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Marina Royal Businesses fed up
#188384
03/23/2019 10:45 AM
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Re: Marina Royal Businesses fed up
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#188404
03/23/2019 01:17 PM
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It’s a shame this area has been allowed to devolve into the mess described in this article. There have always been issues but they used to be minimal, at best. Or worse?
It’s been years since we've dined here so I didn’t realize it had gotten to the state described. The French government should be ashamed if this is the true state of things and I can see no reason for those who have a vested interest to fabricate facts and scare even more potential patrons away. Marigot was once such a vibrant small city..........
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Re: Marina Royal Businesses fed up
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03/23/2019 02:06 PM
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When we go, we just park in the lot on the side by Tropicana. No issues there. But that walkway is not very nice, a tripping hazard.
Last edited by BillandElaine; 03/23/2019 02:07 PM.
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Re: Marina Royal Businesses fed up
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03/23/2019 02:50 PM
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It was always a problem parking in that lot. but now it is really deemed unsafe. No business here has food that good, that I would be willing to put up with this! It is really sad for all those hoping to revive Marigot after the hurricane. It is just not going to happen if this is allowed to continue!
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Re: Marina Royal Businesses fed up
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03/23/2019 03:04 PM
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It was always a problem parking in that lot. but now it is really deemed unsafe. No business here has food that good, that I would be willing to put up with this! It is really sad for all those hoping to revive Marigot after the hurricane. It is just not going to happen if this is allowed to continue! Agree
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Re: Marina Royal Businesses fed up
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03/23/2019 03:05 PM
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Even more reason not to go there after night. We haven't gone to the Marina at night for a LONG time. It definitely will be a long time yet before we do. The Collectivite' is more worthless than the Dutch side government.
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Re: Marina Royal Businesses fed up
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03/24/2019 03:00 PM
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Been going to the area for many years. Like anywhere else in a world, you do exercise the caution but we were never felt threatened at this parking lot. Yes, there are a couple of bums trying to get a dollar or two from you by “assisting” with the parking but both of them are friendly. I always give him a few bucks. If you are choosing to ignore the restaurants in the marina because of that - it’s your loss.... there are a few really good ones!
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Re: Marina Royal Businesses fed up
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03/24/2019 03:03 PM
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Oh, and needless to say that because the general traffic in this area is down and there are not as many restaurants are opened - the lot is never full. We were there in February and never parked more than a few meters away from th end of the lot that is close to aTropicana.
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Re: Marina Royal Businesses fed up
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03/24/2019 06:44 PM
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The one guy that used to be on the lot by the Tourism Office (who was never aggressive) is no longer there. No problems using that lot.
Elaine ********************************* God Bless the broken road....
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Re: Marina Royal Businesses fed up
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#188661
03/25/2019 04:32 PM
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We used to go there every year once or twice for dinner or even just desert, really liked the setting in the evenings. We have not been there in years because we did not feel as comfortable going there. I can not think of another place on island that we avoid day or night that we once went to but no longer go except to the Marina Royal. I hope they do something about it, sure enjoyed our time there when we went.
I prefer the Isle seat
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Re: Marina Royal Businesses fed up
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03/25/2019 04:40 PM
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Just sent an email to someone i know who lives there to first clarify if this is indeed correct, as somehow this looks an old picture taken. Can you describe exactly where this car park is that these undesirables hang out(say in relation to Tropicana) That picture lis exactly how Marina looked when we were there last week. We were lucky to find parking on street across from pharmacy and walked through alcove aside La Main et Pate. We had to walk across that carpeted area to get to Be Cool restaurant and to Sarafina's. If you walked on the board area some boards lifted up.
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Re: Marina Royal Businesses fed up
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04/04/2019 01:24 PM
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Rough Translation...
A DELEGATION OF ROYAL MARINA MERCHANTS WAS RECEIVED WEDNESDAY BY COM AND STATE SERVICES.
The situation of the merchants of the royal marina should improve. They denounced March 12 last the deplorable state of the site and the rise of the insecurity in an open letter addressed to the COM and the prefecture.
Yesterday, Wednesday, April 3, a delegation composed of six traders and restaurateurs Yann Lecam, president of the AEC (economic and citizen action), was received as planned in the prefecture at 17 hours. In front of them, the prefect Sylvie Feucher and the president of the COM Daniel Gibbs, accompanied by their respective chiefs of staff, as well as Maggy Gumbs, the city manager, Romain Perreau, the DGA of the Sustainable Development pole at the COM, Jean-Sébastien Roca, of the French Agency for Development (AFD) on mission to the COM, as well as the commander of the gendarmerie, the head of the territorial police and representatives of the ARS and the human development pole of the COM have presented to the delegation the measures to come.
"By May 15, the community will break the wall of the car park to open up, which we had asked for a long time, but also put back into operation the surveillance camera, and lighting," says Yann Lecam. The fishing port project that will cover all the car park should mean the day before the end of the year. If the temporary repair of the wharves began on Tuesday, a larger project including their rehabilitation as well as the improvement of the lighting so that the marina can really refurbish itself and accommodate boats again, should start at the end of 2019 - early 2020.
The insecurity denounced is particularly related to the presence of "cracked" on the parking adjoining the marina. The territorial police announced that it was going to increase its rounds, and the LRA, the prefecture and the gendarmerie prepared a tripartite to mix summons and accompaniment of these people.
"We will be satisfied in the facts but we felt that this meeting was well prepared, that all the services had worked together and that they took things to heart" commented Yann Lecam. An official report of this meeting will be sent to traders in the coming hours containing a precise schedule of commitments announced.
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Re: Marina Royal Businesses fed up
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#189778
04/04/2019 01:47 PM
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bran--thanks. I guess I get the gist. I couldn't find any 'translate' button on the link that Scubaman posted.
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Re: Marina Royal Businesses fed up
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#189791
04/04/2019 04:17 PM
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TRY THISYou will still have to translate but it is a clickable link now.
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Re: Marina Royal Businesses fed up
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#189793
04/04/2019 04:26 PM
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Scubaman--Oh, I thought you meant there was a button on that website. Some websites do have that, versions of the website in different languages.
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Re: Marina Royal Businesses fed up
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04/11/2019 06:37 AM
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