Villa Apartments Carmen & Verde

Package details follow. For information and price guides about specific villas and apartments, please visit the accommodation pages.

Holiday Prices Include

• All sailing tuition
• Use of all sailing equipment
• Accommodation

All sailing and windsurfing tuition and use of boats and windsurfers; self-catering or hotel accommodation for number of nights specified; continental breakfast for hotel guests.

Flights & Transfers

Full financial protection is provided for our package holidays.  As a holder of both an Air Tour Operator's Licence (ATOL) for flight-inclusive packages and ABTA bond for non-flight packages, you can rest assured that your money is financially protected when you book with Minorca Sailing.

Our package prices do not include a flight or transfer as standard, however we will be happy to arrange either of these as an optional extra if you so wish (see below for transfers).  There will be an administration charge added to the price of the flight, advised at the time of booking.  We are able to arrange direct flights from the UK to Minorca (Mahon).

If you prefer to make your own flight arrangements, we will be happy to offer advice on the best flight options to Minorca.

Flight duration from London to Mahon is approximately 2 hours.  There are flights to Minorca from most UK regional airports and we expect the following airlines to fly to Mahon in 2026:

• British Airways: www.britishairways.com
• Easyjet: www.easyjet.com
• Iberia: www.iberia.com
• Jet2: www.jet2.com
• Ryanair: www.ryanair.com
• TUI: www.tui.co.uk

When arranging your flights please be aware of the following regarding accommodation:

• Changeover day is a Friday
• Check in time is from 6pm
• Check out time is not later than 10am

Transfers

The journey time from Mahon Airport to Ses Salines is approximately 25 minutes. We will be happy to arrange a private transfer for your journeys.

Larger vehicles are available on request.

Car Rental

We recommend car rental which will add to the enjoyment of your holiday. For competitive rates and easy booking please see Avis car hire.

Airport Car Parking and Hotels

For all your UK airport car parking and hotel facilities please see Holiday Extras.

Child Prices

Children aged 4 - 12 years will receive the following percentage reductions from the package price:

Children 13 years and over – full price.

Children aged under 4 years are free of charge.  Cots and highchairs available on request.

Your Own Dedicated Instructor

A popular choice with our guests, our Dedicated Instructor option is available to book alongside your sailing holiday.

Whether you're looking to improve your sailing skills, build confidence, try something new or simply enjoy having an experienced sailor alongside you, a dedicated instructor gives you the flexibility to make the most of your time on the water.

Price: £500 for 6 days, in addition to your sailing holiday cost.

Non-sailors

We welcome non-sailors on our holiday. They will be able to join you free of charge in your self-catering accommodation, providing there are two full paying sailors (four full paying sailors in Villa Safina).  When booking Villa Share Own Room, there will be a nominal charge for non-sailors of £250 for one week, £400 for two weeks.

Disabled and Less Mobile Sailors

We have self-catering accommodation suitable for disabled use. We also, given adequate notice, are able to provide Access 303 boats which are specifically designed for the less mobile sailor.

Accommodation Cleaning

Self-catering accommodation is cleaned ready for your arrival and on your departure.  If you are staying for two weeks your accommodation will be cleaned and linen changed midway through your stay. Additional cleaning can be arranged at a cost of:

• £80/day - Villa Apartments Rosa, Linda, Carmen, Verde
• £95/day - Mistral Villas
• £125/day - Villa Carolina, Villa Phillipe, Casa Celia
• £210/day - Villa Safina

Clothing and Equipment

We supply:

• Buoyancy aids
• Trapeze harnesses and lines
• Windsurfing harnesses
• Wetsuits
• Spray tops

WIFI

We expect wifi access to continue to be available throughout the village of Ses Salines.

How to Book

Telephone us on 020 8948 2106 and our staff and directors who regularly visit our sailing centre will advise you on availability and any other aspects of the holiday. Our office hours are 9am to 5pm, Monday - Friday. We will normally hold your telephone reservation for 24 hours pending the arrival of your deposit of £325 (plus flight cost where applicable) per person. If you cancel the booking you forfeit the deposit. If you book within 10 weeks of departure you must send the whole holiday cost to us at the time of booking.

Confirmation

Once your deposit (or full payment if booking within 10 weeks before departure) is received by us, we will email you your Booking Confirmation and Account along with holiday notes and, if we have arranged your flight, your ATOL Certificate.

Payment

We will email you your final account 12 weeks before departure. The full cost of the holiday is due 10 weeks before departure. Payment may be made by bank transfer, debit or credit card, or cheque.

Airline Confirmation

If we have arranged your flight your travel documents will be emailed to you not less than 10 days before departure.

