Escorts in Cala Jondal, Ibiza — Companions for Blue Marlin and the Anchorage

People arrive from late morning and the bay fills through lunch. It is pebbles rather than sand, so bring something to walk on them in, and the water goes deep quickly. The rhythm starts slow and gets louder through the afternoon, which is the point.

Blue Marlin runs the centre of it — beds, a restaurant and a dance floor by the water — and the front positions are taken well ahead in August. Tropicana sits at the other end of the cove with less volume; Es Xarcu, a short drive around the coast, is the plainer alternative: fish, a terrace over the rocks, no music. The beach clubs guide compares the options and the prices guide covers cost.

Through July and August the anchorage fills with boats and the shoreline turns into a tender rank. A large share of the people at the beach clubs never touched the road: they came from a charter that left Marina Botafoch that morning. That is the most comfortable way to do Cala Jondal, and our yacht day service coordinates the boat, the lunch and the tender in and out. Charters need about a week's notice in August.

By road it is twenty to twenty-five minutes from Ibiza Town and rather more from Santa Eulària. The last stretch is a narrow lane down to the water where parking is limited and goes early in August, so a driver dropping you at the top beats circling for a space.

Because nobody stays in the cove itself, guests come from elsewhere. The villas in the hills above the bay and around Es Cubells are the closest option — see the private villa service. Otherwise people base themselves in Ibiza Town or Talamanca and drive down, which the where to stay guide covers in full.

A companion needs thirty to forty minutes to reach the cove from the town side, longer on a busy August afternoon. This is not a short-notice booking: ask a day or two ahead in the shoulder season and several days in high summer.

It makes no sense as a two-hour arrangement either. A Cala Jondal day is lunch, an afternoon in the bay and then somewhere to go afterwards, which normally means dinner back in town or at a villa in Sant Josep. Most clients book the whole block through into the evening, and the girlfriend experience format suits that length better than a formal dinner booking.

The dress code is beach-luxe and it is real: linen, a kaftan, swimwear with something over it. Budget generously, because a front-row bed in August is a serious line before anyone orders. It is also one of the most looked-at bays in the Mediterranean, and our companions are used to that — they avoid photographs and do not turn a lunch into a scene. For a quieter afternoon, the coves on the Es Vedrà side are twenty minutes west.