so finally off to ibiza for my first time after years of talking about it...the week went like this...(apologies in advance, if this is too long
saturday 8th sept: zoo project, 3:30am rise, for taxi at 5 to get to glasgow airport to get the 7:30am flight out. was meeting 4 people at the airport, would be 7 of us in total as my cousin & her boyfriend were already in ibiza and we'd be joining up with them / staying in same hotel for the last week of their 2 week break.
was first time meeting one of the guys at the airport, and it turns out him & another guy had just stayed up from friday night partying, would turn out to be an interesting group of people, bit of variation in the music tastes, clubbing experience, partying levels (was my first time on holiday with this group, only really been out clubbing in glasgow / rockness festival with 3 of them before, so not sure the others knew what they were letting themselves in for clubbing wise, or were that familiar with the type of music (age range was 25 -34, 3 ibiza veterans, and 4 newbies.
flight was pretty ueventful, just lot of chat / catching up with people i'd not seen for a wee while, and talk of what all of us fancied doing once we got to ibiza (prior to going i'd emailed everyone a list of all the club nights , and the main parties i was keen to attend, so i was working off that as a guideline really...i kinda knew this list was a bit too much for some of the others , but my phrase & motto before i went, and during the week was i was there just for the week and i was keen to 'max it out' my cousin is a huge lover of the island, worked out in ibiza for several summers as a rep so knows the place really well, so she was keen for me to sample more than just the clubs so she was on at me to do a few of the other things that the island has to offer in order for me to gain 'ibiza experience' points
flight arrived on time and me & the 2 people i was sharing a room with (my cousin & his mate A) just jumped a taxi to the hotel (azuline pacific in san antonio), was about 25 euro taxi, the other 2 had paid for the bus transfer so we saw them later (much later as it turned out as they wre nearly 2hrs longer getting to the hotel than us...they wern't happy bunnies at this...(i'd skip the bus transfer option as a general rule...)
prior to going i'd left the hotel booking to my male cousin to book, he was keen to get us booked into same place as his sister & her boyfriend, and from their experience on the island, the pacific was getting good reviews...turned out the hotel was excellent, very handy for everything in san antonio, and well placed to get taxi-s to/from PDB / the clubs...handy for the bus station <5mins away, .hotel had a decent pool , sun bathing area, and all in, if i were to stay in san antonio again, wouldn't be adverse to staying there again....room was decent size, no complaints about that,
good catch up with my cousin & her boyfriend...was really good to see them, we got checked in, suitcases unpacked,and ourselves organised then off for a wee wander down to the west end, spot of lunch, get supplies sorted and couple people wanted to see the scotland football game (not me i hasten to add, but heh ho...)..wanderered about and took in the west end during the day..initial verdict that it was ok, reminded me of just usual high concentrated tourist places in various spanish cities i';d been too previously, but with dance music blaring out from every bar/ eating place all along...so as long as the music is going, its ok for me (even if the west end music was a bit too commercial for my tasttes)...but anyway) ended up in the Highlander to watch the football, bite to eat and disucss the plans for the rest of the night...(at this point my cousin had returned with our disco supplies...we just got yellow smilleys each time...to be honest i didnt think they were too great, but the seller ws known personally to my cousin so we knew the stuff was legit, they did work, and for those not really used to taking pills they thought they wre pretty strong ...for me i was taking quite a few and even then not up to the levels of the stuff i'm used too...but after a certain amaount they did kick in a bit...**** it, i was in ibiza, in the clubs so was pretty buzzin most of the time anyway
so talked turned to the zoo project and whether we were all still for going, now prior to flying out had been some 2nd thoughts about whether we would enjoy it, whether the young kids in face paint would get on the nerves..but since we'd paid the extra to get the early flight to ibiza, i was keen that we go ahead with the original plan and for all 7 of us to go & mke the most of the saturday, so off we went to get tickets, ended up buying them from an italian guy who had his own ticket place just up from the ushuaia shop (sadly cant remember his name now!, and was talking to him for ages over the course of the week, was also in his clothes shop which is just down from the Curry Club, the guy was pretty sound and we were getting a good deal on the tickets since we kept buying from him and 7 at a time (usually)
back to hotel to get changed then couple of taxi's flagged down and off we went,...driving up to the zoo project entrance it did have the feel of entering a private road to some country estate /large private house..it does kind of stand out on that alone from going to another club...its an event/experience and we were all in good spirits from the get go.. had to wait about 10mins in the q (think it was around 730ish we got there, so we had to pay the extra 10euros to get in..think we paid 34 euros for the tickets, so 44 all in with a drink.
