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Ocean Royale

In the accommodation industry, any period of time longer than a year or so is considered a long time for a management partnership. So when Ocean Royale’s partnership team – Yvonne and Don Curtis and John and Maureen Gorely – celebrated their five-year anniversary recently, the achievement was certainly worth celebrating.

Yvonne attributed the success of their partnership to working together as a team and giving each other lots of space. “The fact that we don’t live in each others pockets onsite is a big factor. We both kept our own houses here on the coast and take regular holidays. Also we all have our own strengths and weaknesses so we all have something valuable to contribute to the business.”

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Before Ocean Royale, John had his own earthmoving business, Maureen was an office administrator, Yvonne worked for the ANZ bank and Don had his own carpet cleaning business. For many years the Curtis’ and the Gorelys have been friends, paddling outrigger canoes together.

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Yvonne said each couple was considering management rights individually when they decided to form the partnership.

“We had all been looking and thought it would be good to go into the industry as partners to give each of us more free time rather than working seven days a week. When we started looking for a property, we knew we needed a big building to suit all lifestyles and this one just happened to be on the market.

“When we started people were saying, “Oh be careful, partnerships never last” but this one clearly does.”

And it will for a long time to come yet.

“We have just renegotiated our contract. We have no intention of moving on.”

Located on Britannia Ave in Broadbeach, Ocean Royale is only 50 steps from the patrolled surf beaches and offers guests 50 spacious one- and two-bedroom bedroom fully self contained apartments with dishwasher, microwave and conventional oven, washer, dryer, iron, hairdryer, ceiling fans, free cable television, ocean views, private balconies and secure undercover parking. There is also one three-bedroom penthouse with plunge pool and sauna.

Yvonne said, “Over the years we have had a few of our owners upgrade their apartments and our aim for the future is to get some more of the older apartments renovated.”

As for leisure facilities, Ocean Royale features a large heated outdoor pool, heated indoor pool and spa with glass roof, male and female saunas, half court tennis court, BBQ and pergola and Internet cafe.

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