Beach with a 10m old baby

Hey all!

We’re going to Palma de Mallorca at the end of this month with my 10m old baby. We’ve taken him on holidays before but never on the beach — what advice or recommendations do you have for me?

Anything that would make things easier for us during the day, or just to keep him entertained. Any ideas what we would do with food? We’re staying in a hotel and my son is already on 3 meals a day.

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Hi. We went last year to Palma when my son was 10 months old too. Had a great time. The beach in the area we stayed had pine trees and I found that amazing for shade during the day. We took a small inflatable pool with us to keep him busy while at the beach and sand toys, had snacks with us at the beach (like fruit in a lunch bag) and mostly went back to the hotel for his afternoon nap, but there were occasions when he slept at the beach in his pram, under the pine trees while we just relaxed next to him. Mosquito repellent was a must and glad I brought one from the UK. Also we had a swim ring (the seat type ones) so he really enjoyed being with it in the sea. And very useful to us was and inflating/deflating small pump. I know that my suggestions are mainly logistics, but we found that we didn't really need much more than that to keep him entertained :)

I love the little pop up half-tents! Perfect for shade and a little privacy and you can get ones where you fill the pockets with sand to weigh it down.
Also love the concept of this although I haven’t tried it myself

https://little-ocean.co.uk/

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