‘We’ll get drunk no matter what’: Boozy British tourists cause havoc in Magaluf as drunken brawls and bad behaviour are the norm in notorious party town – and despite Spanish authorities’ desperate attempts to ban it, they say they will never stop
Boozy British ravers have stuck two fingers up at the Mallorcan authorities who are desperately trying to clamp down on binge drinking and all-night benders in the party town of Magaluf.
After 10,000 locals marched through Palma, telling tourists to ‘go home’, the government of the Balearic Islands introduced a slew of restrictions in a bold attempt to stop alcohol and drug-fuelled partying.
However, when MailOnline visited Magaluf this week, Brits cackled with laughter at the thought they would stop bingeing because of the new rules and said the Spanish government should just ‘f*** off’ and they were going to ‘get p***ed’ no matter what.
Joining throngs of Brits on a wild night out in Magaluf, our reporters witnessed debauchery, drunkenness, fights, arrests, and even a youngster from Barnsley flashing his genitals in front of two young Spanish children.
At the start of the summer season last week, protesters from all walks of life gathered to call for limits on the number of tourists flying in.
Two British youths started fighting in the street outside the Night Flight club
The pair were swinging their arms and tearing each other’s shirts off as a crowd of spectators gathered
Authorities who are desperately trying to clamp down on binge drinking and all-night benders in the party town of Magaluf
A young women cries after an argument as she sits on the floor surrounded by a group of fellow party-goers
A pair of girls decided it was the perfect time for a skinny dip in the sea as dawn started to break
They had already had their fun when the police asked them to put their clothes back on, but didn’t arrest them.
Police asked them to cover up when they arrived, as the pair stood topless on the party beach
Jimmy, 18 from Nottingham sticks his tongue out at the camera as he gets a tattoo done on a boozy night out
Tattoo outlets on the Magaluf strip are filled with drinkers getting spontaneous art work
They accused foreigners of inflating property prices and driving up the cost of living.
Banging drums and holding banners telling tourists to ‘go home’, demonstrators forced the city’s main road to close as police officers armed with batons and wearing stab-proof vests surveilled the march from riot vans.
In neighbouring Magaluf, the authorities have toughened laws against binge drinking in a bid to gentrify Magaluf and fight against ‘excessive tourism’.
On May 11, the government has banned drinking on the street and shops have been banned from selling alcohol past 8.30pm.
Anyone breaking the rules could be fined up to €1,500 (£1,350).
If someone’s offence is decided to be more serious, the fines could increase to €3,000 (£2,550).
Every tourist fined will be reported to their respective embassies.
Yet as tourists from around Britain converged in a sweaty mess of teenage angst on the streets of Magaluf at around 8pm, law and order seemed the last thing on anyone’s minds.
Two young lovers kiss in the street as others watch on, while the sun begins to rise over their night out
The scantily-dressed pair are bare-foot as they snog in the middle of the road in Magaluf
It comes fter 10,000 locals marched through Palma, telling tourists to ‘go home’
One man happily posed with his purchase of the night – a white T-Shirt that said ‘I love boobs’
The government of the Balearic Islands introduced a slew of restrictions in a bold attempt to stop alcohol and drug-fuelled partying
Locals have accused foreigners of inflating property prices and driving up the cost of living
On May 11, the government has banned drinking on the street and shops have been banned from selling alcohol past 8.30pm
In Magaluf, the authorities have toughened laws against binge drinking in a bid to gentrify Magaluf and fight against ‘excessive tourism’
Walking along the street in the evening sun, two men from Barnsley shouted up at a balcony of women, only for their advances to be spurned.
Taking offence at the women’s disinterest in a pair of topless drunk men in sliders, the duo started shouting at them, with one telling the women he would ‘f*** your legs off’.
As the women laughed down at the idiotic youngsters and MailOnline started filming them, a Spanish family with two small children walked in front of the boys.
It was at this moment that one of the men pulled down his shorts, exposing himself, and started shaking his penis up and down in front of the horrified family.
The man seemed unperturbed at wiggling his manhood at two children, as his friend shouted ‘come on, come on’, before the exposed man stepped back and pulled his shorts back up.
They walked away, chanting ‘Yorkshire, Yorkshire,’ before moments later taking offence again, this time at a paper cup lying on the street near the lobby of their hotel, the HM Martinique.
