RosstheBossa
Active Member
After reading some of the reviews on here (and lack of them this year), I thought I better do mine from last year! A bit late I know. 
I'd not been to Ibiza since 2006, for many reasons (gf, kid etc etc). My mate had asked if I fancied going at the start of the summer and I think I just gave him the 'yeah, sure, when? will see what I can do' type answer. Anyway, further down the line, circumstances change and it was late August. I'd always wanted to go back, so thought why not do the closings. Text my mate who had asked me if he was still thinking of going, on the Thursday evening, we had it fully booked and paid for by the Friday afternoon. 4 nights in Hotel Garbi, flights from Jersey (overnight stay in Premier Inn, Gatwick), then flights to Ibiza. The excitement was to begin, looking for the latest lineups, closing parties etc. etc.
So Tuesday 30th September comes and we're off to Gatwick for the night. Think we got to bed at about 1am after one too many in the bars in the airport and hotel.
Wednesday 1st October
We were then woken up at 4:40am for our early morning flight by me in a state of panic, I thought we had 30 minutes till our plane was to leave. We burst out the hotel room and sprinted towards departures and through Security! But after a quick look at the information board we were early, panic over! We find out a few girls from back home we know will be there via Facebook and plan to meet up with them over text while we wait, and then it's off to board our flight, more relived than anything! The flight was smooth and had a few drinks to celebrate our lucky 'escape', we land, no waiting required for bags, taxi to the hotel. It's 9am and the room isn't ready yet, so we parked ourselves at the bar till about midday. Many pints later, we check in and get up to the room. We decided to go to sleep for a bit, as we'd had very little the night before.
Anyway, after a good sleep, it was time to venture out and about. We get showered and changed, and off we go....after a bite to eat from the Italian? place across from the hotel, it was straight down to JET/Bora Bora. We were late to the party, clearly everyone had been on it all day by the pool, so we decided to go and find Sirocco, it was tINI and the Gang closing party. After a bit of a walk and asking a few people the directions, we found it. It sinks in that we have finally landed in Ibiza, sun going down, on the beach, beers (cocktails!) in hand, tINI on the decks, bass grooving, happy faces everywhere. Loved it. We stayed there for a few hours, spoke to some nice people and got wristbands for FUSE. We then went and met the girls we knew from back home up at the bar near JET (can't remember the name) and sat with them for a bit getting some cheap drink. Stayed there for an hour or so, and then persuaded everyone to come to Underground with me for Sneak, Josh Wink and Syrossian. Jumped some taxi's and on our way. Got there and it was just warming up, we got our free drinks and sat outside. I liked it, seemed in the middle of nowhere and there was a good crowd gathering. Stayed there for a couple hours, had a bit of a dance inside and got my picture with the legend himself (as you can see!)! Where next then?! Sankeys? Why not! Back in the taxi's, got there and it was rammed. Spotted a few people who we met at Sirocco, got a bottle of water from the bar and set up camp for the next few hours on the dance floor, all of us absolutely loving it, with my mate literally glued to the speaker for the majority of that time! We got wristbands for the afters, but by that time 7/8am we were done in, the girls had gone home as well, so decided to head back to the room.
Coming up.....SACCA Closing
I'd not been to Ibiza since 2006, for many reasons (gf, kid etc etc). My mate had asked if I fancied going at the start of the summer and I think I just gave him the 'yeah, sure, when? will see what I can do' type answer. Anyway, further down the line, circumstances change and it was late August. I'd always wanted to go back, so thought why not do the closings. Text my mate who had asked me if he was still thinking of going, on the Thursday evening, we had it fully booked and paid for by the Friday afternoon. 4 nights in Hotel Garbi, flights from Jersey (overnight stay in Premier Inn, Gatwick), then flights to Ibiza. The excitement was to begin, looking for the latest lineups, closing parties etc. etc.
So Tuesday 30th September comes and we're off to Gatwick for the night. Think we got to bed at about 1am after one too many in the bars in the airport and hotel.
Wednesday 1st October
We were then woken up at 4:40am for our early morning flight by me in a state of panic, I thought we had 30 minutes till our plane was to leave. We burst out the hotel room and sprinted towards departures and through Security! But after a quick look at the information board we were early, panic over! We find out a few girls from back home we know will be there via Facebook and plan to meet up with them over text while we wait, and then it's off to board our flight, more relived than anything! The flight was smooth and had a few drinks to celebrate our lucky 'escape', we land, no waiting required for bags, taxi to the hotel. It's 9am and the room isn't ready yet, so we parked ourselves at the bar till about midday. Many pints later, we check in and get up to the room. We decided to go to sleep for a bit, as we'd had very little the night before.
Anyway, after a good sleep, it was time to venture out and about. We get showered and changed, and off we go....after a bite to eat from the Italian? place across from the hotel, it was straight down to JET/Bora Bora. We were late to the party, clearly everyone had been on it all day by the pool, so we decided to go and find Sirocco, it was tINI and the Gang closing party. After a bit of a walk and asking a few people the directions, we found it. It sinks in that we have finally landed in Ibiza, sun going down, on the beach, beers (cocktails!) in hand, tINI on the decks, bass grooving, happy faces everywhere. Loved it. We stayed there for a few hours, spoke to some nice people and got wristbands for FUSE. We then went and met the girls we knew from back home up at the bar near JET (can't remember the name) and sat with them for a bit getting some cheap drink. Stayed there for an hour or so, and then persuaded everyone to come to Underground with me for Sneak, Josh Wink and Syrossian. Jumped some taxi's and on our way. Got there and it was just warming up, we got our free drinks and sat outside. I liked it, seemed in the middle of nowhere and there was a good crowd gathering. Stayed there for a couple hours, had a bit of a dance inside and got my picture with the legend himself (as you can see!)! Where next then?! Sankeys? Why not! Back in the taxi's, got there and it was rammed. Spotted a few people who we met at Sirocco, got a bottle of water from the bar and set up camp for the next few hours on the dance floor, all of us absolutely loving it
, with my mate literally glued to the speaker for the majority of that time! We got wristbands for the afters, but by that time 7/8am we were done in, the girls had gone home as well, so decided to head back to the room.Coming up.....SACCA Closing
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