Ibiza has been the Spanish island playground for European gay boys since the
early 1980s and still continues to be one of the most fashionable places to get a tan.
OutUK sent Colm Howard-Lloyd to investigate.
SEX ON THE BEACHLike any good gay destination Ibiza has some fantastic and cruisy beaches. It’s perfectly acceptable to go nude on most beaches, although the beaches in town – such as Figueretes are less popular with the bits-out crowd. | |
| The main gay beach is Es Cavallet. It’s quite a journey across the island but if you’re a beach-bum then it’s worth the hike. The beach is full of wall to wall cute boys and has a fantastic beach bar Chiringay. The great thing about this beach bar is that they will bring your drink and food right to your sun lounger. We found it very difficult to get up when it was time to leave! |
Keeping the bits under Lycra at Figueretes.
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| Directions to Es Cavellet are pretty simple. Take the bus from Ibiza Town or Figueretes (from outside Monroes). The bus should be going to Las Salinas and you’ll know you’re on the right one when your backed into a bus with lots of sexy boys! | |
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Once you get off the bus just follow the crowd and pretty soon you’ll see a huge rainbow flag flying over Chiringay.
If you don’t want to make the journey to Es Cavallet then the beach at Los Molinos is worth a visit. Known locally as “mountain goat beach” this beach has no facilities and it an energetic climb down the cliffside, but we spent a happy afternoon there boy spotting. The best way to get directions is to ask at your favourites bar (again try Monroes!) although basically it’s on the coast (funnily enough for a beach) between Figueretes and Ibiza Town, just before you get to the town walls. |
Los Molinos - Mountain Goat Beach | |
STRAIGHT TO PARTYLAND | ||
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A lot of gay clubbers seem to be slightly apprehensive about going to non-gay venues, but Ibiza’s reputation as club capital of the world is well-deserved and a visit to Ibiza wouldn’t be complete without cheeking out some of the big clubs.
A word of warning though: as we said before clubbing in Ibiza isn’t cheap and you should expect to pay around €40 to get into the most popular venues. It is worth however chatting to your friendly barman (local barmen will appreciate, and indeed deserve, an attempt at Spanish) who will probably have discounted or free tickets to a selection of good nights. |
Anfora - does my bum look big in this? | |
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Nights we enjoyed were;
Space - the original after hour’s party starting at 8am and dancing as the day heats-up. We went to the after party and it was a little full of celeb-DJ spotters for our liking but later on in the year this really is an Ibiza institution. Pacha - when you decide to go to Pacha you can choose between going on its straight nights or on the gay-night. The gay night is one of the oldest established on the island, but to be honest we found it a little quite and not particularly gay… We recommend you check out one of the busier night and forgo snogging the boyfriend for a few hours of partying! But the one club you really can’t miss is Amnesia. Amnesia is often credited with really making Ibiza such a club land star. We don’t know about that but the music’s good and the crowd are the sexiest on the island. As the music takes over you will find that it’s perfectly ok to snog the boyfriend here, or indeed anyone that takes your fancy. Getting there? Check out ebookers.com
THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK | ||