The Jeddah Municipality has intensified hygiene inspection rounds along Jeddah’s waterfront by hiring more than 200 cleaners to remove waste around the clock.

“We request that visitors maintain the cleanliness of this recreational area by disposing of waste properly,” Abdulaziz Al-Ghamdi, municipality spokesman, told Arab News.

“More than 100 additional bins of various shapes and sizes have been placed along the Corniche to counteract high waste volume during spring break.”

said Zaid Al-Hamzi, official spokesman of the Jeddah Traffic Department. “The Jeddah Traffic Department has increased the number of patrols and traffic officials to ensure smooth traffic movement across the city,” Zaid Al-Hamzi, the department’s official spokesman, told Arab News.

“More than 50 patrols have been deployed across the entire region. In addition, we have assigned more than 60 officers from the Traffic Department along the Corniche on motorcycles.” Al-Hamzi called on vacationers to park their cars in surrounding parking lots.

“The parking lots behind the Corniche area can accommodate more than 1,000 cars at a time,” he said.

Jeddah’s Corniche is experiencing an influx of visitors from different regions of the Kingdom who are taking advantage of the current spring break to visit the city’s local parks and amusement theme parks.

Fahad Al-Bishi, a Jeddah resident, said that the school break is a good opportunity for families to escape the pressures of work and enjoy domestic tourism without having to break the bank.

Moaaz Al-Afandi, a single resident, hopes that the family-only signs dotting the Corniche will be removed.

“Prohibiting single residents from visiting the waterfront only motivates them to travel abroad on vacation,” he said.

Yacoub Moaaz, a visitor from Arar, called on on authorities to monitor prices and intensify inspections of furnished apartments, game parks and restaurants along the Corniche in the wake of business owners taking advantage of the holiday season to exaggerate prices.

“Unreasonable price increases have taken a toll on family budgets, especially families coming from other regions in the Kingdom,” said.