BORA BORA's last season.... end of an era!
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All of the typical holiday things like Water Parks, Go Carts and fair grounds seem to be quite neglected.
I wonder if that’s a conscious decision?
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In English...
The New Bora Bora Ibiza Will Be "fun Without Being A Nightclub" – Diario De Ibiza News
After 40 years, the Bora Bora Ibiza complex is experiencing its last season before the renovation planned by the Vivir Descalzo group, which aims to turn it into a place where, in addition to eating, the clientele can enjoy quieter leisure time.
www.diariodeibiza.com
Some interesting bits in there!
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Read that this is the final season of Bora Bora. Not been for many years but tons of happy memories from yesteryear.
Probably end up another high end cardboard cut-out place
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I'm we get a few plus a closing to remember
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The sales pitch is pretty cringy
“Four generations have danced, laughed and added magical and unrepeatable moments to the album of their life at Bora Bora Beach Club. Because, always, what happened in Ibiza stayed in Bora Bora. And it is that visiting it is knowing that you are already part of the legend of Ibiza.”
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I really miss those days, so glad to have experienced those years and have such great memories. Amazing times!Using your pass out from WLS @ Space to go over for a breather and some cheaper drinks used to be essential back in the day. Lots of merriment was had
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There was a great piece of text about Ibiza’s greed written by the late Colin Butts that’s sits true with this.Kids will never again experience the absolute horror of the smell of Spidermans suit up close for a photo.
Using your pass out from WLS @ Space to go over for a breather and some cheaper drinks used to be essential back in the day. Lots of merriment was had
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"It is with heavy but healthy heart, problematic pancreas, lesioned liver and sombrero'd (ish) Shar Pei, that today I indefinitely head back to the UK for what at the very least, will be my first full London summer since 1999.
From initially visiting Ibiza in 1983, to working here in those magical years of 87 & 88, to visiting friends all through the beautifully naive nineties, to vowing to never come back in 1999, to moving over to Ibiza the very next summer with my 56 channel desk recording studio and seeing the remix we did of Sweet Dreams explode, to getting Is Harry on the Boat? made into a film that same year, to finding that studio a more permanent home in a record shop called Plastic Fantastic, to thinking it would be good to have a cool little bar there in 2002 and that eventually evolving into Plastik, to buying a villa here in 2007 so my winters were spent here too, to eventually getting A Bus Could Run You Over made last year... So much seems to have happened yet it all seems like yesterday.
When I started my relationship with Ibiza she was a lot more innocent, like a naturally beautiful young girl not fully aware of the effect she has on people.
I leave her having grown into a far more sophisticated, hard-nosed businesswoman.
I leave her constantly trying to deny all the things that drew me and so many others to her in the 1st place - now she wants to be taken seriously. It's all about the businesswoman and she is trying to deny her past, deny her initial appeal as though that innocence ashames her.
She is super successful - rich beyond her wildest dreams - but I leave her even more nepotistic, greedy, spoilt, knowing what she doesn't want but half clueless as to what she does want, particularly for San Antonio, a massive part of her initial appeal that she now looks down at like a gangrenous toe that she'd rather amputate than cure.
God/Allah/My Little Pony willing I am intending to come back but inept and short-sighted politicians may well make me think twice.
Maybe I'd be more tempted to return if they brought back stocks to every village so that any "agent" asking stupid fees and prices for seasonal or long term property rental could be locked in them and have rotten fruit thrown at them. Or rocks.
Also stick in the planners who defy logic to order the most disruptive road works at the worst times. Feel free to add any other stock victims below.
I could rant for hours but would rather end on a positive note by thanking all my Ibiza friends who have rallied around and supported me, be they still living on this frustratingly magnetic island or elsewhere in the world but who know that our deep connection is rooted in this island.
Adios seems inappropriate so hasta luego Ibiza.
Have a good summer everyone xxx"
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I think I smelled worse that dayKids will never again experience the absolute horror of the smell of Spidermans suit up close for a photo.
Using your pass out from WLS @ Space to go over for a breather and some cheaper drinks used to be essential back in the day. Lots of merriment was had
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Been thinking about what the future holds for Ibiza. I've written a few aricles on it before and whilst a lot of what I've predicted has happened, I'm sure there's a few things off the mark. With the US on board and dance music (sorry, I mean EDM) globalising, Ibiza's position as...
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Maybe they'll turn this place into a Cafe del Mar or Mambo's type of experience, but more like Ushuaia. Direct competition with Ushuaia would be tricky. Unless they go for a pre-2011 beach experience.
Hard to compete with the lack of a 'true' sun-setting view, though.
The conversations I saw regarding Ushuaia's conversion in 2010 were pretty interesting! There was a lot of doubt, but seems to have worked out (depending on your perspective).
Hard to compete with the lack of a 'true' sun-setting view, though.
The conversations I saw regarding Ushuaia's conversion in 2010 were pretty interesting! There was a lot of doubt, but seems to have worked out (depending on your perspective).
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