Standing over the cup, the man with a chain around his neck asked the cup, ‘You what mate?’
He added: ‘You are a f***ing pr***. You’re a f***ing pr*** mate. I’ll f***ing kill ya.’
One woman was escorted to a police car as cops decided her night had been wild enough
Party-goers in football shirts made the most of the evening’s entertainment as they enjoyed the June night out
As tourists from around Britain converged in a sweaty mess of teenage angst on the streets of Magaluf at around 8pm, law and order seemed the last thing on anyone’s minds
Two pals in matching shirts and bum bags posed together as they danced the night away
Brits posed for photos along the notorious strip as they enjoyed a rowdy night on the town
Jose (far right) with other Taxi Drivers from Taxis Calvia, who escort revellers across the island
As the paper cup started rolling away in the wind, his friend saw his chance and stamped on the cup, crushing it.
This set the scene for the night to come. Heading towards the main Magaluf Strip, MailOnline watched as Brits from all corners of the country – from Newcastle to Portsmouth and Southend to Liverpool – hit the bars after a heavy evening of pre-drinking in their hotel rooms.
On the way to the Strip, one girl had also dived into the wildness of the notorious Magaluf nightlife and was getting her bottom tattooed in a studio with a glass front.
Her white thong was in full view to passers-by in the street as her friends watched her receive the tattoo.
A little down the road, sitting in New Revolution, a bar on the main Strip, Punta Balena street, former bar promoter Ashton, 18, from the Shankill Road in Belfast, told MailOnline no Spanish laws would stop Brits from getting drunk.
Ashton came to Magaluf when he was 17 on May 1, but turned 18 days later on May 5. He worked at Galaxy, the bar opposite before he told the manager to ‘f*** off’.
He said: ‘We’re here, f*** Spain, let’s get drunk and f*** off back home, let’s go.
‘Nothing will stop the UK from getting lit.
On the way to the Strip, one girl had also dived into the wildness of the notorious Magaluf nightlife and was getting her bottom tattooed in a studio with a glass front
Former bar promoter Ashton, 18, from the Shankill Road in Belfast, told MailOnline no Spanish laws would stop Brits from getting drunk
A young Canadian man gets his fish Tattoo in three days, as staff at the studio report he comes in every day for a new tattoo with a different women
Jimmy, 18 from Nottingham lies back and gets a tattoo on the Magaluf strip
Brits from all corners of the country – from Newcastle to Portsmouth and Southend to Liverpool – hit the bars after a heavy evening of pre-drinking in their hotel rooms
‘I’ve had two fights. Someone was trying to start on me because of where I’m from, the Shankill.
‘Some Irish bloke. I didn’t say nothing but then he said something cheeky and I just whack, whack. Had to get sent home from the job.’
Walking down the street, we met Max, 18, a woodworks joiner from Nottingham who was in Magaluf celebrating his birthday and his friend Jimmy, also 18.
The pair were deciding which tattoo to get at Sailor Tattoo House. Jimmy wanted to get his mother’s date of birth on his arm but he couldn’t remember it, so he phoned her up to ask.
Not best pleased at her son getting a tattoo, she pleaded down the phone for him not to go ahead with it.
Regardless, he lay down, sticking out his tongue as the tattoo artist worked on the skin of his upper right arm.
After it was covered in cling film, he looked at his new tattoo in the mirror next to a sign that said ‘stop balconing, jump and die in your own country,’ a reference to tourists who have died after falling from their hotel balconies.
Jimmy said his mother would like the tattoo and that ‘it’s not much of a tattoo really’.
Max, 18, a woodworks joiner from Nottingham who was in Magaluf celebrating his birthday and his friend Jimmy, also 18
Max couldn’t decide what to get. He already had a tattoo showing his love for Nottingham Forest Football Club on the right cheek of his bottom
Jimmy wanted to get his mother’s date of birth on his arm but he couldn’t remember it, so he phoned her up to ask
Not best pleased at her son getting a tattoo, Jimmy’s mother pleaded down the phone for him not to go ahead with it
He added: ‘It shows friendship, better than a tattoo showing nothing’.
Meanwhile, his pal Max couldn’t decide what to get. He already had a tattoo showing his love for Nottingham Forest Football Club on the right cheek of his bottom.
