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joethelion
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I have been following the posts to this Forum for weeks and getting more and more more excited about my firs visit to Ibiza.
I would really, really, REALLY like to say I had had the best time - but I can't. The whole experience was spoiled for me by the attitude of the locals and (to a lesser extent) the other holiday-makers (particularly Italians....). I've been to many,many parts of the world - and many parts of Spain, but never have I come across such sullen, unfriendly, rude people. Never have I felt so unwelcome in a country - it's like the locals really weren't interested in making visitors feel at all welcome (they'd no qualms about taking the money though
The public transport is a joke - one bus an hour - if you're lucky and (often) 95-100 people pushing you out the way to get on it. We had to walk back twice from Amnesia to Ibiza town - no fun in the state we were in!! In the clubs, said Italians preferred method of getting passed was two hands in the back and a good shove. I'm British - I don't expect such rudeness! (Am I being naive here??).
In the local press there, people were complaining about the lack of tourists and wondering why - I can tell them! 30 quid to get in, 6 quid for a small bottle of water, then you can't get home......
Anyroad, a beautiful island, spoilt by the rudeness I encountered almost every day - if a shopkeeper or barperson smiled, I thought I'd won the lotto!!
I would really, really, REALLY like to say I had had the best time - but I can't. The whole experience was spoiled for me by the attitude of the locals and (to a lesser extent) the other holiday-makers (particularly Italians....). I've been to many,many parts of the world - and many parts of Spain, but never have I come across such sullen, unfriendly, rude people. Never have I felt so unwelcome in a country - it's like the locals really weren't interested in making visitors feel at all welcome (they'd no qualms about taking the money though
In the local press there, people were complaining about the lack of tourists and wondering why - I can tell them! 30 quid to get in, 6 quid for a small bottle of water, then you can't get home......
Anyroad, a beautiful island, spoilt by the rudeness I encountered almost every day - if a shopkeeper or barperson smiled, I thought I'd won the lotto!!