Alteration

If you need to alter your arrangements after we have sent the confirmation of your booking, there will be an alteration charge of £35 per person for each alteration, and any further cost we incur in making this alteration.  These costs could increase the closer to the departure date that changes are made.

Passports & Visas for UK Citizens

Passports Validity

Your passport must meet 2 requirements.  It must be:

• less than 10 years old on the day you enter Spain (check the 'date of issue')
• valid for at least 3 months after the day you plan to leave Spain (check the 'expiry date')

Check both the issue date and the expiry date in your passport.  If you renewed your passport early, extra months may have been added to its expiry date.  This could affect the requirement for your passport to be less than 10 years old.

For security reasons airlines are required to provide passenger passport details to the government Border Control and Security authorities before they travel. This is known as Advance Passenger Information (API). Failure to provide this information may result in delays at both UK departure airports and arrival airports and could result in denied boarding or entry. This information must be provided for all passengers travelling, including children and infants.

The Spanish Authorities also require full passport details for anyone staying in a hotel or tourist self-catering accommodation.

We will therefore require your passport details no later than 2 weeks before departure.

Visas

You will be able to travel to Spain for up to 90 days in any 180-day period without a visa as a tourist.

Travel Insurance

SportsCover Direct provides single trip or annual multi trip Sports Travel Insurance for Minorca Sailing. Please click here for details.

Booking Conditions

Please see Booking Conditions.

Applicable to all summer holidays departing between 1 May 2027 - 31 October 2027.

Your package holiday is with Minorca Sailing Holidays Ltd.

Key Points

• You enter into a booking with us when we receive your deposit payment. If you then cancel, there will be cancellation charges. Initially this may only be a deposit, but can go up to 100%.
• You can make changes to your booking in certain circumstances. We make a charge for this. We can change and cancel your booking. We’ll pay you compensation in certain circumstances.
• We are responsible to you for providing your holiday but there are legal limits.* We hold an ATOL Licence (for flight inclusive holidays) and are fully ABTA bonded (for non-flight inclusive holidays) and as such we provide you with complete financial protection.

NB read the full terms below for more information and for other important rights and obligations.

1. Our details

Registered Office: 58 Kew Road, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 2PQ, UK.
Tel: 0044 (0)20 8948 2106
Email: enquiries@minorcasailing.co.uk

2. Your holiday booking

A booking will exist as soon as we have received your deposit payment. This booking is made on the terms of these booking conditions. When you make a booking, you guarantee that you have the authority to accept and do accept on behalf of your party the terms of these booking conditions.

3. Paying for your holiday

A minimum deposit of £325 per person (or full payment if booking within 10 weeks before your departure date) is due in order to confirm your booking. The balance of the price of your travel arrangements must be paid at least 10 weeks before your departure date. If the deposit and/or balance is not paid in time, we shall cancel your travel arrangements. If the balance is not paid in time, we shall retain your deposit.

4. Cancellation by you

You, or any member of your party, may cancel your travel arrangements at any time. Cancellation takes effect when written notification is received by us. Since we incur costs in cancelling your travel arrangements, you will have to pay cancellation charges as follows (see also the exception below):

Note: If the reason for your cancellation is covered under the terms of your insurance policy, you may be able to reclaim these charges.

You can cancel your booking without paying cancellation charges if the performance of your package, or the carriage of passengers to your destination, is significantly affected by unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances. In such circumstances, we will arrange for your booking to be terminated and for you to receive a full refund. We will observe advice provided by the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

5. Alteration by you

If you wish to change your travel arrangements after booking in any way, for example your chosen departure date or accommodation, we will do our utmost to make these changes but it may not always be possible. Any request for changes to be made must be in writing. You will be asked to pay an administration charge of £35 per person, and any further cost we incur in making this alteration. You should be aware that these costs could increase the closer to the departure date that changes are made and you should contact us as soon as possible. Note: Certain arrangements may not be changeable after a reservation has been made and any alteration request could incur a cancellation charge of up to 100% of that part of the arrangements.

You can transfer your booking to another person, who satisfies all the conditions that apply to this booking, by giving us notice in writing as soon as possible and no later than 7 days before departure. Both you and the new traveller are responsible for paying all costs we incur in making the transfer.

6. Alterations to the price

Changes in the price of the carriage of passengers resulting from changes to the cost of fuel or other power sources, the level of taxes or fees imposed by third parties including tourist taxes, landing taxes or embarkation or disembarkation fees at ports and airports, or exchange rates mean that the price of your travel arrangements may change after you have booked. However, there will be no change within 20 days of your departure.

