11 Jun 2008 10:49 PM:
Hi Everyone
This is the first time I have posted but found this site just before we visited our apartment in Riquelme beginning of June. We are ground floor on Romero 2, Phase 2. I haven't read all the posts but have browsed through several and I believe we may have met Kenny outside our apartment when he was talking to Danny one of the keyholders. Lennie, too, may have noticed us as the family there for the week next to the latest pool to be finished.
Overall we are very impressed with Riquelme. We visited in April and found much progress had been made all around the resort by the time we visited again end May/June. Not least the cranes and building work had disappeared adjacent to us and in it's place a lovely tiled pool surfaced (no water!).
During half term we noticed many more people around. Our block was quite full! Neighbours both sides, two immediately above and one second floor at the end of our block. None of the people we met in our block were retired or resident but were going to use the apartments as holiday homes.
I read about the possible 100 euros monthly community charge. I know without a doubt that my husband would agree wholeheartedly with Claire Oakes' mail further down that we have bought into the whole package with town centre and pools up and running and a certain standard having been obtained before paying any amount of community charge. And anyway, 100 euros per apartment equates to approx 1.8 million euros a year which would seem a considerable amount of money for the upkeep of the roads, lighting, refuse collection, gardening etc without involving the town centre, pools and golf course upkeep. Are we missing something I wonder?
As much as we believes HR is going to be fantastic and provide a challenging course, PW should really have completed the Town Centre before handing over on the apartments. Still, I feel we have chosen the best of the Polaris resorts and that it just needs a couple more years to become properly established.
I will pass on the website details of this forum to those I met within our block so that they can if they wish participate.
All the best and thanks to Lennie for the frequent informative updates
Susan
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Long term rental, villa wanted in Chiclana, must have ADSL
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