What a cycling week in Mallorca costs, tourist tax included

Four costs decide the week: bed, bike, flight and tourist tax

Every costing of a cycling week on this island is really four numbers: the bed, the bike, the seat and the tax. Almost everything else is rounding.

Three of those four move constantly — by the town, by the month, by the hour you happen to book. A hire rate written down in March is out of date by May. So the bed, the bike and the seat are linked below for you to check on the day you book.

The fourth is the tourist tax. The impost sobre estades turístiques — the ecotasa — is set by the Balearic parliament, charged per person and per night, collected at the property rather than by the booking site, and fixed until the law changes. It is the smallest of the four lines and the only one with an exact figure. It is also the one almost nobody budgets for, because it is missing from the total you compared.

The four lines that decide a week, in the order they decide it

The line	Why it lands here	Can this page state it?
Seven nights somewhere	It is the largest line for almost every rider, and the one that moves most: by town, by month, and by how early you book. A February bed in Alcúdia and an October bed in Port de Sóller can be priced very differently.	No — check it on the day
Your own bike, or one from a shop	The second-largest line, and the only one that is a real choice as well as a price. Flying a bike costs a carriage fee each way plus a box and the risk of it arriving late; hiring costs a week’s rate and gives up the fit you know. The island has enough hire shops that hiring is a real option here, which is not true everywhere.	No — check it on the day
The seat	Fares change by the hour and the island has almost no say in them. It is third because it varies so much between riders flying from different places that a general guide can say little about it.	No — check it on the day
The tourist tax	Small per night, and you usually do not see it until the property charges it, so it is missing from the total you compared on the booking site. It is the smallest line and the one most likely to surprise you. It is also the only line set by law instead of by a seller, so it is the only one given here as an exact figure.	Yes — it is a statute
Getting from the airport to the bed	Small, and usually overestimated. It gets its own line because you choose between a bus, a transfer and a hire car once and pay for it twice, on the way in and on the way out.	No — check it on the day

The tax, in full

The rate depends on what kind of place you sleep in, and on which side of two fixed dates you sleep there. High season is 1 May to 31 October. Low season is 1 November to 30 April.

Tourist tax per person per night, by accommodation category, before VAT

Where you are sleeping	Low season (1 November to 30 April)	High season (1 May to 31 October)
Five-star, five-star gran lujo and four-star superior hotels	€1	€4
Four-star and three-star superior hotels	€0.75	€3
One-, two- and three-star hotels	€0.50	€2
Four-key tourist apartments	€1	€4
Three-key superior apartments	€0.75	€3
One- to three-key apartments	€0.50	€2
Licensed holiday lets and villas	€0.50	€2
Rural hotels and agroturisme	€0.50	€2
Hostels, pensions and campsites	€0.25	€1
Mountain shelters and refuges	€0.25	€1

Two things to add to that table.

The published rates are before VAT. The Govern’s own page prints «+10% IVA (no incluido)» underneath both halves, so what actually appears on your bill is 10% more than the figure above. A one- to three-star hotel in low season is €0.50 on the table and €0.55 on the invoice.

Under-16s are fully exempt. Stays by under-16s are exempt entirely.

1 May: the tax quadruples six days after the Mallorca 312

Crossing into high season multiplies the tax by 4, and by exactly four for every category on the island, from the five-star hotel down to the campsite.

For most visitors to Mallorca this is uninteresting, because most visitors come in summer and pay the high rate without ever seeing the low one. For a cyclist it is the single most consequential date on the tax calendar, because the cycling season and the tax season fall at different times of year.

The riding here is at its best in the spring, and the spring is entirely inside the cheap half. February, March and April — the training-camp months, the months the island’s hotels open for — are all low season. The low rate lasts until 30 April.

The Mallorca 312 is ridden on 24 April 2027. That is 6 days before the low-season band ends. Ride the island’s biggest event, stay the week around it, and every night is taxed at the low rate. Come back for the same hotel a fortnight later and the same room, unchanged, carries four times the tax.

