I had the most embarrassing experience taking overseas visitors down to the beachfront.
I parked in the car park at Hobie Beach.
There were so many car guards and drunk vagrants milling around.
The sea and beaches are our prime tourism areas and as always they looked inviting.
Then after a walk along the pier we decided to go for an ice-cream.
What a shock – The Red windmill is all closed and chained up.
The building hosting KFC, Blue Waters, Angelo’s and Barney’s is disgusting.
It is in desperate need of paint and the paving needs a high-pressure hose to clean it. The area around it is filthy. Who owns that building? They certainly don’t care about Port Elizabeth tourism at all.
Imagine nowhere to buy an ice-cream on the prime spot? I wonder what the holidaymakers think?
Please expose the owners of the building and get them to clean up the whole area. Shame on you.
-Marcelle Wentworth Humewood, Port Elizabeth