A new website, The Beachfront Club, has been set up to certify hotels as being 'truely beachfront', giving visitors detailed proof of their absolute on-the-beach locations.
In order to qualify for beachfront status, hotels must meet stringent criteria - which means no roads or traffic between the hotel and the beach. The Beachfront Club, has so far certified over 8,400 hotels around the world as ‘true beachfront’.
Visitors searching for a beach holiday in the UAE will find that only 14 out of Dubai's hundreds of hotels warrant beachfront status; while in Abu Dhabi the figure only stands at two hotels - Emirates Palace and the Hilton Abu Dhabi. Sharjah meanwhile has five beachfront hotels to choose from.
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According to the website, certified beach hotels will have a major advantage over those not certified: "The segregation of beach hotels is going to give the ‘qualified’ members a huge advantage. Those hotels across roads or ‘just a few steps from the beach’ are simply not going to be seen. Booking traffic is sure to flow closer to the sand, into those hotels certified as ‘true beachfront’, to the coveted beachfront locations where people really want to be when they go to the beach."
The website makers added that even before the full public opening of The Beachfront Club website, hundreds of hotels signed in to claim their beachfront qualifications - including resorts from international chains such as Hyatt, Sheraton, Marriott, Le Meridien, Westin, Radisson, Occidental, Renaissance and others.
The country with the highest percentage of qualified hotels is The Maldives, where all but a few are absolute beachfront, giving it a rating of approximately 95% beachfront hotels.
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Jan 22, 2011 , United Arab Emirates
Hi Chris, Your response and action is a credit to your endeavour! Let me contact you through your website, for more info.
Jan 19, 2011 , Thailand
Hi Ray & Cedric, and thanks very much for your comments. We have just launched and are still in our beta phase, so we know we haven't got it 100% correct, just yet, but we will. Our ultimate goal is to have only absolute true beachfront hotels in our member listings...and with everybody's help, w...