Scenes of drunkenness broke out on the streets of Magaluf last night as young British holidaymakers partied into the early hours of the morning.
Groups of young women cheered as a nightclub doorman lifted a reveler into the air like a dumb bell.
Young men chatted as they flitted between bars in the resort’s infamous strip.
But at least two tourists lay sprawled on the ground, overwhelmed by excessive alcohol consumption.
Police and paramedics rushed to the scene and the young people were taken to hospital unconscious.
Others sat on the side of the road in tears as their ideas of fun ended in misery.
Groups of young women cheered as a nightclub doorman lifted a reveler into the air like a dumb bell
Young men chatted as they flitted between bars in the resort’s infamous strip
Pictured: Brits on the strip in Magaluf, Mallorca last night
Police and paramedics rushed to the scene after the youths became unconscious
These sights of drunken excess are no surprise to the many bars and night shops that litter this sheltered cove on Mallorca’s south coast.
“Every night the young people are drinking and partying,” a shopkeeper told MailOnline.
‘The nightclubs stay open until six in the morning, but the worst is between 2 and 3 am.
‘Then the streets are full of drunk people. They drink so much and they start falling over and fighting.”
It comes as Spain’s Balearic Islands have vowed to crack down on booze-filled holidays.
Tourist hotspots including Palma, Llucmajor and Magaluf in Mallorca and San Antonio in Ibiza have stepped up efforts to curb rowdy behavior by increasing fines for drinking on the streets, banning shops from selling alcohol at night and restricting party boats lay.
In a bid to tighten the islands’ 2020 legislation, partygoers now face fines of between €500 and €1,500 if their street use ‘disrupts coexistence, involves crowds or degrades the tranquility of the environment’.
Party boats are no longer allowed to operate closer than one nautical mile (1,852 km) from designated areas and are prohibited from picking up or dropping off passengers.
These sights of drunken excess are no surprise to the many bars and night shops that litter this sheltered cove on Mallorca’s south coast.
Tourist hotspots including Palma, Llucmajor and Magaluf in Mallorca and San Antonio in Ibiza have stepped up efforts to curb rowdy behavior by increasing fines for drinking on the streets, banning shops from selling alcohol at night and restricting party boating lay.
In a bid to tighten the islands’ 2020 legislation, partygoers now face fines of between €500 and €1,500 (£430 and £1,290) if their street use ‘disrupts coexistence, involves crowds or the tranquility of the environment deteriorates’
Party boats are no longer allowed to operate closer than one nautical mile (1,852 km) from designated areas and are prohibited from picking up or dropping off passengers
Brits enjoy a boozy night on the strip in Magaluf, Mallorca
Shops selling alcohol in areas with ‘excessive tourism’ must now close completely between 9.30pm and 8am, rather than simply stopping selling booze between these hours.
The strict rules, which also ban tourists from organizing public drinking parties, spraying graffiti, riding scooters and showing nudity, will remain in place until at least December 2027 – after which the government hopes the law will no longer be needed .
When the stricter rules came into force earlier this month, angry Brits drinking in bars and walking along the Magaluf strip told MailOnline their holidays were ‘ruined’ by the crackdown and claimed the party resort was trying to rebrand itself as a family destination .
Daniel Vella, 24, from Portsmouth, said: ‘Magaluf is for a good time. If you come to a place to party, you should be able to party. I think if they bring in all that stuff it will ruin this place. It’s already going downhill.’
His friend Bradley Shetland-Carter, also 24, said: ‘We’re English, we’re British, we drink a lot. If you ban drinks at 9:30 pm, we need more alcohol. We come here to get drunk and drink all day…f*** the rules.”
As he walked back from a day at the beach before heading to bars, Daniel continued, “It’s going to destroy this place. We’ve been four times. It’s still early in the season, but it’s much more dead than usual. I think if they put a liquor ban in place and make it more than what it is, it will ruin things.”
Charlie Jay, 25, from Torquay, Devon, walked with a group of boys to another bar after filling up at a kebab shop. He said: ‘Everyone knows Magaluf as it is, don’t they? Magaluf is the party location so I don’t think they can change that. I came here five years ago and nothing has changed. It’s gotten better if anything.
‘Everyone knows it as the party location, so people will continue to come there for years and years.’ When asked what he likes about the party resort, he added: “Anything goes in Magaluf, it’s what they say on the tin.”
Shops selling alcohol in areas of ‘excessive tourism’ must now close completely between 9:30 PM and 8:00 AM, rather than simply stopping selling drinks between these hours
The strict rules, which also ban tourists from organizing public drinking parties, spraying graffiti, riding scooters and showing nudity, will remain in force until at least December 2027.
Tourists gather on the strip in Magaluf, Mallorca for a boozy night out
Carl Shurley, from Leicestershire, agreed, telling MailOnline on the beach promenade: ‘That’s what Magaluf is about, it’s here for a good time. You’re here for a good time, not for a long time. This drinking ban will only ruin the holiday.’
The 34-year-old, who was catching up on a hen party, added: ‘They’re turning it from a party place into a family place, that’s what they’re trying to do. They should just keep it as it is, that’s what Magaluf is known for. Benidorm is your family/party resort and that’s what Magaluf tries to do.
He said the crackdown was against the British “because we are behaving like t***s.”
“I noticed there are hardly any party boats here,” he added. ‘You destroy it, that’s what they do with it. People will be disappointed, they will lose a lot of customers. It’s a party island, people spend a lot of money here, now that they’re changing it, they’re going to ruin it.”