Boat rental in Ibiza · Beneteau — Oceanis 473 (2008)

We spent a great day in Formentera on the boat. Emilio our very friendly employer, from the beginning he received us with a smile and was very attentive to everything we needed. We will not hesitate to repeat next year.

Emilio was a great skipper who we managed to communicate to despite our abysmal lack of Spanish. Made the trip a really memorable and enjoyable experience, Ruben helped with a lunch reservation - overall great experience

It was a great experience and Emilio was a fantastic captain.

We had an excellent time on the boat with Ricardo! Took us around to beautiful beaches!

Everything perfect, 100% recommended

Not new boat. The kind, professional but not company skipper. Welcoming. There is no shower head with water. Average rating.

What was expected to be a relaxing day along the small bays of Ibiza, turned into a stressful crossing to Formentera. Everything starts with communication. Emilio (who must be a friendly man) doesn't seem to speak a word of English or French. Very difficult then to explain what you expect from this day. Boarding the boat was already an experience. Emilio was ashore with a small zodiac. The first persons were allowed to board. The engine of the small boat did not work (presumably 'flooded') so we had to get out again. After many attempts, plan b is invoked and we are boarded via another zodiac. Emilio asks nothing and silently heads for a destination unknown… During the crossing to Formentera, Emilio only has an eye for his mobile phone (hopefully navigation application), which means that a few boats have to change course (despite having priority over us). Once arrived at 'destination' the anchor is thrown and the boat is anchored with the aft deck still in the sailing route of many other boats. Impossible to lie here quietly and have a bite to eat. When asked to lie down between the other large sailing yachts, Emilio replies that this is impossible since our boat is too deep (which seems strange to us). We ask if we can use the SUP. No problem. While Emilio is still busy with his mobile phone (already connected to an external battery), we launch the SUP ourselves. After a bit of food and swimming, we continue our journey to an unknown destination. There is still more attention for the mobile phone than for navigating. The wind is fine (half wind) for our course and so we ask to sail as the other sailboats do. This is actually somewhat the expectation when you rent a sailboat with skipper. According to Emilio, sailing is not possible for several (for us incomprehensible Spanish) reasons. We therefore have the impression that Emilio does not really know the boat and does not really know the region. As a result, the day was a big disappointment. The expectations were to explore the small bays of Ibiza while sailing. What we got was a crossing to Formentera on a motorbike along a busy sailing route. All this with a captain whose knowledge raised many questions.

Incredibly negative experience both due to the lack of professionalism of the captain and the sole priority of the owner to squeeze the most economically from his clients. First of all, we were told that the boat was in the Ibiza marina (as it appears in the advertisement) but the boat was anchored in a cove that was quite difficult to access and which cost us a lot because we had to take several taxis to get there. go shopping, go out to dinner and come back. Additionally, we agreed on a price months ago and in the contract we established that the amount to be paid for the fuel would depend on what we spent during our stay (as is quite logical). Upon arrival, the captain told us that the amount would be €150 (price closed and independent of the consumption that we were going to make, which seems incredibly illogical given that we were only going to Formentera whose consumption for this type of boat was not going to exceed 50. After negotiating with the owner, we managed to get him to enter into reason and we agreed that the captain would disembark us in the Ibiza marina and we would rest there (and in this way we would pay based on the expense we made). When we returned, the captain ignored us, anchored a cove and told us that we would disembark there and that we had to pay the €150 euros for the fuel or else we would not disembark (additionally, and in a bad way he told us that this was Ibiza and that seeing the restaurants we had dined at, we should pay this without complaining – which It is surprising that a captain decides to comment on the type of restaurants his clients choose to dine at). On the other hand, we asked if our 3 couples could come up to have an aperitif one day (we commented that we were not going to be there for more than 1 hour and it was simply because they had delayed our reservation in the restaurant and to make time for which they refused arguing that In the contract it appeared that we could not bring anyone on board - that same contract that they have respected so little for the things that interest them)