Hotel.

Cappuccino Grand Café opening on Friday on the 25^th March 2011 at the Sis Pins Hotel. Over 150 people attended from all around Mallorca, who sampled the beautiful food from Cappuccino.

One of the first group of sunseekers to leave Scotland and fly to Mallorca is being sought to help the hotel where they stayed celebrate its 50^th year of hosting package holidaymakers. Records at the Sis Pins Hotel in Port de Pollença show that the group of cycling enthusiasts from Glasgow were the first foreign package holiday tourists to stay there – in the summer of 1961. Now bosses at the hotel – where Agatha Christie is believed to have stayed whilst writing the novel ‘Problem at Pollensa Bay’ – want the tourists to recount their memories of the holiday, as part of next year’s anniversary. And they have even offered them a free one-week holiday so they can join in the celebrations.

Old photographs were discovered during refurbishment work for the hotel’s new, CAPPUCCINO restaurant and bar, which will open next year to coincide with the anniversary. The returning holidaymakers will be able to enjoy a celebratory drink on a private terrace at the idyllic seafront hotel, where they can relax and soak in one of the most privileged views on the island from a comfortable sun lounger a few metres away from the water’s edge. One of the hotel’s owners, Geoff Hopkins, from Blackpool/Yorkshire, said that guest lists from 1961 appeared to indicate that a group of nine guests from the Glasgow area had flown in from Manchester Airport. Records detailing their addresses have been lost, but two pictures taken at the time refer to Scottish guests enjoying the sunshine. The grainy images show some of the Scottish tourists relaxing on a sun terrace opposite the hotel and sitting in the shade of the six pine trees, which gave the hotel its name. Geoff added:

Apparently, they were all cycling enthusiasts and did some cycling while they were here. In the years since their visit, Mallorca has developed a wonderful reputation as a cycling holiday destination, so they were pioneers in that respect. Obviously, many of this group of friends will probably be in their 70s now, but the offer of a free one-week stay to recount their memories of the hotel at that time is there for them.  We hope they will be able to join us and enjoy the celebrations. I have a list of their names, so if anyone recognises any of the people on the photographs and can provide me with the names to match our records then I would love to hear from them.

The Sis Pins, which opened its doors in 1952, is one of the most enchanting and historical hotels in the area. It has become a firm favourite for Scottish tourists ever since and is also well known amongst painters, poets, writers and travellers from all over the world. The anniversary coincides with the opening of the new CAPPUCCINO Port de Pollença, which will be open from early in the morning until the small hours. Part of the renowned CAPPUCCINO Grand Café chain, the new establishment will be the largest the Mallorcan restaurant firm runs on the island. The menu will include tasty breakfasts made with natural products, sandwiches, salads, delicious pastas, hamburgers, meats, homemade baked goods, an extensive selection of coffees and infusions, as well as a wide variety of delicious cocktails. And the Sis Pins will also house the island’s second Tahini Sushi Bar & Restaurant, with the best Japanese food and the best sushi on the island. The opening is part of a major expansion by the CAPPUCCINO Grand Café chain, which plans to set up 25 similar operations in the Middle East, North Africa and India, as well as further openings on the Spanish mainland.

Juan Picornell is the main shareholder of the Cappuccino Group, which started in 1992.  The company currently has 12 Grand Café Bar and Restaurants, plus one Sushi Bar and Restaurant, and employs around 500 staff. The Sis Pins is owned by a group of business people, including Geoff Hopkins and former Slumberland boss Peter Buckley.  They bought the hotel earlier this year and have since built its reputation as the number one hotel in Port de Pollença on holiday review site Tripadvisor.co.uk, even beating some of the four and five-star establishments.

Anyone recognising any of the people on the photographs can contact Geoff at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Congratulations to Mrs Wendy Ni of Edinburgh who has won seven nights accommadtion for two people at Hotel Sis Pins, Port of Pollensa, Mallorca.

Wendy entered our competition to help us improve our services by completing a questionnaire; all of Wendy's comments on the questionnaire have been dealt with, so it's a big thank you to Wendy and its commiserations to everyone else who entered the competition.

Geoff Hopkins
Managing Partner