The World's First Floating Hotel Abandoned In North Korea
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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.
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
“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"
-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."
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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
Kim Jong Un: End this hotels existence
Hotel: no u
💀
The hotel played an UNO REVERSE card lol
Got em!
Reeeeeeeeee
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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
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
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.
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
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!
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!
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
@@P7777-u7r Look up conversion rates. I was expecting that much for *that time*.
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.
@@Shadow_Hawk_Streaming well it sounds more like "there was so much that it was safer to just leave than try to clean" to me.
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.
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!
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
*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
It's pretty well served it's purpose for decades, which is quite impressive given the notorious nature of new concepts.
"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??
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.
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.
👍
I stayed in that hotel as a teenager on holidays in Vietnam. It was lovely then .
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.
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.
@@skipintroux4444 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
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 👍🏻
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!
Townsville sounds like a name of a town they put people in witness protection.
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
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?
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 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
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
The feeling of a TH-camr 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
“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*
TH-cam 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
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
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 😭
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.
small correction: townsville is actually the home of the powerpuff girls
plot twist: they're australian
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
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!
As someone who actually lives in Townsville, I never knew this was a thing until now. Really neat!
"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!!!
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!
My grandmother stayed here - I still have the pictures they took while there.
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?!"
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.
The problem is it becomes unstable as it ages. They are always blowing up old tank rounds while I was at Ft Knox.
This hotel has traveled the world more than me. 😢
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.
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
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
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.
People: Want floating hotels.
Wisemen: we already have them, they call cruise ships.
People: NO, we demand, floating hotels made of brick and mortar.
People: want flying cars.
Wisemen: we already have them. They call airplanes.
People: NO, we demand flying cars with wheels.
Wisemen: We have wheels at ho-
People: Landing gear doesn't count!
*Makes GTA V Imponte Deluxo*
Helicopter is a much closer option for a flying car
@@inferno7997 A gyrocopter could probably be used as a flying car, it can be driven too.
@@nateman10 Those are called helicopters.
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
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 TH-cam itself in Twitter: *Am i a joke to you?*
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.
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 TH-cam 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.
I remember this hotel, I saw it when i was a kid when it docked in Ho chi minh city (Saigon) in the 90s. Bring back my childhood memories.
@@ggsgaga
Hi Grays. Endure what?
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.
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It's also rumored that the city is protected by three little girls with Superman like powers, but this cannot be confirmed.
“Townsville” lol what a name... ville means town so it’s “town town”.
So saying “City of Townsville” is basically saying “Town of town town”
I wonder what its like to go downtown in the town of towns town
@@Sebbir oh yeah
I live here and it's actually named after some dude who visited for 3 days and never came back. Robert Towns. It was either Townsville or Blacksville. Those where the two names that was going to be chosen
Haha, You made my day 😁
Townsville is also where the powerpuff girls lived
I grew up in Townsville in the 80s. I still remember when the hotel first opened.
Never thought it would end up in North Korea.
I actually thought it would have sunk years ago.
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!
“Since then the once celebrated floating hotel has been eerily silent and rusting in North Korea”
So it’s the North Korea of hotels
Great memories onboard the Float‐tel. I was part of the pre-opening team employed to get the food and beverage department going. Sad to see it now in this sorry state.
Sad to hear how tragically it fell into disuse. It seemed great that they had, for awhile, a way for North and South Koreans to both be able to visit. I actually had been curious if there had been a lot of families 'berlin walled' from seeing each other, and that confirmed it. Was nice to see they were able to see eachother after several years.. only for that to collapse. Real sad.
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.
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All this time I thought the Powerpuff Girls lived in the US.
My life is a lie...
Still the same
Came here looking for this comment.
They do live in the us. I too was shocked to know they live in Townsville aus. But then i got to know in the show its an imaginary city not related to the real Townsville :p
I live not far from this city
Lololol
Cruise ship? No.
Floating building? Yes.
Hotel? Trivago.
Hotel? Floating.
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😂😂😂😂
11:16 locals affectionately new the hotel as “the floater” lol
I read this as he said it
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
I lived in the Hotel for 5 years when it first arrived in Vietnam. I have been in Vietnam since 1989 met my Husband there who was the former General Manager of the Hotel. We all who stayed there had a great time and great memories. A friend of ours just sends the video to us. He was in charge of Security.
