Ibiza Spending Money

Great post thanks Gary

I reckon your sums are about right although there are always cheaper ways to do things if you're so inclined- like blagging free press tickets cos you've got a blog about Ibiza

Without stereotyping too much it also seems like girls don't seem to spend as much out there as lads when this conversation comes up. What's the secret ladies??!

The first time i went i managed to survive on £500 for two weeks (i was a student at the time), there are plenty of people giving away free tickets to clubs etc, and the drinks are really cheap in the bars, buy one get ten free type of thingy, the clubs are expensive but are worth it so save your money for a couple of crazy nites out and if you get the disco buses you save loadsa money for drinking, also some clubs give refunds on taxis if there are more then 3 people in the taxis. There are plenty of cheap places to eat ad the supermarkets are quite cheap.

if i change at least £700 to euros will that last 10 nites do you think i took that last year and i was ok just.my mate is comeing and she never been on holl b4 she worried bout how much to take i said £700 or at least £800 should be ok

I think that will be plenty Kerry but I wouldn't change it all up before you go. Ibiza hotel rooms and big wads of cash don't mix!

I'm going in 16days with my girls - none of us have been before. We're staying in San An Bay, all inclusive so money for food, and to a certain extent, drinks, isn't a problem. We already know which DJs we wanna catch while we're out there and it looks like about 3 nights at the major clubs which we think will be about £150 at most? I'm thinking of taking around £400??? Am I really underestimating the expense of Ibiza? Cheers!

I personnaly have many (...too many) years of clubbing experience in ibiza, I even remember visiting the star club..

Yes it is expensive, but it always has been... my theory now is.. Idod not want to go to space foe 10-12 hours and
drink 3 botles of water, i want the full experiance. So my plan of attack for the last 5-6 years is flyout thursaday and
back on tuesday, thus enabling cream, pacha and we love...last year alone our bill (2 people) for we love was over
500 euro... but it was worth every cent... I also have the thought that after only 4 days at least you still have the chance
of being alive... the last time I did 10 days i was off work the following 2 weeks...

Me again! Just quick question...two of my mates won't be 18 when we go - they don't look young and don't have a problem here in the UK getting in places - will we struggle in Ibiza??

Thankyou put my mind at rest - only 11 days to go now!! I wrote before about spending money for our situation.. will £400 worth of Euroes cover us do you think?

Hi, Going Ibiza in 5 days time!!! cannot wait im going for 2 weeks do you think 900 euros will be enough, 3 cardiff lads going!!! cannot wait! anyone wanan help me by letting me know about any cheap places to go to drunk before the main clubs?

goin ibiza in august for a week u rekon £500 enough? we only plannin on goin clubs 2 - 3 times. thnxs

Hay, me and 2 of my girls, should be booking a 10 day holiday to Ibiza for the 1st 10 days of september! it seems to be the best deal, i have no idea about what clubs we will go to, all i kno is im happy going to a few of the clubs but mainly having nights out in the bars, if there still fun! im not really fussed about djs, i wana experiance a few of the true ibiza clubs! isit still worth going to ibiza if im not bothered what djs i see? i just want a clubbing, chilling, tannin holiday! lol

And the main question,will £700 be enough for 10 nights? Im so worried il run out! and i thinks as much as i can afford!

Thank you xx

50 euros to get into a club
10-15euros for a drink

do the math!

£700 will not be enough. I went in Sept 2007 for 10 nights and got through £1400. Went out 4 nights to clubs. You will spent money like crazy but it is the only way to do Ibiza. You shouldnt go on holiday and have to watch what you spend in my opinion

hi,we are going to ibiza for 10 days for clubbing. Are 3500 euros enough betwen 2 of us?

I went last year. Im a girl. I spent about £550, which included nights out at Space, Eden, Pukka Up boat party and Es Paradis, El Divino, a cheesy night out in the west end and a recoup night out at a restaurant. I was cautious of rinsing money but still managed to have wicked nights out and dont think i felt i should of had more. More maybe is better i guess but what ever you can afford is all you can do. I think i'll try to go with about £600 this year, just because things like sun beds on Bora Bora are about 12 euros a day and that ads up, as well as taxi's to consider. But i think girls spend less than boys, it doesnt take as much for us to get as drunk as them and we dont tend to hit it as hard. I love ibiza, ibiza loves me.

