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NAME: Nautical Pride Boutique Hotel & Apartments
LOCATION: Umhlanga
STATUS: Proposed
FLOORS: 5
HEIGHT: ?
USE: Mixed Use (Hotel, Apartments, Retail)

Website: www.nauticalpride.co.za

76 Hotel Suites
53 Apartments




Nautical Pride promises to be the first of its kind in Africa.

Nautical Pride Apartments & Boutique Hotel provide opulence without boundaries. Enjoy five-star comfort in one of the most beautiful settings on earth. Nautical Pride is situated in Umhlanga Rocks, on the east coast of South Africa.

Just 20 minutes out of pulsating Durban, Africa's largest port city and within two and a half hours from KwaZulu-Natal's famous Drakensberg Mountain range in the west and the oldest game reserves in Africa to the north.

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With its perfect location and unrivalled ancillary benefits including:

Helicopter
44 foot power yacht
44 foot sailing yacht
Durban Country Club facilities
Double rugby suite at ABSA Stadium
Corporate facilities and conference centre
Boutique hotel
Gym and wellness centre
24 hour personal butler per apartment and concierge service
Luxury vehicle shuttle and valet parking.

... Nautical Pride is a hard act to follow.



LUXURY APARTMENTS & BOUTIQUE HOTEL

Whether you buy a stake in Nautical Pride or stay as a guest, our accommodation and lifestyle facilities can only be expressed as 'best in class' – competing with the best that New York or London has to offer. With 53 apartments and 76 hotel rooms, and access to both world class shopping and sheer relaxation, Nautical Pride will be your destination of choice.

Nautical Pride has slender classical lines and a clean, contemporary look, hinting at the classical nautical theme of the interior. The complex comprises 53 luxury apartments. This includes 2 two-bedroom apartments, 38 three-bedroom apartments and 12 duplex Penthouses. The 76-room hotel is housed in a separate wing of the building.

Exploiting Durban's temperate environment, the ground floor offers a number of outdoor conveniences which include a street café, bar and lounge as well as a restaurant and leisure facilities, with the apartments situated above.

LIVE THE LIFE

As well as a 24-hour multi-skilled butler per apartment and concierge service, other exclusive facilities available to the Nautical Pride residential owners include access to Nautical Pride’s helicopter, 44 foot power yacht, 44 foot sailing yacht, double rugby suite at ABSA Stadium, corporate facilities and conference centre, boutique hotel, gym and wellness centre, luxury vehicle shuttle and valet parking.

Your stake in this exclusive development also includes 10 years full access to Durban Country Club.

FIVE STAR SERVICE

At Nautical Pride residential apartments nothing is impossible. We are at your service 24 hours a day. Our 24-hour butler and concierge facilities; luxury vehicle shuttle service and valet parking; laundry and dry cleaning service and 24-hour medical care, are all just a call away.



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Sounds yummilicious. LOVE the package they're offering.

Just checked - the units start from above R7 million and go to almost R8.5.

mmmm... bit of a boring ass design, but I LOVE the location of the hotel! Not at all far from the boardwalk and the beach I see. What's up with that park? I can't remember seeing it?

Sounds yummilicious. LOVE the package they're offering.


Indeedy.. very clever package. Very boutique-hotel of them... heehee.

The park doesnt exist yet....none of the buildings around it existing, its the umhlanga country club at the moment. all being dugg up to make these dev's.

regards design. there arent really an pics showing the design, which seems odd...maybe they have not finished it yet? for the billboard in umhlanga has not one pic of the design on it either.

Great concept tho, all the extra things (yachts, helicopter...nice!)

Sounds yummilicious. LOVE the package they're offering.

Just checked - the units start from above R7 million and go to almost R8.5.

Thats expensive considering theres no sea view and that they not big....how much are they per m2?

Sounds great but will be overshadowed by the Pearls. Anyway I really pleased to see a park has been included.

^^overshadowed in scale, most definately not in facilities offered, and the fact that it is a hotel, while pearls is merely apartments.

I think it will form a crucial link in the expansion of the village. i am very keen to find out what the other dev's are. Directly opposite it inland is the impilo dev.

I notice that the map shows what appears to be a building on what is now the open space where Lighthouse & Lagoon intersect. Do I have that right? Has that building been approve? If so, it'd be a shame to lose that open space. The map shows a private park, but what consolation is that to those of us who don't live in Impilo and can't use that new park?

The public open area was sold to the UKUSA developers by the city thru tender in 2005. UKUSA are the people developing the land for all the new developments in this precinct. The land has rights for a hotel development of 15F.

The roads are being realigned and roundabouts being put in place of the signalised intersections.

The new park is a privately maintained park (not my the city council) but will be open to everyone.

