The World's First Floating Hotel Abandoned In North Korea
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 20 апр 2020
- Help me make more, better videos by supporting the Channel on Patreon: / sidenote
Starting $1 a month.
RUclips: / sidenote1
Twitter: / sidenoteyt
Instagram: / sidenoteyt
Facebook: / sidenote-103440091333209
Sponsorship Enquiries: mail.sidenote@gmail.com
All links here: linktr.ee/sidenote
Check out the channel of my narrator, Alec Belmore: / @historyandintrigue
[CREDIT]
Produced by - SideNote
Research & Writing: Paul McDougal ( / paulmcdougal2 )
Editing: Md Rashid Khan
Music: Tom Fox
Divider by Chris Zabriskie
2022 UPDATE: The government of North Korea started demolishing Hotel Haegumgang (aka the Floating Hotel) in April 2022 as per the new report by Associated Press.
apnews.com/article/business-travel-seoul-south-korea-north-korea-bb623f840c86a80a08cd214cad1233b5
Man, that would’ve been something to see.
😔
Korea? North Korea??? Just No!
damn, i just read some stories about Saigon students spending their youth to study and work so one day they could be proper guesses of the hotel
but now when they have more than enough, its longer there
o7 you served well, hotel floater.
-doesn't scuba dive or snorkel, or care at all about the reef apparently
-still goes to stay in a floating hotel made for that purpose
-complains that the hotel is boring
Ikr. Why tf would you stay at a floating hotel above the Barrier Reef if you have no interest in the water? Just stay at a regular hotel? Big waste of money for someone not into diving/fishing/swimming.
that sounds like a comically annoying tourist and also remind me of my mom
@@r01d2 lol
I heard they had to get rid of the pool because German tourists kept hogging the pool loungers by putting their towels on them the night before :-)
@@ginak5802 Most likely someone that went to the hotel because of a status issue, not because he actually wanted to enjoy it. As in "Look, I'm so rich I stayed there. I also have a Ferrari."
This just sounds like a cruise ship with extra steps.
That's not what the word ship means.
No no it looks like a building, and floats, totally not ship looking... goddammit Morty...
@@AlexFurry You might as well just build a cruise ship
With less steps*
@@AlexFurry Just because it looks like a ship doesn't make it a ship.
I worked in Ho Chi Minh City in the early 90s and 'the floater' was a central part the social scene. I remember heading down to the night club one night and finding myself standing next to the one and only former PM of Australia, the great Bob Hawke!
So fascinating!
Been there once as kid too...
Lucky you aren't a woman Maurice, or you would have been groped!
Yeah? No waaay. So did ya blow'em? =)
Bib hawke took bribes only the great taker.
9:49 Wow, they dragged it over the island of New Guinea. I'm impressed.
Just amazing, must have hired a few of those Volga boatmen.
ready lads, we're about to portage this shit
They got everyone in the country to pick the hotel up, walk it through the dense jungle, and toss it to the sea as it continued its journey,
What part of floating hotel don't you understand?
Lmaoo
“So its a ship”
“Floating hotel”
“So a cruise ship”
“Floating hotel”
So its a cruise ship shaped like a hotel?
Not sure why they needed the leader of North Korea to point out how stupid an idea it was
@@ejrodriguez05 Floating hotel.
@@SuperBRization I can't believe I'm agreeing with North Korea rn
"So this is a floating hotel" "yup" and a cruise ship is a floating hotel? "Yup" so then they're the same thing "makes sense to me" so they're the same. "No it's not a cruise ship"
I really cannot believe that I haven’t heard about this floating hotel until now. What a history.
Daniel Whyatt the miracle of quarantine
@@MaerEneth 🤣🤣🤣
it feels so weird never hearing abt this, damn right thats one hell of a story
I grew up in Queensland in the 80's and I'd never heard of it!
You mean what a cluster lol
I was a Vietnamese kid who grew up in Ho Chi Minh City in 90s so I still have vague memory of "The Floater". The river port where it moored was a significant recreation area for locals so of course I went there a few times and observed the hotel from afar. I was very sad on the day when the hotel left the port.
