Ibiza gets slated by the BBC

The article is a joke. IMO it comes down to personal choice to do or not do. You see people in Ibiza doing things they would never dream about in there home town. I goto Ibiza for the vibe.
 
djjaycool said:
The article is a joke. IMO it comes down to personal choice to do or not do. You see people in Ibiza doing things they would never dream about in there home town. I goto Ibiza for the vibe.
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There are clubs in London and Glasgow which are every bit as mad and druggy (in fact, possibly more so) as anywhere in Ibiza. The 'vibe' in a proper club is normally due to the fact that people are on E rather than booze.
 
Johnny Vodka said:
There are clubs in London and Glasgow which are every bit as mad and druggy (in fact, possibly more so) as anywhere in Ibiza. The 'vibe' in a proper club is normally due to the fact that people are on E rather than booze.
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Oh. I always thought it was all about the music.
 
msr said:
A poorly written article that seems to have little point, written by someone who clearly has no clue about the club scene.

Pint of beer down my local costs about £3.20, pills are £2 - where is the "Scotland drugs cheaper than booze" story?
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Why are all the Scots Alchy's then? Thicker than I thought.
 
Johnny Vodka said:
There are clubs in London and Glasgow which are every bit as mad and druggy (in fact, possibly more so) as anywhere in Ibiza. The 'vibe' in a proper club is normally due to the fact that people are on E rather than booze.
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Your local club does not have the new music or big DJ's/shows that Ibiza has. If you think about it if you are at a local club most people are off to work on Monday. The vibe is different in Ibiza because you are on holiday and for about 80 to 90 percent of the people there the only worry is scan and the next party
 
djjaycool said:
Your local club does not have the new music or big DJ's/shows that Ibiza has. If you think about it if you are at a local club most people are off to work on Monday. The vibe is different in Ibiza because you are on holiday and for about 80 to 90 percent of the people there the only worry is scan and the next party
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Glasgow and London aren't local to me. The clubs I've been to in those cities (Fabric, The Fridge, Sub Club, The Arches) are as mad as anything you'll find in Ibiza (and attract big DJs; off to see Sasha at The Arches in October) - and that's with people having to go to work on the Monday morning. The clubs in my town (where people just go to extend a night's drinking) are a bit different from the city clubs, and it ain't all down to the music. ;) There's a big difference in vibe between an 'E' club and an alcohol club! The vibe in the big Ibiza clubs has a lot to do with E.
 
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I've been going to Ibiza for many a year now & i'd/i've never paid 15-20 euros for a drink. Infact the most i've paid is around 7 euros for a pint of estrella? in a café (Mary huerta?) on the corner of vara del rey statue opposite Ibiza towns busy port area otherwise away from the town, beer i've found to be around 2,50-3 euros depending whether or not it's a tourist bar/pub or local's hangout. Spirits also are cheap as in the past i've had many a great evening with the locals and tourists alike then waking up the following midday and finding myself sat slumped over an outside table:oops: at a bar i'd been drinking in the evening before:lol:.

As for the BBC article blasting certain aspect of Ibiza's modern tourist Culture i'd say that the Journalist is just looking to Scare monger for if such places were so bad why are they and the Island still every bit as popular today than 20/30 yrs ago:confused:
 
Just spent a week in Ibiza. The only drug taking I saw was a "whispin" guy wearing a flimsy backpack , smokin a weed at Bora Bora whilst dodgin the undercover security:lol:
 
I choose my own opinions of places by experiencing it. Not by reading the reviews of somebody who blatantly has nothing to write about at this year so chooses the same record.
 
Dave 1 said:
As for the BBC article blasting certain aspect of Ibiza's modern tourist Culture i'd say that the Journalist is just looking to Scare monger for if such places were so bad why are they and the Island still every bit as popular today than 20/30 yrs ago:confused:
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Well, that's the thing. Drugs aren't necessarily bad. (The article's only really scaremongering if you believe they are.) Plenty of 'normal' people (everyone from bin men to bank managers) do them, have a good time and then resume real life when they get home from Ibiza.
 
Maybe the blockhead who wrote the article should have also included a link (from the bbc site) to the suggestion from every chief medical officer across Europe who suggested tobacco and alcohol are both far more dangerous than ecstasy (rated third least harmful drug);

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6474053.stm

To put his article that talks of quant old villagers drinking wine and smoking into context.....

I am not (for the record) condoning the use of any drugs, alcohol or tobacco.
 
Dave 1 said:
Spirits also are cheap as in the past i've had many a great evening with the locals and tourists alike then waking up the following midday and finding myself sat slumped over an outside table:oops: at a bar i'd been drinking in the evening before:lol:.
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Have you ever considered that you may have a problem with alcohol?:)
 
The Daily Mirror said:
Marisol Aguirre, 37, is close to being Ibiza royalty. Her family has run the 3,000-capacity Es Paradis (local dialect for It's Paradise) for 35 years and she has witnessed the best and worse of the island.

And Marisol blames the drug culture on the island on underground clubs with unregulated capacity and opening hours. She says: "Authorities turn a blind eye to these clubs. Some have only a licence to hold 60 people yet have 800 inside.

"They open as we shut and attract a very drug-orientated crowd. I might be driving to the beach and there are all these drugged zombies standing in the road. It's got so bad the club have people directing traffic outside to stop people being run over."​
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I read that one yesterday, and didn't want to post on here, Mc.

If she or her family were so concerned about the use of drugs which are considered illegal, why don't they run Es Paradise as a jazz club or such?

As with the other bizare bbc piece quoting the Ibicenco girl, I found the Daily Mail one equally confusing.:confused:
 
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