Four Seasons Barrier Reef Resort: Floating Hotel

Started out in Australia and finished up in North Korea, via Vietnam

Australia: Four Seasons Barrier Reef Resort 1988–1989
Vietnam: Saigon Floating Hotel 1989–1996
North Korea: Hotel Haegumgang 2000–2008
Closure: 2008–2022

"Problems started immediately. One week before opening, Cyclone Charlie struck, damaging the swimming pool and underwater observatory. Four months later, workers discovered more than 100,000 pieces of World War II ammunition and mines just five kilometers from the hotel's location. Then an unrelated floating platform in the same reef sank during a storm."

"In July 1988, Barrier Reef Holdings announced a 7.89 million dollar loss. By September, the hotel was for sale. It closed in April 1989 without ever reaching full occupancy, having operated for barely a year. Former water taxi driver Belinda O'Connor later recalled "amazing days living on the hotel, fishing trips, crew parties, diving under the hotel, having pizzas flown out by chopper." But not enough people shared that experience to make it viable"

mmm chopper pizza!

Full story and lots more pics here
https://www.uniqhotels.com/blog...