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First-handFormentera, SpainThe Living World

A map of the world on the floor of the kids’ club

An included children’s club where recycling is part of the journey, and an island outside the door that keeps teaching the same lesson.

Family and children

Included

The children’s club is part of the stay, for ages four to twelve.

Learning

Through play

A world map laid across the floor, a route over the oceans, and recycling bins along its edge.

Nature

Right outside

Dunes, lizards and clear shallow water a few steps away.

Sustainability

Taught, not lectured

Sorting waste is part of the game before it is a rule.

Culture

The island’s animals

The endemic wall lizard is the easiest nature lesson on Formentera.

Ask first

Hours

Club hours are not published. Ask on arrival.

On the floor of the children’s club lies a map of the world. Viaje alrededor del mundo, it says: a journey around the world. A red route runs across the oceans, stopping at small round stations by the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Mauritius. Animals stand on the continents. Along one edge, laid out like playing cards, are recycling bins in yellow, blue and brown.

That is the whole idea, and it is a good one. Travel the world, and on the way learn what goes where. Nobody needs to stand at the front and explain why plastic matters. The bins are part of the journey.

A large world map laid on a tiled floor, with a red route across the oceans, animal pictures on the continents and recycling-bin cards along its edge.
Around the world, one recycling bin at a time.

A club that is part of the stay

The club is included, with a new space and a pool of its own from the 2025 rebuild. On the wall a cheerful turtle in trainers, wearing a race number and a medal, keeps watch over a rainbow of stripes. It is for children from four to twelve. Hours are not published, so ask when you arrive rather than plan the day around a timetable you have not seen.

A framed poster of a cartoon turtle in trainers wearing a race number and a medal, above a rainbow-striped wall.Clear shallow water running along a sandy beach towards low ochre cliffs under a grey sky.
The club’s turtle, and the shore a few steps away.

The lesson continues outside

The best thing about the club is that the island picks up where it leaves off. A few steps away the dunes are fenced with rope so the plants can hold the sand. On every warm wall there is a lizard, the island’s own, which children spot long before adults do. The water at this end of Migjorn is clear enough to see the seagrass that keeps it that way.

A recycling game on the floor and a rope across a dune tell a child the same story.

This place is worth looking after, and you are part of how that happens. That is family travel as Atlántis means it.

What we actually know

  • The children’s club and a children’s pool were part of the renovation completed in April 2025 (RIU).
  • RIU runs its children’s clubs for ages four to twelve (RIU). Opening hours for this hotel are not published.
  • The hotel is not adults-only.

Photographed in early October 2026. The floor map, the turtle and the roped dunes are what we saw. How the club runs on a given day is up to the hotel, so ask.

Independent and self-funded. Atlántis is not sponsored by design: not affiliated, not a paid placement, and nobody we write about knew in advance. The stay was found, booked and paid for at our own cost. The views are our own, judged against the Atlántis values: sustainability, cultural immersion, eco travel, real experiences, family-friendliness, and car-free travel or the deep past, depending on the place. No person appears in any photograph or clip on this page, and every clip is silent.

Practical notes

With children

Ask about the club on day one

Hours, ages, and whether there is space on the days you want.

Go lizard spotting

The easiest nature lesson on the island. Look on sunny walls in the morning.

Shallow water, still sea rules

Watch the flags and stay close to small swimmers.

Shade

The sun is strong even in October. Hats on before the beach, not after.

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