For someone whose youthful trips to Ibiza over the past 20 years have mainly involved stays in two and three-star apartments – OK, and the occasional villa – checking into a chic five-star lifestyle hotel could be considered quite an upgrade.
And so it was for me. Admittedly, I didn’t get the full ME Ibiza luxury experience, given the hotel also has a private boat, fleet of ME Range Rovers and a private aircraft at its disposal, and I just arrived in a bog-standard white taxi. But customers in the hotel’s lobby certainly seemed like people for whom these modes of transfers would be second (or at least third) nature.
And they’d most likely be staying in the suites of course, able to make the most of the accompanying ME+ Service, which includes packing and ironing service, a cocktail before dinner, wake-up call with a small healthy "detail", amenities for small pets, event planner (maybe to organise social get-togethers in your suite), personal assistant, private in-suite check-in and various welcome amenities.
I wasn’t staying in a suite, but was checked-in in the room nonetheless, and there was some cava on ice and sweet treats on a slate plate; the view from the room’s balcony was just as appealing, but the rest of my abode’s dimensions were a little on the snug side.
To stay in one of these rooms, you’d have to feel pretty comfortable with your roommate, as the available free space is small and the bathroom open-plan – save the loo, which thankfully is shut away on its own. You also might squabble over the clothes-storing space, as it consists of an open rail between the bed and the bathroom area. Luckily, I’ve seen the mega suites here before, and there’s definitely more space there, if that’s what required.
