Parts of the Spanish resort of Magaluf on the island of Mallorca may be closed down after crowds of young tourists were caught on video running amok without wearing masks or respecting social distancing, authorities said.
Spanish hoteliers and frustrated residents see the Covid-19 break as the perfect chance to replace the country’s boozy all-inclusive holiday packages with a more attractive and sustainable tourism model. But is it already too late?
Spain's Balearic Islands passed a bill Friday aimed at clamping down on alcohol-fuelled holidays in the Mediterranean archipelago which bans happy hours when drinks are offered at a discount.
Local authorities on Spain's holiday Island of Mallorca have put up 20 posters warning of heavy penalties for nudity, fighting and other alcohol-fuelled misbehaviour.
As the summer season gets underway on Spain's Islands, the UK Foreign Office issued a warning to young Brits considering spending the summer working as PRs or “touts” in clubs and bars.
In addition to the arrests, 3kg of cocaine and other drugs as well as €103,000 in cash were recently seized in resort hotspot Magaluf, British media reported on Sunday.
For Spain-bound Brits, “Maga" has long been synonymous with the promise of boozy all-night beach parties far from Blighty’s drizzly shores. But the US President’s appropriation of the hashtag has led to some pretty amusing culture clashes on Twitter.
They're young, on holiday, drunk and sometimes high, and they decide to jump from their hotel or apartment balcony into the pool. But some miss and end up in hospital... or worse, dead.
No visit to Ibiza would be complete without taking to the high seas for a trip round the White Isle soaking up the sun and enjoying a drink or two, while a DJ spins the hits of the summer.
Firefighters in Magaluf were called out for an unusual rescue; to retrieve a British tourist who passed out on top of a beach observation tower after a night out.
"Tourists go home. Refugees welcome" is just one of the slogans to have appeared this week daubed on the walls of the historic centre of Palma, the capital of the holiday island of Mallorca.
Spanish police have arrested 20 suspected members of a ring that swindled tens of thousands of euros from drunken tourists on the holiday island of Majorca by stealing their credit card numbers.
As British police pound the party streets of Magaluf, running the gauntlet of inebriated selfie-seeking tourists, The Local’s Fiona Govan questions whether they really could help rid the resort of its heinous reputation.
British police will join Spanish forces patrolling the notorious Balearic Islands resorts of Magaluf and San Antonio from Monday, in a two-week trial aimed at dealing with disorderly British
revellers.
A British photojournalist has captured his fellow countrymen at their worst as they enjoy the excesses that Ibiza has to offer. The Local talks to Peter Dench on the publication of his new book "British Abroad".
Sick and tired of tourists behaving badly on their holidays, the popular resort of Lloret de Mar on Spain's northeastern coast will now banish troublemakers from their hotels.
Police are investigating "grope parties", "wet T-shirt" competitions and "twerking contests" in Salamanca amid fears that Spain's oldest university city is on its way to becoming the next Magaluf.
Magaluf has introduced tough new laws designed to clean up the image of the tawdry resort, and after only one day local bar owners are already moaning about the heavy police presence.
Nine British citizens have been arrested in eight raids in Majorca's controversial Magaluf resort, with a total of €24,000 ($31,000) in cash and cash being seized.
The head of Calvià police on the holiday island of Majorca has been arrested following corruption claims filed by businessmen and bar owners in the notorious binge drinking hotspot of Magaluf.
A young British man suffered serious injuries in the Majorcan party town of Magaluf on Wednesday morning when he fell four stories while attempting to climb from one room to another along the outside of an apartment building.
A nightclub in the notorious Spanish holiday resort of Magaluf in Majorca has been forced to close for a year by local authorities following a sex-for-drinks scandal which made international headlines.
British tourists in the infamous party resort of Magaluf in Majorca have destroyed the apartment block where they were staying when a prank involving an aerosol and a lighter went horribly wrong.
