Over 40 holidaymakers were forced to cancel their reservations in a popular Majorcan resort town after their complex was found to be overrun with squatters.

A group of 46 German tourists who had planned to travel via ferry from Barcelona to Majorca on April 6 for five nights and had booked to stay at Club Bellevue in Puerto Alcudia.

Puerto Alcudia is one of Europe’s most popular holiday destinations offering a number of activities from golf, water sports and cycling routes, as well as the huge HidroPark waterpark.

However, after booking they made the horrifying discovery that the complex has been occupied by squatters. This forced the group to cancel their holiday to the island all together and have opted to go somewhere completely different.

According to Majorca Daily Bulletin, Club Bellevue is the third establishment where squatters have been found.

Hoteliers and businesses are up in arms over the increasing number of squatters in Majorca and are demanding a change to legislation to harden legislation on squatting.

In a bid to fight back against the concerning problem Majorca is  implementing more security across the island to ensure that other establishments don’t have the same issue as Bellevue in advance of the coming tourism season.

However, officials are concerned about the negative publicity squatters will have on holidaymakers.

Elsewhere in Cala d’Or, a beautiful Majorcan resort area on the southeast coast, lies a series of apartments that have been occupied by squatters, and they are still have refusing to leave after five years.

Since 2020 squatters have occupied tourist apartments – which only came to light in autumn 2023.

Owner Jordi Chalé inherited a 218-bed hotel and three adjacent apartment blocks in Cala d’Or.

But there was a problem as all the apartments had squatters – providing a massive headache for Mr Chalé.

Five years on he has been unable to recover the apartments. 

In September 2020 he reported usurpation and trespass to the Guardia Civil. “And here we are in 2025 trying to defend private property”, says Mr Chalé.

Mr Chalé has spent more than half a million euros thanks to the cost of lawyers, judicial procedures, boarding up premises and emptying them, surveillance and alarm systems.