Ryanair have announced an ambitious plan to connect Ibiza to London Stansted, Bergamo in northern Italy and Girona with thrice weekly flights.
The company’s predictions are to bring around 120,000 passengers to Ibiza from the end of October 2008 to April 2009 confirming there is a market for winter holiday just about to be exploited.
With its mild winter Ibiza represents an excellent destination to enjoy sports like golf, hiking, cycling, fishing, horse riding and water sports like diving and windsurfing.
Hotels are already in talks with the Councillor for Ibiza Tourism to open throughout the winter and here at Ibizabound we will also be open all year around offering our properties for “off season” breaks.

A Checkinarchitecture 3 minute long documentary about Ibiza.

The Blue Flag Programme (owned and run by the independent non-profit organisation, Foundation for Environmental Education, FEE) released the wordwide awards last week. Spain once again came out on top and offers holidaymakers the cleanest and safest beaches on the planet having been awarded 499 Blue Flags, in addition to a further 77 for its marinas.
A total of 61 beaches across the Balearics have been granted the prestigious flag including 18 in Ibiza. The award is an international symbol of quality, and has been bestowed on over 3,300 beaches and marinas in 36 countries across Europe, South Africa, Morocco, New Zealand, Canada and the Caribbean.
Beaches are awarded the flag through strict criteria dealing with water quality, environmental education and information, environmental management, and safety and other services.
San Jose again has the most blue-flag beaches on the island with a total of six - Cala Tarida, Cala Conta, Cala Bassa, Cala D´Hort, Cala Migjorn (Salinas) and lastly, Cala Vadella, which is new to the list this year. This is followed by Santa Eulalia which can this year boast Cala Llenya, es Canar, Cala Llonga, Santa Eulalia beach and es Figueral. San Juan will have four - San Miguel, Cala San Vicent, Portinax and Benirras, whilst San Antonio is proud to have three - Cala Gracio, es Calo des Moro and es Pouet. Surprisingly Formentera do not boast any.

15,000 sun-beds (or “hamacas”) will be available this season on Ibiza beaches, most of them in place for the first time. Residents and tourist alike will now be able to enjoy a day at the beach from the comfort of their “hamacas” with the exception of Cala Moli.
The municipality with the most sun-beds is San Jose with a total of 6,118 followed by Santa Eularia with 3,744, and Formentera with 2,520.
Regulation on concessions is now much stricter and sticks to specific areas to ensure sun-beds do not take up all of the space on the beach leaving vast areas for bathers who wanted to use just their towel.
As always the price of a sun-bed on any beach will vary according to the area but €6 is set as the maximum this year.

Seven years in and set to be stronger than ever, everyone’s favourite superstar DJ, promoter, host and radio presenter Carl Cox returns to his summer stronghold – Space Ibiza, every Tuesday night from 8th July.
Hands-on as usual, Carl welcomes a whole bunch of iconic mates including Francois Kevorkian, Laurent
Garnier & Fatboy Slim, proof that this really is a friends thing. In keeping with the Carl Cox & Friends concept that has travelled the world, this line-up includes talent spanning many genres of electronic music. Drum and bass pioneers Roni Size and DJ Marky return, as do breaks heads Evil Nine and Adam Freeland.
For every solid fixture there are also faces fresh to Carl’s Ibizan fold, including funky metallic techno head Chris Liebing (renowned on the Island for his ‘Spin Club’ nights), D&B punks Pendulum, anthem-maker and all round tech house/breaks maestro Bushwacka!, plus growling electro maximalist Alex Metric. Also present and correct are minimal man Loco Dice, chart-toppers Freemasons, and sonic explorer James Lavelle.
And, once again, the hand of friendship is extended to every clubber on the island, as CC&F promise, as always, the lowest prices on the Island.

Carl Cox and Friends @ Space
July – September 2008 (Starts Tuesday July 8th for 10 Exclusive nights)

July 8th
Green Velvet, James Lavelle, DJ Vibe
July 15th
John Digweed, Yousef, DJ Marky
July 22nd
Chris Liebing, Tim Deluxe, Pendulum
July 29th
Darren Emerson, Dubfire, Adam Freeland
August 5th
Laurent Garnier, Elio Riso
August 12th
Tom Pookes, Plump DJs, Christian Smith, Freemasons
August 19th
Cristian Varela, DJ Ralph (AOL), Josh Wink
August 26th
Norman Cook, Francois K, Gilles Peterson
September 2nd
Valentino Kanzyani, Fedde Le Grand, Roni Size
September 9th
Loco Dice, Bushwacka!, Evil Nine, Alex Metric