It’s an interesting move away from Ibiza’s better-known fixation with clubbing. ![]() When the weather is cooler in September and October, the hotel will also launch a series of three-day hiking retreats with free activities such as sound healing classes, rooftop wellness sessions, meditation and two signature spa treatments included in the price. (Personally, I got fed up with waiting for them to get the perfect selfie.) He’s very good at this and loves finding just the right angle and vantage point for the most impressive photos but if this isn’t your thing, then make that clear and do a hike with your own friends and family. Although the hotel advertises the hikes as being for “wellness” and encourages participants to turn off their phones, when I joined a group of Dutch women for an afternoon hike, they were all obsessed with having Ehrensperger take photos of them pretending to meditate in the most precarious of locations. As you can see from his Instagram page, many people sign up to get incredible shots for their social media profiles but you need to have a head for heights. Putting the corporate life behind him, he has now set up Ibiza Hike Station, which sees him working full time on taking people on cliff-top hikes around the island and has an exclusive tie-up with the Nobu Ibiza Bay. One of the things that captured my interest were the new wellness hikes being offered via friend of the hotel, Manuel Ehrensperger, who formerly worked in senior roles at companies such as Swarovski and Chopard. I was travelling with my young daughter who visited the Kids’ Club a couple of times – she particularly enjoyed the pizza-making class they put on. There is also a new outdoor exercise area and Teen Programme. Reopened on April 8, 2022, after being closed for the winter, the property features a new rooftop terrace that hosts events in in partnership with electronic dance music specialists SUCO (the Sunshine Collective), plus “sound healing events” and the Nobu Lounge for cocktails and sets from local DJs. It has a nice rustic, beachy vibe and really warm staff. Third is casual Chambao (below), where a buffet and a la carte breakfast is served in the morning, as well as lunch. I did, however, recently review the branch in London at the Mondrian hotel in Shoreditch and you can read the review here. The second restaurants is BiBo by Michelin-Starred Chef Dani Garcia but it wasn’t open when I visited at the start of the season. ![]() (Note that there is a manmade strip of sand at the back of the property for kids to play on but the beach itself is covered in seaweed so the sea is pretty innaccesible.) In addition to 152 rooms (90 of which are suites), the property also has a Spa by Six Senses, a hair salon by John Frieda, a kids club, a gym (but not with sea views), two large outdoor pools (one for families) with lots of gorgeous loungers and cabanas, and three restaurants – one of which is a Nobu, obviously. Open seasonally, the Nobu Hotel Ibiza Bay was first unveiled five years ago on a stretch of coast not far from Pacha nightclub and Ibiza Old Town. So far the concept must be proving effective as Nobu Hotels are also in development for Madrid, Marrakech, Rome, Riyadh, Atlanta, Toronto, Atlantic City, New Orleans, Santorini, San Sebastián, São Paulo, Tel Aviv, Hamburg and Al Khobar in Saudi Arabia. ![]() The question is – how does its culinary prowess translate to hotel hospitality? (I stayed in the Nobu Las Vegas and thought the restaurant was superb but the rooms were pretty bland and forgettable.) Known for its chain of high-end Japanese restaurants from chef Nobu Matsuhisa, the Nobu hotel group now has 27 properties in destinations such as Manila, Miami Beach, Malibu, London, Barcelona and Chicago. Opened in 2017, the Nobu Hotel Ibiza Bay not only provides guests with room service from its own on-site Nobu restaurant but access to wellness hikes, sound healing and rooftop movies.
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