Now there’s a lottery where YOU can win this private island paradise (complete with homes, cars and £7k in cash)… for just £35 a ticket
Doug and Sally Beitz, from the Gold Coast, Queensland, are offering one lucky winner a slice of paradise
FORGET a bottle of cheap plonk or lavender-scented bubble bath – an Australian family are raffling off their tropical private island for just £35 a ticket.
Doug and Sally Beitz, from Queensland, are offering one extremely lucky winner a slice of paradise as they prepare to vacate their three-acre waterfront resort on Kosrae, Micronesia, located in the western Pacific.
The island – which has been completely paid off and has no debt – comes with a scuba business, an 80-seater restaurant and £7,000 in cash.
The golden ticket holder will bag a 16-room air-conditioned hotel, a four-bedroom manager residence and two self-contained one-bedroom apartments.
The prize also includes five rental cars, two 10-seater vans and a pick-up truck.
The luxury retreat is perfect for sports junkies thanks to the 10-metre fresh water pool, the private beach, four kayaks, the tropical vegetable garden and two diving boats.
The Beitz family, who built the exotic resort in 1994 and raised their three children there, now want to sell it and move closer to family in Australia.
But the family need to sell 50,000 tickets – worth a combined value of £1.8m – before they’ll raffle it off.
Individual raffle tickets are £35 while a pack of 10 sell for £265.
If they don’t sell that many, they will pick a winner, give them half of the money and keep the rest to cover advertising costs.
Revealing why they decided to sell the island in this way, Doug said: “The idea to transfer the resort and dive business this way, rather than through a traditional sale, is because we want this piece of untouched paradise placed in the hands of someone who truly falls in love with it.
“Someone who has dreamed of island life and who will continue to respect the island’s precious ecosystem, not simply the person with the deepest pockets.”
He added him and Sally are looking forward to becoming “professional grandparents”.
“We feel like a new chapter in our lives is beginning, and we’re ready to pass the baton to someone else,” he said.
The takes place on July 26 2016 and is open to anyone in the world.