hi guys
im going to ibiza in two weeks for 1 week 7 actual nights 8 days
we plan to go out on the saturday night to 1 big club and go to cafe del mar for the sun set/ sunrise?
we are takin 700 pounds which is only 800 euros can any 1 advise if this shud be enoguh and if ibiza has cluke a pub strip which is bars n smaller clubs u dont pay in and bars where drinks r 4 euros each? like other european countries x

I totally agree with glen1. I went last year for two weeks and spent £1700...and that was having guestlists for two Judgements, a Cream and an Armada. In all honestly I went all out last year drinking in expensive bars and too many fillet steaks, which is why I spent that much. However, if you want the full Ibiza experience and want to be free to enjoy yourself, I would budget £1800 for two weeks. I suppose you could do it with less, but to do the Pacha nights (which I fully recommend) on top of Priv, Space, Eden, Amnesia, you would need at least £1800.

...and I should have added I'm taking 2 grand this year. Bring it on

All this talk of £1800 for 1 weeks is aload of rubbish. its my 5th time this year, im only goin for week and taking between 850-900 and thats more than enough. I plan to go to 5 club nights, im on the guestlist for cream already.The reason im takin so much is because with us only doin a week i wanna be going to a club pretty much every night.If you go for 2 weeks you dont have to hit it as hard as you have 2 chances to go to each night.The last time i was there i took £700 for a week and was fine, even managed a £75 present for my girlfriend before i got home and i went to space, dc10, garlands and dusted. This year im goin space sunday, cocoon monday, amarda/release yourself tuesday, channel zoo wednesday,cream thursday and for a nice meal the Friday our last night. Apparantly girls give out free tickets to armarda outside bar m every tuesday afternoon if you get in before 1 am.carl cox an friends is 25euros b4 12 so theres ways of getting round it

All this talk of how much u need, a rekon for a week u will need about 850 to do most of the clubs each nite and have a good time while ur doin them. The way a look at it is its about 50euro at the most to get in a big nite and say the rest are about 35 40 euro to get in, but before u go to them head up the west end were u gan get a pint of vodka nd redbull ( well a snide of it) in sum bars for 6euro so say u take 50 euro out with ya u know ur gona be on yer bak ! then allow urself 30 euro a day for food because face ur not gona want to eat much after you have had a heavvvvy nite out the nite before. Thats 130 euro a day am into my third year now and worked it out to 130 a day and had no problems a was out during the day and nite so it wasnt as tho a stinged out during the day, done everything i wanted too.

hi. im only back from 2 weeks in ibiza, went to 7 club nights, twice at bora bora and good food everyday, i spent £2350 in 2 weeks, iv been 6 times now and im spending more and more as the years go bye,but i will still be going back next year. i would advise anyone thats going to bring as much as possible,you dont want to missing out on things that you want to do because you have to watch your money.

Well as the origonal post said... its just depends what you want to do when your out there... most of you guys/girls want to hit the clubs in which case i cannot argue with you on the money you are all quoting above. I took just over £200 only last year in sept, however i had already bought two club nights in england before i left. We bought brioche/cereal/croissants etc for breakfasts. And then for lunch we bought a huge french stick each every day with ham/cheese ect and bottled water from eroski supermarket and took it with us to the beach... we ate out everynight and hit the west end every night. There are amazingly cheap deals like 2 beers + 2 cocktails for 6euros!! You can also haggle with the hired staff on the street and they take you to the bar.

Drinks are mega expensive in clubs, 8euros for a very very small bottle of water and 20+ euros for a couple of beers...but at that time of the morning i generally find i dont want to be drinking anyhow!!

I didnt find i was watching my money and always have been ok. I have been to Ibiza alot as we have a house just outside San An (which is probably why i spend alot less) but if you want to eat out for all your meals, hit a club and get plastered every night you can expect to rinse 800+ in a weeks holiday easy.

Im off soon for ibiza rocks, cream, eden, and no idea what else yet... and i only plan to take £350... mad..maybe... cant handle my drink..positive.

I went to Ibiza with two of my friends for one week (23rd of July till 30th July), we are all guys. As turned out one of them actually isn't very fond of electronic music in general, so he joined me and my other friend for four clubbing nights only.

My original plan was to go out 6 nights in superclubs, and not the last night as we had to get early on the 30th to catch our plane. I had a budget of 250 Euro a night, making up for a total of 1500 Euro (this did not include flights and accomodation costs).

