Independent Committee for the Protection of the Weekowners in PALM OASIS - Maspalomas

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These are the most important problems we have appreciate:

  1. We are not sure that the Owners Assembly of December 2001 had taken place with strict respect to the applicable legislation. For example, a great number of owners were not convocated in time for the meeting.
  2. Therefore, we are not sure that the decission of increase the maintenance fee taken in this meeting is legal, nor any of the agreements, due to the defect mentioned before. Neither the constitution title of the regime of shiftuse foresees this type of increasement.
  3. We are not sure about the legally of the famous property 235 that brings so many votes, specially related to the Spanish Timeshare Law.
  4.  We can not explain ourselves how a third one (the Owners Assembly of December 2001) can leave without effect the contract signed by each of the owners with Palm Oasis Mantenimiento S.L., where the fee was fixed at 180 euro.
  5. We can not explain ourselves why Olmos and Cedros are part of the presidence of the Owners Assembly if they assist only at order of a group of owners as their representative and vote. What interests do they really defend? Those of the owners or those of the companies of Palm Oasis?
  6. We can not explain ourselves how if during the four years without finishing Palm Oasis, there were not enough appartments for the weekowners and many of us had to be located in “El Cardonal” and in spite of this the internal interchanges were kept, without any payment, recently, these interchanges were eliminated due to absence of capacity and now these capacities “appear” to invent a payment for the owners for these interchanges. Who takes in such a personally way these decissions without considerating the owners?
  7. There are serious problems with the quality of the cleanliness of the appartments, kept since several years without taken definitive measures about it. Often appear cockroaches or insects, and for years the problem cause by the pigeons was not considered, and that is not already solved.
  8. The resort has not the usual services of any 2 or 3 stars hostel installation: there are no employees to help with the baggage nor to accompain to the appartments, there is no food services in the rooms, nor centralized video (promised in the documentation of the contract) a.s.o.
  9. The appartments, the furniture and devices get worse from day to day. The reposition is very poor. Many electrical appliances and devices failed, are broken or do not run properly. The maintenance personnel try hard, but has not the means enough and, maybe, not also the correct management.
  10. The Rentacar service offered by the resort is expensive, and also the prices for the transfer from and to the airport. The minimarket is also expensive so that many owners go to other minimarkets near to buy the products. The offer of services and free time options and external activities is poor, without any advantages (in the contract documentation, discounts were offered), and also the information is poor.
  11. Basing on the doubtable existence of the property 235, services have to be paid that any hostel or turistic installation offers without any cost, for example, the parking. The private contract established the right of the owners of using the "common areas”.
  12.  A loss of entusiasm can be appreciated in the personnel they had the first years of running of the resort. They seem to be ashamed towards the owners.
  13. The prices of the Cafeteria and the Restaurant have increased in an unexplainable way, given that the variety and quality are less.
  14. Often there is no answer to the letters, faxes, claims and applies send to the Palm Oasis Mantenimiento, to the Owners Community, to the Legal Department or the the Resort Management. This is the actuation style installed since years.
  15. To claim to the Resort Management is, most of the times, vain: always justifying the unjustifyable, the explanations are unfortunate and the problems remain.
  16. The owners that can not assist to the assemblies and offer their vote to the named company or to the owner that until now offered himself as representative, have been used and their votes have been used to support agreements and decissions to with they do not agree.
  17. The rent system for the weeks has not been establised for the owners which can not enjoy of their weeks. Although this is something not determined in the contract, everyone knows that this was offered during the sale to the visitors for buying. Nevertheless, a third one is allowed to operate for doing this service, keeping with him the coordination.
  18. Due to these and other problems, many owners are very disgusted and have expressed their interest in selling their property. None in Palm Oasis has calmed these owners that, given to the conversations appreciated in the swimming pool and the floors, are thousands. On the contrary, an absolute indifference with confusing and delaying explanations about the promised resales programm, that neither has run. (The position of this Committee is that many of these owners recover their confidence and keep in the resort).
  19. All the advantages that in the beginning gave the adquisition of one week in Palm Oasis have gone due to the drastic increase of the maintenance fee. In addition to the flight tickets and the food expenses, the cost for the maintenance is of 346 euros plus 60 euro for coming from and going to the airport, plus the cost fixed for the internal interchange, plus de parking, plus the tennis court, and whatever can appear. For getting after this the discomfort of a bad cleanliness, loss of maintenance, 5 stars prices in a resort of less than 3, restricted time-tables for the services, few installations for the free time and entertainment, without services of body care, a.s.o. In the actual situation of the market, with few money you can travel to Canarias with much more and better services than in Palm Oasis.