Privilege Ibiza confirms it will not open this summer

Sad news for Ibiza’s first proper season in over two years as superclub Privilege has announced it will not be opening this year. 

It had initially looked as if the biggest club on the island would be opening this summer, but all hopes of that reality have now been put to bed.

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As reported by Noudiari, José María Echániz, co-owner and administrator of the Privilege nightclub in Ibiza, has also confirmed the club will not open this season.

Echániz assures several reasons for this decision, although the main one being: “it is impossible to take 5,000 or 7,000 people every night” to the largest nightclub in Ibiza when the offering has skyrocketed.

He also claims the proliferation of beach clubs and the fact that many restaurants offer night parties have killed the club business “for which Ibiza became world-famous.” Echániz also predicts that, in a few years, other similar places will follow the same way and even predicts a decline of the island as a tourist destination in general “within about six years”.

“They will end up closing all the nightclubs, from Amnesia to Pachá, because every corner of this island is a nightclub,” deplores Noudiari.

Privilege belongs to Echániz with Suministros Ibiza, owned by Abel Matutes and Joan Lladó, who own 45% of the shares and would be interested in acquiring Echániz’s remaining 55%. The disagreements between the two in the company they share (Balantxa, SA) have been glaringly apparent in recent years and have reached the courts. Furthermore, Echániz blames the Ushuaïa beach club model as the cause of the decline of Ibiza’s nightclubs and that DJ caches have skyrocketed. He also assures that the rise of Platja d’en Bossa “has devastated Ibiza’s Marina, which recovered last year because the beach clubs were closed and will fall again this year.”

It is a glum outlook for one of the island’s most significant club spaces with decades of memories. Let’s hope this is the only major casualty for Ibiza clubbing anytime soon, and we are reunited with the iconic Privilege space in the not too distant future!