I for one think it will be much better than the existing open space which is basically a layabout spot for undesirables and does not serve much of a purpose. The new park will be double the size of the existing open space, landscaped and match the upmarket appeal of umhlanga.

The road improvements look good and sensible.

I'm glad some open space will be available to the public. I'm not necessarily attached to the current open space (and I'm definitely not attached to the questionable characters who loiter there during the afternoon), but I think it's important for the town to have some sort of public open space. And just as important that it be patrolled & managed, so that panhandlers, loiterers, vagrants, etc. don't congregate there. Hopefully the folks responsible for maintaining the new park will make it a pleasant place.

This development has been getting alot of press internationally. one of the sales guys says 6 of the R8,5m 3 bed apartments have been sold to guys in dubai and one of the R11m penthouses has been to a london investment firm for business usage. I think alot of companies will look at it from that perspective, especially with all the extras it offers

Kzn Dev Fills Corporate Home Niche - 2007/02/06


The Nautical Pride development in Umhlanga Rocks, KZN, stands alone in its uniqueness and promises to be the first of its kind in Africa. The development is designed specifically for the corporate and high-net-worth individual. The emphasis is corporate entertainment with a helicopter and a yacht at homeowners' disposal.

To date no property developer in South Africa has catered for a focused business solution, which at first glance appears extraordinary considering the booming economy which has resulted in the huge growth in corporate profits and enormous increase in high-net-worth individuals. Nautical Pride undoubtedly fills this niche, providing unparalleled executive entertainment.

The 53 fully fitted and custom furnished apartments are attached to a 5 star boutique hotel in an adjoining building and will function independently of the residential component. Situated in the heart of Umhlanga village, the development provides opulent apartments catering for 5 star corporate entertainment with exclusive access to a host of luxury extras.

These extras include a helicopter, 44 foot power yacht, 44 foot sailing yacht, a double rugby suite at ABSA Stadium, full Durban Country Club access, 24 hour butler per apartment, concierge service, luxury vehicle shuttle, spa, wellness centre and gym, valet parking, conference centre and banqueting facilities as well as a fully equipped business centre. The development will also have a lounge, bar and street café as well as a nautically themed fine-dining restaurant.

Situated in Durban's most exclusive suburb of Umhlanga Rocks, Nautical Pride is to be built on the last remaining piece of developable land in the old seaside village. Umhlanga is just 20 minutes from both Durban and Ballito and more importantly is a 5 minute drive from Durban's decentralized CBD on Umhlanga Ridge.

For more information contact 082 449 5572

mike what else in height is planned around here apart from the 15F Hotel

All the land in this development zone will be medium rise, from 4-10F. you are not going to find any really high rises for the cities plan is to recreate the village atmosphere with little alleys, pedestrian streets, courtyards and the like. The 15F hotel is the only high rise site.

Are there any actual plans for a 15F hotel? I see that the site has rights for such a hotel, but there's no mention so far of a 15F building on that site.

The yachts amuse me. So people/companies will buy flats at this place, and then when they want to go on the water, they'll get into their cars and drive 20 minutes to Durban just to use the yacht? Silly. Alternatively, the yacht moors offshore, people are transferred to skiboats, which ram through the surf and beach at the NSRI launch site? Again, silly. (Can you imagine having a dinner cruise on this high-end yacht, and then having to get into a skiboat, get tossed around by the surf, maybe get sprayed by the water, just to get back home? No thanks!)

Whats wrong with driving to durban to use it? You could take the helicopter they have to get there tho...

Regards the building. There are no plans. the land has merely been sold to a firm that will in time develop it once the road changes in the village have taken place. so i'd say it will only be up in 2011/12

There's nothing wrong with the drive (or flight), Dysan. But wouldn't it make more sense to offer the yacht amenities as part of a development located adjacent to a smallcraft harbour? The people/companies that can afford flats in this building can certainly afford flats at The Point, nearer to the proposed and existing marinas. Thus, I don't see the yachts being much of a selling point for this place. Umhlanga is the selling point. (Otherwise, just build the thing at The Point.) If yacht access really is important to a potential buyer, he'll look elsewhere.

These yachts are just amenities, and their existence won't hamper sales in any way. All I'm saying is that they're amusing amenities to me, since I doubt highly that they'll be used. Alot of developments here in the US promise all sorts of amenities. But the sales contracts note that the ameninites won't be purchased/built until sufficient demand exists, and promise a refund of a fixed percent of the purchase price if the amenities are never purchased/built. So, if these developers draft sensible sales contracts, they won't have to shell out one cent for the yachts (or helicopter) until a certain minimum number of flat owners committ to using the yachts and helicopter x times during a span of y months.

