Parco meridiana pool

[bobconners]

There have been several posts regarding the pool at parco meridiana not being ready before june 2009. Last year pino had the pool ready by may 10th and i see no reason why he cant do the same this year. The pool availability may to october was a very attractive selling point when we purchased our appartments and i feel that everyone should voice their views to tony for him to impress upon pino the need for the pool to be ready by mid may at the latest. Pino was quite happy to sell to brits and promised the pool would be available may to end of october when we completed last year. So i implore all owners on the development to post messages regarding this to put pressure on him to honour his word. If anyone has an email for pino this may be of use to put extra pressure on .

Rob connors

[bobconners]

Hi John,

I have emailed Tony as I know several owners purchased through him . I feel sure that he will speak to Pino for us but I will keep you updated when I get a reply.

Regards

Bob

[Caroline]

Hi all,
Was out in Scalea last week and spoke to Pino about the pool among other things and he said they do not intend to open it till June this year. My husband and I are taking our main holiday for the year next week and have some friends coming over with us. I told him we would like the pool open when we come but he said he couldn't open it just for one person!

On a personal note I am self employed and June/July/August is generally the busiest time of my working year. Also I found it uncomfortably hot at night last year when we went out in June and it doesn't look like we will be able to get our aircon fitted again this summer as he still has about half the flats still to sell, so we are not going to be connnected to the main grid anytime soon.

For these two reasons I very much doubt I will take many holidays in Scalea in the height of summer. As a consequence, if he does not extend the opening period, I will probably never see the pool open. This is very frustrating as it was one of the major reasons for buying the apartment and I am sure once we start paying for the upkeep of the complex this will be a major factor in the running costs.

Everything still seems to be geared towards the main Italian holiday season which is quite shortsighted I think as he has sold a lot of the flats to Brits and other non-italians. I think if we asked them, that the Italians owners would also like the pool open for longer. They seem to come down with their children and use the place at weekends so I am sure they would be happy to use the pool outwith the main tourist season too.

I am totally behind any campaign to open the pool for longer. Not sure what eles we can all do to try and push for this. I can e-mail Anna at easi immob. but think that unless quite a few people speak up about it nothing will get done.

[Ali]

Hi

We're also in Scalea towards the end of May (school half term from 21st until 31st). We've emailed Anna to ask whether the pool will be operational; just awaiting response.

It will be frustrating if the pool is not in use since last May the pool was open at this time. I imagine there will be quite a few apartments occupied during the end of May since it's a school holiday, however I suspect Pino has already made his mind up. Surely he's going to sell more apartments if the site, and particularly the pool area, looks attractive?

Pool or no pool, we're still looking forward to some warm sunshine (pouring with rain in Worcestershire today!).

Alison and Iain

[Mrs Teapot]

Be warned that the majority of Italians are inbred to believe the children will die a terrible death or a terrible illness at the very least should they get into water before a certain date in the year (forget which now). You may be fighting against this.

I have witnessed children in hotel pools at end of May/beginning of June being timed for a short duration then they are wrapped up like hypothermia is about to be set in and carried (even the bigger ones) to their hotel room to warm up!

Have also witnessed a rainy day with some wind, in another hotel, my son opening the door to the unused pool to have a look, and about 20 children gasping with horror and ducking away from the open door and the lady in charge freaking out.

The hotels all open the pools beginning of June or even end of May but the apartment condominums in southern italy wait until the beginning of the Italian school year, which I think (?) is around beginning of June (or a bit later).

Just so you know what you are up against.

I can only suggest you get every single English speaking owner to write and request, again and again - so he realises it is not for just one or two or three people who MIGHT (in his mind) want a swim.

Hope this helps.

Mrs T

[fifi]

We have a pool on our site and it has never been opened, dont know if you may win this one.I to was delighted with the thoughts of a pool on site May to September, but alas the only action there are the toads.I really dont mind we have the beach a few mins away never that big into the pool thing,Although my kids would differ.xxfifi

[forzascalea]

Hi all,

I know what you are saying about the pool. However I think to make the long opening of the pool financially viable more units have to be sold otherwise the cost will be too great (you pay for it in your condo fees). Everybody loves these facilities but nobody wants to pay double for them (i.e subsidising the unsold units). The fact that pool is open from June is still a massive bonus for the area (where I can't think of any open pools in June apart form the hotel Talao).