The genius of building a hotel that you can sell to anyone anywhere is something to behold. Usually if a hotel doesnt work anymore, it wont work for anyone, but with this you can ship it to another location where it can work.
Well the Japanese certainly milked the shit out of it, they came right on time when Vietnam pulled its head out of it's ass to open the market and raking in the foreign money. Only wealthy foreigners and the 1% of the Vietnamese stayed in the hotel.
@@frankdinh1259 Ironic that in a communist country that touts 'equality', old colonialistic methods and customs remain strong. This is the big lie of communism.
The big lie of democracy is that people have the intellect and interest to vote intelligently...
Didn't realize Hyundai is also involved in this
(was surprised when I received an MP3 player of their brand back then).
Met one of their family later & glad that some are Christian, leading as a believer!
Hope they find a new home for this building where it is needed more.
God Bless ✨ 😇
Yh its called a cruise ship
Blanco lol I just posted the same thing in the main thread
Owned by South Korea
Bought by Japanese
Major hit in Vietnam
Originally made for Australia
Designed in Sweden
And built in Singapore
**MR.WORLDWIDE**
Edit : i've removed the quoting so people won't get pissed off.
@@lemonferret dunno, my brain told me to.
Demolished by "North Korea"
Eventually sold it to the Chinese and converted the hotel into a huge restaurant
Pang, Kornelis Andrew Wibowo I read the last line in a Pit Bull voice 😂
bruh its bought from japan
3:40 just skips over the submarine so casually lol
When I went to the GBR they used a semi-submersible with windows in the hull to give reef tours, not nearly deep enough to need a proper submarine. Doubt it was any different back then!
“It remains open to local tourists and I found a few google reviews of the hotel that were made recently.”
*shows reviews from people trolling*
RUclips is unfortunately full of people like this that present an afternoon of Googling and unverified claims as fact.
You should go read the troll reviews of the hotel. They're hilarious 🤣
NK has a lot of those troll reviews not just that hotel
This is the type of thing Fyre Festival could've really used, but they still would've blundered it lol
Fyre Festival was a total disaster run by incompetent management who felt they were going to a big party instead of managing it. This Floating Hotel had some hiccups but also did well in Vietnam. There is no comparison. Fyre never happened.
@@ankurshah23 did you watch internet historians video on it? Its hilarious and informative
Ja Rule would have promoted it too, probably
😂😴✌🏽
Ankur Shah yikes
Video started right away, it's so refreshing. No introductory speeches for 5 minutes!
and no sponsors or annoying reminders to like or suscribe, or comment on the video
But the video is so stretched out and boring
Volwassen Moeder it kinda isnt
@@jimmyking7386 having sponsors or asking for someone to sub or like (politly) isnt bad.People have to make money somehow man
Sponsors are great, I think it's miraculous that creators who's livelihoods were sabotaged by google and the "apocalypse". however, I'm much more understanding of creators who use sponsors/patreon when they've been demonetized by youtube/google. However, I have less sympathy for creators who are making their 100% ad revenue (and generally, vastly non-demonetized content) who feel the need to capitalize to the max by interrupting the video and shilling for something online.
As far as the "reminders" to subscribe and such, I feel like they're more pointless than they seem. I don't know anyone who sees these and says "oh good golly, I forgot to subscribe! Good thing he reminded me! :D" The amount of effect this actually has on rates of subscription is greatly overestimated. At the end of the day, I don't imagine it helps actually raise subscription levels, and just comes off as irritating to the user.
I totally sympathize, (especially for those with demonetized content, 100% hands down), but personally, it's incredibly pestering and unnecessary. There are many other "less intrusive" methods of getting people to subscribe. I think that 99% of people are going to subscribe because they enjoy the content of the video - not because they had an irritating popup/interruption by the creator asking them to.
I, for one, regret subscribing in the first place whenever I hear these.
I also think that the majority of people who hear the "remember to subscribe" are ALREADY subscribers - whereas the ones that HAVEN'T subscribed, aren't going to subscribe based on that little "reminder" alone. They will subscribe based on whether they like the content or not.
