The beach (Es Cavallet) in 'The Enchanted Forest'Įxactly what you would expect. Outside the Sud apartments provides a safer alternative, and if nothing else, you may get a cup of tea. Dodgy as hell, but it does get busy in summer. The beach and promenade nearby are also cruised by those between visits to the rear. The back wall of this swimming pool becomes a hyper active gay playground after midnight until dawn. Falling in the wrong place, with your jeans around your ankles, is at the least embarrassing, and is usually terminal for those involved. There are dangerous drops into the sea, and onto the rocks, or off of the rampart walls (into at least a couple of the gay bars).
This will also help ensure that you know how to get out quickly, if necessary. If you haven't been there before, go and enjoy the view during the day.
This area is frequented all year round, and is ridiculous in summer. For obvious reasons this area is best avoided after dark or when you are "unsteady on your feet". Below the track and to the sea is one large cruising ground. The dirt track that continues from Calle Ramon Muntaner out of Figueretas leads to the side entraces to Dalt Villa. The Ramparts above La Muralla, and the headland through the "Tunnel of Love". There are three main cruising areas in Ibiza (unless you know different.) All carry less risk than anywhere else in Europe, but can present their own particular problems. If there is any trouble out there, try not to make yourself a target. If you are off of your face, go to a club instead, or if you must go, take someone with you. The more you cruise, the easier it gets, but don't become blase, keep your wits about you.ĭon't take valuables, personal stereos, wallets, watches, etc. If you come across cruising areas by accident, or go looking for them, remember to be friendly (should anything untoward, or unwelcome descend on you, you may appreciate the help of others). Take your own condoms (and 'you are respectfully requested' - by the Ibiza authorities - 'to take all litter home with you').
Know what you are looking for, and do not take any risks, you are supposed to be enjoying yourself on holiday. If you get into something that is going too far, excuse yourself and leave ('I need to go for a piss' usually works, 'I need to go for a shit' should also ensure that they don't follow you - if they do. If you do meet the body of your dreams, you do not have to do anything that you do not want to. (Don't interfere, they will turn on you.) (The offender can often be found doing rent in Majorca two years later.)Īny other problems are usually to do with couples suffering from post-domestic trauma, discovering each other out on 'The Ramparts', after too many chems three nights earlier. The local constabulary are very good on this front, and if any problems do develop, they are very quickly stamped on. Easier still not to give a damn about what the locals might think, seeing two men at it on 'The Ramparts' at four in the morning.Īny problems when out cruising tend to exist at the very beginning of the season (around Easter), when the current set of local closets discover 'post-pubescent anxiety', and feel the need to express their feelings the only way they know how. It is easy to arrive in Ibiza off the 2:30 from anywhere in Europe and forget that homophobic behavior exists. Unless our research missed something there are five main cruising zones.
need to escape from the boyfriend for a quick, uncomplicated, fiddle about, or.There are a number of areas that attract guys who. The whole of Ibiza town is that friendly, it is difficult to know what is friendly and what is cruising.