Ibiza Off-Season

Traveling as a study abroad student comes with many advantages, as well as disadvantages. These disadvantages include opting to book the cheapest flights possible. In order to snag fabulous deals to ~swankier~ places like Ibiza, one must book in off-season months.

So I did what any responsible study abroad student would do during my two-week long reading period; I booked a two-week holiday.

Ibiza, being the go-to destination for young people that it is, was only a $15 ticket away; a deal my friends and I couldn’t possibly pass up.

We arrive at our four day Ibiza excursion late at night...and hungry. Since the rumor is that Spaniards eat late, we venture out of our accommodating hostel in search of food. As it turns out, off-season on the San Antonio side of the island doesn’t have much open around 11 pm. We wander about ten minutes down towards the water and find a few larger restaurants open.

The menus are huge and serve nearly anything; clearly made for accommodating tourists. Restaurants like this are common throughout European tourist destinations as a whole, as they can accommodate most travelers with a wide variety of foods like pizza, pasta, salads and of course traditional cuisine. These are the few places that make enough profit and can afford to keep their businesses open throughout winter and spring off-season months. By the time we leave the island, we eat at this restaurant twice for dinner. If only I could remember the name; simply because the seafood and paella were everything I could have asked for.

As for other meals throughout our days on the Balearic Island, we end up stumbling upon a few trendy go-to breakfast and lunch spots. I mostly opt for breakfast foods like scrambled eggs on toast with lox, one morning I also end up trying my first ever acai bowl, which was impressive.

The weather was still warm enough to relax on the beaches. Thankfully in off-season, these turned out to be vacant of people. I opt for a café freddo (iced coffee, slightly out of this world because of how amazing it was) with breakfast as well as freshly squeezed juices once or twice a day. Just because it wasn’t tourist season didn’t mean it wasn’t the best place for some fresh fruit!

The only downside of Ibiza in off-season would have to be the nightlife; one of the islands main selling points. Since I stayed on the San Antonio side (a side still possessing the famous nightlife of Ibiza but more focused on beach-life, which I can’t complain about) there wasn’t much nightlife happening during my off-season time on the island.

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