...and when they subscribe because they like the content (like 99% of people do), now they've gotta listen to that shitty little reminder in every single video, regardless of how ineffective it is.
I dunno. This has been just bugging me for a while. I'm totally not trying to argue or be a dick or anything but this has just been on the top of my tongue for a while xD
small correction: townsville is actually the home of the powerpuff girls
plot twist: they're australian
It's pretty well served it's purpose for decades, which is quite impressive given the notorious nature of new concepts.
If I'm honest, 42 million for a floating hotel isn't so insane. I was expecting closer to 100-150.
imagine this hotel in Monopoly.
42 mil for a holtel is almost a steal . you dont need to pay land taxes or buy property to build
While true, a hotel on land doesn't need to worry about sewage, water, or electricity. And guests don't cancel just because it's windy.
Thats 80s money though
@@user-xg8yy7yl1d Look up conversion rates. I was expecting that much for *that time*.
Looks like a nuclear plant had a baby with a Swiss prison.
Edit: Ok, Ok, We all know it was designed by an oil rig erector.
Ikr😐😂
@ try driving too fast here, the police will put you behind bars faster than you can blink if they catch you :'D
DrHillbillyShow jeah well then try to swing your butterfly knife in public in switzerland
Totoro last time I checked speeding tickets were still a thing...
@ What a bullshit ! We still have prisons and nearly everything is still illegal here!
When you live in Townsville, Australia and are shocked to hear them mention your city that you have to replay it just to make sure you aren't imagining things 😳😳
Townsville Tourism was big in 80s in 1970s we had 3 flights a week to LA in US and we Airforce one at our Airport before. sadly in late 80s we gave it all away to CNS.
Is that really u in the pic? If so your gorgeous damn
Isn't this just verision cruise ship ?
I stayed at this hotel while in Vietnam on business in the 90's . It was ok at the time, and close to everything. The rooms were a little small and basic.
Kim Jong Un: End this hotels existence
Hotel: no u
💀
The hotel played an UNO REVERSE card lol
Got em!
Reeeeeeeeee
666th Like
(Nice)
Imagine booking a floating hotel and then complaining about sea sickness... like what did you expect, it’s in the name.
People do that on cruises all the time
Yeah, i was thinking about that too. Its like shrimp always makes me puke but i still go to Outback for the endless shrimp and eat about 2 kilos then go home and complain about it.
I would definitely get sick
@Tobore Yalaju - so would I
I worked as a musician on cruise ships before lockdown and on ships that size you hardly feel it. Even when it's been super, crazy rough I haven't been seasick. Some people do but I think it's rare.
I stayed in that hotel as a teenager on holidays in Vietnam. It was lovely then .
"Townsville" is how uncreative 90s kids named their SimCities.
THE CITY OF TOWNSVILLE!
It’s actually named after a person. Robert Towns was a sea captain, merchant and unscrupulous exploiter who brought in indentured Pacific Islanders to grow cotton in the area and set up the town.
@@Oishionna
"Hippity hoppity, these Pacific Islanders are now
Almost my property.
And later, we'll build a village,
And name it after me."
-Robert Towns, probably
@@hasifmatusin1241 IS UNDER ATTACK!!
@@hasifmatusin1241 IS ON FIRE!!!
Townsville. What a real sounding name for a city.
well it is in queensland, so id guess whatever she says goes
The city of townsville anyone ?
the city name version of Boaty McBoatface
Australians tend to see Queensland in the same way Americans would see a hybrid of Florida and Texas. We suspect the heat up there has altered the way they think.
The first that came to mind was power puff girls
Totally missed a marketing opportunity in "Floatel"
Hotel me about it!
@@aaronjaben7913 I'm all Inn!
@@aaronjaben7913 jokes like this are the reason why my mind is vacant of braincells
Booo booo ! Get off stage boooo.
I'm chuckling like a moron at the word play!
I find it so sad when people come together to create something so different, completely innovative & stunning, only for it to fail & be abandoned.
I think it will be a great site for a sea museum.
It's not innovative though, cruise ships are better and already exist
@@aierce And cost much much more than a hotel on a barge.
