lara beach closing down due to new development

clayton


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 1143

Message Posted:
01/10/2011 20:44

lara beach is closing within the next eight days,due to the development which is being built above it.we were there last week and the guy who runs it was telling everybody who was there.all the sunbeds were free as a good gesture.

unclefester


Joined: 03/09/2011
Posts: 20

Message Posted:
01/10/2011 21:35

That's odd. I own a villa opposite Lara Beach and asked the owner, at the beach, last month if the new hotel being built was going to impact him, or the beach. He told me it would be at least a year before anything happended.

The project isn't due for completion until March 2013, so I'd have thought we'd have 3 or 4 years before they finished it!! ;-)



Do you have any other info?

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
02/10/2011 11:00

What is the planned development ?

madturk


Joined: 25/03/2009
Posts: 217

Message Posted:
02/10/2011 11:11

Isn't there an army base next to it ? And the horrible electric chimneys

Pouring out smoke all day

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
02/10/2011 12:54

Pipie,



The planned development is a hotel,



Paul.

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
02/10/2011 12:55

We need another hotel dont we?

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
02/10/2011 13:00

Cheers Paul !!

R.C.T.Man.



Joined: 27/03/2009
Posts: 746

Message Posted:
02/10/2011 13:02

Ref msg 2(i own a villa opposite Lara Beach ).



Where ? i dont recognise any one of your age here.

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
02/10/2011 14:07

Paul



Any idea where the original info can be found regarding this planned hotel at Lara beach or a link ? cheers !!

clayton


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 1143

Message Posted:
02/10/2011 15:05

unclefester,info,came from the waiter who speaks, perfect english.i think he lives in the house above lara as i gave him a lift down once,he seemed to come from that direction.i asked him about losing his job,he just shrugged his shoulders.

unclefester


Joined: 03/09/2011
Posts: 20

Message Posted:
21/12/2011 23:12

Thanks for that clayton.

Ref msg 8. Owning and living are not necessarily the same, so I'm not suprised.



I'm over in March so it'll be interesting to see how far they've progressed

dublinderm


Joined: 26/09/2009
Posts: 538

Message Posted:
21/12/2011 23:37

I am only surprised that Lara has continued for so long as it is. I first visited in 1997 and have been expecting to find it built over nearly every year since then.



Oh well another 'club' beach like Escape or Camelot, 25TL entry fee, 10TL for a beer. Plenty of jetskis and parasailing boats.



I think I will spending even more time in the Karpaz in future.



DD

jamboree


Joined: 25/06/2011
Posts: 88

Message Posted:
22/12/2011 01:37

it wont be to long before karpaz is full of hotels and developments etc etc. soon there will be no where free or unspoilt to go to in cyprus.



north cyprus will be just like any other european holiday resort with no real beautiful beaches left.



the government should be doing more to conserve spots of beauty and nature, and instead it sells it off for development so sad the way things are getting out here in cyprus.

jimchris09


Joined: 13/02/2009
Posts: 547

Message Posted:
22/12/2011 03:54

Many happy memories of Lara beach, especially during my first visit to TRNC in 1999. It will be missed by so many I am sure.

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
22/12/2011 05:10

mess 11 - how can you own it ?



its already owned by some GC bloke - who no doubt wants it back...........

Geoff


Joined: 25/06/2008
Posts: 1370

Message Posted:
22/12/2011 08:29

Re Msg 15: Was a time not so long ago where folks worried about buying property pre-owned by GCs. Not any longer as the prospect of a settlement to the Cyprus problem is as remote as flying pigs.

Good time to buy in other words.

(Positive) Geoff

Famagusta City.

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3534

Message Posted:
22/12/2011 12:58

Msg 16, it is not a case of "solution"

it is how long the IPC goes on

unclefester


Joined: 03/09/2011
Posts: 20

Message Posted:
22/12/2011 20:48

Msg 15. Nick you must be tired of trotting out the same old message by now, surely. YAWN

bertieboss


Joined: 22/07/2011
Posts: 149

Message Posted:
23/12/2011 02:14

Lara is just another example of "vested interest" as in Escape beach where, during my last couple of visits there was the added benefit of loud thumping music well into the early hours.

TRNC is being further overdeveloped with more and more hotels and restaurants where the existing ones struggle.

Also the whole place is being "modernised" and sanitised to pander to a decreasing number of tourists and more and more roads spoiling what used to be lovely countryside.

Ayia Napa here we come !!