Rooftop receptions for up to 120 guests, private dinners for up to 50, small meetings for up to 30 and full buyouts of the hotel can be organized at Montesol Experimental, in the old town of Ibiza. The hotel has 33 bedrooms and suites, a restaurant with a terrace and a rooftop cocktail bar, and it opened in 1933 on Passeig de Vara de Rey.
Seminars and company events
Montesol suits small and medium groups that want a hotel to themselves rather than a conference center. The hotel lists team conferences, away days, board meetings and incentive trips among the corporate events it hosts. Café Montesol can be set up as a meeting room for up to 30 people. Three of the Vara de Rey suites serve as breakout rooms for discreet discussions, which means a working group can leave the main table without leaving the building.
The hotel does not describe a plenary hall, so a program with more than 30 people in one working session needs another venue, or the rooftop for a reception. For incentive trips the team can add activities arranged with the hotel: bike tours, dinners at a chiringuito, catamaran trips to Formentera and yacht tours. The whole hotel can be booked, and a buyout is available year-round, which gives a company the 33 bedrooms, the restaurant and the terrace for its own use.
Weddings and receptions
The hotel hosts weddings, birthdays and private celebrations, and describes intimate receptions on the rooftop. The Rooftop Cocktail Bar takes up to 120 guests for sunset cocktails and evening events, with views over Dalt Vila and the marina. The hotel notes that the rooftop closes for the season from October 10 until spring, so an autumn or winter celebration will usually move to the restaurant, to the terrace or to a full buyout of the building.
Rooms and capacities
Rooftop Cocktail Bar: up to 120 guests, for cocktail receptions and evening events with views of Dalt Vila and the marina. Café Montesol: up to 50 guests for a restaurant buyout, with the option of spilling out onto the terrace, and a format built around passed canapés and a cocktail menu. Café Montesol as a meeting room: up to 30. Vara de Rey suites: three, used as breakout rooms.
Accommodation
The hotel has 33 bedrooms and suites designed by Dorothée Meilichzon. The rooms were reworked in cool, calming colors with a Bohemian Ibiza influence. A group of that size can sleep together when it takes the whole building.
Catering
Café Montesol is a restaurant and terrace serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, with dishes designed for sharing that reinterpret traditional recipes. Tapas such as salmorejo, ceviche and red prawns are listed, and dinner dishes include garlic mussels and local steak to share. Cocktails and Spanish wines are on the bar menu. The hotel does not say whether an outside caterer can be used, so ask this before planning a large banquet.
History and setting
Montesol opened in 1933 and is described as the first hotel in Ibiza. It became popular with Hollywood stars in the 1950s and has since been restored. It is run today by the Experimental group, which began in Paris in 2007 as a bar on a quiet street and later grew into restaurants and hotels. The address is Passeig de Vara de Rey 2, 07800 Ibiza, in the old town, with views of Dalt Vila and the marina.
Getting there
The hotel is about 20 minutes from Ibiza airport. It is open all year.
