Is West Bay Lagoon a good place to live, especially for a 14 year old girl.

Poolpy
By Poolpy

What's there to do in West Bay Lagoon. Are the stand alone villas spacious. What are the villas on the beach like.

By Mandilulur• 8 Mar 2010 06:10
Mandilulur

Yes, I have two wonderful next-dorr neighbors, ages 9 and 12!

By Expat Sueño• 7 Mar 2010 17:32
Expat Sueño

(You'll have a nice neighbor if you live near Mandilur!)

By Expat Sueño• 7 Mar 2010 17:32
Rating: 2/5
Expat Sueño

(You'll have a nice neighbor if you live near Mandilur!)

By Expat Sueño• 7 Mar 2010 17:30
Rating: 5/5
Expat Sueño

It depends somewhat on the compound within WBL - and on your children.

I live in a large compound with heaps of kids/teens, so my perspective is a bit biased toward large compound living. The kids in my compound run around like it's the 1950s, which is fantastic.

I don't know that I'd feel as comfortable allowing my teens to run around in WBL simply because of the traffic and the walls within walls - look up WBL on Google Earth and you'll see that it's made of a number of mini-compounds, some of which are super-secure and others of which are more open.

It could be just a bit of paranoia, but I'd rather have my kids running unsupervised through a large compound than I would in WBL.

Your kids will need to be more outgoing in WBL than they would be in a larger compound because things are so spread out, too.

Don't get me wrong - WBL is very nice, the villas are spacious and TONS of people love it there. When it comes to your specific question about a teen, though, I think if what I would have enjoyed at that age. . .and a more "normal" compound would have received my vote.

Good luck!

By Mandilulur• 7 Mar 2010 17:25
Rating: 5/5
Mandilulur

It's a nice, safe area. You can swim, jog, ride bikes, etc. The villas are very spacious but I'd say being beachfront is not really worth it.

By salah2008• 7 Mar 2010 17:18
salah2008

why don't u go and see for ur self

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