A GROWN-UP'S GUIDE TO IBIZA

Worried you've entered your post-partying era of travel? Think again, and think Ibiza

- ANNA HART

EVERYONE KNOWS IBIZA'S REPUTATION AS a party island. What not everyone realises is quite how sophisticated and evolved the island's definition of a party is, these days.

Whether your idea of a good time is a decadent dinner with sunset views with a memorable soundtrack, a sober-curious daytime rave in an old finca, a cocktail-fuelled glam-rock pool party, a bohemian and barefoot ecstatic dance gathering in the forest, or the classic superstar-DJ-at-a-superclub experience, Ibiza has a celebration for you.

One traveller's idea of a good time is another traveller's existential crisis, but happily, Ibiza makes it easy to pick and choose from a sweeping buffet of fun. Yes, the high-capacity superclubs that characterised the island in the 1990s and 2000s still reel in big-name DJs and dancers by their thousands, every night of the week during the long summer season. Pacha and Amnesia both began life as groovy Eurodisco-blaring finca clubs in the 1970s, and expanded into vast empires which are still going strong. Privilege (which originally opened in 1979 as Ku Club) reopened this summer as UNVRS, a 10,000-capacity venue owned by Yann Pissenem and promoted by Will Smith. Naomi Campbell and Leonardo DiCaprio have been seen in the VIP area, a phone-free, wood-panelled space called The Apartment. With VIP access priced at €500, and double vodkas priced at more than €50,

UNVRS is a money-making machine, but it's abundantly apparent that these millions have been spent in all the right places: impeccable, low-decibel sound design, spectacular lighting visuals, an army of well-trained staff. Friends of mine have DJed in the toilet at UNVRS, which doesn't sound like the most glamorous of gigs, but Wild Comet (or WC - get it?) is billed as a "secret microclub" and genuinely has brilliant sound design and amazing atmosphere.