Against the stone
Copper reading lamps, a soft blue painting and the bare marès wall left at the head of the bed. Calm colour and warm light, made to come back to after a day in the streets.
Adults-only boutique hotel & spa
Old stone, warm light, a slow hour.
Sixteen rooms and a small spa behind the medieval walls of Alcúdia — grown-up, quiet, and built into stone that has held this corner of Mallorca since Rome called it Pollentia.
Welcome
A small house at the heart of the old town.
Forum is a boutique hotel for grown-ups in the centre of Alcúdia, a few steps inside the medieval gate. Sixteen rooms, a spa, a pool on the roof terrace, and a bar to come back to — kept small on purpose, so the place stays calm and the days stay yours.
There are no children here and no rush. You can walk out of the door straight into the narrow streets, the Sunday market and the town walls, then come back to old walls of your own and the quiet of a house that holds the heat out.
- The house
- Sixteen rooms, adults only, four stars
- Where
- Inside the medieval centre of Alcúdia, Mallorca
- To slow down
- Spa, roof-terrace pool and a quiet bar
- Older than the town
- Built over Roman Pollentia — the Forum it is named for
The building
They left the old stone where it stands.
Forum is built into one of the old town houses of Alcúdia, and the restoration kept its hand. The rubble walls of marès stone are left bare behind the beds, lit low and warm; the ceilings carry their original pine beams; the floors are oak. New work sits quietly next to the old — nothing shouts over the wall that was already there.
The result is a house that stays cool through a Mallorcan afternoon and holds the light when the sun drops behind the ramparts.
Rooms
Sixteen rooms, no two the same.
The house is old, so its rooms are their own shapes — under the beams, against the stone, out to a balcony over the rooftops. They share what matters: oak and warm linen, light set low to the bed, soft colour, and the deep quiet of thick walls. The style they call Bohemian runs through all of them.
Out to the rooftops
Shutters that open onto a small balcony over the old roofs, beams overhead and the morning sun across the floor. Robes laid out, and the town just below the rail.
Under the beams
A room up under the pitch of the roof, with a low row of shuttered windows, a desk to one side and a bench at the foot of the bed. Warm wood, soft greens and a lot of quiet.
Doubles, deluxe rooms and rooms with a terrace — sixteen in all. Tell the house your dates and how many of you there are, and they will put you in the right one. See rooms & dates →
The spa
Heat, water, and the senses, slowed right down.
Down in the old part of the house there is a small spa for guests: a sauna, a steam bath, a foot bath and a sensory shower, with a plunge pool set into the timber deck and a table for massage. You move from warm to cool and back, and the day comes off you a layer at a time.
Up on the roof terrace there is an outdoor pool as well, for the long afternoons when all you want is the water and the sky.
- Finnish sauna
- Steam bath
- Foot bath
- Sensory shower
- Plunge pool
- Massage & treatments
Alcúdia
A walled town on a Roman city.
Alcúdia keeps its medieval walls and the narrow streets behind them — a Sunday market, small squares, stone everywhere. Just outside the town lie the ruins of Pollentia, the Roman city that gave Forum its name, with its old forum and theatre. The beaches and the bay are a short way down; the mountains stand at your back.
- Town walls & market
- At the door, on foot
- Roman Pollentia
- A short walk
- The beach & bay
- About 10 min
- Palma airport
- About 50 min
Stay
Come for the slow hour.
Book straight with the house — no agent, no commission in between. Send your dates and how many of you there are, and Forum will tell you what is free and set you in the right room.