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San Jordi, Ibiza
Villa Roca
- Style
- Rock-carved, rock star villa
- Setting
- Oozing sunset views, clinging to a cliff
Just a handful of sand’s throw from Ibiza’s golden beaches, this modernist cliff-carved celeb (and royals’) hideaway is about as paparazzi-glam as it gets in Ibiza. Sun-streamed from dusk till dawn, this neighbourless, cubist, rock star villa among the pine trees has an enormous pool with underwater windows, a bar, a staff of 10 – including two butlers and a Michelin-starred chef – and a sprawling rooftop terrace complete with Jacuzzi. Sociable yet secluded, the result is a combination of glamorous party house and shut-the-world-out private escape. A complimentary luxury concierge service is offered throughout your stay, so the only finger you’ll need to lift is the one requesting another sunset martini.
‘Absolutely stunning’
‘The photos of Villa Roca don’t do it justice – the view from the villa is fantastic and the location perfect if you want to get away from it all’
House style
Cliff-carved cubist villa.
Grounds
Atop its own mountain range, overlooking the bay.
Sleeps
16.
Ideal for
Rock star parties and showing off.
Rates
From €23,800 a week in low season. SPECIAL OFFER: From 14 September, rates are reduced from €32,000 a week to €25,000 for Smith members.
Minimum hire
A week. Rental is from 3pm until 10am on the day of departure.
Eating & drinking
The Michelin-starred chef is the heart of the house. Ask and she will rustle up what your heart desires. Pick from menus, or ask to be surprised; it’s totally up to you. There are three dining zones to choose from: inside, on the roof deck and down by the pool. For dramatic dining, order a barbecue banquet on the roof, or a Michelin-starred chef’s feast down by the pool. Pick dishes from the daily house menu, request your own personal favourites, or have a picnic hamper pre-packed and ready to be enjoyed wherever you choose to lay your blanket.
Weddings
The villa is the ideal venue for an intimate ceremony with a rocking poolside after-party.
Children
Open-sided staircases and steep drops mean this house is unsuitable for little ones.
Music
The living area has a set of professional decks with an iPod docking station. There are MP3 connections in all rooms. Villa Roca’s butlers, chef and barmen know all the right people, and can point you in the most glamorous of directions. However, Deliciously Sorted, Ibiza’s premier luxury concierge service, is included in the price of the villa. Available 24 hours a day to sort out dinner reservations, a boat, a VIP table in club or even a lift to the beach, it is just a phone call or an email away.For more information, contact Deliciously Sorted (UK: +44 (0)7780 633 225; Ibiza: +34 971 197 867).
Provided
Staff of 10, including barman, butlers and chef, pool, sauna, satellite TV, DVD, CD, Sky+, WiFi in the main house, air-conditioning and safes in all bedrooms, barbecue, gym equipment, hammocks and complimentary concierge service.
Eco policy
Organic produce can be requested.
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The higgledy-piggledy house is spread over numerous floors, levels and terraces. The roof deck with its sunken chill-out zone and dining area is where you’ll be spending most of your time…
Interior
Bedrooms
There are eight double bedrooms – five in the main house and three by the pool – all with en suite bathrooms, dressing rooms and private terraces.
Bedroom 1: Master bedroom with Jacuzzi, 42-inch plasma TV, DVD, CD.
Bedroom 2: Double with in-room sunken bath and shower, and cave dressing room.
Bedroom 3: Double connected to the music room and overlooking the pool, with shower room.
Bedroom 4: Double with four-poster bed and log fire.
Bedroom 5: Double connected to the master bedroom with shower room.
Bedroom 6: Ground floor poolside double.
Bedroom 7: Ground floor poolside double.
Bedroom 8: Ground floor poolside double.
Kitchen The chef will prepare what you want, when you want.
Living room Open-plan modernist living room and dining room with access to the pool and terrace, open fire, cream leather sofas and adjacent TV room.
Dining room There are three dining zones: inside for 12 before the windows and terrace, up high on the top roof terrace for 25 and by the pool for 25.
Other This is the only villa in the Ibiza Smith & Friends collection to have its own bar complete with resident barman.
Outdoor
Poolside There is a 32m natural pool with waterfall and subaquatic windows, plus a hydro massage pool on the top terrace alongside a ‘detox box’ infra-red sauna.