(after a very very strict search to get in
...be very careful with that...i got a bit lucky on that front i have to say...
) we were right into the spirit of things right away, initially just enjoying the main dance bit, group happy to have a wee drink/smoke by the pool, people watch a bit , hats off to some of the costumes / face paint designs..and take in the stilt walkers and assorted 'animal' dancers/characters that were mignling about the crowd, seen a couple people dive in the pool...then get thrown out before finally going round to the seal pit area, managed to get a really good space for us all near the back, and basically that was us settled and danced our assess off til the place shut, music was just the deep house/house sound i expected , margaret dygas was on last and she was excellent...was fantastic first night..welcome to biza!..did notice that the last couple hours the crowd did seem to thin out a bit , a lot of the younger / face painted crowd had left ..facebook pictures had been captured and they were off to the next thing perhaps? or am i being too cynical...
asnyway was a good vibe to the place, we were all loving it will have to say one of our group had never taken a pill in his life, so was quite something to see his reaction (he's around 30yrs old) as he came up, for that to be in the seal pit area at Zoo Project on his first trip to Ibiza!!..quite something to say that......a bit different from my first time taking a pill 20yrs ago in a house party in a council flat in Ayrshire in scotlandlol
so music finished and we made our way out, jumped on to the free buses back into san anotnio, at this point was a bit of discussion about where we were going to go, what we wanted to do...personally i was up for more clubbing (it was only just after midnight of course), but a few in the group were feeling it (early start & flight out from glasgow) and were perhaps intrigued by the sound of the west end on a saturday (in fairness, the saturday night club lineups are pretty poor in Ibiza i'd say) so the west end won, ended up doing a tour of some bars, meeting a few people my cousin knew that still were working in biiza from her time doing the same, and the drinks were flowing, couple of the guys called it a night and they went back, we then ended up in Hush and proceeded to dance about to the house classics that was getting played til stupid oclock...the others were now feeling the pace so they wanted to head up the road..now after i'd gained some 'ibiza experience points' by doing the ibiza west end i was happy enough to go along with that..so off we set, only to run into people my cousins knew from scotland, ended up chatting with them for ages (at this point (A) needed the toilet so he set off for the hotel...now he was looking a bit unsteady, but he assured me he was ok, and the hotel wasn't that far....
anyway the chat & time went on, the other crowd had been in Eden, and it seems like it had been a good night in there...(which made me feel like we'd missed out!..alas, but i'd got my west end ibiza experience points though...anyway an hour+ passes as the chat flows, and we all decide to say goodnight and make for the hotel....get to the reception desk...our room key is still there...er, what has happned to our mate?...phone him up...he's in the hotel so he says....fair enough...just not in our hotel.....so we had to go set off to get him...being a bit wasted he'd got lost and ended up in a diffrent hotel, and for the last hour the manager of the other hotel had been showing him around the floors (marco polo) trying to jog his memory as he believed our mate had just got the hotel room number wrong...the notion our mate could've just got any random key and walked into someone's room none the wiser , fell asleep til the morning did have us amused...3 bears, whose been sleeping in my bed? scenario being played out , and were just in biza a day!...anyway mate is rescued from the other hotel and so endeth the first night in biza...zoo project was excellent, music was fantastic and so far ibiza is amazing...8)
sunday.....we love@ space...
