How many five-star hotels?

icebaer69 said:
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5-Star Pick


The 5-star hotel in Santa Eulalia made the grade, and becomes the first establishment
on the island to be included on the prestigious website.

(ibiza-sun)
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Staying beside a lorry park isn't my idea of 5*
 
"...
Luxury Hotels

Until recently the luxury end of the hotel market on the island was woefully lacking,
with only the 54 rooms at the Hacienda Na Xamena in Puerto San Miguel,
being able to claim 5-star status.

However, in the last ten years this situation has been rectified.

At the beginning of the century there were only seven hotels classified within
the four or five star bracket, whilst now there are 36,
including six in the luxury five star category.

This recent increase has pushed the total number of beds past 11,000,
compared with just 2,400 in 2000, which equates to an almost five-fold increase.

According to Juanjo Riera, President of the Hoteliers Federation, “the tendency is clear,
the quality is improving and reforms have been carried out to increase the up-market
offer”.

Under current laws hotels are not permitted to increase the number of beds available,
but this does not apply to the luxury end, a factor which has lead to the owners
of some two and three star establishments into up-grading their properties.

Although it is easier to obtain a licence for four and five star hotels,
they have to conform to much more rigid standards, such as having a minimum
of 70 square metres per client, be open at least eleven months of the year,
and have 70 per cent of their staff on permanent contracts.
..."
(ibiza-sun)
 
Don't forget that Ibiza 5 star is not UK 5*. There are very few 5 star hotels in the UK like the Dorchester etc.
 
It would be interesting to know the occupancy of the five star hotels. I can't say I noticed an increase in seemingly more affluent vistors during my recent trip! Althought the yobbish brit element seemed to be lower :D
 
they are bending the rules. the consell is turning a blind eye to the 11 month rule as ibiza doesn't have anything like an 11 month season - especially in this sector.
 
weloveliam@space said:
Then theyre not official 5 star resorts then, unless theyre bending the rules ;)
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They had to be officially 5-star to get built, according to that article.

It says that Balearic law stipulates that you could only build as many new hotel rooms as the number taken out of service, unless those new rooms are in a 5-star.

So... sounds like they're just bending the rules!
 
yes, they're bending the rules. what works in palma doesn't always follow in ibiza. we just don't have 5 star clientele here in winter because we don't have 5 star facilities out of the hotel. winter ibiza is great, but it sure ain't for the jet set.
 
I was thinking that a law restricting any new hotels to year-round 5-stars sounded more geared to Mallorca than Ibiza.

The people I know that go to Mallorca off-season are either golfers or own property there.
 
i'm going to mallorca tomorrow and i'm neither a golfer nor a property owner. there is life in mallorca after oct 31st. plenty of boutique hotels, excellent dining, 5 jazz clubs in palma alone, a thriving marina, oh, ok, lots of golf clubs, and places like nassau beach club are open all year as well as a brilliant cafe culture and some high end shops selling classics - in short, lots of places for people with high acquisitive ability. shame i'm broke.
 
Interesting that it's got so much going on year round. The weather's no warmer than Ibiza, is it? Do you think it's the (reputational) focus on club culture that limits the island?
 
Morbyd said:
Interesting that it's got so much going on year round. The weather's no warmer than Ibiza, is it? Do you think it's the (reputational) focus on club culture that limits the island?
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Colder, if anything (being a larger island). Ibiza has the difficulty of if you take the clubs away, what do visitors do when it's cool/cloudy/raining? OK, doesn't bother me one bit, I don't club, but I could imagine 1000's of Brits on stag do's in November wandering around with nothing to do.

Being a selfish sod, I'd like just a handful of hotels open and a few flights so I can have the island to myself! ;)
 
Morbyd said:
Interesting that it's got so much going on year round. The weather's no warmer than Ibiza, is it? Do you think it's the (reputational) focus on club culture that limits the island?
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I'd say its to do with Palma being a more culturaly established place, and also the fact it is a city (Cathedral city also) at the end of the day, so the size of it would have an impact on the island itself on a whole.

Just my 2 pennies worth.
 
edit - i crossed over liam's post

there are a handful of good hotels open (in ibiza), perfect for enjoying the island. cycling, hiking, relaxing and son on, there just isn't a 5 star infrastructure outside of the 5 star hotels in winter. summer visitors are different to winter visitors - if all you want to do is sunbathe and swim then you're goosed if it rains. you can see by visitor patterns on mallorca that the tourist resorts which are popular in summer drop radicaly and places like the sierra tramuntana are full of hikers and cyclists.

the main difference of course is having a big city like palma - it supports its own population with great restaurants bars and entertainment across the board - culture, ballet, opera, blues, jazz, sports ports, beach bars, hip barrios (santa catalina, sa gerreria, el molinar, la lonja etc) and has the hotels to match. puro, tres, galesa, mision, etc to accommodate wealthy tourists/ business people alike.
 
Morbyd said:
Interesting that it's got so much going on year round. The weather's no warmer than Ibiza, is it? Do you think it's the (reputational) focus on club culture that limits the island?
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i don't know if you've ever looked at our mallorca site but i write the 'news' which is much more entertainment focused than what i write in ibiza. obviously grego write clubbin news so i'm left with the ordinary things that happen here.

in mallorca i have free rein - take a look at some of the stuff going on

http://www.mallorca-spotlight.com/news.htm
 
stephen said:
the main difference of course is having a big city like palma - it supports its own population with great restaurants bars and entertainment across the board - culture, ballet, opera, blues, jazz, sports ports, beach bars, hip barrios (santa catalina, sa gerreria, el molinar, la lonja etc) and has the hotels to match. puro, tres, galesa, mision, etc to accommodate wealthy tourists/ business people alike.
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Logical. I'd forgotten Palma is a pretty large city.
 
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