This hotel has traveled the world more than me. 😢
Kim Jong Un: “The hotel doesn’t look cared for”
*_WELL GEE I WONDER WHY_*
Has he seen the rest of his country?
@@shockadelic I doubt he even seen all parts of his own house.
Just nuke it, imagine 😂🎆
I love how those guys walk around with notepads, writing down everything their genius dear leader says, and he comes through with wisdom like this.
What an idiot leader
Imagine stealing this hotel with a tugboat
LOL
Legit GTA mission smh!
Lel
Maybe someone will actually attempt this to save the hotel from destruction
hahahaaaaa
I went to Egypt a few years ago. I did a Nile River cruise on a ship that looked like a floating hotel. It was amazing and I'll never forget it.
I have been 8 times to Egypt, each time living in floating hotels! I saw one looking like an old papyrus boat, and sometimes mooring outside each other, with a common pass through all (Hopefully remembering where you lived?).
But the last time, some years ago, was rather sad with hardly any ships sailing on the Nile any more, and no queues at most sites along the trip.
But I had a special visit to King Farouks former old paddle steamer (used in "Murder on the Nile", with Peter Ustinov) being restored in Luxor at my early trips, also with armed guards on the buss, after a massacre on German tourists a short time before!
A lot of memories are cherished by this hotel. What a masterpiece 😃
Prolly a lot has been made over those years. Hopefully they weren't named Four Season or Barrier.
Townsville has to be the most generic city name ever
Yeah that's what I thought at first when I went there to study, but turns out there's also a last name "Towns" of certain individuals in Norther Queensland's history
Wright!!!.I found your comment really funny!!.But sometimes we find towns & even Big Cities all around the world,with really peculiar & hilarious names!!.
It sounds like a shitty rip-off of an already shitty mobile game.
Actually the powerpuff girls live there
An app game name 👍🏻
Wasn't Townsville also the name of the city where Powerpuff Girls lived.
Tamal Roy it is! 🤣
Yep 😂 good ol show from Cartoon Network. Edit- autocorrect corrected Cartoon Network to New York
YES
I remember searching though a globe and feeling really proud when I found out where the ppg lived
Yep
The amazing thing is that the Vietnamese named it the 'Saigon Hotel'. 'Saigon' fell out of favor after the North Vietnamese won the war. The city of Saigon was immediately renamed 'Ho Chih Minh' city.
It was in the Saigon river so the name was still relevant even if the name of the city changed.
Extremely interesting. Never knew this thing existed but I found myself completely facenated.
I bet. What's it like having your face nated?
@@dontbelieveeverythingyouth8173 🤣🤣
@@dontbelieveeverythingyouth8173 oly shit yes
*Has great barrier reef*
"We need something to attract people"
IG Public Figure I see what you did there
No kidding and for more $$ than living on a dive boat.
*Travels to Great Barrier Reef hotel, atop the effin' reef no less*
"Bitch, I don't dive, I don't wanna watch fish! Why' there no go-karts on this here ship?"
1:24 its Antalya city of Turkey i live there greetings folks!
To be fair they’re killing the hell out of the GBR
I was one of the Australian Navy Divers who stayed onboard the floating hotel for a few days whilst we survey the extent of the the munitions dump site. It was approximately a few football fields in size and there were piles of anti tank mines 8ft high and 30 feet in diameter across the area. A marine survey was supposedly done prior to locating the hotel at the location so I do not understand how the dump site was missed. Due to the cost of removing the ordnance and also the fact that there was too much ordnance to render safe it was deemed to be ok to leave it there.
Thank you very much for sharing!
Wtf a few foot ball fields in size?!? And they wanted people to stay there and snorkel ?! Nothing says relaxing like going into a small floating building in the middle of ocean to be next to the remains of war that might still be active ....
"There was so much ordnance it was deemed safe to leave it there"
@SeppuKun Yep. Go to bed . you have had enough to drink and the neighbours have been complaining.
@@anthonywilliams379 well it sounds more like "there was so much that it was safer to just leave than try to clean" to me.
I remembered my late brother
took dad and mum there for dinner when he visited HCMC.
