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"...they face an intimidating array of hotel staff members, wealthy golfers, fences, guard stations and gates."

Wealthy golfers are intimidating? And how can you tell the wealthy golfers from the not-so-wealthy golfers? Ritz Carlton staff members are actually very friendly. Prison fences may be intimidating, but not so much these fences.

Guard station, agreed. But there is one. Not plural.

I've stayed there a couple of times for company-paid conferences. There are 'beach access' signs, but I agree it's not clear that the public can use the parking garage to access the beach.

I just find it laughable that the writer uses 'wealthy golfers' as a source of intimidation. Perhaps the public finds wealthy people intimidating in general. Is that true?




Honestly I've thought about going to use the beach there once, but I really just didn't want to deal with the hassle of people not knowing that I was allowed. It probably would have been nothing, but just having that in the back of my mind kept me from going. And I actually have the Ritz Carlton credit card and stay in their hotels with some frequency!

It's dumb, but the thought is probably there in a lot of people's minds.




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