Ibiza
Beach clubs, sunbeds and VIP beds in Ibiza
From Cala Bassa to Ses Salines, from Playa d’en Bossa to Benirràs: which beach club suits you depends on the wind, the company and the time of year. Below are the island’s best-known addresses by area, with honest caveats — and help turning it into a day that actually works.
20 beach clubs · 7 areas
Beach clubs and sunbeds in Ibiza, area by area
A day on a sunbed is the real Ibiza for a lot of people, and the question is never which beach club is best but which one fits the day you want. A beach that is unusable in a northerly is glassy in a southerly; a club that is packed and loud at four in the afternoon is a quiet spot at eleven in the morning. Below are the island’s best-known addresses grouped by area, with the kind of day each suits and what to take into account.
How it works in practice: beds and bali beds are reserved with the club itself, not with us — they are independent businesses with their own terms, and what a day costs varies by club, by where on the sand you sit and by the point in the season. What we do is think the day through with you: which area suits that day’s wind, where you are better off with children than with a stag group, how to get there without spending an hour hunting for parking, and how to fit it around a boat, a transfer or a night out. Ask us on WhatsApp — and we will say plainly when a place does not fit your plan.
Playa d’en Bossa
The island’s longest sandy beach, close to Ibiza Town and within walking distance of the big clubs. This is where you will find the most beds per metre of sand and also the most sound during the day: it is the stretch where the day and the night run into each other. The beach shelves gently and the sand is fine, which keeps the swimming pleasant despite the crowds.
Beachouse Ibiza
Beach: Playa d’en Bossa
One of the best-known beach clubs on Bossa, with beds on the sand, a restaurant section and DJs who lift the tempo of the day gradually. Less shouty than the pool clubs further along and more about staying put for the whole day.
Who it suits: A long, relaxed day with music in the background and food at a table rather than on your lap.
Honest note
In August this is one of the first places to fill; arriving after midday without a reservation usually means not getting onto the sand at all. It is also not a quiet spot — do not come here for silence.Nassau Beach Club
Beach: Playa d’en Bossa
One of the established names on this beach, with white parasols in neat rows, a serious kitchen and service that comes to the bed. It is more about a long lunch and slowly dozing off than about dancing.
Who it suits: A polished day with a proper lunch, where swimwear is fine but arriving dressed up does not feel out of place either.
Honest note
The front row at the water is limited and goes first in high season — further back you sit away from the view and closer to the walkway. Reserving is done with the club itself, not with us.Bora Bora Ibiza
Beach: Playa d’en Bossa
The address that made the beach party on Bossa famous in the first place: open-air music, people moving between the sand and the bar, and an atmosphere closer to an afternoon party than to a sunbed.
Who it suits: Anyone who treats the beach mainly as a social space and does not mind it being busy and loud.
Honest note
Emphatically not the place for a quiet day or for young children. On peak days it is shoulder to shoulder and the volume is not something you can sit around.Sirocco Beach Ibiza
Beach: Playa d’en Bossa
Sits on the calmer stretch of Playa d’en Bossa, with beds on the sand and a terrace looking out to sea. The tempo is lower than at the beach’s loudest names, without the place feeling dead.
Who it suits: A day on Bossa with a bit more air around you, and groups who want to eat and then stay on.
Honest note
Playa d’en Bossa is long: “on Bossa” can mean a fifteen-minute walk through soft sand. Check the map beforehand for which end you are arriving at, especially with bags or small children.
Cala Jondal
A south-coast bay where the shore is pebbles rather than sand, hills around it and boats anchored offshore. It is the area that shows the island’s yacht culture most plainly: this is where people step off a tender straight onto the beach. Because the bay faces south, it stays sheltered when the north of the island is restless.
Blue Marlin Ibiza
Beach: Cala Jondal
The best-known beach club on the south coast and the image many people hold of daytime Ibiza: beds down to the waterline, DJs building through the afternoon, and a bay full of boats that come specifically to lie there.
Who it suits: A day that starts as lunch and ends as a party, and groups who enjoy being seen.
