Holiday firm leaves resort where Madeleine McCann disappeared.

[Admin]

Holiday firm leaves resort where Madeleine McCann disappeared

THE holiday company at the centre of the Madeleine McCann case has quit the Portuguese resort where she vanished.




Mark Warner will no longer operate the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz on the Algarve where it struggled to attract bookings following the three-year-old’s abduction in May 2007.

Profits dwindled as British holidaymakers shunned the complex after worldwide media coverage raised safety fears. The club has now been removed from Mark Warner’s website.

A source said: “People feel the resort will become deserted. It is a huge blow.”

One local added: “This place has never been the same since Madeleine. It’s as if a cloud is hanging over it the whole time. British police keep returning and raking it all up again.”

Madeleine went missing after her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, left their three children in the apartment while they had dinner with friends nearby, checking them every 15 minutes.




Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Grange, who are investigating the mystery, flew out to the Algarve early last month to question witnesses.

They want to establish if there are any inconsistencies in their statements.

As soon as Madeleine went missing,Mark Warner, which built its reputation as a child- friendly holiday company popular with middle-class parents, insisted the “one-off”.

Managing incident was a director David Hopkins said: “Our security is terribly robust.” But a company spokesman admitted: “It is a matter of pub- lic record that bookings were affected.”

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/550204/Holiday-resort-leaves-disappeared-maddy

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[stephen25000]

Checking them every 15 minutes ?

No they didn't, even on their own admission.

and the checks were never independently verified.

P.S. A waiter seeing someone leaving a table, is only a waiter seeing someone leaving a table and no more than that.

[Admin]

As one door closes, another opens (pardon the pun).  This is a great opportunity for someone else to make inroads into Luz now that Mark Warner have left.

[stephen25000]

As one door closes, another opens (pardon the pun).  This is a great opportunity for someone else to make inroads into Luz now that Mark Warner have left.

and who will want to ?

Thomas Cook were supposed to be taking over, but after the departure of the chief executive, there are rumours of trouble with that company.

Also, the 'taint' of  PDL with tourists will linger for some time to come.

[Anna]

and who will want to ?

Thomas Cook were supposed to be taking over, but after the departure of the chief executive, there are rumours of trouble with that company.

Also, the 'taint' of  PDL with tourists will linger for some time to come.

I believe it will, Stephen.
 I thought that Thomas Cook had already taken over, but if the owners are in trouble as you say, then it is anyone's guess what will happen next.

[stephen25000]

I believe it will, Stephen.
 I thought that Thomas Cook had already taken over, but if the owners are in trouble as you say, then it is anyone's guess what will happen next.

It is a shame.

From what I've heard it is a very pleasant place to visit.

[Mr Gray]

So why has it lost so much business...parents fear for safety of their children....looks like people believe the McCanns

[jassi]

Probably saw what a tatty looking place it was and decided to stay well away.

[John]

I hope to visit Luz and surrounds later this year so am well looking forward to it.

[stephen25000]

So why has it lost so much business...parents fear for safety of their children....looks like people believe the McCanns

What a crass comment, but hardly surprising.

If the McCann's had never left their children.....

[Admin]

So why has it lost so much business...parents fear for safety of their children....looks like people believe the McCanns

An isolated incident does not make for an epidemic.  Given events I would say PdL is most probably the safest place in Portugal for children. You only need to view the webcam to see how many families with young children still visit the resort during the school holidays.

[Mr Gray]

An isolated incident does not make for an epidemic.

I'm afraid it often does...as they say..it takes 20 yrs to build a reputation and 5 minutes to lose it

[Anna]

An isolated incident does not make for an epidemic.  Given events I would say PdL is most probably the safest place in Portugal for children. You only need to view the webcam to see how many families with young children still visit the resort.

It most probably is one of the safest places now. Not a place any criminal or Weirdo, would want to be near now.

    It is apparently a lovely little place and it would be such a shame if it could not be enjoyed again as it was, by both, tourists and the people who live and work in PDL.

[stephen25000]

I'm afraid it often does...as they say..it takes 20 yrs to build a reputation and 5 minutes to lose it

Courtesy of the McCann's.

They have a lot to answer for.

[Anna]

Courtesy of the McCann's.

They have a lot to answer for.

It was not the McCanns that caused the tourists, distrust of PDL, It was the unexplained(as yet) disappearance of their daughter.