Leg Room List #6: Ibiza

Sep 14

Sep 14 Leg Room List #6: Ibiza

Leg Room List (LRL) – a place to add crowd-sourced recommendations from locals and my own personal travels. A living and constantly breathing list that made the big hop from iPhone Notes to this website. PS: your thoughts as locals or adoptive denizens are gold – please share.

More than a party island.

To Stay

La Granja (same owners as Scorpios Mykonos) - great concept, excellent design and deliciously fresh food
Villas – best idea for accommodation
Los Enamorados – north of the island; good for a drink

To Eat & Drink

Both beach and dinner/town:
El Chiringuito Es Cavalet
Beachouse
Experimental Beach – sunset cocktails
Fish Shack – very chill and local fish tavern, on the rocks of Talamanca… all DJs come here; go for dinner; probably my favorite local place
Es Xarcu - great fish by the beach
Es Torrent - also good fish by the beach
La Finca - Noma chef's private home https://scandinaviantraveler.com/en/places/the-secret-ibiza
La Paloma
Restaurante Can Berri Vell
La Brasa – for paella, in old town
Sa Caleta Restaurant – lunch; fish; check out Sa Caleta beach also
Sunset Ashram (on Cala Conta beach)– for … sunset
Can Domingo – Italian; dinner
Lio’s – cabaret show; dinner
El Olivo – in town; dinner
La Dispensa – in town; dinner
Ses Boques – lunch
Can Pujol
Cotton Beach Club (on Cala Tarida) – lunch
Amante Beach Club
Babylon Beach

To Sunbathe

Cala Saladeta
Cala Gracionetta
Cala Bassa
Sa Caleta
Benirras – north of the island; great on Sundays when they have a full percussion concert; 2-3 restaurants there, good vibe
Altantis – if you want to go on a hike
Cala Xuclar

To See

Boat to Formentera – have lunch at Beso Beach, 10.7 or Juan y Andrea; rent a scooter and go around the island
Old town Ibiza
Santa Gertrude Village

To Note

Best time to go is probably September but end of July is at its peak and can get pretty fun (albeit really busy).
Ibiza does live up to the myth of the party island, although you’ll miss out if you’re only there for the parties and fail to explore the towns, beaches, inland farms, food, sunsets, hippie market and other island beauties.
Many nice beaches are local and without any facilities - bring a towel.
The parties are quite commercial (for some tastes) but DJs from around the world get together for the summer and you can find some good music if you know where to look (everything is available online on Resident Advisor and ibiza-spotlight.com). I prefer going to Underground on Thursdays for Rhadoo / other Romanian DJs, as well as day parties and some classic gigs. If you can make an afterparty at the Kave or a good villa, it's more worth it that the club itself.
Pretty good shopping - always come back with fashionable summer items.