Stag and Hen Groups: Where You'll Get In, and Where You Won't

Nobody writes this page honestly, because the sites that rank for these searches sell tickets and boat parties to exactly this audience. Telling a group of twelve that a third of them will be refused at the rope costs a sale. So here is the version we would want if we were organising it: which venues will not have you at all, what gets a group turned away, and how to book a week that survives night one.

Where you will be refused

Some venues do not want this trade and say so in writing. It is better to know now than at the door with eleven people behind you.

Pikes is the one that catches people out, because it is exactly the kind of place a group wants to book — it is famous, it is a hotel, and it looks like a party. Their terms are explicit. Book it as a couple or a four if you want to see it, or accept that a group of ten arriving in matching shirts will not be getting in.

The dress codes that end nights

More Ibiza group nights are lost to clothing than to capacity. Football shirts are the reliable killer — O Beach bans not just the shirts but sport-associated colours, which catches out groups who thought a plain team-coloured polo was a workaround. Fancy dress, matching printed T-shirts, inflatables and anything with a nickname on the back are all read instantly for what they are.

What actually works is unremarkable: shirts or plain tees, trousers or smart shorts in daytime venues, clean trainers. It feels like a waste of a good idea to abandon the costumes, and it is also the difference between getting in and standing outside. Save the uniform for the villa, the boat and the West End, where nobody minds.

What each venue publishes

Below is what these venues state on their own websites, quoted as policy rather than paraphrased as a rumour. Nothing here is generalised: a rule at one venue is not evidence of a rule at another, which is exactly the error that gets groups turned away with a screenshot in hand. Every one of these was read on 14 August 2026, and every one of them can change without notice, so open the venue's own terms page before you book.

Read as a set, three patterns matter for a group. The cloakroom question is not universal — Hï, Ushuaïa and Eden all publish that they have none, while Amnesia publishes that it does, so a group carrying jackets needs to know which door it is walking to. Re-entry is refused outright at Ushuaïa, Eden and O Beach, meaning a step outside for air ends the night for whoever took it. And arrival deadlines at day venues are real: O Beach publishes cut-offs from 14:00 for individual loungers through to 16:00 for VIP beds, after which the reservation can be resold and the deposit forfeited.

Check the venue's own terms page, not a forum post. The venue is the only source that can refuse you at the door.

ID, named tickets and one-name bookings

This is where group bookings quietly go wrong, because the venues genuinely differ and the organiser usually assumes one rule covers everything. Pacha's published FAQ is relaxed about it: if several tickets carry the buyer's name, the group can go to the entrance together on the night and all enter with their ID cards. Amnesia is stricter, publishing that for multiple purchases the ticket holder must be present at entry, with the purchaser's ID and the ID of each accompanying guest. Ibiza Rocks requires photographic ID matching the named lead guest on the ticket email, and will not accept a photo of an ID on a phone.

Practically, that means the organiser who books everything and then goes to bed early has created a problem at two of those three venues. Bring physical ID, keep the buyer with the group at the door, and if you are splitting up to walk in — which remains the right tactic — split into clusters that each contain someone whose name and ID work for the tickets they are holding.

How big is too big

No club publishes a group limit, so this is observation rather than policy. Friction begins at around eight arriving together, and gets serious past twelve — most sharply for all-male groups arriving after 01:00 having clearly been drinking since the afternoon.

The fix is well known to anyone who has done it: split into pairs and fours, walk up separately with a couple of minutes between each, and meet inside. Have every ticket on every individual's own phone rather than on the organiser's. Send the most sober, best-dressed pair first. None of this is deceptive — the club's concern is behaviour in the room, and a group that arrives calmly in small clusters is genuinely a lower risk than fourteen people in one mass at the rope.

Where groups are actually welcome

Plenty of the island wants your business. Ibiza Rocks is built around this audience and runs hen deals with drink vouchers and pool party offers. The boat parties are almost entirely group trade and will happily take twelve. Eden and Es Paradís in San Antonio are used to large British groups and price accordingly. The West End itself is designed for it.

Our honest recommendation for the big night, though, is a mid-size room on a weekday rather than a flagship on a Saturday. Twelve people at Eden on a Wednesday is a genuinely good night at €30 a head. Twelve people trying to get into Hï on a Saturday is an expensive queueing exercise with a real chance of half the group not getting in.

Where to base the group

San Antonio, and the West End area in particular, is where this trade has lived for decades. It is cheaper than the alternatives, it is walkable, the sunset strip is right there, and nobody will be surprised by a group of ten at 02:00. Playa d'en Bossa is the other sensible option, mainly because you can walk home from Hï and Ushuaïa rather than fighting for a taxi.

What consistently goes wrong is a group booking into a family resort because the price looked good. Grand Palladium Palace is a documented example of a hotel that hosts both audiences, and the TripAdvisor record is full of families reporting exactly the disruption you would expect. You will be the subject of complaints, and the hotel will side with the families. Read our area guides for the noise profile of each base before booking anything.

What a group week costs

The single biggest saving available to a group is doing fewer big nights. Four club nights in a row is roughly €600 a head before anything else, and by the third one nobody is enjoying it. Two properly chosen nights, with daytime recovery in between, costs less and is remembered better.

Tables for ten

This is the one situation where a table stops being a status purchase and becomes sensible. A €900–1,200 minimum at Amnesia or Pacha divided across ten people is €90–120 each, which is roughly what entry plus four bar drinks costs anyway. What you gain is a base — somewhere to leave jackets, somewhere to regroup, and a guaranteed way in for the whole group at once, which neatly solves the door problem described above.

Two cautions. The minimum is a floor, not a cap, and the service charge of 10–15% sits on top. And it only works if the money is collected before anybody flies out. Chasing three people for €110 at 04:00 has ruined more group trips than any door policy.

A week that doesn't collapse

The shape that works: arrive and do something cheap and social on the first night rather than the biggest night. Boat party on day two, in the afternoon, which is the best value group activity on the island. First club night on day two or three once everyone knows the geography. A genuine day off — a beach with no minimum spend, real food, sleep. Second club night near the end. Fly home having done two great nights instead of four blurred ones.

For the door policy, dress code and cost of each individual venue, the rankings table covers all nine sortable by price, and what entry actually costs explains the ticket tiers and the promoter offers you will be approached with in the West End.

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