Plans for a “NEW” San Antonio

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McRackin said:
The Diario sent one of his journalists to the West End to find out what is like this year...

https://www.diariodeibiza.es/pitiuses-balears/2018/07/22/west-abreviado/1003173.html
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Is that newspaper going to be happy until San An is a ghost town!?

We've already seen the West End close 3 hours earlier than before, which the article says has already improved the noise and quality of life for residents, but clamping down further drives the tourists away and I just can't see upmarket tourists choosing San An to replace them, there are already more upmarket places Ibiza and elsewhere in the Med.

The petty crime, luckylucky men, laughing gas etc are an issue (but as bad if not worse in Bossa) but that is nothing that more local policing can't fix, strangling San An's income isnt the answer.
 
the mindset of some people on here is all wrong. No part of Spain (except Gibraltar) is a British colony. If the elected local authorities want to improve their towns, that is THEIR right. Nobody has a god given entitlement to puke up on foreign streets! Equally, if local journalists want to report on a resort honestly, their readers have a right to read the full warts n all description. The Spanish don't owe the British anything, least of all favourable publicity. If fewer tourists go because they'd rather get pissed elsewhere then so be it. Why should anyone care? There are always new tourists from new markets ready to fill the void
 
Kim Wrong Un said:
the mindset of some people on here is all wrong. No part of Spain (except Gibraltar) is a British colony. If the elected local authorities want to improve their towns, that is THEIR right. Nobody has a god given entitlement to puke up on foreign streets! Equally, if local journalists want to report on a resort honestly, their readers have a right to read the full warts n all description. The Spanish don't owe the British anything, least of all favourable publicity. If fewer tourists go because they'd rather get pissed elsewhere then so be it. Why should anyone care? There are always new tourists from new markets ready to fill the void
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I still don't see that there are new markets ready to fill San An's hundreds of hotel beds each summer. If your an upmarket tourist wanting an upmarket break your not going to swap going to Tuscany or wherever for San An. Even in Ibiza Santa Eulaia, Portanix, Sant Miguel, Ibiza Town and even San An Bay offer more for upmarket guests than a resort that has had a 'cheap & wild' reputation for decades.

Empty rooms, and closed down bars and restaurants would bring more social problems. Better to work with the existing businesses and nudge things upmarket with better Policing and grants for upgrading property etc than to just force everyone out.
 
anecdotally i have met so many (not particularly posh/snotty) Spanish over the years who avoid certain resorts purely because of ‘los ingleses’. it’s a sometimes unfair prejudice but 40 years of mud sadly sticks.. which is why i think an image cleanup is a good & long overdue thing. i think there’s plenty in SA to still pull in mid-market visitors + the place isn’t going to die without english kids who (relatively) spend peanuts anyway
 
McRackin said:
So many people in San Antonio is working hard to get rid of that reputation, for example most hoteliers as you can read on the Hotel Discussion Thread!
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I do actually agree that the reputation needs to change but it will take years if not decades, not just one season. And as above I think a slower approach is needed not a 'clampdown' that risks closing things down with no replacement business to follow.
 
Digital2013 said:
a slower approach is needed not a 'clampdown'
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Extreme conditions demand extreme responses... I don't necessarily agree with their approach but I kinda understand what they're doing:
From a business point of view, the hoteliers know what's happening on the rest of the island and they don't want to be left behind.
And from a political point of view, there's elections every four years so they don't have time to mess around.
 
I've been going ibiza since 2010, in season I've always stayed in San and or San an Bay. I'm going again September 5th for Trance week. I've seen alot of Facebook posts saying about how San an is dead even peak season this year due to the new restrictions. Is this true? And has this made Eden and Es Paradis any busier for longer with the 3am closing of the west end?
 
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