The Spanish shipping company Trasmed of the group Grimaldi presented on Tuesday the new "TrasmedWeekend" initiative, under which passengers who on weekends from 27 June will use the maritime service of the company that connects Valencia with Ibiza will be able to stay overnight between Saturday and Sunday on board of the ship benefiting from various services, including the cleaning of the Cabin, breakfast and pool access. The initiative will have duration until the end of September for a total of 14 weekends and the company has announced that it is considering extending it to the Barcelona-Menorca route.

The announcement has aroused the ire of the Ibiza Island Council who denounced as unacceptable that a extends its business by operating a "hotel clandestine" in the port of Ibiza. "In addition," he said, underlined the body that governs the island - at a time of great social sensitivity to the externalities generated by the unregulated tourism and at a time when the administrations are aligned in an attempt to contain the number of tourist presences". The Council has specified that it therefore considers that "the proposal of the shipping company to arrive, every weekend, a ferry with a capacity of 1,252 passengers, 207 cabins and 647 seats, is completely unsuitable for an island like Ibiza". The Council called on the Spanish Government to 'ensure that the infrastructures that depend on it, such as the port, change their policy and adhere to the containment and regulation of the administrations of the islands'.

Replying that his program "TrasmedWeekend" fully complies with the regulations in force and has the authorizations including that of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands, Trasmed argued that the overnight stay on board the ship is not comparable to a hotel offer on land and that the program is aimed exclusively at passengers in transit. The company has specified that the program will be in in line with the specifications for passenger traffic of the cruises approved by the Port Authority.