saturday 8th sept: zoo project, 3:30am rise, for taxi at 5 to get to glasgow airport to get the 7:30am flight out. was meeting 4 people at the airport, would be 7 of us in total as my cousin & her boyfriend were already in ibiza and we'd be joining up with them / staying in same hotel for the last week of their 2 week break.
was first time meeting one of the guys at the airport, and it turns out him & another guy had just stayed up from friday night partying, would turn out to be an interesting group of people, bit of variation in the music tastes, clubbing experience, partying levels (was my first time on holiday with this group, only really been out clubbing in glasgow / rockness festival with 3 of them before, so not sure the others knew what they were letting themselves in for clubbing wise, or were that familiar with the type of music (age range was 25 -34, 3 ibiza veterans, and 4 newbies.
flight was pretty ueventful, just lot of chat / catching up with people i'd not seen for a wee while, and talk of what all of us fancied doing once we got to ibiza (prior to going i'd emailed everyone a list of all the club nights , and the main parties i was keen to attend, so i was working off that as a guideline really...i kinda knew this list was a bit too much for some of the others , but my phrase & motto before i went, and during the week was i was there just for the week and i was keen to 'max it out'
my cousin is a huge lover of the island, worked out in ibiza for several summers as a rep so knows the place really well, so she was keen for me to sample more than just the clubs so she was on at me to do a few of the other things that the island has to offer in order for me to gain 'ibiza experience' pointsflight arrived on time and me & the 2 people i was sharing a room with (my cousin & his mate A) just jumped a taxi to the hotel (azuline pacific in san antonio), was about 25 euro taxi, the other 2 had paid for the bus transfer so we saw them later (much later as it turned out as they wre nearly 2hrs longer getting to the hotel than us...they wern't happy bunnies at this...(i'd skip the bus transfer option as a general rule...)
prior to going i'd left the hotel booking to my male cousin to book, he was keen to get us booked into same place as his sister & her boyfriend, and from their experience on the island, the pacific was getting good reviews...turned out the hotel was excellent, very handy for everything in san antonio, and well placed to get taxi-s to/from PDB / the clubs...handy for the bus station <5mins away, .hotel had a decent pool , sun bathing area, and all in, if i were to stay in san antonio again, wouldn't be adverse to staying there again....room was decent size, no complaints about that,
good catch up with my cousin & her boyfriend...was really good to see them, we got checked in, suitcases unpacked,and ourselves organised then off for a wee wander down to the west end, spot of lunch, get supplies sorted and couple people wanted to see the scotland football game (not me i hasten to add, but heh ho...)..wanderered about and took in the west end during the day..initial verdict that it was ok, reminded me of just usual high concentrated tourist places in various spanish cities i';d been too previously, but with dance music blaring out from every bar/ eating place all along...so as long as the music is going, its ok for me (even if the west end music was a bit too commercial for my tasttes)...but anyway) ended up in the Highlander to watch the football, bite to eat and disucss the plans for the rest of the night...(at this point my cousin had returned with our disco supplies...we just got yellow smilleys each time...to be honest i didnt think they were too great, but the seller ws known personally to my cousin so we knew the stuff was legit, they did work, and for those not really used to taking pills they thought they wre pretty strong ...for me i was taking quite a few and even then not up to the levels of the stuff i'm used too...but after a certain amaount they did kick in a bit...**** it, i was in ibiza, in the clubs so was pretty buzzin most of the time anyway
so talked turned to the zoo project and whether we were all still for going, now prior to flying out had been some 2nd thoughts about whether we would enjoy it, whether the young kids in face paint would get on the nerves..but since we'd paid the extra to get the early flight to ibiza, i was keen that we go ahead with the original plan and for all 7 of us to go & mke the most of the saturday, so off we went to get tickets, ended up buying them from an italian guy who had his own ticket place just up from the ushuaia shop (sadly cant remember his name now!, and was talking to him for ages over the course of the week, was also in his clothes shop which is just down from the Curry Club, the guy was pretty sound and we were getting a good deal on the tickets since we kept buying from him and 7 at a time (usually)
back to hotel to get changed then couple of taxi's flagged down and off we went,...driving up to the zoo project entrance it did have the feel of entering a private road to some country estate /large private house..it does kind of stand out on that alone from going to another club...its an event/experience and we were all in good spirits from the get go.. had to wait about 10mins in the q (think it was around 730ish we got there, so we had to pay the extra 10euros to get in..think we paid 34 euros for the tickets, so 44 all in with a drink.