I see the King's Park suite and DCC membership as being more enticing.

true i hear what u saying, but at the same time it part of the whole lifestyle package they want to offer. its already lead to many purchases (they have sold over half the units in only 4 weeks with entry prices at R5,8m).

i also dont think they will make the motorboat and yacht exclusive to the owners. it will probably be used for charters from the harbour for other people not even affiliated to the hotel or apartments to make extra money

Why dont they give a free yacht for every flat, :D like this one place in Dubai my cuz just bought, he got a Free JAG! S type! not that shitty X type

I think the S type is shitty too...and the car wont be free, they would have paid for it with the flat

But even though it's not free, it's very likely that DB's cousin got the flat+Jag combo at a lower price than he would've paid had he bough each separately. The Washington, DC flat market collapsed last year (confirmed buyers were walking away from $10-$20,000 deposits, because they calculated that that was less of a loss than they'd suffer if they went ahead with the purchase!). Sellers responded first by throwing in extra amenities for free (free plasma TV, free 2nd parking space, etc.), and then eventually lowered the flat price and offered the 'free' amenities. In some cases, it was possible to get a good deal on a TV (if you also happened to need a flat!).

^^ so basically u saying that they gave the car cos they were struggling to sell the flat?

Not necessarily. I just offered the Washington, DC example as a way of showing that it's possible for DB's cousin to have gotten a good deal on the flat-Jag combo without paying full market value for either. I don't know enough about the Dubai market to say whether the Jag was offered due to sagging flat sales.

I just know that around here, when the flat (condo) market went south in 2006, it was possible to buy a condo valued previously at $600,000 for $500,000 - and to have a $2,000 TV thrown in as well. But, that's not shocking, given what happend to the condo market in this metro area.

As of 27 Sept 2006, the local paper reported that the area had 24,800 unsold flats - an inventory that would take 3 years to sell if the sales pace remained unchanged. (An unlikely assumption, given that the same article mentioned a further 27,500 additional flats would become available in that 3 year period!) In the 6 months prior to 27 Sept, 31 flat projects, containing a total of 5,700 units, were scrapped completely. Many of those projects, including the one that was the main subject of the newspaper article, had already sold several flats to buyers.

Experiences such as that were why I wasn't shocked at all when SA Boy mentioned that San Raphael had been cancelled, even though Dysan knew firsthand that the developers were still selling units. Turns out that cancellation rumour wasn't true, but the initial rumour didn't surprise me a bit, given what I'd seen in the Washington region.

the flat /Jag combo (like ordering at mikky Ds) is such a gimmick and now they have one with a free lear jet??? Dubai is starting to suffer from the same growing pains that umhlunga talks about in DC and its a matter of time before this becomes the norm. However I know that DAMAC the dubai developer bought a whole lot of 2005 unsold Jags from AL Tayer the dealer at cost plus and even though they are free, belive mew the overpricing of the units means they still make a profit on those free Jags.
Holidays away, life meberships to this and that, free cars and jets and now free appartments (in a nother less prestigius developemnt ) with your appartment are the norm here now.

Me I just am about to buy my house on the Monty golf course so im a happy camper

^^ u like living in estates?

deffinatly as I live in an estate that has 2 golf courses and is very safe, clean and is great for kids. kindi is about 150m away from my villa and the nanny walks my son there everyday through parks and arounds lakes so its fantastic place to live.
Dubai hasent got many other options unless you wann live 150 floors off the ground

^^and i REALLY would not want to live any higher than max 20F, preferably in the 3F to 10F range tho. who would wanna live or work at 90 odd floors up? freaking mad

pleanty of people want to but not too many can afford to

I think the S type is shitty too...and the car wont be free, they would have paid for it with the flat

The S type aint shitty, its still JAG & has nothing to do with FORD.
Anyway I give shit how much he payed for it, even if he did get ripped off, he has so much money, it doesnt bother him, blody CA's :ohno:

^^and i REALLY would not want to live any higher than max 20F, preferably in the 3F to 10F range tho. who would wanna live or work at 90 odd floors up? freaking mad

Aint nothing wrong with working 90 floors high, but I wouldnt like to live that high.

DB you are wrong about the ford mate, both the S and X are based on Ford chassis with the x based on the mondeo and the s on the towncar. in fact the gearbox and suspention is also ford

And the new jag is butt ugly!!

DB you are wrong about the ford mate, both the S and X are based on Ford chassis with the x based on the mondeo and the s on the towncar. in fact the gearbox and suspention is also ford

Nah, they gave him the old S, which is still almost 100% JAG, they X-type is a carbon copy of the modeo with a different shell, yes they newer model of the S-Type is based on the FORD 'town car'.

as with impilo, ground has now been broken on this development