He used to say how proud he was able to bring 2 locals onto the “ Australian ship” for dinner.
Thanks for the video, now I understand the history behind this.
it’s like a troubled foster child that keeps being moved from one home to another. 😬
Not sure if anyone is interested but I went to this hotel when it had just opened, I was 8 years old and my school of 5 students won a state competition collecting aluminium cans for recycling, we spent the prize money to go here, we just went for the day and I’ll never forget it. It was 1988!!!
how was it back then?
Wow that must be an amazing experience! I bet you collected cans like crazy to win and were glad you did!!!!!!!
Nice!
I'm interested
Wow that’s so awesome, I live in Charters Towers and when I first heard about this floating hotel I couldn’t believe it! In Townsville??? The idea sounds so out of this world. I wish it was still here - I’d love to go!
Couldn't have picked a more original name for a township: "TownsVille"
Wondered where the Powerpuff Girls where at.
Named after the guy who founded the Town- Robert Towns!
The Township of Village City
SoundSpliff ppl after giving townsville the name, "welcome to downtown coolsville
I live here lol I was not expecting my small city to be on this vid
A floating hotel would be my dream destination. I'd just spend my whole time relaxing with a rod in the water ready to catch some fish.
I lived most of my life in Sydney and I remember the massive advertising campaign in 1988 for this hotel, as well as the news stories covering the opening. I seem to remember the operators wanted to have a casino in it, but obviously didn’t get a license from the Queensland government. After a flood of advertising and news coverage, the hotel disappeared from our lives. I never gave it a thought until seeing this video! Now I know why we never heard of it again after late-1988-ish!!
Sounds like a perfect place to go in case of a zombie outbreak.
You'd need a nuclear generator or a lot of gasoline/other energy for water purification.
Untill the boat experiences a outbreak and your stuck on a boat with zombies
I need money to maintain the hotel lol
make for an interesting tv show📺
a new movie: zombie sea hotel
I get almost everything but one thing: The guests that complained that the hotel had no live entertaiment. You are in a floating hotel in a coral reef, why in the world are you interested in doing anything but scuba diving or anything of that nature!? You can have live entertainment in any other place in the world! If I go to ski resort, I don't complain about there not being any cinema at the resort because I went there to ski! If you want to have "live entertainment" then don't go to a hotel who's main selling point is that it is floating right at the biggest coral reef ever!
Organizations that should exist:
Florida Arctic Research Institute
Norwegian Tropical Research Centre
Kansas Alpine Ski Team
Singapore Centre for Snowfall Research
Mongolian Cruise Ship Association
Saudi Ecumenical Conference
Hey, if I paid 550 USD per night I'd expect some entertainment too. This thing was like a cruiseship, you were stuck on it and couldn't go anywhere.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo yeah but that’s the whole point, if they are only interested in entertainment and not in the water why on earth are they going to a hotel floating on water it just doesn’t make sense to me. I can find entertainment any other day, if I went I’d spend my time with the views and in the water.
@@babiemystic Why do people go on a cruise? They barely leave the ship and the time they do they don't see much of the city they're at, except for the standard tourist traps. Same goes for most tourist resorts, which are basically gated communities for tourists. If you consider the floating hotel to be just another (exclusive) resort, I understand why people complained about lack of entertainment.
okay but consider this: people don't go alone. SOME probably went with a spouse who LOVED snorkeling, but that didn't mean their partner ALSO loved snorkeling. They'd want some entertainment while their spouse is out snorkeling. It's amazing how people don't understand the simplest things.
This was really fascinating dude. Nice job!!
I gotta say this was/is a very well executed documentation. I am highly intrigued by ‚lost places‘ and this falls right into place - but without the sensational approach and much more fact-loaded. I like it. The trick is to do something like this without much money, since you won‘t have 100.000‘s to do something like this by sending staff to the real places. And you delivered and produced a highly respectable and even visually appealing piece of documentary. Kudos!
P.S. Also a very good speaker/commentator!
SideNote: "Who would want to spend their vacation floating over a huge arsenal of WW2 ammunition.
