Mayhem in Magaluf after boozy UK vacationers occasion into the early hours

Scenes of drunken carnage erupted in 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 night-club doorman lifted a reveller into the air like a dumb bell.

Young men chatted as they flitted between bars in the resort’s notorious strip.

But at least two tourists, overcome by excessive alcohol, lay sprawled on the ground.

Police and paramedics rushed to the scene and the youngsters were taken to hospital unconscious.

Others sat on the side of the road in tears, as their ideas of fun ended in misery.

These sights of drunken excess are no surprise to the many bars and late night shops that litter this sheltered bay on the Majorca’s south coast.

‘Every night the young people are drinking and partying,’ one shopkeeper told MailOnline.

‘The nightclubs stay open until six o’clock in the morning but the worst time is between 2 and 3am.

‘That is when the streets are full of drunk people. They drink so much and they start falling over and fighting.’

It comes as Spain’s Balearic Island’s have vowed to crack down on booze-filled holidays. 

Tourist hotspots including Palma, Llucmajor and Magaluf in Majorca and San Antonio in Ibiza have ramped up efforts to curb rowdy behaviour by hiking fines for drinking in the street, banning shops from selling alcohol at night and restricting party boats.

In a bid to toughen up the islands’ 2020 legislation, partygoers now face penalties of between €500 and €1,500 (£430 and £1,290) if their street drinking ‘disrupts coexistence, involves crowds or deteriorates the tranquillity of the environment’.

Party boats are no longer permitted to get closer than one nautical mile (1.852km) of the designated areas and they have been banned from picking up or dropping off passengers.

Shops selling alcohol in areas of ‘excessive tourism’ must now completely close between 9.30pm and 8am, rather than simply stop selling booze between these hours.

The strict rules, which also prohibit tourists from organising drinking parties in public, spraying graffiti, riding scooters and displaying nudity, are set to stay in place until at least December 2027 – by which point the government hopes the law will no longer be necessary.

As the tougher rules came into force earlier this month, fuming Brits drinking in bars and walking along the Magaluf strip told MailOnline that their holidays were being ‘wrecked’ 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 are coming to a place for a party, you should be able to party. I think if they bring all those things in, it will ruin this place. It’s already going downhill now.’

His friend Bradley Shetland-Carter, also 24, said: ‘We are English, we are British, we drink a lot. If you are banning drinks at 9.30pm, we need more alcohol. We come here to get drunk and drink all day… f*** the rules.’

Walking back from a day at the beach before hitting the bars, Daniel continued: ‘It will kill this place. We’ve been four times. It’s early season but it’s much more dead than usual. I think if they bring drinking bans and make it more than it is, it will ruin it.’

Charlie Jay, 25, from Torquay, Devon, was walking to another bar with a group of lads after refuelling at a kebab shop. He said: ‘Everyone knows Magaluf for what it is, don’t they? Magaluf is the party place so I don’t think they are going to be able to change that. I came here five years ago and nothing has changed. It’s got better if anything.

‘Everyone knows it as the party place, so people will keep coming for years and years.’ When asked what he likes about the party resort, he added: ‘Anything goes in Magaluf, it is what they say on the tin.’

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 are here for a good time, not a long time. With this drinking ban, all it’s doing is wrecking the holiday.’

The 34-year-old, who was catching up with a stag-do, added: ‘They are turning it from a party resort to a family place, that’s what they are 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 is trying to do.

He said the crackdown was aimed at Brits ‘because we act like t***s’.

‘I’ve noticed there’s hardly any party boats here,’ he added. ‘You are wrecking it, that’s what they are doing to it. People will be disappointed, they are going to lose a lot of customers. It’s a party island, people spend lots of money here, now they are changing it, they are going to ruin it.’