[alden]

We have just returned from Dubai and a visit to i/city, Although we were unable to get an official visit we did manage to have a look round by ourselves, this is our opinion of what we saw and what we think to the development. China looks complete and has residents, non of the commercial units seem to be in use, Persia looks complete but doesn't seem to have residents. The rest of the clusters apart from Greece seem near to completion,we manged to get a look into a ground floor studio in Spain and it seemed small, France cluster(where we have bought) looks well underway and we were told by some workers that it could be complete in 6 months, we had a look in to a second floor 1 bed apartment and a studio both looked quite spacious, both had balconies but these were very small, only room to stand and not all apartments had them. All of the development needs landscaping, We did notice the smell from the sewerage and although not overpowering it was noticable, this was outside a section of England/Russia.
A section of France overlooks a large pink electrical and water sub-station.This development could look nice but in our opinion it needs all the imenities that were promised as it is quite a way from Dubai centre ,approximatly a 40 dhm taxi ride from beach hotels,at the moment public transport looks limited. We asked at the Nakheel site office and they say France should be complete by October. If we havn't answered any questions please feel free to ask. We are hoping to post some photos later.