A new era for San Antonio

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McRackin

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until very recently nobody would have associated "golf course", "cruise liners", "beach club", "luxury hotel", etc with san antonio..... well, a new era for san antonio starts :!:

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(this is the continuation to San Antonio's New Direction)
 
theibizasun

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Three companies have approached the owners of the land in Benimussa where the Town Hall is proposing to construct a golf course. One of these companies is English, another Dutch and the third a Spanish enterprise which does not have other associations with the Island, but none have connections with Marc Rich and his Andria Inversiones Inmobiliarias SA company, who several years ago presented a plan to the Town Hall to invest 100 million euros to include the golf course and a five-star hotel, offering accommodation to 450 guests. At the time Rich's plans were thwarted by the PSOE-ExC opposition party, who objected to doing business with someone with such a dubious reputation. He had spent eighteen years on the run from the North African justice system for his part in a massive tax fraud and had ignored the petrol embargo in Iran. He was finally indicted by Bill Clinton, just before he left the White House, causing a public outcry. Some time ago he had contacted all the land owners in the Benimussa area, but as permission was denied by the then Socialist run Consell, he lost interest in the project.
The land which would be needed to construct the golf course measures slightly more than 800,000 square metres and is in the hands of five or six proprietors. At this moment in time none of the land is used for agricultural purposes and is just picturesque unspoilt countryside.
 
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the more this vip-nonsense a la pacha/ush/blumarlin/etc gets out of control
and destroys the ibiza-spirit step by step
the more i like original and "rough" places like the westend 8) :p
 
So does that mean you can't shag on a sunbed or change beside your car any more ? At this rate it'll be collared shirts compulsory on the beach before long :!:
 
theibizasun

Not in Manchester either!
The Town Hall has introduced a new law which prohibits residents and tourists alike from going bare-chested in public, apart from the areas near the Fountains Square, on the promenades and near the harbour. It was pointed out that in many places in Europe, including England, there are similar laws in place and the majority of people would not dream of walking through their home town scantily clothed. For many years now bus drivers have demanded that their passengers wear tee-shirts, as much for the benefit of the upholstery of the vehicle than for aesthetic reasons. Shopkeepers, especially those running boutiques, have been urging the Town Hall to bring in legislation to this effect for many years, as customers wearing little less than suntan oil and a fair amount of sweat brush against the garments on display.
It will be the Local Police who will be advising tourists to ‘cover up' and explaining that they can receive on the spot fines of 100€ if they do not comply.
Until now the fine for drinking or urinating in the street was between 300€ and 700€, but this has now been reduced to 100€, with a reduction of 50 percent if paid immediately. However, the Town Hall believes that they will actually receive more income from these changes, as there will be zero tolerance. Previously, due to the complicated methods used to impose fines, very often they were not paid and the tourist could not be traced once back in his country of origin.
 
Is the town council in San Antonio going completely bonkers?! Ibiza has always been a free spirited place and now they seem to want to make it full of rules and regulations. At this rate they will be making the Arab states look positively liberal.

what sort of lunatic or frump makes it an offence to go the beach and then walk back to your hotel, apartment or hostel without a top on? Are they seriously thinking that after a trip to the beach when hot and covered in suntan lotion you want to put on a vest or tshirt before taking a shower back at your accommodation? Madness. Next they will be saying girls can't wear skirts above knee height!

Seeing this trying to be enforced will be a joke but no doubt fines will be issued just to pad out the fat salaries that councillors get in Spain.

Lol if the beaches are not affected by these rules, does it mean it is still ok for us all to skinny dipping???? Hope so ;)
 
:arrow: operation against the botellón in ses variades

consuming drinks in ses variades will soon be considered botellón and therefore it will violate the ordinance of coexistence of san antonio. this message should be clear to those who attended the famous sunset over the bay of portmany last saturday and encountered a police operation against what the council described as "massive botellón".

according to the them, the operation was informative "as it was the first joint action in order to inform about the fines and alert about the amendment of the ordinance, which is awaiting final approval in late june.

san antonio's local police and the guardia civil carried out this operation with a device that lasted all afternoon, from 6pm to 9pm and was attended by 4 guardias civiles and 10 local policemen, 2 on plain clothes.

this practice will lead to the minimum penalty of 100€.

i can imagine how happy the bar owners in the area must be . . . . .

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effing ridiculous. see ya later

even in london which supposedly is less in the running for clubbing etc destination in the world which ibiza holds so dear , at least you can sit by the thames with a can from the shop. Seems the Balearic vibe is well and truely being invoiced by every man and his dog
 
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^^ Why don't they just put some council bins out and fine people for littering. That's what the big downside of all the drinking on the rocks is - the rubbish. If it's a ploy to try to boost the sunset bars' average dinner takings and 10Euro drinks profits many people just won't pay.

As some of us keep saying there are much nicer places to see the sun go down than Mambo strip. Just stop being lazy and go find them ... leave those sunset strip bars to degenerate further into 100% tacky tourist guidebook attractions. If that's what the owners want for them other hotspots will soon benefit (and the views are even better too :p).
 
But how will the stop you if you've put a little vodka in your can of Fanta?

Are they going to ban soft drinks and water? they can't obviously so unless they go round smelling tasting everyone's drink it'll be hard to control surely?

Unless you're being obvious with beer or a drunk idiot of course
 
Aye, I can understand them taking issue with drunken louts tossing their used cans onto the rocks/into the water, but surely if people want a way around it they'll just pour it into a soft drink bottle?

Any idea when both this and the 'no shirtless' rules come into force?
 
I cant believe this ridiculous sh1t coming out this season. So much for the care free Ibiza that so many love and visit for.
 
:arrow: san antonio loses the free parking where the club idea used to be

as you might remember if you followed the "San Antonio's New Direction" thread, the deal was that once the structure has been demolished the site would be handed over to the council for use as a car park for five years in exchange for a careful study of the possible use as a building land in the future. as expected, one year later and the land is ready to build the new tao ibiza, whatever that is.....

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