The establishment opened in 1982 and was the first beach restaurant with music on the island
the party room Bora Bora Ibiza has announced through a statement its definitive closure on October 15 after 40 uninterrupted years of operation in Platja d’en Bossa.
Bora Bora Ibiza brings together a complex of almost a hundred apartments with a swimming pool, a beach club with two hundred linear meters in front of the beach, a glass-enclosed nightclub and several shops and restaurants. Throughout its history, the nightlife venue has been part of the list of hundred best clubs in the world and artists of the stature of Marco Carola, Claptone, Erick Morillo, Fat Tony, Nic Fanciulli, David Morales, Smokin Jo, Todd Terry and Danny Tenaglia have passed through its cabin.
It was in 1982 when Florentino Arzuaga he devised what would ultimately be the first beach restaurant with music, later renamed beach clubs. Located in Platja d’en Bossa, Bora Bora is part of the musical and tourist history of the Pitiusas.
To celebrate this last season of Bora Bora, the campaign ‘The last chance to dance’ incorporates the Sondela event on Mondays, Diego Miranda and friends on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays special sessions of the resident DJs together with Summer Rocks, Jambo Afrobeats and Forget the Club, on Thursdays Zoo Project with Urban Ritch Bitch, on Fridays Privacy and on Sundays Dance! led by Nic Fanciulli and with a cast of guest artists.
The future of Bora Bora
The complex with its apartments, restaurants, beach clubs, shops and a nightclub has announced that this will be its last season, but has not revealed still what will it become that space for the 2023 summer season.
“The current managers will announce it once this season is over”they assure from the nightclub in the note, although they advance that “it will be a space dedicated to quality restoration and daytime and nighttime leisure, as until now, but with a new name, a profound transformation and without a doubt with the imprint of one of the most important leisure and restaurant groups on the island”.
“The comprehensive transformation of the Platja d’en Bossa area began a decade ago and the Bora Bora complex, which for 40 years has known how to evolve to adapt to the times, joins this transformation that seeks to value the area and attract quality tourism, without losing the magic of Ibiza and the essence of a space where we have all experienced magical moments & rdquor ;, have commented from the direction of Bora Bora without revealing anything else for the moment.
History
Florentino Arzuaga, the creator of Bora Bora, felt in the 80s “that special attraction that the island emanates and decided to install the first beach club in Ibiza there”, they explained in the note, “novelty at that time”, where “the mornings joined tirelessly with the afternoons and these gave way to eternal dawns, in a dynamic of relentless fun 24 hours a day and night”.
Bora Bora was opened in the summer of 1982, while the Spanish soccer team floundered in its 82nd World Cup in Naranjito, which was finally won by Paolo Rossi’s Italy. Since its inauguration, the nightclub has offered “the exact combination that those who visit Ibiza are looking for, making them enjoy days of virgin beaches with crystal clear waters with quality restoration and parties in which to dance with bare feet on the sand of the beach. With these ingredients and adapting to the evolution of the times, it has achieved worldwide fame and recognition”, they have recalled from the complex’s management.
“With Bora Bora, a hedonistic and transgressive Ibiza was born, brimming with optimism and the creative stimulus of the first DJs”, he explained from the nightclub, who have ensured that “this is where the Balearic sound originated and with him a whole ‘clubbing’ culture that influences and is strongly rooted generation after generation”.
“There were no VIP areas, no reserved areas, no mobile phones. And you could still go to the DJ to ask for a song,” they recalled from Bora Bora, of a time when “thongs, topless and nude completely were, and are, fashion on the beach” and where “the Ibicencos gave themselves with devotion to the visitor, they gave everything. The island was, and is, a multicultural place that welcomes without barriers or prejudices”.