The ninth night

The relief almost nobody claims deliberately, because it applies itself:

from the ninth day in the same establishment, the tax is reduced by half.

Two adults in a three-star hotel for fourteen nights pay €12.10 in low season, against €15.40 for two separate weeks, because nights nine to fourteen are charged at half.

Check the wording before you book a split trip. The relief is written against one establishment. Ride a week from Alcúdia and a week from Sóller — a genuinely good way to see this island — and the counter restarts. The same fourteen nights then cost €15.40, because neither half ever reaches a ninth night.

Source Govern de les Illes Balears · checked 18 September 2026Rates, season dates and reliefs read from the Govern's own tax calculator. The tax is created by Llei 2/2016, de 30 de març, together with Decret 35/2016, de 23 de juny.A partir del novè dia de l'estada en un mateix establiment, l'impost es redueix un 50%.

The announced tax increases have not been enacted

The Balearic tourist tax has been announced as going up twice, and it has gone up neither time.

Announced, reported, not charged

Announced	What it would change	What happened
2025-03-07	Four seasonal tiers instead of two: nothing at all in January and February, the present rates in March, April, November and December and again in May, September and October, and a raised band in June, July and August.	Put to the parliamentary groups for negotiation — «negociarà ara aquestes mesures amb els diferents grups parlamentaris per obtenir els suports necessaris per a la seva aprovació». Not enacted; no commencement date published.
2025-10-16	A flat increase of €2 per person per night in June, July and August only, alongside a new tax on hire vehicles not registered in the islands.	Referred onward to the Mesa per al Pacte Polític i Social for discussion rather than enacted. No commencement date published, and the tariff has not moved since.

Both have been reported widely, sometimes in the present tense, and travel-industry pages have quoted summer figures well above the ones in the rate table above. Neither has been enacted. The Govern’s own calculator, checked on the same day as the rates above, still publishes the two-season table, and you can check it yourself.

What matters for a cycling trip, and what the coverage leaves out: both versions raise the summer. The four-tier proposal’s raised band and the pact’s flat two euros are June, July and August in each case. The months this island is actually worth riding in — February to April, and again in October — are untouched by every increase anyone has so far proposed. If the law does change, the increase lands in the months when few riders are here.

Source Govern de les Illes Balears · checked 18 September 2026Two announcements eighteen months apart, neither enacted, and the tariff in RATES re-read on the same date as this record still carries the two-season table. Consumer reporting through 2026 has described the raised summer band in the present tense; the Govern’s own calculator does not carry it. Both versions raise the summer only: the four-tier proposal’s raised band and the pact’s +€2 both cover June, July and August. Neither would change what a late-April week pays even if it were enacted tomorrow, so the rates above hold for a spring cycling week whatever happens to the reform.El Govern negociarà ara aquestes mesures amb els diferents grups parlamentaris per obtenir els suports necessaris per a la seva aprovació.

Bed, bike and flight: where to check today’s prices

Each one below is a live link, because the price will have moved by the time you book. Each section says which way the number moves here and what decides it.

The bed

The largest line, and the one that moves most. The town decides it as much as the month: a February bed inland and an October bed on the coast at Port de Sóller are very different purchases, and the cycling towns fill early around the 312. Check beds in Alcúdia or in Sóller for your own dates. Which town to point that at is its own question, and the base-town guide answers it properly.

The bike

The second-largest line and the only real decision among the four: fly your own, or hire one here. Flying it costs carriage each way plus a box and the chance it arrives a day after you do; hiring costs a week’s rate and gives up the fit you know. There are enough hire shops on the island that either choice works. Compare hire rates for your dates — and before you do, the hire guide covers what the operators publish about cassettes, delivery and sizes, which settles the choice more than the rate does.

The seat, and the ground

Fares move by the hour and vary more between riders than anything else here. The transfer from Palma to your bed is smaller than people fear and is made once: book a transfer that takes a bike box if you are arriving with one, and read the arrival guide first: the decision comes down to which options will actually carry a bike.