Stay off our beach, say flat owners

[JCMach1]

Source: The National

DUBAI // Residents of a luxury resort on the Palm Jumeirah are complaining that the developer is ferrying in tourists to the pool and beach that were sold to them as private.

The developer of the Oceana resort, Seven Tides, offers regular shuttles to the seaside facilities to guests at two hotels it owns across town. It defends the practice and says any dispute is a misunderstanding... Oceana residents are upset that use of the facilities is not exclusively theirs.

"We feel kind of cheated because they sold us this complex as exclusive," said Susanne Riel, 54, from Austria. "They bring them by the busload."

Several tourists from the Movenpick hotels in Deira and at the Ibn Battuta Gate, owned by Seven Tides, were relaxing one recent afternoon at the infinity pool and outdoor bar...

Read more: http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/stay-off-our-beach-say-flat-owners

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Meawhile, what the 1% were worrying about!

[No Elephants]

1. It was probably in the paperwork somewhere, if you read it carefully,

including all the defined terms.

Who knows, though?

The laws are probably very developer friendly and people who can get away with something often do.

[lunatica]

2. The revolt of the .01%!

Well why not? Everyone else is doing it.

[dddem]

3. Occupy Oceana!

demand inequality!