Finally, he found a way to avoid the dilemma: he would get the exact same tattoo, the letters NFFC, inscribed on the top of his left thigh.
Chatting about the new regulations to curb binge drinking, the party lover said: ‘F*** ’em. I went to Zante last year and got arrested.
‘I started swinging at Greek police. I don’t know why but they weren’t happy with me, so I went, ‘F*** off you Greek c***s. About three hours later they let me go.’
A solitary police car drove slowly past the tattoo parlour.
Max seemed unfazed. He said: ‘I’ve not been arrested yet so here we are. [Magaluf] is the place for Brits.
‘Nothing is going to stop me, I can’t lie.’
Jimmy said his mother would like the tattoo and that ‘it’s not much of a tattoo really’
Jimmy added: ‘It shows friendship, better than a tattoo showing nothing’
Max found a way to avoid the dilemma: he would get the exact same tattoo, the letters NFFC, inscribed on the top of his left thigh
Max already has a matching tattoo of for his football club on his buttock
Tattoo outlets on the Magaluf strip are filled with drinkers getting spontaneous art work
Police patrol the Magaluf strip with their lights on as they wait for the night to get rowdy
Max revealed he was supposed to be working but had pulled a sickie.
He said: ‘They don’t know that I’m off work for about three days. I’ve told them I’m ill. They won’t work it out, we’ll be fine.’
Two young girls from Liverpool walked in as Max was speaking, prompting him to shout ‘Scouse b******s’ before asking if they’d like to take a photo with him. They declined.
One of girls, a law student and OnlyFans model called Liv, said any attempt by the Mallorcan authorities to stop Brits drinking would never work.
She said: ‘It won’t stop people drinking. I don’t get it. It brings money.’
Walking further down the road, Brits were openly drinking in the street, flouting the authorities’ new rules and risking a fine of up to €1,500 (£1,350).
One woman had seemingly taken things too far and police stepped in.
Wearing a short black dress and silver high heels, she was arrested and frogmarched into a police car.
Wearing a short black dress and silver high heels, one woman was arrested and frogmarched into a police car
She had seemingly taken things too far and police stepped in
Brits laid sprawled out on the road as they cooled down outside after a night in the bars and clubs
Bob O’Reilly, and Lorca Reilly, both 19, from Knockbridge in Co Cavan, Ireland understood why the Mallorcan authorities wanted to get rid of binge drinkers but said it was the fault of the English
Ravers John and Sam from East Albright, Scotland, blamed tourists’ poor reputation on the English, who they said were all ‘w***ers’.
It was a view shared by Bob O’Reilly, and Lorca Reilly, both 19, from Knockbridge in Co Cavan, Ireland.
They understood why the Mallorcan authorities wanted to get rid of binge drinkers but said it was the fault of the English.
Bob said: ‘They have a valid point but they will not stop it completely. It helps the tourism sector as there is less drunk lunatics on the street.
‘Ban the English pr***s.’
Meanwhile, Preston MacIntyre, 17, from Scotland, told MailOnline: ‘As Scottish people, f*** the English.
‘I came to Magaluf and I realised the English are s***ebags.
‘I’m 17 but I tell the girls I’m 21. You get away with it. Everyone’s coming to Magaluf.’
Sinead O’Sullivan, 19, left, Lloyd Yanslaw, 19, centre, and Chloe Crinnion, 20, right, from Cork, Ireland
Two young lovers kiss in the street after a rowdy night out on the party-ridden streets of Magaluf
Walking further down the road, Brits were openly drinking in the street, flouting the authorities’ new rules and risking a fine of up to €1,500 (£1,350)
One partygoer struts across the strip in a ripped white t-shirt and denim shorts
He sauntered away as two British youths started fighting in the street outside the Night Flight club, swinging their arms and tearing each other’s shirts off.
In Tokio Joe’s, a nightclub on the Strip, Irish partygoer Chloe Crinnion, 20, was dancing with her boyfriend Lloyd Yamslaw, 19, and her best friend Sinéad O’Sullivan, 19.
While Chloe didn’t blame just the English, she said people needed ‘a little bit more composure’.
She told MailOnline: ‘Certain people are taking the p***. People need to have respect for the area.’
