Beaches are not just for those who can afford them, they are for everyone. How will tourists who stay with families ever get to the beach. Tourists don't only stay in resorts!
This place is filled with some of the funnest and most chill memories I have in Dubai. Why would they ruin such a beautiful place? Find some other place to put your steel and concrete!
Beach is the only place we look forward to visiting on weekends just to take our minds off busy office work and to, ofcourse, have good fun as a family.
One day Dubai will have to build a museum to show what was desert, what were the peaceful and attractive way of leaving; where purchasing a home-sweat-home was a dream and a specific way of life! Do not turn this dream into a necessity, because nobody will stay!
In the 13 years I lived in Dubai I watched helplessly as the free & accessible, natural beauty of the beach was eaten up by big developments. Losing this beach would be a travesty.
we want to save the beach because we are residing nearby.very important so me and my colleague can walk all day long. so, please saveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
DON"T TAKE THE BEACH!!!(btw this is coming all the way from holland) Its my only chill spot when i come back to dubai every 6 months. Its one of the most busy beaches in Dubai! They have gone loco now!
Going to this beach every weekend was the one thing my friends and I looked forward to. A chance to relax, mingle and be active. Its a shame that the quest for more money and profits trumps the desires of the people. Now thousands of us will lose our beloved beach, and a couple of executives will add Millions more to thier already inflated bank accounts. Kudos Dubai!!
Babeel Investments must have lost thier head thinking they could get away with this without upsetting the public. This is not going to do them any good whatsoever. What goes round comes round.
I am an Umm Suqeim resident who has been running and swimming at the Umm Suqeim public beach for 6 years. My children also enjoy biking and swimming there. We moved from a flat on Sheikh Zayed Road 3 years ago to live in a villa near the beach where we could have a better and healthier lifestyle, because my little girl developed asthma from the pollution and stress of living on Sheikh Zayed Road. Since we moved to Umm Suqeim, she has been the picture of health. There are hundreds of families like ours who use the public beach. If you take this away from us, there will be little left that we can afford or enjoy in Dubai, with the rising costs, school fees, rents and soon to come road tolls. Another development will also take away the beautiful sea views and will foreover ruin Umm Suqeim and Jumeirah, which are the prettiest areas of Dubai.
Joyce Choueri
Many of us have no clubs to go to now and I am not talking about posh beach clubs, rather Jebel Ali Sailing Club founded thirty years ago! will see the bulldozers come in early April We are all really still sad about that and now this. I guess Safa park will be next??
Jebel Ali beach will be completley ruined by the palm and Dubai waterfront - is already diminished in size, after that all that is left is Jumeirah Beach. PLEASE DONT CLOSE IT once done you can not goback
With Dubai-land coming there are going to be more than 60 5 star hotels for the tourists. Jebel Ali is being developed - when is the government going to start to care about the residents quality of life. You can't build the promise of a better life in Dubai if the beach is something for the tourists.
Soon there will be no reason for expats to come and live in Dubai and then it will be a big sad ghost town with no life. What for? Greed of the local investment firms!!
Please leave our beach. Its what makes Dubai special for so many of us. My husband and I are considering (like many others)of leaving Dubai if they take our favorite pass time away.
I've come to this stretch of beach since I first moved to Dubai and have noticed as once sparkling water turned cloudy, as pieces of cement washed up on the beach, as concrete-filled seashells lined the shore, and more and more construction took place offshore.
I suppose the so-called development is inevitable. However, the beauty and charm of this beach is its simplicity. I wish it could remain as it is today - just sand, a place for people of all backgrounds to come exercise, relax, play at any time night or day.
Friends from overseas have loved this beach - some are now considering a move to Dubai and its beaches are a draw. It'd be a shame to lose this remaining small somewhat natural area.
I love Dubai, and wish the environment will become a high priority and that the interest in preserving the UAE's heritage will extend also to its nature and beautiful desert and beaches.
I haven't been here long, but this is the only beach that I really like. There are hardly any free beaches - and this free beach was better than the few pay beaches. Beaches are the main attraction of Dubai, but people are not going to pay thousands of dollars for a private beach membership when they are just here a short while. The State is shooting themselves in the foot if they wish to promote tourism. Also, there are no National Parks to speak of in the whole UAE. There is hardly any recognized public lands, and what defacto areas currently exist are being swallowed and developed at an accelerating rate. Already, it is better to go to Oman, or other destinations top see anything natural or free.
Expats and locals both love the beach. Push out the expats by taking away their beach and who is left to make you money? Will Dubai become a ghost town?
