Ibiza Boat Parties: Which Ones Are Actually Fun
€45 to €120, four hours on the water, wildly different crowds. What's included, what isn't, and how not to end up on the worst one.
Elena Marí
Updated August 2026
A crowd dancing on the deck of a party boat off the Ibiza coast
Boat parties are the most heavily sold product on this island and the least honestly described. Every page that ranks for them is run by somebody who takes a commission on the ticket, which is why you can read a dozen guides without learning the two facts that actually determine whether you enjoy the afternoon: what the included drinks are really like, and that you cannot get off.
What every boat costs
- Sunset boat, Sant Antoni
- €49–90 · 3–4 hrs · departs 17:00–18:00
- Afternoon party boat, Bossa
- €86–99 · 3–4 hrs · departs 13:00–14:00
- Bottomless brunch boat
- €80 · 3 hrs · late morning
- Club-inclusive boat
- €99–150 · 4 hrs + club entry that night
- Formentera day boat
- €45–60 return · full day · you choose the return
- Drinks where not included
- €30–60 on board, or €8–12 a drink
The pricing itself is not unreasonable. What distorts it is that the €49 sunset trip and the €99 afternoon boat are sold with identical language, and the difference between them is not quality — it is duration, drinks, and how many people are on the deck.
Boat versus club night: the comparison nobody makes
A €90 all-inclusive boat gives you three to four hours, drinks included, in daylight, with a swim stop. A €90 club night gives you six hours, no drinks, at 02:00, and a taxi fare on the end of it. On pure hours-per-euro the club wins; on total spend the boat is considerably cheaper, because the €18–25 drinks are what actually empty your account in a club.
Our honest position is that they are not substitutes and the trip should include one of each. What we would not do is two boats: they are far more similar to one another than any two clubs on this island are, and the second one is largely the first one again with a different flag.
The "all-inclusive" drinks, described accurately
On the €80–100 tickets the drinks are genuinely unlimited in quantity and genuinely weak in strength. Spirits are poured long and mixed heavily, and the "premium brands" wording in the listings does not survive contact with the glass. That is not a scandal — it is how you make an open bar work for four hours on a boat — but it does mean the €99 all-inclusive ticket is not the bargain against the €49 sunset trip that the arithmetic suggests.
On the cheaper trips you get one or two drinks and then a bar at €8–12, which is roughly half what you will pay inside a club and entirely reasonable.
You cannot get off, and this matters more than anything else
Three to four hours on the water with no exit. If the crowd is wrong, the music is wrong, the sea is rough or somebody in your group has had enough, there is no version of the afternoon where you leave early. The ticket pages mention this, if at all, as a line about boarding times.
If anyone in the group is unsure, book the shorter sunset trip rather than a four-hour afternoon boat, and do not book a boat on your first day when you have no idea how the sea is sitting or how the group is travelling.
Seasickness, honestly
The stretch between Sant Antoni and the western calas is usually flat in summer, but a windy afternoon on a small boat with a full deck and a sound system is a specific kind of unpleasant, and it is the most common complaint we hear about these trips. Take something for it an hour before boarding rather than when you feel it, stay on deck rather than below, and eat first.
Operators do not refund for seasickness and they are not obliged to return early. This is worth knowing before you spend €99.
Street PRs versus booking online
Both are legitimate and they are useful in different situations. Book online for anything you have organised the rest of a day around — you get a named operator, a refund path and a code that exists in a system. Buy from a street PR when a boat is under-sold that afternoon, where haggling genuinely works and €99 becomes €60.
The rule is the same as with club tickets: only pay for a scannable ticket you can see before money changes hands, and never for a photograph of somebody else's QR code.
The one we would book
The sunset trip out of Sant Antoni, at €49–70, three hours, one or two drinks included and a paid bar after that. It is the cheapest boat, the calmest water, the best light, and the only one where the thing you are looking at is better than the thing you are drinking.
And the best day on the water in Ibiza is not sold as a boat party at all: the Formentera ferry, €45–60 return, thirty minutes each way, and you choose your own return sailing. No promoter earns anything from it, which is precisely why you rarely see it recommended.
Nobody ranking for "Ibiza boat party" makes money if you decide not to go. That is the whole reason you have never read a page that told you to take the €49 one instead.
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Ibiza sunset boat trip from Sant Antoni
Three hours, departs 17:00–18:00, drinks bar on board. The shorter, calmer and cheaper of the two main boat formats, and the one we would book first.
Affiliate links. Prices last checked August 2026.
Staying in Sant Antoni — the boats leave from here
Every hotel, hostel and apartment around Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza, with walking distance to the door — so you know whether you're strolling home or paying €70 for a taxi at 6am.
Frequently asked
- How much is an Ibiza boat party?
- Between €49 and €150, with the mid-range all-inclusive tickets clustered at €80–100. Sunset trips from Sant Antoni start around €49; afternoon party boats from Playa d'en Bossa run €86–99; boats that bundle club entry are €99–150. Where drinks are not included, expect to spend another €30–60 on board. Prices checked late July 2026.
- Are Ibiza boat parties worth it?
- Once per trip, and the sunset trip more than the afternoon one. A €90 boat with three or four hours of drinks included is comparable value to a club night, and considerably better if the group is right and the sea is calm. Two boats in a week is where it stops making sense — they are far more similar to each other than the clubs are.
- Can you leave an Ibiza boat party early?
- No. You are on the water for the full three to four hours with no way off, which is the single most important thing the ticket sites do not tell you. If you are prone to seasickness, dislike crowds at close quarters, or are travelling with someone who might want to leave, take the shorter sunset trip rather than a four-hour afternoon boat.
- Are the drinks on an Ibiza boat party actually all-inclusive?
- On the €80–100 tickets, usually yes in quantity — but the spirits are heavily mixed and the 'premium brands' billing rarely survives contact with the glass. On the cheaper sunset trips you typically get one or two drinks and then a paid bar at €8–12. Read which of the two you are buying, because it is a €40 difference in practice.
- Should I book a boat party online or from a street promoter?
- Online for anything you have planned around, because it is the version with a refund path and a named operator. Street PRs can genuinely be cheaper late in the day when a boat is under-sold, and haggling works — but only pay for a scannable ticket you can see before money changes hands, and never for a photograph of a code.
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Elena Marí
Nine years living on Ibiza. Researches the island base by base, separating lived local knowledge from details that must be checked with operators and properties.
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