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Brits offered ground-floor rooms in Magaluf
Hoteliers on the Majorcan resort of Magaluf are checking Brits into ground-floor rooms in a bid to reduce the number of deaths from balcony falls.
The move is one of a number of initiatives to improve the resort’s reputation, including clamping down on all-day drinking and pub crawls, according to the Times.
A spokesman for the Magaluf Hoteliers Association said: "We try to put young guests in ground-floor rooms when possible to avoid any accidents from falls. We have also put higher barriers on the front of balconies."
Three Britons have been fined €600 each for ‘balconing’, the practice of crossing from one balcony to another and police have handed out 1,462 fines in the first half of the year for various anti-social offences.
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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