Magaluf's shoreline carried almond terraces and pine scrub until the 1960s, when the first hotels rose behind the beach. Within two decades the village had become one of the Balearics' densest resort strips. The water, though, barely changed. The Badia de Palma still curves roughly twenty kilometres from Cap de Cala Figuera to Cap Enderrocat, and the boats running Boat Party Mallorca Magaluf tours trace the same sheltered arc fishermen once worked. Departures gather at Golondrinas Pier on Palma's Paseo Marítimo, a working quay named for the small harbour launches Spanish ports once nicknamed swallows. From there the fleet reads as a cross-section of Mallorcan sailing: rigged catamarans, broad-beamed motor cruisers, sundeck boats with a DJ booth bolted where a wheelhouse bench used to sit. Local crews call it a fiesta en barco. A Magaluf boat party tour today is less a single event than a format — a sail out of the harbour mouth, a swim stop, a buffet or BBQ served under awning, and a return leg timed to the light. The coast between Palma and Magaluf does the heavy lifting. Illetes drops into clear water over rock shelves. Portals Nous shows the marble terraces of its marina. Cala Vinyes and Cala Falcó cut narrow gaps into the cliff, and the limestone wall of Cap de Cala Figuera closes the western end. Behind it all the Serra de Tramuntana stands as a grey ridge, listed by UNESCO as a cultural landscape since 2011. Snorkelling gear comes out where the seabed turns to posidonia meadow, the protected seagrass that keeps Balearic water so clear. Punta Ballena, Magaluf's main nightlife street, remains the land anchor of the scene, and the harbour trade grew out of it. The modern fleet has shifted its emphasis seaward: open-bar service, sunset sailings, anchored swim time off Illetes. The crowd broadened with it — stag groups still come, but so do couples and families on the daytime catamaran runs. What began as a resort add-on now functions as the standard way to read the bay from the water, with Bellver Castle on its hill and the sandstone bulk of La Seu marking the skyline astern. Boat Party Mallorca Magaluf tickets cover vessels sailing from a single city pier rather than the resort itself, which is why the Paseo Marítimo, not Punta Ballena, is where the day begins.