Entertainment in Balearic Islands
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Pacha
In business on the northern side of Ibiza City's port since 1973 (nowadays with branches from New York to Moscow) and containing 15 bars, Pacha, is one of Ibiza's many sybaritic disco palaces. These places are big business: they charge huge admission fees, open nightly and have expanded by franchising, setting up websites and putting out records.
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Privilege
One kilometre further north of Ibiza City from Amnesia, this club claims to be the world's largest (with a mere 20 bars and a pool inside, and capacity for up to 10,000 gyrating clubbers). It's quite a spectacle! Head downstairs into the main domed dance temple, an enormous, pulsating area where the DJ's cabin is suspended above the pool.
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Bigsurlife
Bigsurlife attracts a good-natured and beautiful Italian crowd. The daily event is drinks (huge glass steins of mojito) on the beach for sunset. About 20m before the turn-off for Platja de ses Illetes from the La Savina–Es Pujols road, a parking area is signposted to the left. Another 30m brings you to the beach and bar.
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Space
One of the biggest of them all, south of Ibiza City in Platja d'en Bossa and a specialist in all-day dancing (22 hours a day, with as many as 40 DJs and up to 12,000 clubbers throughout the day and night!). Regular daytime boats make the trip between Platja d'En Bossa and Ibiza City (around €6 return) from May to mid-October.
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Garito Club
About 2km west of the old quarter along and behind Passeig Marítim (aka Avinguda de Gabriel Roca) is a concentration of taverns, girlie bars and clubs. A classic among the latter is Garito Club. DJs and live performers doing anything from jazz rock through disco classics to electro beats heat up the scene from around 22:00.
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Lola’s Club
Anyone who remembers Ibiza in the ’80s will have fond memories of Lola’s Club, one of the first on the island. It’s still a hip miniclub, nowadays with a gay leaning. Right beside it, Lolita (7pm-3am), a sparky little terrace in its own right, is a great spot for a drink before climbing the stairs to join her bigger sister.
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El Divino
Another of eight Ibiza 'superclubs', El Divino rivals Pacha for longevity and size. Situated across the water from the centre of Ibiza City, El Divino is the only club besides Pacha that is open year-round - weekends only between October and April. It organises boats and will refund taxis for groups of three or more.
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Fonda Pepe
An island classic, Fonda Pepe is a knockabout bar connected with the hostal across the street of the same name. It has been serving pomadas (shots of gin and lemon) for decades and attracts a lively crowd of locals and foreigners of all ages and persuasions.
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Discobus
During summer (June to September), Ibiza's Discobus operates nightly from midnight until 06:00, doing circuits between the major discos, bars and hotels in Ibiza City, Platja d'en Bossa, Sant Rafel, Santa Eulària d'es Riu (and an extension to Es Canar) and Sant Antoni.
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KM5
This bar, named after its highway location, is where you go to glam it up. Head out of town towards Sant Josep and dance in the gardens as you gear up for the clubs. Lounging is the second major activity and there are plenty of pillows strewn about the tents.
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Teatro Pereira
This is a lively bar, packed most nights with a more eclectic crowd than the standard preclubbing bunch. It often has live music sessions. Out back is the much abandoned 1893 theatre. For years there has been talk of restoring it.
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Manumission
Different DJ teams make the rounds of the big clubs. One of the best known in Ibiza, Manumission (www.manumission.com), is known for its sexy acts and has a popular morning slot at least one day a week at Space.
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Anfora
Seemingly dug out of walls of rock, this is a favourite gay dance haunt high up D’Alt Vila. Heteros are welcome to hang about too.
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Bar Costa
Bar Costa has original paintings plastered on every wall of its cavernous interior.
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Café del Mar
Café del Mar is an Ibiza institution that celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2010.
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Yuppii Club
Another regular on the Palma gay circuit, Yuppii Club is a drinking bar with a good mix of music and plenty of dark corners.
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Quina Creu
A newcomer riding the wave of popularity in this new night-time hub, Quina Creu has more sophistication than most. The bar has a designer feel, as do the tapas lined up along the bar and chalked up on the blackboard. But above all, it's a funky place to nurse a drink or two and watch the crowds streaming past outside.
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L'Ambigú
Tucked in behind the Església de Santa Eulalia, this irresistible little bar rocks on Tuesday and Wednesday nights when you can scarcely see the tapas perched atop the bar, but we like it any night for its sense of a tiny hub of modern, casual sophistication beneath the high stone walls of medieval Palma.
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Jamón Jamón
It may lack the obvious personality of some of the other bars in the area, but this place packs them in most nights, not least because the €2 offer from La Ruta Martiana for a drink and a tapa is not restricted here to Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Es Jaç
This designer cocktail bar is slick in all the right places, with stunning decor and bar staff who know their cocktails and are adept at helping those who aren't really sure what they want.
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Ca La Seu
Set in an artfully converted 500-year-old barn of a place, this is one of our favourite bars in Palma with marble-top tables, creative tapas to accompany your drinks and an agreeable buzz most nights. If other places come and go in the neighbourhood, we reckon this place is destined to last the distance.
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Blue Jazz Club
Located on the 7th floor of the Hotel Saratoga, this sophisticated club with high-altitude views over Palma offers after-dinner jazz and blues concerts from Thursday to Saturday, and a Monday evening jam session. Admission may be free but you're expected to buy a drink.
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Teatre Principal
Built in 1854 and restored in 2007, this is the city's prestige theatre for drama, opera and big-name concerts. The renovation works re-created the theatre's heyday majesty of 1860 and combined it with the latest technolog, resulting in great acoustics.
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Soho
This self-proclaimed 'urban vintage bar' has a green-lit beer fridge, red walls (with some 1960s decor), low white ceilings, fabulous velour sofas and an otherwise wonderfully retro look. The music's mostly indie and the laid-back crowd mostly seems oblivious to the traffic pounding past the footpath tables.
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