We went to Bora Bora every day and short-evening, after which we usually had a pre-party to reload on drinks, followed by a bus ride to the club of the night. We got (I suppose) a fair deal for 50 euro giving a 3h pre-party with free drinks + bus ride for both Thursday to El Divino and Friday to Amnesia.

Night six was a Tuesday and we were on the strip in Playa d'en Bossa getting a drink in a bar. We were lucky to get in Space (Carl Cox @ Tuesdays - Highly recommended), even though we didn't plan to go out that night, for as little as 10 euro (!). However, we had to enter Space before 10pm. As we've got a similar deal for Saturday night in Space (Hed Kandi - 15 euro before 11pm), I thought there wouldn't be much people at that time, but the truth is the Terrace in Space was packed and the party had already started! This wasn't the case with the Hed Kandi party, which became full only around 1-2am (my friends left by then, but I had a crazy night just on my own till closing time).

That night in Space Moby played a dj set which turned out to be the very best performance I've heard during our week on the island. All in all, not bad at all for a 10 euro door price!
Me and my clubbing friend went to Pacha later on, where we could enter for 10 euro / person (it was around 3 - 4 am then, I guess) where Fedde le Grand was playing. We only had one drink in Pacha as we really hated the place and even more the very commercial music we heard trough the speakers (really felt like the clubs at home), so we quickly left for Amnesia. The lovely lady behind the counter there let us even in for free

Night seven we should have go to sleep early as we had to wake at 7am the next morning for our return flight. Me and my clubbing friend just went to the Playa d' En Bossa strip for a long island iced tea, as we bumped into four females who stayed in the hotel room just below us (we had talked before). All four of them had tickets for Privilege that night (Meganite), but we could sneak on to the free bus where my friend suddenly gave me a free-entrance bracelet (it appears he has gotten it from one of the girls)... So our last night was definitely the cheapest one :-)

I ran out of money after 5 days / nights, as did my friend. Thankfully, it was the end of the month and I had a Visa card :-) Not including our accommodation nor flights, we have spent 2000 Euro a person. That's for one week, and mostly spent on alcohol in clubs / bora bora and tickets. What the other guy who didnt go with us that much spent, I don't really know. As we are from Belgium, we usually drink beers but after a while the San Miguel and Budweiser tasted so bad to us we switched to the more expensive mixed drinks (like Wodka-Orange and Gin-Tonic).

Our hotel included breakfast and 1 daily meal, which we took in the evening. The breakfast we didn't take (obviously).

I can tell you one week definately is too much if you party like we did / do when we party (includes heavy drinking). Four nights would be really enough if you plan to party this way. And we are known to party very hard where we come from (my friends even gave me the nickname Duracell when they came to know me). I still can't imagine how you can last 2 weeks on this superb island.

Hotel + flights was 900 euro / head, but this was mainly because we booked only one month in advance. If you would take a jet apartment and book your own flights (which we will do next time), I guess it must be possible for 500 euro or even less (for a week) if you are with 4 people.

So is the 2900 euro spent / head for one week worth it? Yes it is. Though I still find it crazy to spend all that money in such a short time... We're already saving for next year.

Hi

I am going to Ibiza on the 16th of Sept 09, but staying in Port des Torrent. I am definitely not a clubber and am looking forward to the more cheesy silly side of a Spanish holiday, beach, markets, pools etc. I was hoping to take £500 / £550 for a week and my boyfriend the same. Will this be enough? I plan to do all the silly touristy things in Ibiza. Any help would be appreciated!!!

Thanks

x

im goin ibiza in 6 days n im buzzin cannot w8!!i love a gud old rave on a nite out n cant w8 2 sample the amazin clubs on offer...theres 8 of us girls goin n me n my m8 are stayin in a diff hotel which is 18-30s..the only thing tht is worryin me is tht i am a drinker n im changin 550 quid over i knw full well i will go through this very easily bt i plan on gettin pissed b4 i go out anyway so all i can say is let the partyin begin im nt gunna let me money situation piss on my parade lol

errr im living proof that you can do ibiza on the cheap. I went for a week, took 700 euros with me and came back with 400 euros. Gunna take the 400 euros with me for another trip to the white isle!

hey guys after all the closing parties what's ibiza gonna be like? I may be going back on the 21st of october for a week, is there any point?

thinking of going over on 10th of oct,will it be any good this time of year??