
Also written Eivissa
The island's best all-round base: walkable, the best food, and Pacha at the end of the street.
Elena Marí · Prices checked late July 2026
The numbers
Noise3/5August runs €230–320 a night here for a decent double, dropping to €130–180 in the shoulder weeks. No. This is the island's transport hub: main bus interchange, taxi rank, Formentera ferry, and the airport bus.
If you can only be told one thing, it is this: stay in Ibiza Town on your first trip. It is walkable, it has the island's best restaurants at every price point, and it is where everything connects — the buses, the taxis, the Formentera ferry and the airport.
The town splits into recognisable pieces. The port is expensive and good for people-watching. Dalt Vila, inside the Renaissance walls, is where to stay for a view and quiet. The streets behind the market are where the town actually eats, at half the port's prices. Figueretes, a fifteen-minute walk south, is the budget option with a beach attached. Marina Botafoch across the water is polished, well-connected by taxi and slightly lifeless.
For nightlife, Pacha is a walk from most of the town and Lío is on the marina. Hï and Ushuaïa are a €12–18 taxi, and Amnesia €20–25 — so you have every option without living underneath any of them.
The trade-off is beaches. Ses Salines is fifteen minutes by car and twenty-five by bus, and the west-coast calas are a proper drive. If your week is mostly sand, this is the wrong base.
Book it if: First-time visitors, anyone not hiring a car, people who care about food, and couples who want to walk to dinner and a bar rather than plan transport around both.
Stay elsewhere if: Beach-first trips — the good calas are all a drive away — and anyone on a tight budget, because this is the most expensive place on the island to sleep.
From Ibiza Town you can walk home from Pacha (€45–70). That is worth real money over a week: the taxi home from an inland club runs €25–45 each way, and doubles in the 04:00 queue.
Commonly paired with this base: Hï Ibiza, Amnesia and Lío. Compare their door prices side by side in the rankings table.
Car: No. This is the island's transport hub: main bus interchange, taxi rank, Formentera ferry, and the airport bus.
Taxi to Ibiza Town: You are in it.
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