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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 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!!