Mallorca cycling training camps: 21 camps compared

Every camp listed here sells the same fortnight of Mallorcan spring. The number that really differs between them is one none of them prints: how far you ride before the first climb starts. That distance is set by the town the camp is based in, so choose the town first and the hotel second. Across the 7 towns these 21 camps use, it runs from a climb that begins in the town itself — Port d'Andratx — to 19.1 km at Ca'n Picafort. You ride that distance out and back on every riding day of the week.

9 of the 21 put nothing to climb inside 10 kilometres of the door. The reason is plain enough: that is where the hotel beds are. It is still the biggest single difference between two camps that look the same in a brochure, and you settle it on the day you book.

Four picks, by what you want from the week

Each pick comes from a stated rule, applied either to the road distances or to what the operator itself publishes. Price, partnerships and commission play no part in any of them. If you would weigh things differently, the town table further down lets you reach your own answer.

The door pick wins on its second hotel. Thomson Bike Tours moves hotels halfway through the trip, and the leg based at Port d'Andratx is the best-placed week of any camp here: 6 published climbs inside 10 km, more than any other town these camps use, with the nearest climb starting in the town itself. The Alcúdia half of the same trip has 3.

The volume pick is a good choice in its own right. If your plan is zone 2 and a big weekly total, Ca'n Picafort is the right town, and its 19.1 km ride to the first climb works as your warm-up. RennRad made the same case for this coast in 2019, and the road distances bear it out.

The seven camp towns: distance to the first climb

Port d'Alcúdia misses the line by 122 metres. Its nearest climb starts 10,122 m away. The 10-kilometre cut-off is our own choice, and this town sits right on it: set the line a little further out and it counts as a town with climbing at the door.

The same climb is the nearest one to 5 of the 7 towns. Every town on the Badia d’Alcúdia reaches the coll de la Creueta first, because that is the road onto the Formentor peninsula. So for 20 of the 21 camps, the “nearest climbing” is the same stretch of road, just at different distances.

The famous climbs are in range from every town. Each of these towns reaches 3–4 of the island’s ten hardest climbs inside 50 km, as ranked in the hardest-climbs guide. If the famous roads are why you are going, any camp here gets you to them, so decide on something else.

How we got this Each town is ordered twice over the same measurement: by road distance to the nearest published climb foot, and by how many published climbs lie inside 30 km. There is no weighting and no combined score; the two orderings are shown side by side.Computed from the 7 towns the surveyed camps base themselves in.Computed 6 August 2026.

Camp dates and daily distances, as the operators publish them

Only 4 of the 21 publish a daily distance at all. The rest sell ride groups by name (an Epic Ride, two Stärkeklassen, “six or more ride groups daily”), and you find out the kilometres on the first morning. Among the camps that do give a number, the range is huge: 45 km to 161 km, from the slowest group at Balance Point Racing to the fastest at Stuart Hall Cycling. Both are sold as a day at a training camp on Mallorca, so ask for the daily distance before you pay.

Know before you book

9 of the 21 camps start every ride with a run-in to the first climb. 808project, manusports / ACTIVE Mallorca, Huerzeler Bicycle Holidays, BaseCamp, SunVelo, Ride Switzerland, Maxpulse, SpeedVille all base in a town with nothing to climb inside 10 km. For the nearest of them that is 10.1 km each way before the first climb begins; for the furthest, 19.1 km. Plan it into the day. What these figures do not tell you is how much the approach itself climbs: they are road distances from the town to the foot of a climb, and the road in between is not necessarily level.

1 of the 21 have announced a month and not a date. Sportive Breaks (February 2027) have named a month and no day. If flights are the constraint, ask them first.

4 operators’ live pages still sell a season that has finished. The fullest of them is TOUR Magazin‘s, which names two bases, two hotels and four ability groups, and then dates the season it is selling to 2023 — four years before the one these tables cover. That is the only reason they are missing from the tables above. As soon as one of them posts a 2027 date, it goes in: two operators left out for this reason in earlier editions are in the table now, each because it finally dated a week.