Still, she said stopping the boozy night completely was ‘never going to happen’.
Chloe added: ‘This place is a drunk – everyone is on drugs, alcohol. It’s a bit mad out here. You come here for one reason and one reason only.’
As the night started to wind up at around 6am, topless Brits relaxed in the street while a group of French tourists laughed at their friend who had apparently been crying non-stop for the past three hours.
Half-naked Brits snogged each other barefoot and a pair of girls decided it was the perfect time for a skinny dip in the sea as dawn started to break.
Standing outside at the end of the night, events management student Bianca Hall, 20, said Magaluf had the nickname of Shagaluf ‘for a reason’
Liverpool John Moores student Bianca, who is also a deputy manager at a holiday resort nursery, said she came to Magaluf with her girlfriends to party and have a good time
Jimmy gets his tattoo prepared before he committed to the inking
A reveller with a ripped t-shirt recovers from a fight that tore his clothes as he walks in the middle of the road
They had already had their fun when the police asked them to put their clothes back on, but didn’t arrest them.
Standing outside at the end of the night, events management student Bianca Hall, 20, said Magaluf had the nickname of Shagaluf ‘for a reason’.
Liverpool John Moores student Bianca, who is also a deputy manager at a holiday resort nursery, said she came to Magaluf with her girlfriends to party and have a good time.
She told MailOnline: ‘It’s a party place for young people. It’s been going on for generations, for decades.
‘It’s cheap compared to Ibiza, I went there two years ago.
‘Because of how many people come over and UK culture, I feel as a whole [Brits] won’t follow [Spanish drinking restrictions].
‘If you’re from England, you think it’s all a laugh and a joke and if there’s 100, 200 people in the street doing it, how are they going to stop it?
‘It’s a mentality we subconsciously have ingrained into our brains.’
When the clubs finally turfed their punters out at around 6am, MailOnline bumped into Zak William-Birch, a hairdresser from Market Drayton, Shropshire, 28
Tattooist at Sailor Tattoo House on the Magaluf main strip raises his hands outside his workplace
The toilet in Tokio Joe’s where toilet assistant John 45 works, and a towel is covered in badges
Party-goers slump on the floor outside a night club after a tiring night partying in Magaluf
Bars and restaurants report Magaluf is unseasonably quiet with many tables empty and some outlets completely deserted
Seats at the eateries lie empty as the streets remain packed with revellers
She walked away down the street as drunk tourists were sprawled on the pavement, some dancing, others drinking in the street.
One man happily posed with his purchase of the night – a white T-Shirt that said ‘I love boobs’.
When the clubs finally turfed their punters out at around 6am, MailOnline bumped into Zak William-Birch, a hairdresser from Market Drayton, Shropshire, 28.
He laughed at the suggestion the Spanish authorities could stop British people from drinking.
He said: ‘They count on us coming and spending our money and us Brits spend our money.
‘We want to get out of cold, s****y Britain.
‘British drinking culture is completely different from any other.’
His friend Becca Overton, 19, a pharmacist from Portsmouth, said she came to Magaluf to ‘get p***ed’. She didn’t believe restrictions would work and said it would hurt hard-working Mallorcans trying to make a living.
Becca Overton, 19, a pharmacist from Portsmouth, said she came to Magaluf to ‘get p***ed’. Pictured: With a Spanish man, name unknown
She didn’t believe restrictions would work and said it would hurt hard-working Mallorcans trying to make a living
A man drinks from a bottle in the street – despite drinking in public now being banned in Magaluf
Magaluf’s restaurants say they are being left empty despite the raucous crowds hitting the island
Gripping onto the arm of a Spanish man she met during the night who didn’t speak any English, she said: ‘We’re still going to get p***ed.’
The Spanish authorities have redoubled their efforts against binge drinking Brits on the streets of Mallorca.
The Civil Guard sent armed reinforcements to Magaluf on Tuesday morning to support the local police in an operation dubbed High Impact Zulu Bravo 2024.
The new anti-drinking crackdown will last for at least five years, by which time officials hope to have cleaned up the town.
However, by the look of the town and its gaggle of rowdy, drunken Brits fuelled by cheap beer, vapes and drugs, five years seems far too short a time to make a dent in the culture of Magaluf.
