Palma de Mallorca, España

Mallorca is a very popular vacation destination, with excellent low-cost flight connections to almost every major city in Europe. We are looking for all kinds of exchanges, including longer-term ones—this could be a good base for an extended tour of Europe for someone from further afield. We do not need our apartment to be continuously occupied during the exchange, but if you do plan to go away for more than a couple of days then let us know so we can arrange for someone to water our plants!

This is our full-time home, not a second-home apartment that is either unoccupied or rented out on Airbnb the rest of the time. It has everything that you need for a stay of any length, including beach towels, lots of bedding, and a full set of spices in the kitchen.

Our apartment has nice views over a green wooded area either side of a stream bed that leads down to the yacht harbour of Palma, where the millionaires park their boats. From our balconies you can see the cruise ships moored in the harbour, and across the bay of Palma. We are at the top of a hill and the end of our street, so there is almost no traffic noise.

At the back of our apartment building is the 126-hectare wooded park around Bellver Castle, one of Palma's most famous attractions. The park entrance is right outside our building and to get to the castle itself requires a 10-minute walk up the hill.

We have two main bedrooms with double beds (150 and 140cm wide). One of the bedrooms has its own bathroom with shower and toilet, and also its own balcony. There is a second bathroom with shower and toilet. In the TV room, the sofa can be converted into a double bed, so in fact we can accommodate more than four people. However, we prefer to keep the advertised number at four; if you use more than two beds then you will be "camping out" a little bit.

There is a large main balcony with a table that can be used for dining, with the choice of sun or shade all day depending on exactly where you sit. For the hottest days we have an air conditioning unit in the living room, which functions as a heater in the winter. (The apartment is quite warm in winter and you only need to use this occasionally.) For most of the year we turn the air conditioning off and open the windows; we are on the 5th floor, so there is no security problem, and there is usually a light breeze to help cool things down.

We have a TV with Netflix (please connect your own account), Amazon Prime, the main UK channels (BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, etc), and a Google Chromecast device, which you can use to watch most streaming content from your phone on the TV screen. Our WiFi is fibre-based with a nominal speed of 100 Mbits/s.

The apartment building has its own swimming pool of about 8 x 4 metres, which is perfect for cooling off on a hot summer's day.

We have checked the box to indicate that our apartment is not suitable for disabled people. By this we mean that we don't have any specific features to cater for disabilities; the apartment itself ought to be fine for someone who has moderately limited mobility, as we are only one floor down from the entrance to the building and there is an elevator. However, our building is at the top of a cobbled street that is 300m long, so someone with mobility issues might need to go most places in our car or a taxi.

We do not mind children from the age of 8 or older being in the apartment, but our own children are now grown up, so we don't have things like toys or children's DVDs, which were a big part of the experience when we went on exchanges with our children 15 to 20 years ago.

We have no pets of our own. Our ability to care for pets is limited to changing dry food and water for an otherwise self-sufficient cat. But if you have a pet and can have someone else take it during the exchange then that will be OK.

We offer the use of our car, which is a Toyota Yaris hybrid from 2017, in exchange for yours. If you do not drive then the island has good public transport in general, and the bus and taxi services within Palma are excellent. (Even if you drive, it makes sense to avoid using a car in the centre of Palma.)

You can explore the area around our building on Street View here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Carrer+del+Polvor%C3%AD,+39,+07015+Palma,+Illes+Balears,+Spain/@39.559665,2.6196595,3a,75y,197.41h,99.91t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sK20XbByKX2Ceafg0R-yESQ!2e0!3e11!7i13312!8i6656!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x1297920adaf6a3d1:0x4aa8a7680e15b24!2sCarrer+del+Polvor%C3%AD,+Palma,+Illes+Balears,+Spain!3b1!8m2!3d39.5591925!4d2.6202884!3m4!1s0x0:0x349465034bb81007!8m2!3d39.5596781!4d2.6195888