Me: "Take my money"
If only the floating city was made in the Internet era...
@@maggintons it's like Bioshock but in reverse
Sorry for the correction but, the line is, "shut up and take my money."
Yeah, conventional explosives 3km away? No problem, where do I sign?
@@BigTallLankyDude I'd sell a kidney if they were non-conventional.
The environmental seal they achieved with this thing is actually really impressive.
Yed
*yes* ?
Probably because of the Swedish people that came up with it’s concept.
👍
Wow that was very interesting. This is the first I have heard about this. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. Alway good to know some obscure info when playing Trivia Pursuit. It really winds up the rest of the family.
Its weird to be 29 years old and just hear about something for the 1st time ever.
28 here, same.
Being 29 I’m not surprised your username is “2010 KING”
Was 2010 a cool year for your generation?
@@georgesracingcar7701 I'm really disappointed that I'm apart of Gen Z. Wishing I was a millennial 😭
Good to know there were Karens back in the day as well.. I mean seriously, who buys a room at "the floating hotel" only to complain about seasickness?
Back in the 80’s when Karen was a wonderful girl that was in my class. I can never bring myself to use her name as an insult.
@@skipintroux4098 Same sentiments. The persons named Karen that I have met, from the younger years until today, have all been beautiful ladies.
That dopes use such a nice name as an insult anger me greatly. There already are words to describe bad behavior. Expand one's vocabulary. Do not take something nobel and profane it.
Being married to Karen ... Yes blonde bobbed hair attitude and owns a Volvo XC90 that being a Karen makes me drive ... I recognise the irrational complaint totally
If you want to diagnose a Karen it's simply narcissistic personality disorder, they are just the human version of a cat they only matter no one else deserves to exist, what they want they want it now etc etc, that allied with boundless self confidence and you get a Karen
@@kwinterburn damn u rlly disrespected cats like that lol
This trash barge has had so much drama it deserves its own HBO show: The Floatel. Season 1 in Australia, Season 2 in Vietnam and Season 3 in North Korea.
HAAAAA DEAD ⚰🤣
I would watch
I can actually see that
Action Park would make a better HBO show.
Go get your millions bro lol great ida
so they named the Town in Australia "Town Town", very Australian.
No. "In 1866 Robert Towns visited for three days, his first and only visit. He agreed to provide ongoing financial assistance to the new settlement and Townsville was named in his honour."
I suppose Washing town was named for all the laundry hung out to dry? ;) Funny name for a capital city tho.
it looked like a high security prison
Townsville sounds like a name of a town they put people in witness protection.
It is in Australia after all. UK's unwanted criminals.
Would be a good choice, since most Australians have never been there themselves...
Or a place timmy terner would visit
Shh... The city of Townsville is protected by The Powerpuff Girls.
Destry Broderick lol
I looked at the title and thought “oh a cruise ship” but no it’s literally a floating hotel
Mohammed Sami big brain boys
I thought I was the only one thinking about this lmao
Very cool. I worked for local media in Townsville in 1987 via the launch of that hotel. Your video brought back memories. Nice work.
So they just sold it to them. I was thinking a storm drifted it there and they refused to give it back.
Never heard of this until now. Things you learn during the pandemic. lol
Agreed
Same... 🇨🇦
Bro stg I have learned so much useless but interesting shit during this
So true😁
How was corona two years ago 😭
"Look!, a fish!"
"Look!, a shark!"
"Look!, a Mosin-Nagant!"
Regardless of that second to last thing im jumping in for the mosin
Look! A fully functional Tiger I!
They be like, "hol up" 😂
lame joke.
Why the hell would there be Russian rifles off the coast of Australia??
It absolutely boggles my mind how many great engineering feats are mishandled and forgotten so haphazardly...
I feel like only Australia would put so little effort into naming a city.
"Reckon we call this town?"
"How 'bout Townsville?"
True, Aussies are not too bright to be fair.
The feeling of a RUclipsr talking about your small Australian town
Nice
Cool
small town but interesting history. I would love to visit your local museum someday. They have got a miniature model of the hotel and some other memorabilia, documents related to it on display
Jack W cool
SideNote nice
This video brought back many memories. I worked at Bethlehem Singapore and was part of the team that built this wonderful hotel. Thank you.