(after a very very strict search to get in
) we were right into the spirit of things right away, initially just enjoying the main dance bit, group happy to have a wee drink/smoke by the pool, people watch a bit , hats off to some of the costumes / face paint designs..and take in the stilt walkers and assorted 'animal' dancers/characters that were mignling about the crowd, seen a couple people dive in the pool...then get thrown out before finally going round to the seal pit area, managed to get a really good space for us all near the back, and basically that was us settled and danced our assess off til the place shut, music was just the deep house/house sound i expected , margaret dygas was on last and she was excellent...was fantastic first night..welcome to biza!..did notice that the last couple hours the crowd did seem to thin out a bit , a lot of the younger / face painted crowd had left ..facebook pictures had been captured and they were off to the next thing perhaps? or am i being too cynical...asnyway was a good vibe to the place, we were all loving it will have to say one of our group had never taken a pill in his life, so was quite something to see his reaction (he's around 30yrs old) as he came up, for that to be in the seal pit area at Zoo Project on his first trip to Ibiza!!..quite something to say that......a bit different from my first time taking a pill 20yrs ago in a house party in a council flat in Ayrshire in scotland
lolso music finished and we made our way out, jumped on to the free buses back into san anotnio, at this point was a bit of discussion about where we were going to go, what we wanted to do...personally i was up for more clubbing (it was only just after midnight of course), but a few in the group were feeling it (early start & flight out from glasgow) and were perhaps intrigued by the sound of the west end on a saturday (in fairness, the saturday night club lineups are pretty poor in Ibiza i'd say) so the west end won, ended up doing a tour of some bars, meeting a few people my cousin knew that still were working in biiza from her time doing the same, and the drinks were flowing, couple of the guys called it a night and they went back, we then ended up in Hush and proceeded to dance about to the house classics that was getting played til stupid oclock...the others were now feeling the pace so they wanted to head up the road..now after i'd gained some 'ibiza experience points' by doing the ibiza west end i was happy enough to go along with that..so off we set, only to run into people my cousins knew from scotland, ended up chatting with them for ages (at this point (A) needed the toilet so he set off for the hotel...now he was looking a bit unsteady, but he assured me he was ok, and the hotel wasn't that far....
anyway the chat & time went on, the other crowd had been in Eden, and it seems like it had been a good night in there...(which made me feel like we'd missed out!..alas, but i'd got my west end ibiza experience points though
...anyway an hour+ passes as the chat flows, and we all decide to say goodnight and make for the hotel....get to the reception desk...our room key is still there...er, what has happned to our mate?...phone him up...he's in the hotel so he says....fair enough...just not in our hotel.....so we had to go set off to get him...being a bit wasted he'd got lost and ended up in a diffrent hotel, and for the last hour the manager of the other hotel had been showing him around the floors (marco polo) trying to jog his memory as he believed our mate had just got the hotel room number wrong...the notion our mate could've just got any random key and walked into someone's room none the wiser , fell asleep til the morning did have us amused...3 bears, whose been sleeping in my bed? scenario being played out , and were just in biza a day!...anyway mate is rescued from the other hotel and so endeth the first night in biza...zoo project was excellent, music was fantastic and so far ibiza is amazing...8)sunday.....we love@ space...