Honest note
Cala Jondal is a pebble beach, not sand — bring water shoes if your feet are sensitive. The road in is narrow and parking is limited; in August getting there by car is the hardest part of the day.Tropicana Ibiza Beach Club
Beach: Cala Jondal
On the other side of the same bay, with a calmer character: eating at a table over the water, beds on the pebbles and far less emphasis on the DJ. Anyone who loves Cala Jondal but is not after the party sits better here.
Who it suits: A long lunch by the sea; couples and families who want the same bay without the volume.
Honest note
The bay shares one access road with the rest of Cala Jondal, so the parking crush is the same. Out of high season it is quiet here — lovely, but do not count on everything running.
Ses Salines and Es Cavallet
The flat southern tip of the island: low dunes, pines standing almost on the sand and, behind them, the old salt pans. The area is a protected nature reserve, which means nothing new gets built and the beach still looks much as it did thirty years ago. Es Cavallet lies around the corner and is looser and quieter than Salines itself.
Sa Trinxa
Beach: Ses Salines
At the far end of Ses Salines, a beach bar that is more an institution than a beach club: a wooden shack, music that has belonged to the place for decades and a crowd lying on the sand rather than on a bali bed. It is the opposite of the white parasol rows elsewhere.
Who it suits: Anyone chasing the older, unpolished Ibiza who does not need table service to be happy.
Honest note
It is a decent walk along the beach from the nearest parking, and in high season that parking is a long way back. If you avoid sun: there is little natural shade on that stretch.Jockey Club
Beach: Ses Salines
One of the fixtures in the middle of Ses Salines: beds and parasols on the sand, a kitchen that has served this beach for a long time and an atmosphere that is easy-going rather than glossy. The pines behind the beach lend the whole thing something rural.
Who it suits: A classic beach day with food and a bed, in a setting that has changed little.
Honest note
Ses Salines has one access road and a limited number of parking spaces; in July and August that road jams in the middle of the day. Coming early or taking a taxi helps more than any reservation.Experimental Beach
Beach: Cap des Falcó
Just past Ses Salines, on an open, bare bay facing west — which makes it one of the few spots on the south side where the sun genuinely drops into the sea. Loose beds on the ground, a lot of wood and canvas, and more attention paid to the cocktail than to the DJ.
Who it suits: Sunset with a drink, and couples who want to end the day late without the crush of Bossa.
Honest note
The final stretch of road is unpaved and dusty; in a low hire car you drive it carefully. The bay is open to the west, so in a westerly there is chop and the sand blows.Chiringuito Blue
Beach: Es Cavallet
On Es Cavallet, the beach behind the dunes long known as the island’s freest and most mixed — with a large and visible LGBTQ crowd. The beach place itself is simple: beds, shade, something to eat and a sea that is shallow and clear here.
Who it suits: A relaxed day with no fuss, and anyone comfortable on a tolerant, mixed beach.
Honest note
Es Cavallet is open to the east and southeast; in an easterly there is chop and the sand blows across the beds. Nudity is normal on parts of this beach — no issue at all, but worth knowing if you are coming with family.
West coast: Cala Bassa, Cala Comte and Cala Tarida
The side of the island with the palest water and the best sunsets. The coves are smaller than in the south and sit between rocky points, which keeps the water sheltered and clear. Everything here is a drive from Sant Antoni; without a car or a taxi this area is awkward to reach.
Cala Bassa Beach Club
Beach: Cala Bassa
The large, broadly laid-out address of the west coast — often shortened to CBbC. It occupies a good part of a sheltered sandy bay with pines running down to the beach, and combines beds on the sand with several places to eat and a garden set back from the shore. Its sheer size means finding a spot works out here more often than in the smaller coves.
Who it suits: A full day with a mixed group: families, friends and anyone who wants to eat, swim and stay put.
Honest note
Precisely because it is well known, the car park fills early in August and the approach road is narrow. In low season the bay is beautiful and quiet but far less is running — come then for the beach, not for the facilities.Sunset Ashram
Beach: Cala Comte
On the rocks above Cala Comte, looking out over the small islands offshore — the view people drive to this side of the island for. Below you swim in the palest water on Ibiza; above you eat and drink with the sun straight ahead.
