Readers of a certain vintage will recall the reputation that San Antonio had back in the 1990s. A once-sleepy fishing village on Ibiza’s west coast, it became a hedonistic mecca for British teens and 20-somethings who would arrive in their droves to cut loose all summer long, drawn by the promise of sex, drugs and electronic music.
Those seeking more, shall we say, salubrious pleasures on the Balearic Isle were advised to steer well clear – and they did. Two decades on, that narrative is shifting. Thanks in part to new, stricter laws that curb the worst of the night-time excesses; San An is striving for respectability, keen to attract the kind of affluent visitors that have transformed the rest of the island into a jet-setter’s paradise.