Gardens The pool and bar make up the main outdoor hangout area, where 16 sun loungers lie in the shade of the surrounding pine trees.
Parking There is ample parking for up to eight cars.
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Best picnic spot
We defy you to leave the A-list confines of Villa Roca. Why not ask the chef to prepare you some top-deck delicacies to enjoy before the sunset?
Best beaches
Nearby Sa Caletta is a little red-cliffed cove, while Es Cavallet nudist beach is a beautiful sandy stretch with views to Formentera (take a left turn off the road that leads to Salinas – just after you pass the salt dunes). Salinas beach is also near the villa and is a hotspot for the gorgeous people. It has a handy sun lounger service but – be warned – this beach gets very busy in high season. North-coast Cala d’en Serra, near Portinatx, is a well-kept secret. Aguas Blancas on the northeast coast has a great chiringuito serving caipirinhas and steak sandwiches. Nearby Cala Jondal in the east is beloved for its seafood restaurants.
Activities
Hire a 4x4 and take to the dirt tracks that criss-cross the pine forests in the north of the island. There’s limitless opportunity for golf, sailing, water-skiing, windsurfing, diving, horse-riding, go-karting and hot-air balloon trips, too. Speak to Deliciously Sorted to arrange.
Smith tip
Roca rooftop etiquette: start your evening with a chilled glass of champagne at sunset in the Jacuzzi, as the barbecue sizzles in the background… before falling back on plump Bedouin tent cushions and psyching yourself up for your feast.
Eating, drinking and dancing
Restaurants
Blue Marlin
+34 971 410117
Feed each other whilst lying on double beds on the sand and listening to live music. Needless to say, the fresh fish is spectacular.
Cala Jondal, Ibiza
Ca n’Alfredo
+34 971 311274
For Ibizan prawns, stuffed squid and sorbet with balsamic vinegar.
Passeig Vara de Rey 16, 07800 Eivissa
Jockey Club
+34 971 395 788
Just 10 minutes away at Salinas beach, this restaurant on the sand really kicks into gear at night.
Playa Salinas, 07817 Eivissa
Es Torrent
+34 971 802160
Located in a beautiful bay near Porroig, this restaurant does excellent seafood. Book a week in advance in summer, and order your fish the day before.
The Jockey Club
+34 971 395788
Have lunch in style at this informal brasserie. Bring a yacht – everyone else seems to.
Las Salinas beach
La Brasa
+34 971 301202
For dinner, this place serves local dishes in a courtyard garden; ask for a table on the right.
Calle Pere Sala, Ibiza Town
El Ayoun
+34 971 198335
This restaurant has a cool Arabian Nights-style Moroccan atmosphere.
Calle Isidor, Macabich s/n, San Rafael
L’Elephant
+34 971 198056
A San Rafael favourite, attracting a crowd every bit as stylish as its French menu.
San Rafael, Ibiza
KM5
+34 971 396349
This popular venue is decked out with Bedouin tents and loungers.
On the road between Ibiza Town and San Jose
Macao Café
At the far end of the dock in Ibiza Town, this stylish waterfront bar is popular at sunset and serves delicious fish dishes.
The Marina, Ibiza Town
Cafés
Croissant Show
+34 971 319610
Watch pavement life go by as you dip fresh croissants into coffee.
Pg de s’Alamera 5, Santa Eulalia
Cana Sofia
+34 971 808273
Plump for fresh bream or monkfish, and watch the bobbing boats from across golden sands.
Cala Vadella beach, Ibiza
El Bigote
For lunch, try this humble place serving only fish stew; you’ll eat like royalty – provided you can get a table. There’s no phone, so book in person a few days in advance.
Mastella beach
El Chiringuito
A beach café that caters to a clientele accustomed to being waited on hand and foot; snacks are brought to the sunloungers.
Es Cavallet beach, Ibiza
Café Benirràs
Watch the sun go down at this café on the celebrated north-coast beach.
Northern tip of Ibiza, near the port of San Miguel
Bars
Base Bar
Get the lowdown on the best parties over cocktails at this hangout.
Placa sa Riba, Ibiza Town
Pacha
www.pacha.com
The creation of this club opposite the marina in 1973 marked the dawn of a new era of decadence. Friday night is best.