Tell us more about life in the hotel!
"World War II anti-tank missiles."
Damn Australians and their time machines.
Nah mate we were just ahead of our time haha
@@Leopardts I can just imagine the conversation going along the lines of:
"You know boomerangs, mate?"
"Yeah?"
"What if we made them for tanks?"
"Blimey..."
They developed them in case the japanese managed to capture the Bob Semple.
TheLakabanzaichrg thats from nz bro
TheLakabanzaichrg the aussies actually managed to design a couple of competant tanks
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.
My thought is that you said "first floating hotel" so much that there might be more of them.
Wow, so good of you to create something like this, i was very fortunate to have worked for Doug Tarca and the Reef Link crew and to be apart of the Worlds first Floating Hotel, for the time that is was on the reef. i also noticed i saw myself in the clips when it was mooring into the hotel, wow can't believe it was that long ago. Again thank you. Cheers Luke
Just happy to tell lesser-known stories. Glad you liked. Thank you for commenting!
The Korean word for “destroy” is “trivago”
Kim Jong Un: “Hotel? Trivago”
Before y’all become a victim of disinformation: remember lads, this is a joke and Trivago does not mean destroy in Korean.
Note: Remember, people literally believe everything they read on Twitter. People are dumb enough to believe this...
Mostly folks who think the only language on Earth is English
@@NoobPTFO you are false
@@voidofspaceandtime4684 a quick google translate will prove that he's right
@User he's right you dingus
@@juntingiee2602 you are fake
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.
So whos your origin continent?
The hotel: euraustralasian
The being in the middle of the ocean gave me the creeps. I felt better when you showed its location in Vietnam
As someone who lives in Townsville. It's really nice to find out some history of your city. Cheers for the video mate
it’s like a troubled foster child that keeps being moved from one home to another. 😬
Tourist: Books room at the only existing floating hotel...
Tourist: Complains of seasickness...
Concierge: THEN WHY DID YOU COME HERE!!!
Right?!?!😂😂😂
Well I guess the maker of the video downplayed this part...
He said it was a 90 minute ride on what looks to be a 50-60 passenger catamaran powerboat...in mid to heavy chop that can be a nightmare if you're not a seasoned "Popeye" of a sailor.
I sailed for years and once did something like that in Greece to go from a tiny island to another with some friends, we caught a windy day and the chop made this small 40-50 passenger boat go up and down with 2-3 meter jumps for over an hour.
Knowing something I brought my pals up front in the open so with the fresh air and the fact that you anticipate the up and downs by seeing the waves ahead most just had a good "rollercoaster ride"...but those who remained inside were super-sick, about 50% of the passengers vomited overboard or in plastic bags given out by the cap and crew, upon arrival there were a dozen people literally floored on the ground in vomit and almost un capable of standing up, ambulances were called to the harbor.
I really enjoyed the part where they called it "the floater".
Docked? in North Korea
Owned? by South Korea
Bought? from Japan
Hit? in Vietnam
Made? For Australia
Designed? In Sweden
Built? In Singapore
Ok peeps im done
Shawsbucks TH hotel trivago
@@Inhumane Cease
Hotel? Trivago
What is this, the UN now?
Mr. Worldwide
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.
Finally, my home town gets mentioned for something that isnt high crime rates
7:04 Off topic: That kinda looked like the [now] deceased British TV presenter, Jill Dando, who was murdered in 1999. I think one of her TV roles was on a BBC holiday program, so the timeline probably fits.
Yep looks like her, well spotted.
Lorna you could use a stop at a salon. You remind me of a collie i used to have tied up in the backyard
Novel and unique hotel: *exist
North Korea: *welp time to ruin it for everyone*
" If I can't have it, no one can! "
To be fair, it does look pretty damn ugly.
@@dhirajpallin2572 exactly. Somethings should go! Sheesh we don't have to like everything!
one great reasons that NK wants to ruin it because it didnt make much profit anymore at that time
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!!
I was expecting tale after tale of business woe, but surprisingly there was some success mixed in there and the Korean relatives meeting after being separated was very touching. This is a building that has a lot of history.