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Hi!

Nice to have an Ibiza forum!

For car renting, here is another link with probably the cheapest prices: www.doyouspain.com

I used this site for years and never had any problem, you don't have to pre-pay,...

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Ibiza 2011: 04 sept - 13 sept
Celebrating my 11th time on the white island and my 30 years ;-)

Very helpful thread...thank you!!

Not sure if this is covered somewhere else, and I know it's an extremely general and subjective question, buuut... What would you estimate the average cost of visiting Ibiza (not including flights) for:

Short stay (say 3 nights) on a budget, cutting corners, but partying as required.

Short stay (say 3 nights) having fun, doing what you feel like and not being wasteful but still not letting money hold you back.

Long stay on budget and not on budget as well, say like 7 nights? Including all the stuff like food, drinks, tickets, hotel, cabs etc...

Planning to go next summer and just wondering what I should save up.

not including the air flight, I would say $1500-$2000 for 10 days. That's about what i spent last year, but I also went by myself. It will def be less if you go with more people.

Alot of the hotels include breakfast and dinner. And you can pay extra for unlimited drinks (though its just local beer/liqour). And i took the bus everywhere which isn't that bad cause you get to meet a lot of new people.

Thanks for the links! I'm planning on visiting this September (from the US) for my honeymoon and had a couple questions:

1) Should bring a power adapter (220v > 110v) to charge my phone/ipod/etc?

2) Do I need to learn some of the local language? A quick google search said the language is Catalan, but I do know some basic spanish from living next to mexico. Is that good enough?

3) What are some must-see places, and how would you suggest we visit? Bus, rental car, etc?

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Originally posted by roxb0x Thanks for the links! I'm planning on visiting this September (from the US) for my honeymoon and had a couple questions: 1) Should bring a power adapter (220v > 110v) to charge my phone/ipod/etc?

yes. I bring that, and a small travel power strip: plug everything into that, and you only need 1 adapter.

Always bring an extra ipod cable... never know if you if you need an extra, or lose one, or hand one out...

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2) Do I need to learn some of the local language? A quick google search said the language is Catalan, but I do know some basic spanish from living next to mexico. Is that good enough?

Spanish is fine. If you're in any tourist area, they speak enough English to get by. (British & Germans don't speak Spanish ) I think it's important to speak the language, so try and get by with speaking Spanish.

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3) What are some must-see places, and how would you suggest we visit? Bus, rental car, etc?

There was another thread with a similar topic, and basically came down to how many days on the island? And how many days are you going to party/disco?


I think for your first trip, if you're going for a week or less, skip the car. Just taxi or bus everywhere (and I'd recommend just springing for the taxi).

Where are you staying?

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Thank you! I'll start planning getting everything together for the trip and brush up on my spanish just to be sure I'm ready!

We plan to be there for about 8 days, and all at Hotel Garbi. We'll probably party about 3 or 4 nights, but I'd like to explore as much as possible since this is my first time traveling overseas

do you need any licence to rent a scooter ?

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Originally posted by roxb0x Thank you! I'll start planning getting everything together for the trip and brush up on my spanish just to be sure I'm ready! We plan to be there for about 8 days, and all at Hotel Garbi. We'll probably party about 3 or 4 nights, but I'd like to explore as much as possible since this is my first time traveling overseas

That's fine. I know zero Catalan, and I've survived. Just trying to speak in Spanish goes a long way.

Ok, then maybe rent a car/scooter for 2 days then. Use it to see the parts of the island that are hard to get to otherwise.

I think doing Formentera (if you can swing the price/time) is awesome. That's a full day (and you need to catch the boat at 9a/10a, so plan out the night before).

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Originally posted by dollaroff I think doing Formentera (if you can swing the price/time) is awesome. That's a full day (and you need to catch the boat at 9a/10a, so plan out the night before).

Formentera was one of the cheapest days I had

20 euro for the boat cruise pass (no need to pre buy at your hotel as you get stuck waiting for your boat, none of them were sold out so it would have been smarter if I had waited to pay for my cruise when I got to the port)

Ate a good meal in La Savina before I started biking to the beach for 8 euro

I bought 3 1 litter bottles of water in La Savina at a store for 2 euro total, put it in my backpack, already had some snacks with me.

Bought some post cards for a total of 4 euro

7 euro for the bicycle rental (which also negated the toll to get to illetes beach, you must pay toll if on motorbike or car) took 25 mins to go all the way to where this restaurant is
http://www.juanyandrea.com/en/situacion.html

total 41 euro, maybe add 4 euro for things I forgot about. But I remember thinking that I would have surely spent more if I was on Ibiza

Spent about 4 hours at the clear beach, went to the east side of the island for an hour to get away from it all then was boarding my boat at 6pm

ONE MORE IMPORTANT NOTE: I know a lot of people choose not to carry their passport with them but when I got off the boat in Formentera I got asked for my passport. They were doing it at random, I would say one out of 10 and I have heard they dont even do this for every boat. No idea why or what is going on but I always considered it safer to have my passport on me so I have always carried it.

Last edited by Dream Beamz on Aug-09-2011 at 03:31