Ibiza Family Holidays & Breaks

Ibiza Best Beaches and Watersports

• Choose between the busier beaches with everything from banana boats, pedaloes and SUP paddleboarding to paragliding and scuba-diving, plus lots of restaurants and cafés, to smaller, more sedate (although not undiscovered) beaches for low-key picnics and paddling. Some of the larger beaches have playgrounds.

• Check out our favourites including Cala Llonga on the east side of the island, with crystal-clear waters and great facilities, and the popular family beaches of Puerto de San Miguel and Portinatx in the north, and Figueretas, Es Cavallet, Las Salinas, Cala Jondal and Sa Caleta in the south. In the west, Talamanca, close to Ibiza Town, attracts an eclectic mix, including families. It’s best to come in the morning, before the clubbers awake from the excesses of the night before.

• Take at least one trip by water taxi, a fun way of getting between beaches, and to Formentera, where with older kids you can hire bikes to have a look round ibiza’s sister island. 

Ibiza History and Culture 

• Take kids to Ibiza Town’s medieval castle of Dalt Vila, a disorientating myriad of tunnels and labyrinthine streets, and to its Archaeological Museum, built over a Carthagean burial site reported to contain more than 4,000 graves.

• Look around the Can Marca Caves, a maze of caverns more than 100,000 years old, once used to smuggle illicit goods.

• With teens, browse the hippy markets of Punta Arabi and Las Dalias – remnants of the hippies who beat the ravers to Ibiza when they descended on the island in the 1970s.