i just went this past july and loved it.

stay in playa den bossa - its close to space and bora bora.

do not stay in san antonio...its all 18 year old kiddos (kinda like the europe's version on cancun)

you must rent a car for a few days. the island has some very beautiful beaches and its easy to get around.

at the playa den bossa beach during the day, loads of people walking around with free entry wristbands to all the various clubs...but usually not worth it since you have to get there early.

i would STRONGLY sugguest buying tickets to the clubs - they sell them everywhere and you just have to shop around to get the best deal. all the major clubs have seperate entrances for folks with tickets and its cheaper also to buy in advance.

it will be one hell of an expensive trip, so save much bucks for it.



-paul

ha! The ticket thing sounds like Rosarito. You can buy wristbands in advanced for a lot cheaper than door price. Plus, they allow in and outs and you go through a separate entrance.

Been to Ibiza 3 times (12 years between the 3 times) and everytime was different and magical.

Stay the fuck away from San Antonio. Shithole, cheap (bad) take away food, drunk European kids (ahem) throwing up on the streets, just not a nice experience.

only thing it is good for is if you need to get drunk for cheap before going in to a club as they literally throw booze down your throat for pennies (i.e buy one beer get two shots free etc.). Anyone whose bought drinks in any of the major clubs knows you don;t want to try to get drunk in them unless you just won the lottery. If you do go to san an before a club to get drunk, just make sure you have a exit plan and don't get sucked in to staying.

Don't buy proper tickets to events. All the tickets reps (like you find outside mambo/del mar) have their comp tickets that they sell to make money (they make nothing off tickets), so make friends and get them to sell them theirs - it usually works out to be half the cost of a ticket.

Do the sunset outside del mar (you've got to once) but sadly it's like the 405 on monday morning morning now and the whole clapping thing was wierd too ( that never happened the first times I was there).

Playa den bossa is good and close to a lot of the action (space etc,) but I hate packed beaches and if you're the same then stay away.

A nice beach is Cala Salada just north of san antonio, not packed, good bar there and nice beach. You can swim along the bay to a really quiet beach there

Salinas has to been seen once and has good restaurants and bars but this is the posers beach and super rammed, parking is a nightmare so get there early if you're going to spend the day.

There are actually some really private beaches if you look (I'm not giving it away) but try the north west of the island and Cala LLonga while a bit touristy, has some excellent restaurants such as La Del Orto and 5KM (restaurant that turns in to a cool bar/club at night) is on the way there too.

Santa Getrudis (west/inland of San Antonio) also has a great strip of french, Italian and Spanish Cafe's / restaurants which are really charming at night at good prices and not many tourists.

Ibiza town is nice to look at for a day but seriously expensive (even compared to the rest of Europe).

You need to decide on what you want to spend. Ibiza is ridiculously expensive, so either save up a lot, get a villa, finca or small apartment and do it in style, or just go totally cheap, get a crap hotel and just use it to sleep there. Don;lt bother with 3 or 4 star hotels - they are all shit and not worth the serious increase in money. You're better off going 2 star and just sleeping there.

I stayed last time off the beaten track but got my own really finca (small farm house) and it was beautiful and cheap. The only problem was it was a 20 minute drive ti anything.

Also, make sure you can drive stick - there are hardly any automatics there and they charge you more for them.

As for flights, you can fly to London for cheapish and loads of dirt cheap airlines fly (albeit at weird times) to Ibiza from there. Otherwise fly to Madrid or Barcelona and there are many flight a day to IBZ for cheap too.

The ibiza-spotlight site is prob the main site on the island. I stayed in Playa d'en Bosa and in Santa Eulalia. Santa Eualalia is more calm/family type whereas in Playa d'en Bosa there is always action.

I took everyone's advice and stayed away from San Antonio, however I wished I did check out a Cafe Mambo sunset.

As far as flights. See if you can get a cheap flight to Paris, Barcelona or Madrid. From there take vueling airlines (www.vueling.com) to Ibiza. However, they will get you on extra kilograms over 20. (Ryan Air is even worse w/ 15kg max) That was a year and a half ago, so it might have changed, so read the fine print!

I'm sure you'll know the schedule beforehand so you'll know where you will go. You might need a night off here and there for recovery. I went for 7 nights and was able to party 5 of the nights. (took off the second night, went for another 4 nights, and took off Sat night.)

It's weird there because you buy party favors from the restaurant owners, security and workers. As a general rule, "Don't buy from the Moraccans or the looky looky darky darky" lol I love that line...heard it from a number of the locals.

It's like Vegas, where it is easy to find uppers and hard to find weed. (they say, "It is not growing season" When the hell is growing season? It's always growing season in California!) You are more likely to find hash, since the Moroccans flood the market and it is easier to smuggle I guess.

10 days might be a bit much. The place is fun and all. But it also has a dirty/nasty I wanna get the hell out of here feel to it after a while as well.

While in the area look into other European cities such as Barcelona, Spain, Paris, France...maybe Germany, Italy (Rome, Florence and Venice...all a super fast train ride away)...other party islands such as Mykonos, Greece. (most party islands such as Ibiza and Mykonos are predominately gay for some reason)The islands in Greece were nice, but I found the cities on the mainland such as Athens pretty dirty.

Vueling and Ryan Air are you best bets for cheap flights. (If you packed light)

Enjoy! You will love!

PS - Watch out for 10 euro bottles of small water and 15 euro cans of Red Bull at the clubs! And they don't really give tips much in Europe...they don't expect a tip and cus you out if you don't like the bartenders do here. Only if you feel they went above and beyond normal service.

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quick question...a lot of u suggest renting a car...do u reccomend then driving to the clubs or taking the disco bus? and if u drive are there parking lots around to park at?

We had a car for getting around during the day. If you're partying at night just take a cab or something.

take cabs at night, while it costs more, is alot safer for ya.

renting the car during the day is a must do...only way to get to some of the private beautiful beaches...

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Originally posted by gimmebeatz quick question...a lot of u suggest renting a car...do u reccomend then driving to the clubs or taking the disco bus? and if u drive are there parking lots around to park at?

Never drive your car to a club. You do NOT wanna be driving around Ibiza drunk after a club. Take the disco bus its a truly amazing experience once I took it from San An to Amnesia and along the way a group of super super hot Spanish girls came on board and then she insisted she sits on my lap lol its just a lovely culture!!

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Originally posted by DjWoody I wanna go to Ibiza!!!

YOU SHOULD!!!! But, beware it is REALLY expensive!

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if going for 7-8 days, how much money would u reccomend to have with you? ive heard minimum of 2000-2500 euros

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Originally posted by Techno_Twins YOU SHOULD!!!! But, beware it is REALLY expensive!

I do! I just don't wanna go alone!

Thanks for all the information guys!!!!! Got some research to do now

I know 11 days is a good vacation but there are certain nights and Dj's (Markus, Ferry and Armin) that I want to see. I wish I could see other places/ countries as well but there is that whole money thing that gets in the way. All ready going to have a tough time saving up what I need!

When it comes to hotels it doesn't matter where I stay! Shoot stayed for a week at the Starlight for WMC.. just need a place to rest put my things and shower! What about Hostels? how are they???

Keeping my fingers crossed that the exchange rate will still be good! Would rather spend 4G's then 6!

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