Owner, José María Echániz, blames steep rising Ibiza costs and beach clubs.
Sad news coming out of Ibiza as historic superclub Privilege has announced it will not be opening this year.
Hopes were high that the biggest club on the island would be opening after a two-year COVID enforced closure, but all chances of this now seem to be extinguished.
José María Echániz, co-owner and administrator of the Privilege nightclub in Ibiza, has confirmed the club will not open for the 2022 season.
Echániz has said there are several reasons for this decision, although the main one being: “it is impossible to take 5,000 or 7,000 people every night” to the largest nightclub in Ibiza when the offering has skyrocketed.
He also claims the beach clubs and the fact that many restaurants now offer night parties have killed the club industry “for which Ibiza became world-famous.”
Echániz goes even further and also predicts that in a few years the clubs in Ibiza will close.
“They will end up closing all the nightclubs, from Amnesia to Pachá, because every corner of this island is a nightclub,” says Noudiari.
Privilege belongs to Echániz with Suministros Ibiza, owned by Abel Matutes, who own 45% of the shares.
Matutes is interested in acquiring Echániz’s remaining 55%.
However, there is a long-running disagreement between the two in the company they share which has reached the courts.
Furthermore, Echániz blames the Ushuaïa beach club model as one of the main causes of the decline of Ibiza’s nightclubs.
It is a bleak announcement from José María Echániz, certainly garnished with a great deal of resentment due to the overhanging legal quarrel.
Let’s hope the disagreement between the two feuding parties can be resolved and the iconic Privilege nightclub can reopen its doors again.
