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Ibiza, SpainFamily holiday
The north end, where nobody is awake at 4am
Two parents, two kids, one hire car
The day, roughly
- 08:00Breakfast on the square in Santa Gertrudis, before the heat
- 10:30Cala Xarraca: shallow, rocky, no waves. Easy with the little one
- 14:00Long lunch, then everyone naps. Nobody argues with this
- 18:30Sunset at Portinatx, back for pasta by eight
- 14:00Ocean Beach if you can face it. Book a bed, not a table
- 18:00Back to the apartment. Somebody always sleeps through this
- 23:30Amnesia. Tickets bought weeks ago, never at the door
- 06:15Taxi queue at dawn, bocadillo, bed until two
- 06:45Yoga on the terrace before anyone else is up
- 09:00Swim at Cala Salada, the water is glass at this hour
- 13:00Market in Santa Gertrudis, then cook at home
- 19:30Walk up to the Es Vedrà lookout. No music, no plans
- 09:30Dalt Vila before the cruise crowds. Walk up, skip the tourist train
- 12:00Puig des Molins necropolis: Punic, and almost empty
- 16:00Las Dalias in Sant Carles, the older kind of Ibiza
- 20:30Dinner in the old town, then the cathedral walls at dusk
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Rough cost
≈ £2,300 for four, one week
Where they stayed
Villa with a pool near Sant Joan. Hire car essential
Ibiza, SpainParty
Six nights, two of which we can account for
Four of us, one apartment, no daylight
The day, roughly
Rough cost
≈ £1,400 each, six nights
Where they stayed
Apartment in Playa d'en Bossa, walkable home at 6am
Ibiza, SpainWellness
A week of early swims and no plans
One person, a finca, and a phone left indoors
The day, roughly
Rough cost
≈ £1,100, seven nights
Where they stayed
Finca in the hills near Sant Llorenç, almost off-grid
Ibiza, SpainArt & Culture
The island that existed long before the clubs
Two of us, four nights inside the old walls
The day, roughly
Rough cost
≈ £980 for two, four nights
Where they stayed
Small hotel inside the walls of Dalt Vila
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