MINIMUM spend lunches at €250-a-head, €700-a-week hire cars, Michael Gove on the dancefloor. Yikes! Is it any wonder Ibiza’s been a little quieter this summer.

Ask any regular visitors or business owners and they’ll tell you the same thing; the White Island is anything but empty, but there’s definitely less visitors than last year.

Meanwhile, getting a restaurant booking is still advisable weeks before you arrive, while the service has noticeably gone south, thanks to anyone on a waiter’s salary struggling to afford a rental.

Could it be that the hippest island in the Med has finally boiled over? Priced itself out of the market? 

Ibiza has certainly become a money trap for anyone not keeping their wits about them and doing their homework well in advance.

Take the words of stalwart DJ Carl Cox, one of the original spinmasters who made the island famous back in the late 80s and the Summer of Love.

Back doing a weekly slot after some time away, he recently insisted: “The island is a bit weird now…Anything commercial is considered successful… Everything is more expensive and there are a lot of private jets and yachts around. There is still cool stuff going on but you have to know where to find it.DJ ”

I’ll second that. You definitely need to know where to go and, despite a good deal of research this year, I’ve made my fair share of mistakes.

A lot of the problem is location, as half the…