‘We need sunshine, a pool and maybe a bar or two nearby’

QWhen this pandemic is over, I would love to take my extended family on holiday. There would be 12 adults and three children (aged nine, four and one). I would like to go in the May/June half term. We need sunshine, a pool, maybe a bar or two within walking distance. Mallorca or mainland Spain perhaps?

– Sue Leek

AHere are some suggestions, with the rental prices for the whole property for the week beginning May 29. Vintage Travel (vintagetravel.co.uk) offers a converted Catalan farmhouse, Aldea Repos, in the small inland village of Regencós, which has a local restaurant in its main square, near Begur. Comprising two adjoining houses, it sleeps

A villa stay near the old town of Pollensa, Mallorca, would tick all the boxes for our reader and her family 16 and has a private pool surrounded by shady olive trees. It is within a 20-minute drive of the small beach resorts of Aigua Blava, Tamariu and Llafranc on the Costa Brava and costs £1,950.

Freelance Villas (freelancevillas.com) has half-term availability at Son Ramon in Mallorca, a renovated finca sleeping 16, with original wooden beams and exposed stone walls, in the Tramuntana foothills two miles from Pollensa town, with a private pool, a smart TV and table football. It costs £4,785.

Oliver’s Travels (oliverstravels.com) suggests Gold Bay, a modern villa in the Mallorcan resort of Cala d’Or, which sleeps 12 adults in six bedrooms plus additional beds and cot for the children. Facilities include a large garden, pool and table tennis – from £3,433.