Believe me Pino wants to make Parco Meridiana a big success, he could have done what everybody else does in Scalea and build a basic complex with no facilities and just abandon it once finished but instead he has spent a lot of time and money making the place nice in the hope that all the units sell and the pool stays open for long periods time and the place becomes an example of "how to do it" for the area.

Unfortunately units are still empty meaning the final result can not yet be achieved. Personally I would love to see PM sell out, that way the place would be a shining example of what can be achieved for a brave few.

Pino is one of very few people are are breaking the mould and I know it will pay off for you guys in the long run.

[bobconners]

Thanks for your thoughts but it doesnt hide the fact that Pino opened the pool May10th last year and told me and Dave prior to completing the purchase that it was to be open May to October.
My kids have booked flights half term in May 22nd to 29th and the main reason is that the pool will be open. They could have gone to Spain Portugal Turkey Greece where all the pools are open now!

Those who want to rent will lose out also if the pool is not open UK School Holiday times.

It simply is not good enough for Pino to change his mind after promising last year it would be open May to October.

Finally please remember that he also put the price of the apartments up because of the pool which has to be open for Brits as well as Italians.

Rob

[Mrs Teapot]

Originally Posted by andrewemery

The main reason we purchased our apartment at Parco Meridiana was because of the pool and the fact that it was going to be open in May. We are going to be out there at the end of May and are very disappointed to hear that its going to be closed! My little boy will be gutted!

On another note I also don't think that anyone should be called inbred (Mrs Teapot)! I don't know how this statement was supposed to come across but to me its a bit offensive!!!

It was not meant to be offensive at all so apologies if you took it that way. Re-reading it back I see it could come across that way but that is not the way it was intended at all. In fact, I take offence (Andrewemery)! to your personal comments as I am last person to be offensive! Unless really rattled. That is the problem with writing posts and not communicating via face-to-face.

I apologise for any inadvertent offense caused. What I in fact meant was that these ideas are passed down from generation to generation.

Mrs Teapot :roll:

[Mrs Teapot]

Since replying I realise Andrewemery that you have only made one post on this forum prior to posting above. Perhaps you are not used to forums and the etiquette required?

Perhaps you didn't mean to be so rude by putting my name in brackets with exclamations marks but didn't realise how to use the quote button. It is more 'polite' to make remarks this way, and less personal.

On the original matter, as this thread is now being diverted, I do hope your son gets his wish and you can all work together to get the pool opened.

That is the good thing about this site - we all help each other with friendly help and advice.

Mrs T

[Mrs Teapot]

Cool,

What do you mean AGAIN? :???:

The ONLY problem I've EVER had on here (until yesterday) was you taking umbridge to my asking about the inflatable church services on the beach.

Sigh.

Mrs T

[Lynn]

Let's relax. This is a very friendly forum and I'm sure nobody meant to offend in any way. I'm looking forwaard to meeting up with everyone who can make it to Bar Pier for any night listed on the calendar. Personally I think pools are over-rated. Expensive to run and un healthy if not looked after properly. The sea is just there on our doorstep. We are very lucky. Kida love the pool but at that time of year the sea will be warmer, I think.

Lynn

[Alyson]

Hi Lynn, will be over 3rd june- 14th look forward to meeting at bar pier on 9th...

Cheers Alyson

[Di]

If I had any sense at all, I would not jump in here. Pun intended.
I'm one of those people who won't set foot in a pool if I can help it and the idea that the sea is so clear, lovely, and close double confounds me why anyone would want to be in a pool instead... but if your development includes a pool, the pool should be open because it decreases property values when it's closed and the proprietor loses money in the long run. It's the old story of pennywise and pound foolish.

Mostly I hope we can all keep being inclusive here. It's why I love this website. You are all cute as buttons in my book.

