Hello, my name is Becky.... and I'm having a wobble!
Mar 16th 2010, 9:23 pm
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Hello, my name is Becky.... and I'm having a wobble!
Hello all... .
Wow, I don't know where to start, at the beginning i guess.
My name is Becky and next Wednesday we are moving to the Granada Compound in Riyadh. I say we, thats me, hubby and 2 daughters aged one and three.
The wobble has come about as we thought we were going to be on the Cordoba compound and now we're going to be living on the Granada compound. I had managed to do a fair amount of research on the Cordoba website and found that it seemed ok for the kids. Now i can't find anything on the Granada compound, which is where you lovely people come in.
Is there anyone on here thats living there or has lived there? Whats it like? Are there any parks/ toddler pools/ preschools/ toddler rooms etc etc???
If it were just me and the hubby Id be as happy as the perverbial, but i need to know that there's stuff for the girls too.
Look forward to hopefully hearing from some of you soon.
Becky
Wow, I don't know where to start, at the beginning i guess.
My name is Becky and next Wednesday we are moving to the Granada Compound in Riyadh. I say we, thats me, hubby and 2 daughters aged one and three.
The wobble has come about as we thought we were going to be on the Cordoba compound and now we're going to be living on the Granada compound. I had managed to do a fair amount of research on the Cordoba website and found that it seemed ok for the kids. Now i can't find anything on the Granada compound, which is where you lovely people come in.
Is there anyone on here thats living there or has lived there? Whats it like? Are there any parks/ toddler pools/ preschools/ toddler rooms etc etc???
If it were just me and the hubby Id be as happy as the perverbial, but i need to know that there's stuff for the girls too.
Look forward to hopefully hearing from some of you soon.
Becky
Mar 17th 2010, 3:03 am
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Re: Hello, my name is Becky.... and I'm having a wobble!
Hi Bex, welcome to the 'bored'
I can't help you, I live in Dubai. When everybody wakes up I am sure they will answer your questions
I can't help you, I live in Dubai. When everybody wakes up I am sure they will answer your questions
Mar 17th 2010, 4:27 am
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Re: Hello, my name is Becky.... and I'm having a wobble!
If you are already committed to moving there on Wednesday, my suggestion is to plan for the worst possible scenario and hopefully you will be pleasantly surprised. If its owned by the same organisation, the chances are that it will be of a similar standard, so don't worry.
Mar 17th 2010, 4:30 am
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think it's one of the good ones so you should be OK
Mar 17th 2010, 5:23 am
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Hi Becky,
If you have the chance go and visit it before you move in. But as far as I know granada compound has all the basics that you would expect from a compound (swimming pool, sport facilities..). I believe it is mainly family oriented (no singles allowed to live there) and has quite few nurses on site (which might explain the former). It's only a few minutes away from granada mall and carrefour.
It might not be the most 'happening' compound but I don't think you should have any bad surprises there.
Good luck with the move,
emt.
If you have the chance go and visit it before you move in. But as far as I know granada compound has all the basics that you would expect from a compound (swimming pool, sport facilities..). I believe it is mainly family oriented (no singles allowed to live there) and has quite few nurses on site (which might explain the former). It's only a few minutes away from granada mall and carrefour.
It might not be the most 'happening' compound but I don't think you should have any bad surprises there.
Good luck with the move,
emt.
Mar 17th 2010, 2:07 pm
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Hi All,
Thanks for the replies. We haven't had the opportunity to go out and visit. Hubby's work deemed that it was pointless as they could provide us with all the information (it turns out that the questions i asked about the children's facilities, they don't actually know and are now going to the compound on Saturday to find this information out!) (am a bit miffed that they didn't actually think to find this stuff out before the placed us there mind!!!)
Hubby has phoned the compound this morning and found a little bit out (there's no preschool on site, but there is one across the road etc).
I guess its a case of suck it and see...... as a previous poster said, expect the worst and be pleasantly surprised
Bexy
Thanks for the replies. We haven't had the opportunity to go out and visit. Hubby's work deemed that it was pointless as they could provide us with all the information (it turns out that the questions i asked about the children's facilities, they don't actually know and are now going to the compound on Saturday to find this information out!) (am a bit miffed that they didn't actually think to find this stuff out before the placed us there mind!!!)
Hubby has phoned the compound this morning and found a little bit out (there's no preschool on site, but there is one across the road etc).
I guess its a case of suck it and see...... as a previous poster said, expect the worst and be pleasantly surprised
Bexy
Mar 17th 2010, 2:48 pm
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Mar 19th 2010, 9:30 am
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Re: Hello, my name is Becky.... and I'm having a wobble!
Hello all... .
Wow, I don't know where to start, at the beginning i guess.
My name is Becky and next Wednesday we are moving to the Granada Compound in Riyadh. I say we, thats me, hubby and 2 daughters aged one and three.
The wobble has come about as we thought we were going to be on the Cordoba compound and now we're going to be living on the Granada compound. I had managed to do a fair amount of research on the Cordoba website and found that it seemed ok for the kids. Now i can't find anything on the Granada compound, which is where you lovely people come in.
Is there anyone on here thats living there or has lived there? Whats it like? Are there any parks/ toddler pools/ preschools/ toddler rooms etc etc???
If it were just me and the hubby Id be as happy as the perverbial, but i need to know that there's stuff for the girls too.
Look forward to hopefully hearing from some of you soon.
Becky
Wow, I don't know where to start, at the beginning i guess.
My name is Becky and next Wednesday we are moving to the Granada Compound in Riyadh. I say we, thats me, hubby and 2 daughters aged one and three.
The wobble has come about as we thought we were going to be on the Cordoba compound and now we're going to be living on the Granada compound. I had managed to do a fair amount of research on the Cordoba website and found that it seemed ok for the kids. Now i can't find anything on the Granada compound, which is where you lovely people come in.
Is there anyone on here thats living there or has lived there? Whats it like? Are there any parks/ toddler pools/ preschools/ toddler rooms etc etc???
If it were just me and the hubby Id be as happy as the perverbial, but i need to know that there's stuff for the girls too.
Look forward to hopefully hearing from some of you soon.
Becky
I dont know much about the granada compound, only cordoba,arizona, phoenix and Sedar Village.
If your commited to make the move...try out granada then get hubby to push for a move. you normally find that if you visit the compounds in person you can get alot more done with the management!
