The World's First Floating Hotel Abandoned In North Korea 

Man, that would’ve been something to see.

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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.

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 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"

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."

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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The hotel played an UNO REVERSE card lol

Got em!

Reeeeeeeeee

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@@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

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

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.

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

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!

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*.

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.

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!

LOL

Legit GTA mission smh!

Lel

Maybe someone will actually attempt this to save the hotel from destruction

hahahaaaaa

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

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??

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.

Yed

*yes* ?

Probably because of the Swedish people that came up with it’s concept.

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_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.

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!

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

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 👍🏻

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

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 ?

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

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

Wow you must have some really interesting stories!! Did you work on any other large projects I may have heard of?

RU-vid 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

Mohammed Sami big brain boys

I thought I was the only one thinking about this lmao

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

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

plot twist: they're australian

Agreed

Same... 🇨🇦

Bro stg I have learned so much useless but interesting shit during this

So true😁

How was corona two years ago 😭

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.

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

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!!!

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!

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

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!

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.

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.

Prolly a lot has been made over those years. Hopefully they weren't named Four Season or Barrier.

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

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.

Shelley Adair Spongebob Squarepants is the Narrator haha

i live in Townsville CUZ

It's not innovative though, cruise ships are better and already exist

@@aierce And cost much much more than a hotel on a barge.

Impossible. Fully booked by political prisoners

@@lapraxi BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA you win the internet lol

@@elizabethcrossley6853 Ethan and Rick Astley that rickrolled RU-vid itself in Twitter: *Am i a joke to you?*

53rd Count of seeing you on Random RU-vid 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

@@ggsgaga Hi Grays. Endure what?

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

It was in the Saigon river so the name was still relevant even if the name of the city changed.

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

Hotel? Floating.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

😂😂😂😂

I bet. What's it like having your face nated?

@@dontbelieveeverythingyouth8173 🤣🤣

@@dontbelieveeverythingyouth8173 oly shit yes

Tell us more about life in the hotel!

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

Just happy to tell lesser-known stories. Glad you liked. Thank you for commenting!

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

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.

True, Aussies are not too bright to be fair.

Shawsbucks TH hotel trivago

@@Inhumane Cease

Hotel? Trivago

What is this, the UN now?

Mr. Worldwide

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

" 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

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 😭

It's a place of wealth and taste. I'll sit down now.

Starcloak Starside I was thinking the same thing. It's amazing how ANYONE could see the nearly 80 year old bombs 3 miles away as a potential threat. What are you thinking? All the bombs might have a conference and decide to spontaneously explode after such a long dormancy 400 feet in salt water? Hilarious.

Throws waterproof flare overboard

That ammo blast could have made it the world's first space hotel

FangABXY FangABXY Do you live in a region where there used to be a recent war? Or is the area known for as a testing and training ground for the military? Because that might helped explained a thing or two about why everyone talks about unexplored ordinances.

@@dcdanger6151 it's unlikely that all of them would go off spontaneously and even if they did what would be pretty dangerous due to the likely severe waves it probably wouldn't seriously damage the hotel it would be operational within a few days and wallet would be possible people die especially if they're outside during the blast most people don't only get "minor" injuries