Wow you must have some really interesting stories!!
Did you work on any other large projects I may have heard of?
A great presentation. Thank you
Quality video. Thanks!
My mother actually designed the interior for this ship. This is amazing i've just sent this to her.
Neat
omg that’s is so cool. did she ever get to go on it?
Oh boy. You sent her a video of her work being destroyed?
@@helpimstuckinafridgeandits305 I'm glad someone else spotted the fishiness of OP
@@helpimstuckinafridgeandits305 She got paid, didn't she? 🤷🏻♀️ Lol.
Yeah the only thing anyone learned is that Townsville is a real place.
I knew it was a real place for years but when I was little I thought it was just something SimCity made up.
The city of townsville... Is under attack by Mojo Jojo!
It is I, mojo jojo that is attacking the city, by me Mojo jojo!
bruh
@@krashd no not sim city, ppg
Hahaha!
Good story, well told. Thanks for the upload!
OMG amazing. Keep uploading my friend ❤️
I'm from Townsville. I stayed on the hotel in the late 1980s when I was about 6 years old. Say what you want about it, but it was an incredible experience.
That's because you live in Townsville so it probably was the most amazing thing any Townsvillian has ever seen
Wish I had been there.
What a great memory.
Some comments
are merely proof
that trolls are a dime a dozen .
Yeah whatever
Yeah whatever
@@suntzu3171 Fking killed it!
I stayed in that floating hotel! omg.
I visited NK (I'm South Korean) when I was around 13 back in 2003? 2004? ish.
It may not seem like it but it is super dizzy as hell. Since its center of mass is so high up compared to that of a boat, even a very small wave or water movement rocks the whole hotel. I couldn't sleep on the first night and got sea sick from it.
The visit to NK was cool tho. My family climbed some mountains, went to the hotsprings and played on the beaches.
Met few NK people along the hike, but not sure if they were "set up" by NK government or not... now that I think about it...
But good memories altogether.
_Met few NK people along the hike, but not sure if they were "set up" by NK government_
LOL did you drink seawater before going on a hike? Imao listen to yourself.
those people you met were likely NK minders that were paid to keep tabs on the tourist
How did you managed to enter?
Edit
And leave
SMGJohn you clearly don’t know anything about North Korea
I have heard of stories where the DPRK's government will send "locals" out for tourists. They're essentially actors who either keep an eye on tourists like spies or pretend like the country is alot better than it is. There was one story I read by a travel writer and while on holiday in North Korea they got a "surprise invitation" by a teacher to tour the local school where kids wearing perfect uniforms recited perfectly choreographed patriotic songs and dances, and every time the teacher asked a question no matter how difficult a kid would immediately answer (rather than try and solve the problem they were obviously just given the answer and trained to "solve" it on queue). Sometimes rich tourists or politicians also women randomly start hitting on them and offer to go back to their room, some people say its to try and draw more tourists in/make the country seem nicer while some people say its an extortion racket/honeypot.
to a marine/mechanic, this would be the perfect fort for a zombie apocalypse
As much as I was initially inclined to laugh at the concept: It's actually a really interesting idea.
Whether or not they're really worth building is one question, but things like the underwater viewing etcetera in such a beautiful environment is an interesting concept.
This floating hotel is a good childhood memory to me in Saigon since 1990s. My parents took me there and we had photo. At that time, Vietnam was still poor and was door-closed to the world. If someone was working in the hotel, he/she might see what the world is. Thanks for sharing this video.
@@ggsgaga maybe a picture of him at the hotel
As someone who actually lives in Townsville, I never knew this was a thing until now. Really neat!
If you like to go to museums, the Maritime museum of Townsville has got some really cool models, plans and albums of the floating hotel on display. Apparently, Doug Tarca was a big name for the city.
Here'a a picture: www.tmml.org.au/exhibitions/
Yeah I live there
@@SidenoteChannel oh wow, next time im in townsville i'll check it out.
Even here in the US I've heard of Tarca. I was in elementary school at the time of inception.