Avenida Ocho de Agosto, Ibiza Town
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Housekeeping
Staff attend to housekeeping needs daily.
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Getting there
Planes Iberia, British Airways and EasyJet all fly into Ibiza airport, which is about five miles southwest of Ibiza Town. Direct flights take a little over two hours from the UK. (There are no direct flights from the UK during November to March.) If you’re not hiring a car, taxis from the rank outside the airport are metred and reasonable (around €10 for the trip to Ibiza Town).
Local taxi service Taxi San Joan (+34 971 333033), WBW private driving service (+34 696 253759). For car hire, click on our Travel Offers page. Smithcard holders get a 10 per cent discount with Hertz.
Directions by road Forget map-reading nightmares – one of the Villa Roca’s butlers will pick you up from the airport. But, in case you get lost one balmy evening after dinner in Ibiza Town, here are directions for your records… Immediately on leaving the airport there is a right-hand turn to San Jose next to an old windmill. This is a funny junction and you need to turn right then approach the junction facing the main road. Cross the main road and head for San Jose. Follow the road for approximately 2km until you hit the next roundabout that leads on to the main road from Ibiza to San Jose. Turn right towards Ibiza Town and join the main road. After about 100m, take the next left on the other side of the main road. Follow the bendy tarmac road for about 1km until you see some large green rubbish bins on your right. After 20m the road splits: take the right-hand fork. Follow the lane for approximately 200m until you see a turning to the right. Follow this track for about 1km, and you will see Villa Roca at the top of the hill.
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Wake up to the clinking sound of a cocktail being mixed by the pool, then jump into the rooftop’s sunken chill-out zone – you won’t be moving until the light of the golden sunset pours over you
Walking into Villa Roca is like stepping onto a film set. The cliff-carved house is headswimmingly glamorous; modernist grandeur and a melange of cubist-style, floor-to-ceiling glass and exposed cliff face beckons you in. Minimalist yet comfortable this extra-special vacation rental is a labyrinthine, cavernous masterpiece that is also bright, light and ethereal. Oozing star quality, it’s hard to resist cajoling the house staff into revealing which celebrities and royals have stayed here. Ask away, but they won’t tell. Discretion is the name of the game at Villa Roca.
You wind your way up a rocky road to reach this party-perfect house in the sky – a lung-refreshingly 200m above sea level. Here, a barbecue sizzles on the rooftop terrace and awaits your arrival, while an enormous pool begs you to slip under its sun-warmed water. Up-lit, fountain-kissed cliff face leads you inside, and exposed rock walls make subtle appearances throughout the rest of the house; a cave dressing room here, a tree poking through a terrace floor there… Built around the stone of the cliff, this is a dramatic natural invasion of a pristine, rock-star space.
Lolling in one of five hammocks that overlook Salinas, Playa d’en Bossa and beyond to the island of Formentera, you find it’s easy to imagine being alone on this island. Yet as peaceful, still and full of silence as it is, high up here in the clouds, you’re still just 10 minutes from the cosmopolitan hub of Ibiza Town – and only a handy 10 minutes from the airport.
Like an optical illusion, floating white-cube staircases lead you all over Villa Roca: across cool Brazilian stone floors, through a maze of bedrooms with in-room sunken baths, past open fires and into red-lit, chill-out rooms. No inch of cliff face has been left unturned to create this palatial rock ’n’ roll retreat. The master bedroom isn’t just a bedroom, it’s a Jo Malone-packed, Jacuzzi-filled piece of art, overlooking the sparkling lights of Ibiza.
This sole intention of this villa, with its evanescent team of 10 staff (including a barman, two butlers and a chef), is to pamper you. Whether you sink into the rooftop Jacuzzi, the burgundy cushions in the Bedouin tent or the cream sofa under the stretched plasma screen, there are so many different rooms, levels and terraces that you’ll never want to leave. Wake up to the clinking sound of a cocktail being mixed down by the pool, pick out your day’s meals from the chef’s menu, then go and jump into the rooftop’s sunken chill-out zone – you won’t be moving until the light of the golden sunset pours over you. Fit-for-a-superstar chic? Tick. Heartstoppingly-stunning views? Check. The ultimate rock-star Ibiza villa? Oh yes.
Reviewed by Charlotte Crisp
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