Thanks for chiming in. Interesting. Insurance obtainability. That could be a plausible excuse.
So, did the owners get a payment and have walked away?
Who still holds title, however questionable, to the underlying sand?
If no one wants to rebuild, why would they not want to sell to a major hotel chain. Don’t want that, but if I owned a share I might.
That is why I suggested easily dismantled African Safari Tents fastened to concrete pads. Not much to insure there. They could build a communal shower bathroom area like a campground. Run electric to the tents for AC, Microwave, Minifridge.
Perch offer their fare til dark and folks would fend for themselves in the village. Croissant deliver in the morning. Maybe open papagayo bar tent.
Or RV trailers……with a septic pump guy.
Glamping.
TJ Trippe,
You've started lots of speculation with no real facts. If you look on the Club Orient website you will find some of the information you are asking about. It hasn't been updated for a couple of years but the basic information, including information about rebuilding efforts and the historical timeline are all there.
1. Basically Club Orient is like a condominium association where individuals own their own units as well as a share of the common areas. This is a common sort of arrangement in many parts of the world, certainly Canada where I am from and also our neighbors, the United States. One difference is that in France copropriétés are rarely dissolved. Even if all the owners agreed to sell it (which is unlikely with the large group of owners), there would still be legal hurdles to selling. Many owners have already said that they would not sell so having a major hotel chain buy it is basically a non-starter.
2. Even assuming that all the owners agreed to sell, the other reason a large hotel chain (or any size, actually) would not buy it is because the French Risk Prevention Plan has designated the area a red zone. The rules will allow anything that was there prior to Irma to be rebuilt (as long as it is built to the current safety standards) but nothing else can be built on the property. The rules would allow the sort of hotel- condominium arrangement that Club Orient had (refer to the website for details) but would not allow private residences so anything that the copropriété rebuilds will necessarily have a hotel-like component, the same as before Irma.
3. Regarding the sort of temporary housing (African Safari Tents) you are suggesting. Why would anyone chose to stay in this sort of glamping style when they can easily go a little way down the beach and have the full comforts of a hotel or chalet they can rent?
4. Connecting utilities (water, sewage, electrical) have a lot of rules and regulations even in France.
5. As mentioned in point 1, each of the units are owned by individuals (technically about 1/3 are owned by SCI which is owned, in turn, by the owners, essentially). None of the owners bought in to have a tent or camper. They all bought buildings, tiny houses. Many spent a large amount of money bringing their units up to a standard that they preferred. I can't see any of them saying, sure, let's go camping now that we're in our 70s or 80s. Yes, many of the owners are old because that's who had the money to buy into a place that they would also let others share (owners never made any money on the rental and anyone who owned a chalet paid more than they got even if they never used it and rented it out all the time). It was a lifestyle they were buying into and that didn't involve tents or trailers.
You will see that I comment a lot on this forum, trying to provide correct information as far as it is known. People have started sending me notes when they see something out of line, in the hopes that I will respond. I was going to leave the African Tent comment alone but it got a little traction so now I have jumped in.
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