We will absorb, and you will not be charged for, any increase equivalent to 2% of the price of your travel arrangements, which excludes any amendment charges. You will be charged for the amount over and above that. If this results in an increase equivalent to more than 8% of the price of your travel arrangements, you will have the option of accepting a change to another holiday if we are able to offer one (we will refund any price difference if the alternative is of a lower value), or cancelling and receiving a full refund of all monies paid, except for any amendment charges. Should you decide to cancel you must do so within the time period shown on your final invoice. Should the price of your holiday go down due to the cost changes mentioned above, then any refund due will be paid to you. We will deduct from this refund our administrative expenses incurred. Please note that travel arrangements are not always purchased in local currency and some apparent changes have no impact on the price of your travel due to contractual and other protection in place.

7. Alterations or cancellation by us

As you will appreciate, your holiday arrangements are made many months in advance and on rare occasions it may be necessary to make modifications to them. It is a term of your booking that we are able to make changes to any aspect of your booking. If the change is insignificant, we will ensure you are notified about it. Examples of insignificant changes include alteration of your outward/return flights by less than 12 hours, changes to aircraft type or carrier, change of accommodation to another of the same or higher standard.

We also reserve the right to cancel your holiday. We will not cancel less than 10 weeks before your departure date, except for unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances, or failure by you to pay the final balance. Unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances means a situation beyond our control, the consequences of which could not have been avoided even if all reasonable measures have been taken. If we are constrained by circumstances beyond our control to alter significantly any of the main characteristics of the travel services that make up your package or we have to cancel your holiday you will have the rights set out below.

• We will contact you and you will have the choice of accepting the change or having a refund of all monies paid. You can also accept an alternative holiday, where we offer one (we will refund any price difference if the alternative is of a lower value). We will tell you the procedure for making your choice. Please read any notification of changes carefully and respond promptly as if you do not respond to us within the timescale given your booking may be cancelled.
• If you choose to accept a refund, we will pay compensation as detailed below except where the cancellation is due to unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances (see definition above). The compensation that we offer does not exclude you from claiming more if you are entitled to do so.

For children involved in reduced prices, compensation will be paid on a pro rata basis of the adult rate.

8. Our liability to you

You must inform us without undue delay of any failure to perform or improper performance of the travel services included in this package. If any of the travel services included in your package are not performed in accordance with the contract, or are improperly performed, by us or the travel service suppliers, and this has affected the enjoyment of your travel arrangements, you may be entitled to an appropriate price reduction or compensation or both. We will not be liable where any failure to perform or improper performance of the travel services is due to: you or another member of your party; or a third party unconnected with the provision of the travel services in the package and is unforeseeable or unavoidable; or unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances, which means a situation beyond our control, the consequences of which could not have been avoided even if all reasonable measures had been taken.

Our liability, except in cases involving death, injury or illness, shall be limited to a maximum of three times the cost of your travel arrangements. Our liability will also be limited in accordance with and/or in an identical manner to

(a) The contractual terms of the companies that provide the travel services that make up your package. These terms are incorporated into this booking; and

(b) Any relevant international convention, for example the Montreal Convention in respect of travel by air, the Athens Convention in respect of travel by sea, the Berne Convention in respect of travel by rail and the Paris Convention in respect of the provision of accommodation, which limit the amount of and conditions under which compensation can be claimed for death, injury, delay to passengers and loss, damage and delay to luggage. We are to be regarded as having all benefit of any limitation of the extent of or the conditions under which compensation is to be paid under these or any conventions.

You can ask us for copies of the travel service contractual terms, or the international conventions. Under passenger rights law you have rights in some circumstances to refunds and/or compensation from your airline in cases of denied boarding, cancellation or delay to flights. Full details will be publicised at relevant airports and available from airlines. However, reimbursement in such cases will not automatically entitle you to a refund of your holiday cost from us. Your right to a refund and/or compensation from us is set out in these booking conditions. If any payments are due to you from us, any payment made to you by the airline or any other service provider will be deducted.

If it is impossible to ensure your return as scheduled due to unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances, we will bear the cost of necessary accommodation, if possible of equivalent category, for a maximum of three nights. The limit does not apply to persons with reduced mobility and any person accompanying them, pregnant women and unaccompanied minors, or persons in need of specific medical assistance, provided that you notified us of these needs at least 48 hours before the start of your holiday.

NB this entire clause 8 does not apply to any separate contracts that you may enter into for excursions or activities whilst on holiday.

