Ibiza’s Craziest May Ever? 

Those of a certain vintage will remember when Ibiza’s flights, fuelled almost exclusively by traditional tour operators, started religiously on 1st May and the term ‘low cost carrier’ was a phenomenon seen only in the deregulated American aviation market. During these times you could count on 4 busy months with the shoulder months of May and October making up the numbers. Not any more. 

The increasing availability of flights meant that April on the White Isle was surprisingly frenetic but May has been nothing short of incredible compared to previous years, not only with numbers but with the profile of travellers seemingly getting younger and younger. 

Ibiza’s world class day and night clubs opening earlier has no doubt played a massive part, it wasn’t that long ago that the super clubs opened in the last week of May and closed in the last week of September. Now they nearly all open at the end of April & close at the beginning of October, extending the traditional summer clubbing season by 6 weeks. 

The proliferation of group holidays on low cost carriers has also seen an abundance of arrivals at Ibiza airport (and a slew of social media posts depicting out of control flight cabins – but that’s a whole different issue).

Stags, hens, weddings, birthday celebrations all taking advantage of low season offers and usually for short durations such as long weekends and with pockets of money to spend. Stags and mainly hens seem to be everywhere in May with compulsory matching t-shirts, the ‘blushing’ bride with a long white head dress surrounded by her ‘bride squad’ in sashes – when did this become a thing?

All in all, the island has appeared busier and hotter in May 2025 than ever before. It hasn’t stopped all the usual issues, in fact it’s exasperated them. Short duration holidays mean that time management has become essential  – everything is organised down to the last second.

So all the high profile, prominent, social media driven businesses are getting the benefit whilst the secondary businesses continue to struggle. In other words the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker. The upside is that the major Ibiza businesses are opening earlier than ever before and this in itself is stimulating early season bookings. 

It will be interesting to see how June performs as historically we have seen a dip in business during the mid season as prices start to creep up before the high season madness kicks in. 

If Ibiza summer 2025 was a first term school report it would say ‘good attendance with a very encouraging start but let’s not take anything for granted’. As is the norm in life it’s not how you start it’s how you finish. 

Happy June!