Who it suits: Late afternoon through to after sunset, with a group that likes a view and music.
Honest note
At sunset the whole of Cala Comte fills up and the car park, not the table, is the problem. It is also a rock-and-steps spot: with a pushchair or unsteady legs this is not an easy choice.Cotton Beach Club
Beach: Cala Tarida
Above Cala Tarida, with terraces stepping down towards the sea and beds around the pool rather than on the sand. It is one of the calmer options on this side: view and service, without the day turning into a party.
Who it suits: A calm, polished day on the west coast without the Comte crowds, and a long lunch with a view.
Honest note
You are not lying with your feet in the sand here — anyone set on a bed on the beach has to go down to the cove itself. And Cala Tarida is remote: expect to drive, and narrow roads on the way back in the dark.
Talamanca
The bay immediately next to Ibiza Town, seen across the water from the harbour. The beach is wide and the water shallow, which makes this the most practical area for anyone without a car: you can walk or take the water taxi from town. Talamanca is less spectacular than the west coast and, for exactly that reason, often calmer.
Nassau Tanit Beach Club
Beach: Talamanca
Beds and parasols on the broad sand of Talamanca, with the Dalt Vila skyline across the bay. Quieter and more domestic than the sister location on Bossa, and easy to combine with an afternoon in Ibiza Town.
Who it suits: Half a day at the beach close to town, and anyone without a car or without the appetite to drive.
Honest note
The bay is open to the east and catches the morning wind; in an easterly the water here is murkier than on the island’s west side. For the most beautiful sea this is not the side to be on — for convenience it is.
Santa Eulària and the east coast
The calmest and greenest side of the island, with small coves between the pines and a noticeably lower tempo. This is where families and couples go, and where the beach clubs revolve around food and a view rather than a DJ booth. The sun rises over the sea here and sets behind you, so for sunset you have to cross to the other side.
Nikki Beach Ibiza
Beach: Santa Eulària
The Ibiza outpost of an international brand, on the water at Santa Eulària. White, a pool, beds and an afternoon that moves from food towards music — the most explicitly party-minded address on this quiet side of the island.
Who it suits: A long Sunday-style lunch that builds through the afternoon, and groups with something to celebrate.
Honest note
This is not a bed on sand but a club site by the sea — anyone after a classic beach day is better off in a cove further along. And from Sant Antoni or the west side it is a long drive.Amante Ibiza
Beach: Cala Sol d’en Serra
On the cliff above a pebble cove just south of Santa Eulària, with a terrace looking straight out to sea and steps down to the water. Quiet, green, and more a restaurant with beds than a beach club with a kitchen.
Who it suits: Couples, a birthday, or a day where the view matters more than the pool.
Honest note
There is a substantial staircase between the terrace and the water, and below it pebbles rather than sand. Anyone unsteady on their feet or travelling with a baby should factor that in.Aiyanna Ibiza
Beach: Cala Nova
Above Cala Nova, in an open, light building set among the greenery with a view over the bay. The tone is loose and Mediterranean: long tables, plenty of shade and a day that runs over of its own accord.
Who it suits: A relaxed lunch with friends, and anyone who wants the east coast without it turning formal.
Honest note
Cala Nova is open to the northeast and therefore gets waves more often than the southern coves — good for surfers, less so for small children. Out of season this whole coast falls quiet.Atzaró Beach
Beach: Cala Nova
On the sand at Cala Nova, with a lot of wood, canvas and planting and a distinctly agricultural streak — the same signature as the well-known inland estate the name comes from. Calmer than most beach clubs without being any plainer.
Who it suits: A full day in one place, with food, shade and a bed close to the water.
Honest note
The cove is small and the number of beds correspondingly limited; in August this is not a place you simply walk into. Coming from the south side, it is a half-hour drive or more on back roads.
Sant Antoni and the north
Sant Antoni faces west and therefore owns the sunset; the north behind it is rougher, emptier and greener, with coves between the hills where things are markedly quieter. Two very different worlds a short distance apart.
O Beach Ibiza
Beach: Sant Antoni (baai / bay)
A daytime pool club on the bay at Sant Antoni, with dancers, DJs and beds around the pool. It is explicitly a party in daylight rather than a beach club: the sea is right there, but the day revolves around the pool.
