Swimming retreat in Spain

Planet

CARBON REDUCTION

We have designed our trip operations carefully to minimize our impact on our environment. By its very nature, exploring the world via swimming is “human powered”, means our guests are not using unnecessary motorized vehicles to enjoy their holiday destination. We try to keep our transfer times as short as possible, ensuring guests spend less time travelling and more time swimming on their swim vacation. All our trips are sold without flights so travellers have the option to use more environmentally friendly means of travel if they wish.

Guests use shared local transport to travel from Ibiza to Formentera on the ferries and we share all guest arrival times so that collective lifts can be arranged on Ibiza.

The hotel have installed solar panels to help provide some renewable energy and in their kitchens waste is separated to maximise recycling.

Vegetarian & Vegan food is available daily from both our hotel and the local restaurants that we choose to visit in the evenings. The hotel uses fresh local ingredients and locally caught seafood.

ENVIRONMENT & WILDLIFE

Formentera is surrounded by 76,500,000 square meters of Posidonia meadow. The locals tell us that the clarity of the water in Formentera is largely due to this Posidonia sea grass that grows on the sea floor. These under-sea meadows were one of the main reasons Formentera and Ibiza achieved UNESCO World Heritage status in 1999. We are proud to support the work of the Save Posidonia Project and donate to preserve one square metre pre guest who books this trip.

We continue to be reminded of the problem of plastic in our oceans. As such, we are committed to helping reduce to amount of plastic we use on our trips. We do this by:
• Encouraging guests to bring their own reusable water bottle on tour, or purchasing one of our non-plastic reusable alternatives
• Running regular guide plastic clean up sessions in our locations
• Using locally grown produce and home-cooked food wherever available to reduce the amount of plastic food packaging bought.

People

LOCAL ECONOMY

The hotel we use in Formentera is part of a local small chain of hotels on Formentera which helps to support the local economy. Our local partners provide an invaluable wealth of local knowledge, which helps enhance our guest’s cultural experiences – from food, to customs and hidden-away local gems. Through years of building happy, positive relationships with our local partners, we are confident in the knowledge that our guests will receive a wonderful warm welcome.

As most of our locations are small and remote, we make sure that our itineraries ‘spread the happiness’ meaning we take the guests to visit different businesses within the community. For example, we arrange for evening meals to be hosted at a different local restaurant each night, ensuring that the economic benefits brought about by our operation are distributed in an equitable way on the island. We also visit La Mola market where local traders sell handmade goods.

EMPLOYMENT, INCLUSIVITY AND DIVERSITY

The hotel provides employment opportunities for local people on Formentera. We use small, locally owned restaurants in the evenings which help sustain employment in the area.

All our trips are inclusive and everyone is welcome to join us as long as we can make suitable arrangements for any individual needs. The trip is LGBTQ+ friendly and we are happy to discuss individual needs relating to mobility, vision, hearing or cognitive issues and as long as we can put in place measures to ensure the trip remains safe for all guest we welcome everyone.