ok so...
first off,
@Nobbie Q I'm sorry, but some of your posts today are almost as delusional and ignorant as are the opinions of the hardcore anti-tourist and anti-clubbing brigade (more on this in a bit).
let's speak about a few facts.
dc10's noise first - it's what triggered the whole discussion. I live in sant jordi, pretty much exactly 2kms away from dc10. when there's no wind (or worse if the wind comes from the salinas area towards sant jordi / ibiza town), you can indeed hear dc10 very well. in the evenings, when their garden is open, I can often actually ID the tracks they play from our terrace at home. so I have absolutely no doubt that if I can hear the tunes crystal clear, the sound of the boom-boom-boom will travel for another two or three kilometres easily. I personally don't mind as I'm still a clubber, but of course lots of people DO mind (more on that later too). the comparison to the airport is a lame one, the noise of the planes isn't constant. it's 30secs and then quiet again, the bass of any club is ongoing for hours without a break. also, even after midnight, when dc10's garden is closed, you do hear the sound of the terrace or main room travelling. so yeah, people living close by do get a full 12hrs dose they might not want.
a few posts further up
@Bucko08 said the venue could have invested in better soundproofing and I agree. ushuaïa, who've had similar issues in the past, have put up some soundproofing walls a few years ago and they help. I can still hear their music (and sometimes I can ID their tunes as well actually), but it's definitely less loud nowadays what's coming to the villages nearby. plus...do you genuinely think ushuaïa decided deliberately to stop at 11pm in the last 'proper' season? they simply knew they had to do something to avoid further problems. this year they did go until midnight, but palmarama was never as big and loud as any normal ushuaïa night. but here's the big difference - from maximum midnight onwards, no club noise comes from out from playa d'en bossa anymore. the same can't be said for dc10.
then let's go into detail a little more about some of the comments made. the food bank lines last winter weren't long because the clubs didn't open, that happened because 2020 our tourist season was about 8 weeks long only.
now, seeing this summer and how it panned out, it's absolutely true that a certain part of the local population were hoping, and some actually fully believing, that this would be 'finally' the year when the change started and clubs wouldn't open at all anymore. there are some really delusional people here on the island that really don't understand how tourism works and that are wishing the 70s back when the touristic pressure of the island was very small and it was all very easygoing and no massive parties around anywhere yet.
the thing is, ibiza has actually had a really good summer overall, despite the clubs being closed. people came, people were active, they all rented a car (if they could get one) and some sectors (restaurants, boat charters, activity operators) have had their best year EVER. it's totally logical, hardly anyone was hungover and so everyone was up at a decent time and did things. seeing this has given the the anti-clubbing brigade wings and they think that this summer reflects the new reality here and that things could just continue like that forever from now onwards. but as I said, personally I think it's delusional and those people don't wanna see that the nightlife definitely helped greatly to put ibiza in the place where it is now.
it's true that last year, and especially this year, when travelling started to get easier, a lot of people did come here, even with the clubs closed. also a lot of wealthy people have rented homes/villas for the entire summer (digital nomads with a good income), preferring to be away from a big city and in nice surroundings. but what a lot of the anti-clubbing brigade don't understand is that if suddenly ibiza's tourism board would say 'OK this is it, ibiza's clubs will never open again', the amount of people a) not coming on holiday here anymore, b) a lot of villa/house owners selling their houses because they miss that part of ibiza would be massive. the anti clubbing brigade don't understand that it's this USP is what enables businesses like hotels and restaurants to charge crazy prices and that the island's entire tourism concept would implode like a house of cards if the clubs were gone suddenly. some people really believe that what we've seen this year would work long term.
on the other hand, the hardcore clubbers also need to be realistic and see that we are now paying for what's been done in the last two decades, not just within the clubbing industry, but generally on the island. firstly, if we look back, a lot of people within the industry agree that things like the weekly music on sessions until 11am at amnesia didn't help. also, and that's over 10 years ago already now, but does anyone remember one cocoon closing afterparty where they made you do a treasure hunt all over the island (obviously everyone driving in a very questionable state) before you finally got told the actual location of the afters? let's face the facts, there are a lot of examples where the clubbing industry on the island hasn't done themselves any favours. and up to a certain extent I can even understand some of the critics by the locals.
what needs to be taken into consideration though is that it's not just the clubbing, it's the sheer number of tourists as such which visit ibiza every year (apart from 2020). personally I do feel we'd need a cap on numbers so that the quality of everyone's visit stays on a good level and so that the locals can live a decent life. the problem is again that some of the hardcore anti-clubbing or anti-tourism brigade think it's all the same, if anyone leaves thrash at the es vedrà viewpoint (sadly absolutely disgusting), then for them it's clear it were the clubbers... so if we go back to the glory years when afters were still possible, when regulations weren't as strict, we also have to be aware that back then, there simply were far less people on the island overall. now we've got lots of traffic for months no end, in some parts we've got pollution (people throwing away their rubbish) and the villa parties don't help either. so the wave of 'hate' we get is only partly about the clubbing as such, for many it's the combination of thinking there are too many people here on the island and that it's automatically the clubbers that don't behave well (yeah right).
as for ibiza not being the clubbing mecca anymore...I know I'm repeating myself, but even if it's not the 24/7 party place some people on here got to enjoy around the millennium (or before that), it's still the only place in the world that has a full 5 months clubbing season with a density of parties like no other in the world. and this year has actually shown, that the season can easily be extended until the end of october and I know there are plans to start as early as april next year (but that's 2022 gossip material), so ibiza's clubs are possibly looking at a seven months season next year. where else in the world do you have that? nowhere. mykonos has two and a half months, tulum about the same too (and tulum has a big waste problem too btw so it can't really grow any more). croatia and albania do festivals and that's it. I understand people would love the old ibiza to come back with 24hr parties and no rules no nothing, but as I said, that's about as delusional as some of the anti-clubbing brigade's mindsets.