Who it suits: Groups who want to party in daylight, stag and hen groups, and anyone who prefers the pool to the sea.
Honest note
Not for anyone after peace, and not intended for children. Entry and beds go through the club itself and terms differ by day — we can advise you about it, but we do not reserve it for you.Elements Ibiza
Beach: Benirràs
On Benirràs, the northern bay known for the drummers at sunset and for the rock stack offshore that everyone looks at. A simple, colourful place with beds on the sand and food that belongs to a beach rather than to a restaurant.
Who it suits: A slow day in the north, with swimming, food and sunset all in one place.
Honest note
Benirràs is open to the north: in a Tramuntana there is short chop and the bay turns unpleasant. The access road is narrow and winding with little parking — on a Sunday at sunset half the island comes here, so being early is the whole difference.
A few things nobody tells you. In August the best-known beds are gone by mid-morning, and “we’ll see when we get there” means a towel on the sand. Many of these places sit at the end of a narrow road with limited parking, so plan on a car or a taxi and on searching for a space. Outside high season the island goes quiet: some of these addresses run on reduced days or not at all, and the beach is no less beautiful for it. And the wind decides more than the reviews do — in a firm northerly the north coast is rough and you are better off on the south side, and the other way round.
Which beach club fits your day?
Tell us when you are here, how many of you there are and what kind of day you want — quiet, with children, or music and company. We think through the area, the timing and how you get there, and we say so when something is hopeless in August. The bed itself you reserve with the club; we help you make the day work.
Plan your beach day on WhatsAppFrequently asked questions
Do you need to reserve a sunbed in Ibiza in advance?
In July and August, effectively yes — certainly at the best-known clubs and certainly for the front row at the water. There the beds are gone by mid-morning, and "we’ll see when we get there" means a towel on the sand. In the shoulder months you can often simply walk in. Reserving happens with the club itself; these are independent businesses with their own terms. What we do help with is working out which place to approach, and at what point in the day.
Can you book a sunbed or VIP bed for me?
Straight answer: no. We are not a reseller for these beach clubs and we do not hold beds. The bed you reserve with the club itself. What we do is think the day through with you — which area suits that day’s wind, where you are better off with children than with a big group, what time you need to arrive to still be near the front, and how it fits around a boat or a transfer. Send us your dates and who you are with over WhatsApp and we will help you plan it.
What does a day at an Ibiza beach club cost?
We deliberately do not quote a figure here, for the simple reason that we cannot stand behind one: it varies by club, by where on the sand you sit, by day of the week and by point in the season, and the clubs set their own rates. A simple beach shack and a club with service to the bed are also in completely different brackets. Current terms sit with the club itself; what we can tell you is which areas are typically priced more gently than the best-known names on the south coast.
Do I need a car to reach the beach clubs?
For Playa d’en Bossa and Talamanca, no: they sit next to Ibiza Town and are walkable or a short taxi ride. For Cala Jondal, Cala Bassa, Cala Comte, Cala Tarida and the northern bays, yes — those are narrow roads ending in a car park, and in August that car park is the real problem, not the bed. A taxi back out of a remote cove is also not always instantly available; arrange it beforehand. We can help with a rental car or a transfer.
Which beach clubs suit a day with children, and which do not?
As a rule of thumb: areas with broad, shallow sand and a lower volume work best — Talamanca, Cala Bassa and the east coast around Santa Eulària. Less suitable are the outright daytime party addresses and the spots where you reach the water over pebbles or down a steep staircase. We say so plainly: several of the best-known names on this page are not intended for young children, and that is not a criticism of those clubs but a matter of picking the right place.
When is the best time to go to a beach club in Ibiza?
Early in the day, and outside the peak weeks. In the morning you get the best spots, the calmest water and the least traffic on the road; the middle of the day in August is exactly the reverse. For a lot of people the shoulder season is the most pleasant: the island is quieter and the coves are just as beautiful. Honestly though: outside high season some of these addresses run on reduced days or not at all, and the wind ultimately decides more than the date — in a firm northerly you are better off on the south side, and the other way round.