Travel for Teens: Barcelona and Mallorca Language

  Spain

• Barcelona: 
Barcelona
• All Other Areas: 
Palma de Mallorca
• Santiago: 
Santiago

Duration of Program: 1-2 weeks
Dates: July 20 - August 1, 2010

Description: The Barcelona and Mallorca Language trip is a great addition to your Spanish summer. It's perfect for any teen who is interested in improving their Spanish language skills this summer but doesnt want to spend their entire trip in the classroom. Travel For Teens understands the balance between structured class instruction and hands on practice with cool counselors that foster the travel bug and the desire to improve your language skills.

The first part of our trip will be spent acclimating ourselves to Barcelonas famous sites. Then the fun continues for 2 nights in Mallorca, a must-do for European travelers. Our hotel, located in Palma de Mallorca, will be our home base as we negotiate the cultural sights and coveted beaches of this amazing island. Take a catamaran ride where we will stop to snorkel and feast on a Mediterranean style barbeque for lunch. Our afternoons in Mallorca will be complete with incredible trips to Mallorcas pristine beaches. You will love this island!

After the first four days of acclimatization to the Catalunyan way of life, we will begin our language immersion. For a full week we will be in class each morning at a top notch language school. Our afternoons will consist of practicing what we have learned in real life situations as we visit the classic attractions. We will be situated near the school outside of town where we will have access to the less-touristic exotic beach and mountain attractions that surround Barcelona.

We will also stay a few nights in the heart of Barcelona with easy access to all the main attractions like the famous Sagrada Familia, Gaudis Park Guell, the Nou Camp (Barcelona FCs soccer stadium), and the incredible museums of Picasso and Salvador Dali. Most of these sights are just a short walk away from our hotel located just off Las Ramblas. We will scoot around the city on one of the best bike tours in Europe (if you dont bike, dont worry, there is an alternative and more than one person will choose this). Of course, there is plenty of time allotted for tanning on the Mediterranean beach of Barcelona and for shopping. The trip is well balanced between learning and having fun.

This comprehensive tour has become somewhat legendary amongst TFTers, as it pedals you through all of Barcelonas major sights! And dont forget the food! A trip to Spain would not be complete without a paella cooking class and a night out sampling tapas. Dont forget to pack at least one nice outfit for clubbing and for our last nights spectacular dinner before sadly saying farewell to Spain.

Highlights: Travel for Teens has many other trips. If you combine 2 trips (25 days), you receive 15% off the 2nd trip of equal or lesser value. You can also combine 3 trips for only 9,985 USD (37 days).

- See world class beaches, incredible architecture, the works of Picasso, Miro, Dali, and Gaudi.
- Visit Barcelonas famous Camp Nou stadium.
- Attend Spanish classes in a terrific language school then put your skills to the test in real life situations.
- Visit the world famous Sagrada Familia.
- Take a paella cooking class and learn how to make basic tapas--then eat what you've made!
- Dance the night away in a cool club on that FLOATS on Barcelona harbor.
- Take an all-afternoon catamaran ride off the coast of Mallorca to snorkel in the Mediterranean and have a feast on the boat!
- Take an awesome tour through Barcelona on a bike.
- Shop the sensational stores of Barcelona.

Where We Go:

Barcelona
Palma de Mallorca

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Cost in US$: 3,685 USD plus airfare

This Program is open to American, Asian, Australian, Canadian, European, Kiwi, South African and Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Spain in Groups

Typically Participants Work in Groups

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Physical Exam/Health Records

Travel For Teens's Mission Statement: Travel for Teens believes that teen travel should be both fun and enriching. Our programs feature choice in what you do, see, and experience, a dynamic that sets us apart from superficial tours that herd large groups from one site to another. We visit the best of the mainstream attractions while offering the opportunity to explore the culture from a less touristy perspective. We interact with our host cultures, taking cooking and dance lessons, performing valuable service work to help local communities, and conversing with the people who have spent their lives living in the places we journey to. We have crafted our unique programs to engender love for travel, hunger for learning, curiosity about differences, appreciation of similarities across cultures, and an understanding of what it means to be a global citizen.

Year Founded: 2003