9. Financial protection

We provide full financial protection for our package holidays

1. For flight-based holidays this is through our Air Travel Organiser’s Licence number 1248, issued by the Civil Aviation Authority, Gatwick Airport South, West Sussex, RH6 0YR, UK, telephone 0333 103 6350, email claims@caa.co.uk. When you buy an ATOL protected flight or flight inclusive package from us you will receive an ATOL Certificate. This lists what is financially protected, where you can get information on what this means for you and who to contact if things go wrong.
   We will provide you with the services listed on the ATOL Certificate (or a suitable alternative). In some cases, where we aren’t able to do so for reasons of insolvency, an alternative ATOL holder may provide you with the services you have bought or a suitable alternative (at no extra cost to you). You agree to accept that in those circumstances the alternative ATOL holder will perform those obligations and you agree to pay any money outstanding to be paid by you under your contract to that alternative ATOL holder. However, you also agree that in some cases it will not be possible to appoint an alternative ATOL holder, in which case you will be entitled to make a claim under the ATOL scheme (or your credit card issuer where applicable).
   If we are unable to provide the services listed (or a suitable alternative, through an alternative ATOL holder or otherwise) for reasons of insolvency, the Trustees of the Air Travel Trust may make a payment to (or confer a benefit on) you under the ATOL scheme. You agree that in the return for such a payment or benefit you assign absolutely to those Trustees any claims which you have or may have arising out of or relating to the non-provision of the services, including any claim against us, the travel agent (or your credit card issuer where applicable). You also agree that any such claims may be re-assigned to another body, if that other body has paid sums you have claimed under the ATOL scheme.
2. For non-flight package holidays, protection is provided by way of a bond held by ABTA - The Travel Association, 30 Park Street, London, SE1 9EQ, www.abta.com.  You agree to accept that in the event of our insolvency ABTA may arrange for the services you have bought to continue, or for a suitable alternative to be provided at the same cost as your original booking.  You also agree to accept that in circumstances where the travel service supplier provides the services you have bought, you agree to pay any outstanding sum under your contract with us to that alternative travel service provider.  However, you also agree that in some cases the services will not be provided, in which case you will be entitled to make a claim under ABTA's Scheme of Protection (or your payment card issuer where applicable) for a refund of the monies you have paid.

10. ABTA

We are a Member of ABTA, membership number Y5613. We are obliged to maintain a high standard of service to you by ABTA’s Code of Conduct. We can also offer you ABTA’s scheme for the resolution of disputes which is approved by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute. If we can’t resolve your complaint, go to www.abta.com to use ABTA’s simple procedure. Further information on the Code and ABTA’s assistance in resolving disputes can be found on www.abta.com.

11. Complaints

If you have a complaint about any of the services included in your holiday, you must inform a senior representative of Minorca Sailing without undue delay who will endeavour to put things right. If it is not resolved locally, please follow this up as soon as possible after your return home, ideally within 28 days by writing to our office: Minorca Sailing Holidays Ltd, 58 Kew Road, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 2PQ, UK, giving all relevant information. If you fail to follow the requirement to report your complaint in resort we will have been deprived of the opportunity to investigate and rectify it and this may affect your rights under this booking. Please also see clause 10 above on ABTA.

12. Additional assistance

If you’re in difficulty whilst on holiday and ask us to help we will provide appropriate assistance, in particular by providing information on health services, local authorities and consular assistance; and helping you to find alternative arrangements and any necessary phone calls/emails. You must pay any costs we incur, if the difficulty is your fault.

13. Insurance

You must have travel insurance which provides cover that is suitable and adequate for your specific requirements. Please note that most travel insurance policies do not cover activities which the insurers consider to be hazardous. We do not check insurance policies. We do however act as an Introducer Appointed Representative for SportsCover Direct who may be able to provide you with suitable travel insurance. Please see https://minorcasailing.co.uk/more/travel-insurance.

14. Passport, visa and immigration requirements

Your specific passport and visa requirements, and other immigration requirements are your responsibility and you should confirm these with the relevant Embassies and/or Consulates. We do not accept any responsibility if you cannot travel because you have not complied with any passport, visa or immigration requirements.

15. Law and jurisdiction

This booking is governed by English Law, and the jurisdiction of the English Courts. You may however choose the law and jurisdiction of Scotland or Northern Ireland if you live there and wish to do so.

16. Data protection and photography

It is possible that while you are on holiday, photographs or video may be taken for inclusion in our website or for other promotional purposes. Where it is practical to do so, we will seek the consent of any clients who are prominently included in any shots. Consent will not generally be sought from clients who only appear in the background. No clients will be identified by name. You are taken to have agreed to your image being included in any photography.