The public beach is the only beach i can go to...its close to my house and i dont need to take a cap and at night its my place to think and relaxe and if there is no public beach anymore i dont have one place where i can feel free!
one other thing is that the beach park going to be sooo crowded and why does a hotel need more beach than they already have??!@?@?@
i dont wanna lose my favorit place in dubai! please!
cheers! Veronika
Please do not close the beach. When I visit my daughter who lives in Dubai it is one of the places I enjoy visiting. Every morning I go for a run on the beach for some much needed exercise. I also enjoy taking my grandchildren to play on the beach. It is a little bit of paradise.
Save the Beach... who will want to visit Dubai if there is no more public beaches for young & old to enjoy... for the locals & the visitors... Very sad
I drove by the beach today to see what all of the commotion was about. I assumed that people were blowing things out of proportion. However, as I drove up to Um Suqeim park and saw 'the wall' I just sat in my car and cried. You cannot let this happen! New Years on the Beach...our children looking for seashells, late night barbecues with family and friends....All gone? For another 'luxury lving' concrete building? Dubai Wake Up!
I drove by the beach today to see what all of the commotion was about. I assumed that people were blowing things out of proportion. However, as I drove up to Um Suqeim park and saw 'the wall' I just sat in my car and cried. You cannot let this happen! New Years on the Beach...our children looking for seashells, late night barbecues with family and friends....All gone? For another 'luxury lving' concrete building? Dubai Wake Up!
The loss of the beach has broken my spirit as I turn down Al Thanya St and see the wall, I realize Dubai is but a box in which only a few will be able to see out of in the future. So sad!
In 5 short years all the coast is gone and sadly most of it is now damaged. DUBAI BEACHES WERE STUNNING JUST THE WAY GOD MADE THEM...UNTOUCHED!!!Don't take this last one away from us,Dubai residents don't need more conceret and buildings they need some nature and Dubai to have a soul must keep some nature ie THE BEACH!!
Probably the most ill conceived project yet, and in the name of what? Well that is obvious to all. You only have to see the thousands of people there at weekends, local and expat alike, to appreciate just how much of a loss this will be. Inevitably, given who is behind this, and the stage they are already at, it's too late to stop this one. Enough voices MAY help prevent the next environmental and social disaster. But I doubt it.
All beaches should be fully accessible to visitors and local resident alike. Restricting access to one of the few natural highlights of the emitate is simply going to diminish, in a small but indisputable way, the value of Dubai inc. and lessen the quality of life we all value here so much.
Please don't take away another public beach.So many have disappeared and if you stop the people from access to what Dubai is famous for, folks will soon leave from this city, I for one.
Dubai 2020, the new Babel - lots of towers, no people... don't worry rising sean levels will soon reclaim that which has been reclaimed and more... Dubai is already 'last years' destination. Zabeel is the government, everything in Dubai is the government. They only care about money. Dubai will soon just be a laughing stock.
It's such a pleasure to spend time at the public beach, watching people from all walks of life enjoy their free time, whether it's the morning walkers or Friday sunbathers, Kitesurfers or families. Please don't take the beach from the many Dubai residents who get so much pleasure from it.
Let's not loose perspective Dubai rests between the Desert and the Sea, the Coastline and the Beaches have been the life blood of this City for many decades and are part of Dubai's hertiage. Don't loose this natural beauty for financial return, the Palms are enough.
TERRIBLE!!! The Emirates’ have always messed around with Mother Nature! Building false islands like the palm has already screwed up the currents & marine life. Taking away another beach is just another sign that the majority of locals don’t care about nature. Money is their God!
Going to the beach is part of the 'Dubai Lifestyle'. Take the beach away and you take the soul from Dubai. Dubai has turned from a place of culture and beauty to the Trueman Show set.
Stop stealing what can't be replaced.
It is very disappointing rthat a beautiful habitat and very popular beach has to be destoryed in the name of further development. No man-made beach front can ever be as good as the perfect beach we already have.
The Jumeirah Beach is one place in Dubai that is easily accessible and provides a lot of entertainment for people of all generations. We always complain that theres absolutely nothing to do in Dubai without money, the beach was our one alternative.
Benchmark yourselves against a country like Costa Rica.....Miles and miles of protecteastline for all to enjoy for free. This was a gift from God and commercialism should not be allowed to take over and destroy a countries natural beauty spot.
Look beyond making money and remember the environment. Dubai has the largest ecological footprints in the world. It would seem that the powers that be do not actually understand the harm they are doing to their country in the long term. Unfortunately, greed seems to be winning. Come on Sheikh Mohammed - stand up for your country and your environment!
After living here for 13 years, I have seen beach spots snatched by upper-scale developments. I never thought they would ever take the last spot left for us here. Not only is this a tourist attraction, it is a place where we should have the right to go without paying!! Being a kitesurfer, it is sad to witness that the only official kitebeach in Dubai will disapere - Where will we go?
It is unbelievable that most of the beaches in Dubai have already been sold and now this as well..soon the open beach in jumeirah will be sold off as well. Very sad.
As a country with the largest 'Enviromental Footprint' in the world we should do all we can to save our open spaces and prevent further pollution be it noise, atmospheric or light.
THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF DUBAI HAS BEEN THE ONLY HOME MY FAMILY HAS SINCE 1995. EVERY COSMPOLITAN COASTAL CITY I HAVE BEEN TO HAS A PUBLIC BEACH IN THE CENTER FROM LOS ANGELES TO SINGAPORE, BECAUSE THE RELIEF IT BRINGS TO RESIDENTS IS ESSENTIAL TO MEDIUM-TERM SUSTAINABILITY. FURTHERMORE, THIS SACRED BEACH IS PART OF DUBAI'S HISTORY AND SHOULD BE A PROTECTED AREA BY ROYAL DECREE. EVERYONE WHO VISITS THIS BEACH WILL WANT TO KNOW HOW DUBAI BEGAN AND IT WOULD BE A UNIQUE, UNPARALLELED TOURIST ATTRACTION TO SEE THIS VERY SPOT THAT THE DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY LANDED ON "CHICAGO" BEACH, TO KNOW AND REMEMBER THAT DUBAI HAS A HISTORY HAS VALUE THAT WILL LAST FAR BEYOND ANY REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT AT THIS SMALL AREA.
No words can describe how i feel about this...when are these people going to wake up and realise they are destroying the beautiful ecosystem with their mounds of cement. Leave the beach to be naturally beautiful, as it is in other countries!
This is just SO typical of Dubai...take something naturally beautiful and construct it into one big mess. Slowly but surely, there will be nohting NATURAL left in Dubai!!!
They just DONT get it do they!!!
Dubai, the City that Cares! Hmm, about making money perhaps! But not about the well being of the residents that maybe can't afford membership of a beach club.
Soon we will not have any other place to go to which will be affordable. Especially as all the beach clubs are so expensive and it would be a great reward if we can go to the beach on our days off without having to pay a large sum of money.
It is incredible that a few investors can first, think of destroying Dubai landscape and second, think of preventing other residents from enjoying the beach, just for their own interest. It must be stopped.
The loss of this beach to will cause Dubai to lose part of its charm and unique identity. That makes Dubai no different from other cosmopolitan cities. No culture, no nature, no identity!
