IBIZA-VOICE: Cocoon set a record last year with the door entry price of the Closing Party. It was a controversial 70€ to get in. What was the reasoning behind that? Will you be continuing with that this year?
SVEN VATH: Well you know, good things have to have their price. We were already quite worried about the closing party, you can't send people home once they are there, and so you have to make somehow a kind of pre-selection.
So with the price, this is what we did. We were scared that too many people would turn up and be running all over the place, and this is what would ruin the quality, when a club is too full so with the price you can control this. I mean in the end even with the price the club was still really full...
And for the Closing we had already set up this after-hours party too, I don't know how many people turned up there, but at least 2,500 or 3,000 people, and we had all the security and organisations for that. Once Amnesia has closed there's a whole 2nd part to take care of after the Opening and Closing, we want to do something nice, but it has to be safe, it has to be secure, it has to have permissions and there's always fines, and there is a lot of people involved working for this.