Ibiza Taxis and Late-Night Safety: Official Fares, Legal Cabs and Getting Home

Almost every expensive night here ends the same way: a group of six standing outside a club at 06:00, no plan, no bus, and a stranger offering a lift. The fares below are the published ones, and the rules below are the ones that decide whether a €14 ride becomes a €600 problem. Read this before the first night rather than during it.

This page deliberately sticks to figures that are published and checkable. Where a number is a guide rather than a fixed price, it says so, because the meter — not a website — sets what you pay.

The metered tariff

Ibiza taxis run on a meter, not on negotiation. The rates below are those published as approved for the island by the Balearic authorities, and they are corroborated by a second public fare listing with identical figures.

Two things follow from that table. First, the night rate is not a driver's improvisation — it is the published rate, and it applies from 21:00, plus Saturday afternoons, Sundays and bank holidays. Second, the meter is per car, not per passenger, so four people sharing pay one fare between them. That single fact changes the arithmetic of every group decision on this page.

What the common journeys cost

Published guide fares for the journeys most visitors make, taken from a rank, are below. Add about €1.45 if you order the car instead of joining the queue, and expect the upper end after 21:00.

Put those against a base decision and the pattern is obvious. Sleeping in San Antonio and clubbing in Playa d'en Bossa is a cross-island journey twice a night. Sleeping where you are dancing removes the fare entirely, which is the argument our where to stay for clubs guide makes with the venues named.

A €15-a-night cheaper room across the island is not cheaper once two €30 cross-island fares are in.

How to tell a licensed cab

A licensed island taxi is metered, carries a blue rear number plate, shows a green roof light when it is free and displays its licence number on the front doors. You may flag one down when you are more than 100 metres from a rank. If none of those things are true, it is not the licensed service, whatever the driver says about the queue.

The reason to care is not pedantry, it is liability. UK government travel advice for Spain states plainly that only official registered or licensed taxis or reputable transport companies should be used, and that passengers caught using unlicensed taxi services are liable for fines of up to €600. The exposure is yours, not just the driver's, and no saved fifteen minutes at the airport is worth that.

Ranks, phone and WhatsApp

There are ranks at the airport and in every town and resort, and Amnesia, for example, states that a taxi rank sits at its main entrance. The island-wide dispatch number is +34 971 33 33 33, which since February 2025 also accepts WhatsApp orders — you can send your location and receive a link tracking the car. Ordering rather than queueing adds the €1.45 supplement.

Uber operates here too, with dynamic pricing, so it can undercut or exceed the meter. Seeing the price in advance is genuinely useful for airport runs. At 06:00 outside a superclub, when demand spikes across the whole island at once, the rank and the dispatch number are the more reliable pair.

Taxi or Discobus?

The rule we use is unromantic. If the Discobus serves both your club and your base and the service is running, take the bus and treat the taxi as the fallback. Take a taxi when you have luggage, when somebody is unwell, when the service has finished for the night, when you are going somewhere the network does not reach, or when the car is genuinely full.

Four people splitting a €28 fare pay €7 each, which beats four bus fares. Two people paying €28 do not. Work out which of those you are before the club empties, because the version of this decision made at dawn is always the expensive one.

The laws that catch visitors out

Several rules here surprise visitors precisely because they are local and specific. UK government advice records that local restrictions in San Antonio — alongside Magaluf and Playa de Palma in Mallorca — ban happy hours, open-bar and all-you-can-drink offers, alcohol vending machines, self-service dispensers, organised pub crawls and party boat trips, and off-licence sales between 21:30 and 08:00. Street drinking is illegal in some areas with on-the-spot fines, and some areas fine the sale or consumption of nitrous oxide.

The same advice is blunt about drugs: illegal drugs including cannabis carry severe penalties, and possession of even a small quantity can lead to arrest and detention. It also warns specifically about illegal commercially promoted villa parties on Ibiza and Mallorca, noting that licensed clubs must meet safety standards — emergency exits, capacity limits, trained licensed security — while these events may not, and that attendees may be fined. If you are choosing between a licensed room and a villa party sold to you in the street, that is the trade-off you are actually making.

Two smaller ones with real consequences. You must produce photo ID if a police officer asks, and ignoring a direct police instruction can be treated as "disobedience", a criminal offence. And in some parts of Spain it is illegal to be in the street in only swimwear or bare-chested, with fines on promenades and adjacent streets — which is worth knowing on the walk back from a beach club.

Numbers to save before you fly

Put these in your phone at home, not in a taxi queue. 112 reaches ambulance, fire and police across Spain and works in English.

For crime reporting, minor offences such as a stolen bag can be filed online, but a violent crime or a sexual assault must be reported in person at a police station. Some Spanish cities operate a Foreign Tourist Assistance Service (SATE) where reports can be made in English, and the Spanish police run the AlertCops app for discreet contact. Our safety and practicalities guide covers healthcare, pharmacies, spiking and heat in more depth.

The exit plan for every club night

The whole of this page reduces to four decisions made before you go in. Know which bus line or rank serves your venue and save it on your map. Agree as a group whether you are taking the bus or filling a car, and what happens if somebody is missing. Keep enough charge on one phone to order a car and enough cash for a fare if a card reader fails. And agree that nobody leaves alone — UK government advice on staying safe in Spain is explicit about not splitting up, not leaving drinks unattended and saving your accommodation in a maps app.

Then use the rankings table to see each venue's arrival time, payment and ride-home notes side by side. The clubs where getting home is hardest are flagged there, and the per-person cost estimator includes the fare so the total is honest before you commit.

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