[Caroline]

Oh dear,
I am a past champion of unintentionaly upsetting people on the forum. Its very easily done.
Anyway, the flipping pool again. Latest word is Pino will endeavour to open it in the next few weeks.
I can understand from Pino's viewpoint that at present the longer the pool is open the more money it is costing him, from our viewpoint maybe we are all worried that if it doesn't open till June this year that might become set in stone and it won't ever open in May again. Its upsetting to hear that a pool on another complex nearby has been allowed to turn into a large green pond with nothing but mosquito's taking a swim in it and we really don't want that to happen to our lovely pool. I think we just want to be re-assured that ultimately we will all be able to take a part in deciding what the pool season at Parco M will be.
I think the pool thing is part of a larger problem. We are currently in the position where the rules have not yet been established on our complex. That is the difficulty about getting in on the ground floor. Everything is up in the air at the moment and people feel insecure about what the future holds as a result. I know Pino would like to wait until more apartments are sold to consult the owners about communal matters but this is proving a bit impractical as certain decisions just can't wait.
For instance take the TV ariel/satellite dish scenario. Pino has told us all that he would like to wait and fit one's which have been approved by all the owners and will not detract from the overall appearance of the complex. Nice idea, I am sure no one wants the place to look like the kennedy space centre when it is finished. In reality its now been a year since we moved in and longer than that for others. I asked two weeks ago if we could put a dish up and he said I should buy a really big dish and then ask my neighbours to pay me back for using it. I have never met any of my neighbours and I am not even sure if all the flats in our block are even occupied so I am not prepared to do that. This sort of thing would either have to be initially paid for by Pino, who I suppose understandably doesn't want a huge bill for all these dishes or if we had a community fund, the cost of the dishes could initailly come out of that, then when new owners moved in they would pay into the fund for their share of the satellite dish. As nothing like that has been organised and Owners are now desperate to watch the telly people will end up putting up whatever they like. I can see that this must be very frustrating for Pino as he is very proud of this complex and he doesn't want the owners to come in and ruin the look of the place but unless rules get laid down I think that is a real danger. I think an owners committee will need to be set up to get together with Pino and make these kind of decisions as soon as possible. If not I can imagine both Pino and the owners getting increasingly frustrated with each other. What do other owners think?
Caroline :???:

[Hev&Steve]

Hi Rob

Totally agree with you about the pool. When we purchased last year, Pino through David told us the pool would be open from April to September, but don't forget we haven't paid any condo fees yet, so we haven't got a argument. But once we start paying, that's a different matter. If it happens that the pool is ready in June through to September, we'll just have to live with that for the moment. But next year, especially after fees have been paid tie Pino down to the times the majority of residents want. We'll also have to take into account the wishes of the Italians and Russians on the complex.

Caroline

Just sent you a PM about the Sat Dish

Cheers
Steve

PS Sorry didn't reply earlier, just returned from Berlin.

[Hev&Steve]

Just had a text from someone on the complex at the moment.

Now the pool is full of tadpoles. Are we know in a catch22 situation where Pino won't clean the pool until more apartments are sold, or more likely won't be able to sell apartments until the pool is clean.

It's about time he come out and said exactly what he's going to do and when. I know I'll be relunctant to pay anything until this is sorted. I understand his problems, but it cannot carry on like this. I am back in Scalea at the end of June, if it's not completed by then, I'l be letting him know exactly how I feel.

I think the Calabrese summer is now setting in, can't wait.

Steve

[hallphoto]

Thanks for the info we did hear them having a good time in the pool at easter
thanks fot the photos john just seen the wooden fence which has been added since last time we were there looks good but whats it for (to keep in the crocodiles I suppose when it gets even greener)
I also noticed no sat dish or aerial on our apartment whats going on!!

kevin and Jayne

[bobconners]

The fact that such a low number have been sold could be down to pino increasing the prices too much in a short period of time. He is the entrepreur and the one who will make lots when sold so he should sort out the pool to assist with the sales . No brit would purchase an apartment with a dirty pool unless they wanted to fish in it

[Caroline]

We did pay condo fee's last year. Are we the only people who paid? Please feel free to Pm me if you'd rather not say on the forum.