@@drbgaming3472 yeah i have better sword than those diamo-
Hacked 10k enchanted sword: hello there
Cool story and facts, cheers for sharing.
What a share, I would have loved to experience that. So cool.
Should’ve taken it to Hong Kong where it could be served as a floating residential housing.
it only has 200 rooms and living on it is not practical and very costly.
@@pepapu7112 i think he was joking xD
M Lau - LA or San Francisco - they could fill it with homeless.
No more War loool and send them to mexico
E M - how you treat the disadvantaged is a reflection of your society
My grandmother stayed here - I still have the pictures they took while there.
This was a great story, never would I have guessed something like this existed and ended up in north Korea of all places, thanks so much for sharing.
I’m happy for those who were able to meet up with family they haven’t seen in so long, but of course someone had to go and ruin something good.
Damn i think that's the most 80s thing i ever saw. No way they would come up with something like that today.
Floating cities is a future concept not 80s.
Unless Elon Musk comes up with a similar idea of course, then its cool
@@radiohirsch yes, like his new concept of a train, which is so cool because he came up with the idea of a less efficient train, just so cool.
9:08 "Who would want to spend their vacation floating over a huge arsenal of World War 2 ammunition?" Funny, the first thought I had was "Who would throw away perfectly good ammunition?!"
Haha no shit, what a waste!!
Well, if you have to withdraw and can't take it all with you, you don't want to gift any to the enemy.
Storage and transportation costs money
@Waxel Punkt. I don't know. Who?
Former EOD tech and I would LOVE to! I didn't even know this was here, but now I want to dive the site.
Great sorytelling. Very intersesting. Thanks.
That building seemed like an amazing project. I cant believe it only cost 42mil to build.
I was hoping to see a tour of the abandoned hotel 😭😭
Impossible. Fully booked by political prisoners
@@lapraxi BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA you win the internet lol
@@elizabethcrossley6853 Ethan and Rick Astley that rickrolled RUclips itself in Twitter: *Am i a joke to you?*
I initially thought that the hotel floated into NK waters, and NK weren't giving it back!
I mean, that's what I do if a ball comes into my back garden.
same, that would be hillarious
So Kim jung un is more generous then you 😊
@@soggdamone1922 Yes except he is a murderous dictator
@@soggdamone1922 well the difference is Kimmy is worried about backlash, don't get it twisted or be mislead, war for any nation is bad, so although once a ball comes into my garden Idc about it, I don't start problems.
@@soggdamone1922 than
It's incredible that I majored in Tourism and no one thought of telling us about this hotel. It's a neat prefab idea of sorts, for building a decked out luxurious hotel in a new region, I think this is why it made bank in Vietnam. Put it on a riverbank, and in ten years move it to a new place. Like a mobile gentrification unit.
I didn't have any idea about this... Never read or heard about this hotel... Thanks for the information..
Never heard of this until now, but my biggest fear of being in something like that, is a giant tsunami
53rd Count of seeing you on Random RUclips Videos.
I recently watched a video that seemed like the kind of place I would find you, I can't say I wasn't slightly disappointed
Actually being far out in the ocean is the safest place during a tsunami. The wave is far below the surface there, barely even noticeable.
tsunami waves are tiny when in deep water so you should be fine
I think they'd have enough pre warning to cast it off to sea where it's safer
Back then when I was in Vietnam, we called it the "5-star" hotel. It was indeed phenomenal in the early and mid-90s in Vietnam.
This video just reminded me that I actually visited this in North Korea when I was very young. The Shooting incident happened about a week after my departure back to SK.
Funny how years later some video on youtube reminds me that I was one of the last South Korean tourists to visit that hotel...
What an interesting documentary!! Thanks
0:42
It's also rumored that the city is protected by three little girls with Superman like powers, but this cannot be confirmed.
My mind was like "The City of Townsville" in my narrator voice PPG 😂
Shelley Adair
Spongebob Squarepants is the Narrator haha
i live in Townsville CUZ
This is fascinating. I've never heard of it before
Alternative title: "The hotel that defected to North Korea."