Every camp week announced falls between January and November. The 21 camps have announced 39 windows between them. 2 are whole seasons of more than 21 nights rather than single weeks — the operator sells the window and you pick the week inside it — and all of them fall inside 7 months:

5 months of the year have no camp at all, and one of them is no obvious step down for riding: September rates the same as February in our month-by-month climate figures. It is warmer and sunnier, with fewer rain days, though more rain falls when it does rain. We cannot tell you why no camp runs then. If the spring weeks are full or expensive, the September page has the numbers to judge it as an alternative.

What riders say

We read 3 publishers on where a camp should be based, 2 of them in German. The most useful of them is not selling a camp.

Cycle Fiesta reaches the same conclusion about the door. Ranking the northern towns, it calls Ca'n Picafort «significantly further away from the best cycling routes» and tells a reader to stay “as close to Alcudia as possible”. The road distances back that up: 19.1 km to the first climb against 8.5 km. What the piece leaves out is the other half: inside 30 km, Ca'n Picafort reaches 15 climbs and Alcúdia reaches 9.

One account puts a total on a week. Carolyn Ott-Friesl, writing on ciclista.net in 2024, rode out of Alcúdia and finished on 450 km and just under 4,000 m. For comparison, Sa Calobra Cycling Club plans 500–550 km for seven nights, Balance Point Racing says its riders typically finish 900–1,200 km over ten days. The same piece is frank about the downside of the flat: the long straight roads inland are, in her words, «ziemlich langweilig».

Source Cycle Fiesta, ciclista.net, RennRad · checked 17 October 2026Two more pieces are named rather than dropped: bookyabike and bike-stefan.de. Neither currently serves a page this guide could quote, and nothing is claimed from either.

Checking the camps’ location claims

Two operators make a claim about their location that is specific enough to check against the road. Both are right as far as they go, but each answers only one of the two questions above: how close the first climb is, or how much climbing is in range.

Sportive Breaks says its hotel is where «Stay with us at a 4-star hotel in Alcudia where the best riding is in Mallorca.». From Alcúdia the first climb starts 8.5 km away and 9 climbs sit inside 30 km. That makes it a good base, but not the closest among these camps: Port d'Andratx, used by a camp in the same table, is 8.5 km nearer to a climb. As a claim about the whole island, it is marketing. As a claim about a week of riding within reach, the numbers support it.

Booking the rest: transfer, bike hire and a bed

Every camp here sells the beds and the guiding and almost none of them sells the flight, the transfer or the bike.

The transfer is the first cost after the flight. The quickest drive from the terminal to these towns runs 42.2 km to 64.0 km — Port d'Andratx to Port de Pollença — and a transfer booked before you land is the difference between riding the next morning and riding the one after. The arrival guide has the figures for every town.

If the camp does not include a bike, the gearing matters more than the frame: compare hire fleets and their gearing and ask for the largest sprocket in the building. The bike-hire guide has what each operator publishes.

If you want the town without the camp, every base page on the site has the same road distances. Port de Pollença, Alcúdia and

Platja de Muro

are the three towns the camps use most. The base guide ranks all of them, and the trip planner will build the week from whichever one you pick.

How this was made

The rule for which camps are included, word for word: An operator is in this survey if it sells a fixed-base road-cycling camp on Mallorca and publishes, on a page readable without an account, both where it is based and at least one date. Multi-sport camps are tagged, not excluded. Prices are not copied here: they change, so each camp links to the operator’s own price.

Every distance is a road distance over our own map of rideable roads. The two rankings on this page are the ones the base guide publishes, taken from it and not recalculated here. They are checked against that guide’s own figures for all 18 towns with a base page: 0 disagreements, and a single one would stop this page from publishing. Everything an operator says about itself is a quotation proved against its own page on 2026-10-17. The methodology page has the rest.

How we got this For every town with a base page, the nearest climb foot, the count inside the spin radius and the count of the ten hardest inside 50 km are recomputed from the base measurements and compared to the figures the base guide derives through the base cluster. If any figure disagrees, the page is not published.Computed from the base guide’s own per-town figures and an independent rebuild of them from the raw measurement.Computed 6 August 2026.

Verified Every figure on this page was re-checked against its source on 6 August 2026. Next review due within 90 days.