4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by ElkeG on October 7, 2021, 3:38 pm
Not very appealing during dry season. Vern will do another drone video soon.
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Posted by Jean on October 7, 2021, 3:51 pm, in reply to "4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"-------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by Mazinka on October 7, 2021, 8:36 pm, in reply to "Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"
How unimaginative! Uniform little boxes and others looking like shipping containers….. | -------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by Daniel H on October 7, 2021, 8:53 pm, in reply to "Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo" Edited by board administrator October 7, 2021, 9:11 pm
Some arches would have been nice, the Mexico flavor. But your not seeing any of those in the construction of the titled lots North of the lagoon here either. (big cry) The number of pools is a bit disconcerting (if I am seeing correctly). This is a drone view, not how the people who go there see it. I would imagine once inside the units the experience will be good, they can't miss with that beach. Also there will be a lot of trees and vegetation in the coming years. | -------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by Steve on October 7, 2021, 9:19 pm, in reply to "Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"
The golf course is one of Mexico's best. After the 4 Seasons pumps some money into maintenence, watch it shoot up to the top of the rankings. | -------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by Robbie Boyes on October 7, 2021, 9:22 pm, in reply to "Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"
Wow. Nice quality video of an extreme project that highlights the division between those that have and those that don't. And like Daniel says, the sheer number of pools is a concern.. Looks like every suite has an infinity pool . There has to be 200 of them. It will be interesting to see how this affects the little town that we love so much. | -------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by Michel on October 8, 2021, 9:04 am, in reply to "Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"
Beginning of the end! (Hope i am wrong)….. | -------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by Steve on October 8, 2021, 9:26 am, in reply to "Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"
Cant stop progress...anywhere in the world. When I lived in Playa del Carmen 30 years ago it was a nice quaint fishing village. Look at it now, a concrete jungle. Many of us pioneering families from Vancouver Island are deeply saddened by the changes there. When I lived in La Manzanilla in the early 90s it was very peaceful. Dirt streets, one phone, and maybe 20 extranjeros here at Xmas. Look at it now. Some would say "the end" began a long time ago.
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Posted by AGE3RD (Casa Tortuga) on October 8, 2021, 10:30 am, in reply to "Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"
The question inferred to but not asked is where all that water is coming from not only for the new construction but keeping the existing golf course green. As usual an excellent video, it would be nice to have one of La Manzanilla today including any new construction. | -------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by david c on October 8, 2021, 10:40 am, in reply to "Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"
I heard 2 years ago that the resort had purchased a few hectares across from the entrance to the Blue Bay resort. This area is where the water comes to fill the lagoon and the Iguana River. Rumor has it that they uncovered a large aquifer up that way and plan to pipe water to the existing Tamarindo Bay pipe and flow it to the new resort. If that is true than that water is coming from a different aquifer than the one(s) that LM gets their water from, I hope. | -------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by Daniel H on October 8, 2021, 11:05 am, in reply to "Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"
Interesting, what was your source? There is a lot of water in the area, the La Vena aquifer included. The most direct way to get that water to Tamarindo would be an under sea pipe. I have no idea if that aquifer is of the same quality of water as the water we get. I have a friend who told me that it was tough to grow plants with town water. Melaque also has abundant water, at least I assume they do since the place next to Ferra Pacifico that washes cars lets the hose run full blast on an almost continuations basis. But running a pipe to Tamarindo from there would be quite the task and require a lot of energy to get the water over the mountains. | -------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by Steve on October 8, 2021, 11:05 am, in reply to "Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"
Several wells on the property supply the golf course. For 18 hole grow in 1 million gallons were needed everyday. Established, that is cut in half. That was set up in the 90's. Unless things have changed, they have their own water for the course. | -------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by Daniel H on October 8, 2021, 11:41 am, in reply to "Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo" Edited by board administrator October 8, 2021, 1:00 pm
First I heard of them having wells for the golf course, the water shed and resulting aquifer for that area is not very big, as far as I know. Most of it being in the next area just South of them. Edit: Zoom out a bit and you can see the Four Season's project, Google Earth says the photo is from May 18, 2021 https://earth.google.com/web/@19.25583624,-104.8062195,54.59185064a,3059.57476425d,35y,-0h,0t,0r Also in the uncertain category is climate change, which can go dramatically either way, more or less water. If the trend happening this year continues the aquifer will be saturated (not saying how big our aquifer is i.e. how many people, farms etc. it can supply). Certainly the tracks of hurricanes changed dramatically this year, we have not had any go by us out in the ocean like they usually do, all have been close to land. They give lost of water but not the kind that soaks into the ground. | -------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by Steve on October 8, 2021, 12:10 pm, in reply to "Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"
I know in dry season it doesn't work so well, but there are about 10 acres of irrigation lakes on hole 17 and 18. A lot of the property runoff is channeled to them. | -------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by Linda Mandala on October 8, 2021, 12:23 pm, in reply to "Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"
Thanks to you Steve for all the great information...there are always rumors that noone really knows for sure about but you are enlightening a lot of us especially about the water systems over there. Linda | -------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by Stephanie on October 8, 2021, 1:18 pm, in reply to "Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"
Thank you Steve for this reminder! It was..and now it is! | -------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by Daniel H on October 8, 2021, 12:43 pm, in reply to "4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"
Before I forget, thank you Vern for the video and Elke for posting it. | -------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by ElkeG on October 8, 2021, 1:30 pm, in reply to "Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"
This is actually not one of Vern's drone videos. The video is from May. I stumbled across it when I did a Four Seasons Google search. Vern is planning to do another one soon, stay tuned... | -------------------Re: 4 Seasons @ Tamarindo
Posted by duane filan on October 8, 2021, 6:32 pm, in reply to "4 Seasons @ Tamarindo"
Bloomberg Wealth September 8, 2021 Bill Gates’s investment firm will pay Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal $2.2 billion to raise its stake in Four Seasons Holding Co. to 71.25 percent. Kingdom Holding will use the proceeds to repay some outstanding loans. The deal is expected to close in January 2022. ////////////////////////// Al Jazeera 10 Aug 2021 More than 200 arrested in latest Saudi anti-corruption purge ...While the kingdom never confirmed the names of those detained, they included billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Saudi construction tycoon Bakr bin Ladin. /////////// coincidencia?
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